Symfony2 published this week its two latest release candidate versions, which include several hundreds of commits since the previous version. In addition, the definitive release date for Symfony 2.0 stable version was announced for Thursday, 28th July.
July 25, 2011
#A week of symfony
Symfony2 changed this week the way cookies are managed, moved the EntityUserProvider from Security Component to Doctrine bridge and fixed some minor errors. In addition, Twig nicely improved its performance with the new 1.1.1 version and Assetic published the final 1.0 stable version, both joining the group of external Symfony2 libraries which have recently published stable versions in preparation for the final release of Symfony2.
July 18, 2011
#A week of symfony
This week Symfony2 published its fourth release candidate version, one of the latest versions before the final release. In addition, Symfony2 updated Doctrine version to 2.1 and Monolog version to 1.0. Lastly, some exception messages were improved and validation error messages were updated/translated to lots of languages.
July 11, 2011
#A week of symfony
Symfony2 published this week two new release candidate versions, fixing some minor bugs and regressions. Symfony 1.4 branch also released a new maintainance version.
July 4, 2011
#A week of symfony
Symfony2 introduced this week the new interactive
generators, which could vastly improve your development productivity. In
addition, a brand-new mailing-list
for Symfony2 was unveiled. Lastly, the first Release
Candidate version was released and the Symfony2 components were made
available on the new
Symfony2 PEAR channel.
June 27, 2011
#A week of symfony
This week Symfony 2.0 beta5 was published, marking the end of the beta period. Once more, the Form component was the most active, but lots of components were tweaked and improved, including Process, CssSelector, Yaml and Finder. Other important changes were a big performance improvement in ClassLoader and the refactorization of Session.
June 20, 2011
#A week of symfony
This week Symfony2 refactored and simplified cache warmers. Doctrine bridge was also heavily refactored and some classes were moved from the bundle to the bridge. Console component was made more powerful and Serializer component expanded its interface and simplified its internals. As usual, Form component showed a frantic development activity, including the removal of one feature not available for 2.0 launch.
June 13, 2011
#A week of symfony
Symfony2 codebase is almost completed, so this week the development activity focused on moving, renaming, refactoring and tweaking code, mostly on Routing and Event components. DoctrineBundle was also updated, including some new convenient shortcuts and a brand-new Doctrine chapter for the official book.
June 6, 2011
#A week of symfony
It took more time than expected, but this week Symfony2 released two new beta versions. Beta2 was a huge leap from beta1 and beta3 fixed lots of bugs. This frantic development activity was possible thanks to the ever-growing list of Symfony2 contributors. The documentation team also worked hard this week to keep up synced with Symfony2 development.
May 30, 2011
#A week of symfony
This week Symfony2 development achieved another remarkable milestone: the official repository received its 1,000th pull request. Meanwhile, Doctrine bridge added a very convenient unique validator, Form component renamed, removed and simplified some properties and methods and lots of exceptions were renamed in other components.
May 23, 2011
#A week of symfony