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Symfony2 committed this week two huge changesets related to the Security component: fixed user refreshing after unserialization and added authentication trust resolver. It also committed two small but important tweaks: the new hash syntax for Twig templates and the new format for XML attribute names.

This week, the definitive schedule for Symfony Live 2011 conference was published. Meanwhile, Symfony2 development activity focused on small tweaks and code refactoring.

This week, the Symfony2 Preview Release 4 version was released. Despite being far from finished, this is a full-featured version and therefore it's the best way to learn the new Symfony2 philosophy.

Symfony2 development activity exploded this week with thousands of changes, tweaks and additions across most of its components: twig bundle, forms and dependency injection improved their performance; the Output Escaper component was removed; and lots of methods were renamed to follow the new naming convention. Symfony2 is gaining momentum week by week and therefore, the release of PR4 version is around the corner and the first beta version could be published before the end of the year.

Symfony2 development activity got a big boost this week. Firstly, Bernhard Schussek announced that he will be again in charge of the form and validation components, which will be finished by the end of the year. Secondly, Fabien initiated two interesting discussions in the developers mailing list: removing the output escaper component and using templates for routing patterns. Lastly, the weekly IRC meeting generated some exciting discussions, ideas, best practices and updates about Symfony2 development status.

This week, the symfony community held the first Symfony2 IRC meeting. From now on, these weekly meetings will discuss several topics chosen by the community, such as best practices and solutions for very specific issues.

Symfony2 development focused this week on unit tests. Hundreds of new tests were committed, mostly on the Security component. In addition, the symfony developers mailing list activity surged with some insightful discussions.

This week the Output Escaper component was heavily refactored and the Propel bundle was transformed into an independent bundle. In addition, the Symfony2 HTTP cache documentation was published.

The symfony project celebrated this week its fith anniversary publishing the last major component of Symfony2 framework: the Security Component. In addition, the Form and Validation components also received lots of commits and patches.

Symfony2 focused this week on internationalization: a new Translation component was introduced and the Twig bundle added helpers for translations. Meanwhile, the templating notation was modified to always include the renderer name and the Validator component eased its validation annotations.