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This week, a new symfony 1.4 book was published. In addition, it was announced a strong presence of symfony at the next phpBB conference.

Symfony 1.X branch fixed numerous bugs this week and therefore new 1.3/1.4 maintenance versions will be soon released. Meanwhile, Symfony 2.X branch development boosted with lots of fixes and tweaks, including new proof of concept bundles for Twig and Propel.

Symfony project achieved this week a very remarkable milestone: more than 1,000 plugins have been published on the official repository. Congratulations to all the plugin authors and please keep your hard and much appreciated work.

Symfony 2 committed this week lots of changes and fixes to its public repository. However, the most important change was related to the coding standards. From now on, Symfony 2 code will use PEAR / ZF coding standards. Therefore, indendation is now 4 spaces and curly brackets are now folded for control structures.

This week, the two ORM used by symfony published new important releases: Propel 1.5 Stable and Dotrine 2 Beta 1. Meanwhile, plugins showed an intense development activity, specially CMS related plugins: diem and apostrophe.

Symfony 2 continued this week adding new components: BrowserKit (a client to simulate a real browser) and Finder (which wraps many useful Iterator classes for finding files and directories).

This week Symfony 2 finished the integration of PHPUnit 3.5 for applications. Moreover, Symfony 2 added two new components: DomCrawler (part of the functional test sub-framework) and PhpProcess (runs a PHP script in a forked process).

Symfony 1.X branch fixed some bugs this week before releasing two new maintainance versions (1.3.4 and 1.4.4). Meanwhile, Symfony 2 added a new component called CssSelector, which allows to parse XML documents with CSS selectors.

This week, symfony project closed 77 bugs, mostly related to symfony 1.X branch and sfDoctrinePlugin. Meanwhile, symfony 1.4 documentation was migrated to Git and the upcoming book "a gentle introduction to symfony 1.4" added a brand-new chapter on forms.

This week continued the open discussion about the best approach for controllers in Symfony 2. In addition, symfony 1.X branch committed lots of fixes and Propel 1.5 plugin introduced some new features for its admin generator.