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Symfony2 suffered this week a huge internal refactoring: two of the main namespaces were renamed (Symfony\Framework to Symfony\Bundle and Symfony\Foundation to Symfony\Framework) and a new HttpFoundation component was introduced. Meanwhile, Symfony2 documentation continued growing and totalizes 30 brief documents and guides.

After the great success of the first Symfony2 online conference, this week the development activity has been focused on its code refactorization. Dependency Injection has been completely refactored, and unit tests, the routing resources and some Foundation files have been reorganized.

The Symfony2 Online Conference gathered this week hundreds of symfony developers. The introduction of a brand new form framework and its validation component was the first big announcement of the conference. In addition, Symfony2 unveiled its killer feature, a built-in HTTP accelerator that greatly improves the performance of Symfony2 applications. Lastly, the 30,000th changeset of symfony 1.x branch repository was committed this week.

Profiler bundle was the most updated component of Symfony 2 during this week. Meanwhile, lots of symfony developers are still intrigued by the mysterious killer feature of Symfony 2, which will be unveiled at the State of Symfony 2 online conference. Remember that you can still register for the conference and you can also attend or organize a conference hub.

This week, the symfony community announced three new symfony conferences. Jornadas symfony in Spain and Symfony Camp in Ukraine will be both held on July. Moreover, it was announced the first online conference about symfony, which will detail the current state of Symfony 2 and will unveil its real killer feature.

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.