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After the record breaking January month, the documentation team took it a bit more easy this month, resulting in less new sections. Instead, lots of typos and other minor things were fixed or improved.

This month, the Symfony documentation started preparing for Symfony 3.0, by removing the usage of deprecated features and documenting new features. Meanwhile, lots of minor fixes where merged into the documentation.

This is the first blog post of a new monthly series reviewing the main changes introduced in the official Symfony Documentation during the last month.

Fabien Potencier, the leader of the Symfony project, introduced today a new initiative called "The Official Symfony Best Practices", a list of 31 techniques and recommendations for professional Symfony development.

Building APIs with Symfony is not new, we have plenty libraries and bundles to write powerful REST APIs. However, it is not always easy to find out an up-to-date documentation or the right tool to integrate with Symfony. That's why a new working group has been created!

Learn more about how to easily upgrade your Symfony projects.

Woh! Last Saturday we gathered on IRC for a full, focused day on the Symfony2 documentation. We didn't know how many of you would show up, but the response was *overwhelming*! In addition to getting a lot done, we all got to hang out, and there was a spirit of collaboration, fun and politeness that made me very proud of our community!

The first Symfony Documentation hack day is coming on Saturday, March 30th! And no matter who you are, we want you to help us take the documentation to the next level.

The Symfony documentation has been improved a lot since Symfony 2.1.

The Symfony documentation about access controls was wrong. Please read carefully to understand how access control rules really work.