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Introducing the Symfony Tui Component

I'm thrilled to announce a brand new Symfony component: Tui, a PHP library for building rich, interactive terminal user interfaces.
March 25, 2026 #Living on the edge 👀 3 ❤️ 11 👍 9 🚀 6 😄 2 🎉 9

New in Symfony 7.4 Misc Features (Part 3)

Symfony 7.4 adds structured MIME suffix handling, Microsoft Graph mailer support, untranslated message handling, a new email assertion, and profiler improvements for EventSource requests.
November 25, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 8 👍 4 🚀 1 🎉 2

New in Symfony 7.4 Misc Features (Part 2)

Symfony 7.4 adds enum support to workflows, new XML CDATA controls, a DynamoDB lock store, new DatePoint based Doctrine types, and explicit query parameters in URL generation.
November 24, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 6 👍 3 🚀 3 🎉 3

New in Symfony 7.4 Misc. Features (Part 1)

Symfony 7.4 introduces faster native HTML5 parsing, more flexible URL validation, improved Link header handling, support for the HTTP QUERY method, and easier configuration of resource tags.
November 21, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 9 👍 7 🚀 5 🎉 5

New in Symfony 7.4 Extending Validation and Serialization with PHP Attributes

Symfony 7.4 introduces new PHP attributes that let you extend validation and serialization metadata for classes you do not control.
November 18, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 9 👍 10 🚀 5 🎉 5

New in Symfony 7.4 Better PHP Configuration

Symfony 7.4 replaces the fluent PHP config with a new array-based format with full autocompletion, static analysis, and dynamically generated array shapes.
November 17, 2025 #Living on the edge 👀 8 ❤️ 11 👍 8 🚀 15 🎉 5

New in Symfony 7.4 Signing Messages

Symfony 7.4 adds message signing to the Messenger component, ensuring queued messages can't be tampered with before processing.
November 14, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 18 👍 9 🚀 9 🎉 6

New in Symfony 7.4 DX Improvements (Part 2)

Symfony 7.4 enhances developer experience with easier session handling in tests, improved route debugging, more accessible forms, and native FrankenPHP integration.
November 13, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 14 👍 9 🚀 8 🎉 4

New in Symfony 7.4 DX Improvements (Part 1)

Symfony 7.4 introduces multiple developer experience improvements, from smarter form and console helpers to better debugging, localization, and service configuration.
November 12, 2025 #Living on the edge ❤️ 13 👍 7 🚀 7 🎉 5

New in Symfony 7.4 Request Class Improvements

Symfony 7.4 introduces key updates to the Request class, including deprecations, expanded body parsing for more HTTP methods, and stricter control over method overrides.
November 7, 2025 #Living on the edge 👀 2 ❤️ 7 👍 4 🚀 4 🎉 3