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The Symfony Console component is the second most popular Symfony component, with more than eight million downloads on Packagist.org so far. One of the main factors of its success is the amount of features that it provides to create advanced console commands. In Symfony 2.7 we went a step further and added support for defining advanced table layouts.
March 30, 2015 #Living on the edge
Symfony 2.7 has just got a nice performance boost thanks to the decoupling of Twig from the PHP templating system.
January 13, 2015 #Living on the edge
In Symfony 2.7, the Symfony Serializer component will introduce a new feature to serialize/deserialize different sets of object attributes.
December 23, 2014 #Living on the edge
In Symfony 2.7 web profiler you'll get the full security role information for the user, including the direct roles and the inherited ones.
December 18, 2014 #Living on the edge
Symfony 2.6 includes a new VarDumper component which aims to replace the well-known var_dump() PHP function with a more modern and fully-featured alternative called dump().
December 8, 2014 #Living on the edge
During the last year, I've been talking about Symfony 3.0 at various conferences. I've been thinking about the best Symfony 3.0 strategy for quite a long time now and it's time to share my thoughts with everyone.
November 11, 2014 #Living on the edge
Symfony 2.6 will include a new option to preview error pages. This will simplify the development and design of good error pages in Symfony applications.
October 23, 2014 #Living on the edge
Symfony 2.6 will include a new form theme designed for Bootstrap 3 that it will save you lots of hours of tedious and repetitive work.
October 6, 2014 #Living on the edge
Symfony 2.6 will deprecate the Icu component and it will only use the Intl component. All the internationalization data has been bundled in Intl to avoid the usual problems caused by the PHP intl extension.
October 3, 2014 #Living on the edge
Symfony Security component will introduce in Symfony 2.6 version a major refactoring of the security.context service, a new service to simplify password encoding, a new REMOTE_USER based firewall and a new authentication helper.
October 2, 2014 #Living on the edge