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The symfony website is now powered by symfony 1.4

Today, I spent some time migrating some of my public websites to symfony 1.4. I wanted to validate both the stability of this new version, and also see how easy it was to upgrade to the first symfony version that does not have any support for deprecated stuff.
November 28, 2009 #Living on the edge

Lime 2 alpha released

I am happy to announce the immediate availability of Lime 2 alpha 1! The second version of symfony's very own testing framework has been under heavy development since early July. Many exciting new features have been added since then, and now you have the opportunity to try them out! In this blog post, I want to outline the most important new features of Lime 2.
November 10, 2009 #Living on the edge

Using Propel 1.4 detailed logging

Today Propel 1.4.0 was released, containing richer debugging information as before. This post will show you how to use them.
November 8, 2009 #Living on the edge

Why will Symfony 2.0 finally use PHP 5.3?

The one where I explain why Symfony 2.0 will use PHP 5.3
October 27, 2009 #Living on the edge

Symfony and Doctrine 2

With the release of Doctrine 2 Alpha 1 last month, it was about time to start working on the next version of `sfDoctrinePlugin` which brings you support for Doctrine 2 in your projects.
October 5, 2009 #Living on the edge

About symfony 1.3 and symfony 1.4

The January 2010 end of maintenance for symfony 1.0 is fast approaching. Though we may feel a certain attachment to this first stable release of symfony, discontinuing its support is a natural step in the evolution of the project.
August 6, 2009 #Living on the edge

Symfony Components: The Dependency Injection Container

Today, I'm excited to announce the immediate availability of the second symfony component, the Symfony Dependency Injection Container.
June 30, 2009 #Living on the edge

New in symfony 1.3: What's up with Propel and Doctrine?

Top voted suggestions for symfony 1.3 are: make Doctrine the default ORM and do not make Doctrine the default ORM. How can we make everybody happy?
June 11, 2009 #Living on the edge

New in symfony 1.3: Project Creation Customization

Today, I'm really excited to announce a great new feature for the upcoming symfony 1.3 version: the ability to customize the project creation process. Let me explain why it is useful and how you can take advantage of this cool feature.
June 10, 2009 #Living on the edge

Your Apps are Faster!

An optimization committed to all branches of symfony earlier today may increase your application's performance by up to 50%! (No, this is not another April Fools post.)
April 2, 2009 #Living on the edge