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The certification exam for the new Symfony 8 version is now available. Purchase your voucher today to become one of the first Symfony 8 certified developers.

A summary of the highlights and key accomplishments of the Symfony project in 2025.

A look at 20 years of Symfony through code statistics, revealing how contributions, complexity, and long-term design choices shaped the framework.

At SymfonyCon 2025, we wanted to celebrate Symfony’s 20th anniversary with a live, collective experience: 1200 developers holding up their phones while we lit up their screens in real time from the stage. To make that work reliably, we combined Symfony/PHP-FPM for the application logic with a dedicated Mercure/FrankenPHP setup for long‑lived connections, giving us both robustness and massive concurrency. This post walks through the architecture and lessons learned from turning a “simple” colored screen idea into a live demo that worked flawlessly in front of a full conference hall.

Symfony 7.4 and 8.0 will be released together, offering two upgrade paths that require developers to review and fix deprecations to ensure a smooth transition.

Kicking off the Symfony AI Initiative

Symfony Messenger now supports a streaming AMQP transport: no C extension, lower latency, and a drop-in replacement for AMQP Messenger.

Let's celebrate four new Symfony core team members.

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The Symfony UX Core Team, a group of five members, has been announced to manage Symfony UX.