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For symfony 1.1, the complete plugin system has been rewritten from scratch. This has been done to allow some serious improvements in the way plugins work, and to make it even simpler to work with plugins in your symfony project.

Here is a short tutorial about my discovery of the new YAML parsing library that comes with symfony 1.1.

So, you want to give Doctrine a try with symfony 1.1 eh?

As any web application, your project has repetitive maintenance tasks, database operations, or other console scripts running on a regular basis. Symfony 1.1 extends symfony 1.0 pake tasks to create a powerful and uniform command line utility for your projects, fully integrated with the symfony Command Line Interface (CLI).

It has never been so easy to internationalize your Propel forms. In this post, you will learn how to leverage the new form framework bundled with symfony 1.1 to develop an interface to edit articles in several languages.

Sending mails is a web developer's everyday task, and many questions came about the way to do it in symfony 1.1. This article, along with a new cookbook entry dedicated to the subject, goes through the process of sending an email using the great Swift Mailer library.

symfony 1.1 introduces native support for different formats and mime-types. This means that the same model and controller can have different templates based on the requested format.

Sometimes you need to be able to customize the directory structure provided by symfony. In this post, we will see how to leverage the new configuration system of symfony 1.1 to change the web root, cache, and log directories.

Starting with symfony 1.1, it is now possible to easily use Propel 1.3 in your project to take advantage of its speed improvements, nested set implementation, object instance pooling, among others. Most importantly, Propel 1.3 uses PDO instead of Creole as the DBAL, offering a significant performance boost.

If you don't know the symfony CLI tasks by heart yet, this may prove useful.