This blog post highlights the key accomplishments of the Symfony project in 2024. We are grateful for your continuous support, which enabled the Symfony project to achieve a remarkable year.

Releases

We released two new major versions: Symfony 7.1 in May and Symfony 7.2 in November. We also published 58 maintenance versions across six branches (5.4, 6.3, 6.4, 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2).

In addition, we published 296 blog posts, including 48 New in Symfony articles explaining the new features introduced by Symfony 7.1 and 7.2.

We also published 52 A Week of Symfony blog posts, reaching nearly 950 weekly posts since we started, making it one of the longest-running series in the entire tech industry.

Events and Conferences

We organized four conferences:

In 2025 we plan to organize these conferences:

You can already send your Call For Paper proposals and buy your tickets for these conferences. Stay tuned for additional conference announcements.

Symfony Core Team

The Symfony Core Team is the group of developers that determine the direction and evolution of the Symfony project.

In 2024, four members stepped down from the team. Thanks for their service during all these years. We hope to add new members in 2025, who will be selected among the most active contributors of Symfony code and docs.

Symfony Components

Symfony components surpassed 27 billion downloads in 2024 (500 million in 2016, 1 billion in 2017, 3 billion in 2019, 6 billion in 2020, 10 billion in 2021, 15 billion in 2022, 20 billion in 2023). Check out our pseudo real-time download stats.

In 2024 we released several new components:

Security

We published 11 security advisories. Thanks to the Symfony Security Team for their coordination work and thanks to all developers who reported and fixed those vulnerabilities.

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Contributors

According to GitHub contribution stats: the following were the most active contributors in 2024 across Symfony's two main repositories:

Symfony Code

  1. Nicolas Grekas: 1,085 commits
  2. Fabien Potencier: 967 commits
  3. Christian Flothmann: 828 commits
  4. Alexander M. Turek: 198 commits
  5. Alexandre Daubois: 165 commits

Symfony Docs

  1. Javier Eguiluz: 1,529 commits
  2. Oskar Stark: 327 commits
  3. Christian Flothmann: 132 commits
  4. Thomas Landauer: 40 commits
  5. Antoine Lamirault: 36 commits

These are the stats for the two main Symfony repositories, but many other contributors are working on other repositories and third-party bundles. Additionally, some developers prefer contributing by reviewing the work of others, which is just as important as contributing code/docs. Thanks to all of them!

Symfony Sponsorship Program

In 2021 we announced a Symfony Sponsorship Program and a SaaS Sponsoring Program that allows companies to sponsor different parts of the Symfony project.

In 2024, new companies joined the program or renewed their sponsorships:

  • Rector sponsors the Symfony 7.1 and 7.2 releases.
  • Les-Tilleuls.coop sponsors the Symfony 7.1 release.
  • JoliCode sponsors the Symfony 7.1 release.
  • redirection.io sponsors the Routing component for Symfony 7.1.
  • Mercure.rocks sponsors the Notifier component for Symfony 7.1.
  • Crowdin sponsors its own Translation bridge for Symfony 7.1 and 7.2.
  • Contria sponsors the Scheduler component for Symfony 7.1.
  • Sulu sponsors the Symfony 7.2 release.
  • TradersPost sponsors the Messenger component for Symfony 7.2.
  • Sweego sponsors its own Mailer and Notifier bridges for Symfony 7.2 and 7.3.

Check out all the Symfony backers. Talk to your company about this program and, if you are interested, contact us.

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Thank You

Overall, this was a great year for Symfony. All this was possible thanks to your continuous support.

Thanks for being part of the Symfony community!

Looking forward to an incredible 2025 when we'll celebrate the 20th Symfony anniversary and the release of Symfony 8.0.

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