This post highlights the key accomplishments of the Symfony project in 2025. We are grateful for your continuous support, which helped make 2025 a remarkable year for Symfony.

Releases

We released three new major versions: Symfony 7.3 in May and Symfony 7.4 and Symfony 8.0 in November. We also published 38 maintenance versions across branches (6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 and 8.0).

In addition, we published 288 blog posts, including 49 New in Symfony articles explaining the new features introduced by Symfony 7.3 and 7.4/8.0.

We also published 51 A Week of Symfony blog posts, reaching nearly 991 weekly posts since we started, making it one of the longest-running series in the tech industry.

Events and Conferences

We organized six conferences:

In 2026 we plan to organize these conferences:

You can already submit talk proposals and buy 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 2025, we added six members to the group (shown in alphabetical order):

Sadly, we also had to say goodbye to a friend and Core Team member.

Remembering Ryan Weaver

In August, we received the heartbreaking news that Ryan Weaver passed away after a courageous battle with brain cancer.

Ryan was more than a brilliant teacher and developer; he was a cornerstone of our community. His ability to explain complex concepts with clarity and enthusiasm inspired thousands of developers around the world. His warmth, humor, and generosity touched everyone who met him.

You can remember and celebrate Ryan through his talks, which remain a lasting testament to his passion for teaching and his love for Symfony.

💙 Rest in peace, Ryan. We miss you.

Symfony Components

Symfony components surpassed 35 billion downloads in 2025 (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, 27 billion in 2024). Check out our pseudo real-time download stats.

In 2025 we released several new components:

  • JsonStreamer, which was released as part of Symfony 7.3 to provide a blazing-fast JSON encoder and decoder with minimal memory usage;
  • ObjectMapper, which was released as part of Symfony 7.3 to provide a much simpler way to transfer data between objects (e.g. between entities and DTOs);
  • JsonPath, which was released as part of Symfony 7.3 and provides a powerful tool to query and extract data from JSON;
  • PHP 8.5 Polyfill to provide some of the new PHP 8.5 features, which was released in November 2025;
  • UX Toolkit, which is part of the Symfony UX project and provides a set of ready-to-use UI components for Symfony applications;
  • 1 new notifier package and 2 new mailer packages to integrate Symfony applications with third-party services that send emails, SMS messages, etc.

Security

We published 3 security advisories (one for Twig, one for Symfony UX, and one for Symfony itself). Thanks to the Symfony Security Team for their coordination work and thanks to all developers who reported and fixed those vulnerabilities.

Check out your notification preferences if you want to receive an email whenever a new security release is published.

Contributors

According to GitHub contribution stats: the following were the most active contributors in 2025 across Symfony's two main repositories:

Symfony Code

  1. Nicolas Grekas: 1,690 commits
  2. Fabien Potencier: 753 commits
  3. Christian Flothmann: 549 commits
  4. Alexandre Daubois: 101 commits
  5. Jérôme Tamarelle: 74 commits

Symfony Docs

  1. Javier Eguiluz: 1,163 commits
  2. Oskar Stark: 167 commits
  3. Christian Flothmann: 59 commits
  4. Antoine Lamirault: 28 commits
  5. Thomas Landauer: 20 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 or 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 2025, new companies joined the program or renewed their sponsorships:

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

Symfony AI

In July, we kicked off the Symfony AI initiative. The goal is to provide a set of packages that make it easier to integrate AI into Symfony applications.

Symfony AI is compatible with major AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI, etc.) and popular vector stores (Pinecone, Chroma, PostgreSQL, etc.), and it supports modern building blocks such as agents and MCP.

In December, we tagged the first version of Symfony AI, releasing over 75 packages. Check out the new website ai.symfony.com.

20 Years of Symfony

2025 marked a historic milestone: Symfony celebrated 20 years of innovation, collaboration, and community.

20 years of Symfony

It's rare for a tech project to not only survive for two decades but to continue thriving and remain as relevant as ever. Symfony's evolution from a PHP framework to a global force in web development is a direct result of the dedication and hard work of countless contributors, maintainers, companies, and developers who believe in the power of open source collaboration.

To mark this milestone, we've created a special webpage celebrating Symfony's history:

symfony.com/20years

Here's to 20 more years of code, community, and growth!

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Thank You

All this was possible thanks to your continuous support.

Thanks for being part of the Symfony community!

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