The end of symfony 1

January 17, 2018 • Published by Fabien Potencier

Symfony 4 has been released a month ago; the latest major version of symfony 1 was released 8 years ago. Its end of life was reached 5 years ago.

Why a blog post about symfony 1 then? Because SensioLabs is still maintaining the symfony 1 infrastructure: mainly the subversion server and the plugin platform. I think it's time to move on and sunset the platform. We will shut down the Symfony 1 infrastructure at the end of February 2018. If there is enough interest, we will probably keep the API documentation and downloadable artefacts somewhere on symfony.com. But you won't be able to start new projects via Subversion or install new plugins. Note that existing projects won't be affected in any way.

Adieu symfony 1.

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Comments

Loïc Caillieux Certified said on Jan 17, 2018 at 08:58

symfony (without the 'S') opened the opportunity for PHP to have professional tools for developing web applications. RIP sf 1, with ❤️.

Enrique García said on Jan 17, 2018 at 09:06

What great memories of the first versions of this framework! I still keep the symfony 1 books and my very first symfony 1.x project is still alive.

Thanks to the entire team, you boosted my career as a web developer!

Alex Rock Certified said on Jan 17, 2018 at 10:14

Is it not possible to migrate the svn repository to Github, at least? Or put the plugins on a specific Github repo?

Maybe a "symfony1" organization could be created to keep a nice track on this :)

Christophe Coevoet said on Jan 17, 2018 at 11:56

@Alex the symfony1 repo is already on github (as an archived repo, so read-only).

Holger Niehoff said on Jan 17, 2018 at 13:34

Wow, that means we are working with symfony for a decade now! What a great framework! We migrated projects to the latest versions, but we also have one big project still running on 1.4. Therefore we would appreciate if you keep those symfony docs online. Would it be an option if we host the docs? That would give us and others working with 1.4 access to the docs (and save you the hosting cost). Please contact me if that’s an option…

Florian Klein said on Jan 17, 2018 at 14:36

I still remember writing partial templates starting with _ and all that good old stuff :) sfContext anyone ? What an adventure it has been!

Davide Borsatto said on Jan 17, 2018 at 14:52

sfContext::getInstance() brings back so many memories!

Jakub Zalas Certified said on Jan 17, 2018 at 16:33

Long time ago symfony 1.0 was the reason I sticked to PHP as my primary language instead of moving somewhere else. Later Symfony 2 gave me even more reasons to stay, but that's another story :)

Derek Roth said on Jan 17, 2018 at 17:38

Ah, good old times where i almost started a project on symfony 1 before moving away because of a documentation bug in the Jobeet tutorial :)

Abdulkadir N. A. said on Jan 17, 2018 at 23:29

#10

Adieu symfony 1! Adieu Jobeet!

Yitzchak Schaffer said on Jan 17, 2018 at 23:32

#11

Absolutely keep the docs up :) I just migrated an s1 app to s3 a few months ago, and I'm sure there will be actively-maintained s1 apps out there for a while

Fabien Potencier Certified said on Jan 18, 2018 at 05:49

#12

All the docs are already on symfony.com and we won't remove anything.

Davey Hoogland said on Jan 19, 2018 at 10:17

#13

Adieu symfony 1. Thanks community <3. Symfony 1 opened a new world for me.

Thomas Bisignani said on Jan 22, 2018 at 16:16

#14

Bye bye Symfony 1. Thank you for all !