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Jérôme Tamarelle will demonstrate how to implement client-side field-level encryption with Doctrine and a key management system, showing you how to turn your database into a vault to protect sensitive user data without losing your ability to query it.

Pauline Vos will introduce `jj`, a next-generation version control system that fixes Git's pain points inside your existing Git repositories, making everyday tasks like resolving conflicts and changing commits simpler, more intuitive, and human.

In this talk, Max Beckers will build a working event-driven order pipeline on Messenger and RabbitMQ, covering snapshots, idempotency, per-consumer routing, and crucial production lessons like retry strategies and avoiding infinite loops

Symfony 8.1 improves forms with better form flows, a new daisyUI theme, customizable date labels, UID format options, and more.

This week, Symfony 8.1 was released. In addition, we published dozens of security advisories and released the security updates Symfony 5.4.53, 6.4.41, 7.4.13, 8.0.13, Twig 3.27, Symfony UX 2.36 and 3.1, and Polyfill 1.38.1. We also published more information about the upcoming SymfonyOnline June 2026 conference.

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Tobias Nyholm will introduce the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open specification that lets AI clients discover your app's tools, and demonstrate the new official PHP mcp-sdk co-built by the Symfony AI initiative, showing how easily you can secure routes and leverage Symfony's bundle integration

Vincent Amstoutz will explore the practical reality of using AI as an autonomous security researcher to uncover complex injection paths, broken access control, and logic flaws that traditional rulesets miss, giving you a battle-tested strategy to weaponize LLMs against your own technical debt.

Symfony 8.1 curated new features

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