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This week, development activity mostly focused on dealing with the deprecation of sleep/wakeup methods in PHP 8.5 and their replacement by serialize/unserialize methods. In addition, we published more details about the unconference track at the SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 conference and a Symfony AI Hackathon on September 12, 2025.
August 17, 2025 #A week of symfony πŸ‘ 1
Join the Symfony AI Hackathon on Friday, 12th of September, online or in-person in Berlin.
August 16, 2025 #Community πŸ‘ 7 πŸš€ 7 πŸŽ‰ 7
SymfonyCon’s Unconference track is open to all attendees! Share your ideas in a 20-minute talk! No need to be a pro speaker. Apply now and be part of something spontaneous and powerful.
August 12, 2025 #Conferences
This week, Symfony completed the migration to PHPUnit 12 in the 7.4 branch, which required many changes during the past weeks, such as replacing annotations with attributes. In addition, we updated the container XML dumping process to not require the PHP XML extension. Finally, we also published more details about the hackday to be celebrated during the SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 conference.
August 10, 2025 #A week of symfony
Ready to contribute to Symfony? On Nov 29, we’re hosting a Hackday in Amsterdam focused on mentoring, roadmap planning, testing, and more. Come shape the future of Symfony!
August 6, 2025 #Conferences
This week, Symfony released the maintenance versions 6.4.24, 7.2.9, and 7.3.2. Meanwhile, we began deprecating the XML configuration format in some components, enhanced the YAML configuration format to support auto-completion and updated the container XML dumping process to remove some dependencies.
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This week, development focused on the upcoming Symfony 7.4 and 8.0 releases. We added new features such as the ObjectMapperAwareInterface, improved value transformers in JsonStreamer, and enabled loading JSON via imports in AssetMapper. We also removed deprecated features, including Doctrine entity auto-mapping. In addition, we announced more details about SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025.
July 27, 2025 #A week of symfony