Making SensioLabs Connect more inclusive
SensioLabs Connect redesigned some badges and default avatars to make them more inclusive as part of our diversity initiatives.
New Core Team Member, Security Team Leader
Michael Cullum is joinong the Symfony Core Team to lead the security team.
New in Symfony 4.1: Invokable event listeners
In Symfony 4.1, event listeners that define just one method can define an __invoke() method instead of a named method.
New in Symfony 4.1: Serialize and deserialize from abstract classes
Symfony 4.1 defines a new discriminator class mapping for the Serializer component so you can serialize and deserialize from abstract classes and interfaces.
Call for Papers - SymfonyLive Phantasialand 2018
This year we'll see the Cologne edition of the SymfonyLive conference in Germany move to Phantasialand theme park. There's still time to submit your proposal to deliver a talk.
The end of symfony 1
We will sunset the symfony 1 infrastructure at the end of February 2018.
New in Symfony 4.1: Prefix imported route names
Symfony 4.1 includes a new option called "name_prefix" to define the prefix added to all the routes imported in a configuration file.
New in Symfony 4.1: HTML5 Email Validation
Symfony 4.1 adds a new email address validation mode that uses the validation logic defined in the HTML5 specification.
The end of the Symfony Installer
The Symfony Installer tool end of life is scheduled for November 2020, when Symfony 3.4 will not be supported anymore.
The end of Silex
The current stable version of Silex is still maintained for bugs and security issues. But its end of life is set to June 2018.
The end of the Symfony Standard Edition
Thanks to Flex and the new skeletons, it's time to retire the Symfony Standard Edition.
Next steps for the diversity initiative
In order to improve the diversity of the Symfony community we need to work on two main topics: 1) become more diversity friendly and 2) attracting and integrating people from marginalized communities. As possible next steps several ideas have been collected and added to the new [diversity repository](https://github.com/symfony/diversity). All community members are invited to add their own ideas, add comments to existing ideas or champion ideas to bring them to life!