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A weekly summary of everything that happened around Symfony development.

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
This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.4 version improved the Serializer component by adding more prefix support to the accessor, added more code to make the JsonPath component RFC compliant, and added support for loading JSON using imports in AssetMapper.
July 20, 2025 #A week of symfony ❤️ 2
This week, Symfony unveiled the Symfony AI initiative, a set of components and bundles designed to bring powerful AI capabilities directly into your PHP applications. In addition, we published travel and lodging tips for the SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 conference.
July 13, 2025 #A week of symfony
This week, development on the upcoming Symfony 8.0 version continued with the removal of deprecated features and the marking of several classes as final. In addition, we published two new case studies showcasing companies that use Symfony.
July 6, 2025 #A week of symfony
This week, Symfony 6.4.23, 7.2.8 and 7.3.1 maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 7.4 version continued adding new features such as better controller helpers, more precision in UUIDv7 values, and using PHP serialization instead of XML for dumping the container in debug/lint commands.
June 29, 2025 #A week of symfony 👍 2
This week, development activity was intense, with many bug fixes in the maintained branches, numerous deprecation removals in the 8.0 branch, and new features added to the 7.4 branch, including tighter integration with FrankenPHP, the modern PHP application server. In addition, we proposed a new feature that allows using the helpers from AbstractController without extending it.
June 22, 2025 #A week of symfony ❤️ 2
This week, Symfony celebrated the SymfonyOnline June 2025 conference with great success. Meanwhile, development efforts focused on improving invokable commands for the upcoming Symfony 7.4 version. These commands will now support backed enums in arguments and options, allow you to define usages via attributes and be easier to use when using the Console component standalone.
June 15, 2025 #A week of symfony
This week, development activity focused on the upcoming Symfony 7.4 and 8.0 versions, which will deprecate and remove many features. In addition, we published a case study about Yousign. Finally, we're preparing everything for the SymfonyOnline June 2025 conference, which starts next week.
June 8, 2025 #A week of symfony ❤️ 2
This week, Symfony released the stable version of Symfony 7.3, which includes lots of amazing new features. We also published the maintenance versions 6.4.22 and 7.2.7.
June 1, 2025 #A week of symfony
This week, development activity focused on putting the final touches on Symfony 7.3 in preparation for its stable release next week. In addition, we published a security fix for a potential vulnerability in Symfony UX.
May 25, 2025 #A week of symfony