I just crossed 4000 PRs on symfony/symfony!

It's been a crazy and exhausting week! Symfony 8.1.0-BETA3 just dropped: security fixes and hardenings across basically every component. 8.1-stable is coming soon! 🔒 github.com/symfony/symf...

Release v8.1.0-BETA3 by fabpot · Pull Request #64307 · symfony/symfony

Changelog (v8.1.0-BETA2...v8.1.0-BETA3) security #cve-2026-46626 [Runtime] Fix CVE-2024-50340 patch bypass by gating argv on $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] (@nicolas-grekas) security #cve-2026-4...

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Be ready to update Twig and Symfony TODAY. Security issues are all the rage in the era of advanced LLMs! I’ve been deep in that tunnel for the past 10 days, finally seeing the light at the end 🥵

RDV à Toulouse ce soir pour parler #Symfony et #FrankenPHP, repousser les limites de ce qu'on peut faire en PHP ! N'oubliez pas de vous inscrire ! www.meetup.com/afup-toulous...

Apéro PHP #9 : Reconfigurer Symfony en temps réel, Wed, Apr 8, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Nous vous attendons le **08/04/2026** à 19h pour un meetup en partenariat avec **Emagma**. La soirée débutera par un talk de **Nicolas Grekas** (Symfony core team) : "**Re

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1h15 d'échange avec Nicolas Grekas (Core Team Symfony, PHP Foundation). Parcours, Symfony, open source, IA… une discussion sans filtre. Dispo sur YouTube dès maintenant ! youtu.be/eok2xwvK4Mc

📆 RDV dimanche à 18 h sur la chaîne YouTube pour découvrir cette ITW de @nicolasgrekas.bsky.social dans son intégralité. Au programme : 1h15 d'échange sur son parcours, Symfony, l'Open Source ou l'IA.

Putting Guzzle #PHP on steroids with #Symfony HttpClient inside. 🎉 A PR I wouldn't have shipped without an LLM — and vice versa 😛 github.com/symfony/symf...

[HttpClient] Add `GuzzleHttpHandler` that allows using Symfony HttpClient as a Guzzle handler by nicolas-grekas · Pull Request #63433 · symfony/symfony

Q A Branch? 8.1 Bug fix? no New feature? yes Deprecations? no Issues - License MIT Despite the PSR-18 promise and php-http/discovery's efforts to make it real, a large chunk of...

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💥 Symfony 8 is here! We interviewed @nicolasgrekas.bsky.social about this new major release 🎙️ and the impact on your business A must-read before upgrading and to understand the future of the #Symfony ecosystem 👉 tinyurl.com/3m986tsk

Symfony 8: Stability, Security, and Innovation for Developers

Explore what's new in Symfony 8 with Nicolas Grekas. From new JSON components to security hardening and PHP 8.4 native support, learn how to master your Symfony 8 upgrade and boost your DX.

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Hot take: #PHP's strict mode is the new weak mode!🍿 Recent improvements to casting rules in default mode are so much better than the explicit casts that strict mode forces on ppl that use it!

Fancy a bit of #Symfony and a catch-up? 💂 The Symfony UK meetup is back in London on 27 January Join us at 6:30 p.m. near Kings Cross 🚂 for talks from @nicolasgrekas.bsky.social & @osteel.bsky.social 🍻 Free food & drinks thanks to our lovely sponsors RSVP here 👇 www.meetup.com/symfony/even...

January 2026 Meetup, Tue, Jan 27, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

🚀 Let's kick off 2026 with a Symfony meetup on January 27th! With the special participation of a member of the Symfony Core Team: **Nicolas Grekas**. Details of the talk

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Join #Symfony in London, UK! 💻✨💂 A #MeetUp with great talks, tips from the Core Team, and Symfony community 🙌 🎤 On stage: ➡️Nicolas Grekas: “A Year of Symfony!” 🚀 ➡️Yannick Chenot: “Escaping the Code Maze” 🧩 📍WeWork, 90 York Way, London N1 (Floor 7) 🎟️Tickets: www.meetup.com/symfony/even... #PHP

#SymfonyLive Berlin 2026 Last chance for early bird tickets! 🔥 Get yours before prices increase tonight at midnight (CET)! https://symfony.com/blog/symfonylive-berlin-2026-last-day-to-take-advantage-of-early-bird-tickets

Pour la quatrième keynote de la conférence @api-platform.com, nous découvrons les modifications récents sur le formats des config dans @symfony.com avec @nicolasgrekas.bsky.social

Excited to share that @nicolasgrekas.bsky.social’s keynote is coming up next week at #APIPlatformCon 2025! Last tickets available: api-platform.com/con/2025/

Here's a PR that connects a decade of design evolution with the bleeding-edge #[AutowireMethodOf] attribute to achieve true functional dependency injection! 🤯 A must-read for architecture fans 😉 #SymfonyDI4ever github.com/symfony/symf...

[FrameworkBundle] Add `ControllerHelper`; the helpers from AbstractController as a standalone service by nicolas-grekas · Pull Request #60857 · symfony/symfony

Q A Branch? 7.4 Bug fix? no New feature? yes Deprecations? no Issues - License MIT This PR is a follow up of #16863 by @derrabus almost 10 years ago 😱, which was seeking for a solu...

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Had a great time hosting #PHPVerse - 30 years of PHP! Thanks @brendt.bsky.social and thanks for letting me quiz you 😉 @dunglas.dev @nicolasgrekas.bsky.social @marcelpociot.bsky.social Cheuk @taylorotwell.bsky.social @jeffreyway.bsky.social Povilas @zenstruck.com @pronskiy.bsky.social Gina #phpc #php

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I'm really proud of what we managed to do with #PHPverse today. Thank you everyone ❤️

Thank you for joining us at SymfonyOnline June 2025! We were thrilled to welcome 300 participants from over 35 different countries—a truly global community gathering! 🌍💙 We’d also like to thank our Gold Sponsors, ‪@upsun.com‬ and‪@sensiolabs.com‬ 🎥Replays are now available!

Let the #Symfony 8 dev-cycle begin! github.com/symfony/symf...

Bump Symfony 8 to PHP >= 8.4 by nicolas-grekas · Pull Request #60639 · symfony/symfony

Q A Branch? 8.0 Bug fix? no New feature? yes Deprecations? no Issues - License MIT Let's start this new major cycle with fresh features shipped with PHP 8.4: native lazy object...

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Right after #JetBrainsPHPverse2025, AmsterdamPHP organizes a special meetup. Last hop of the 2024-2025 conf season for me! See you on June 17th, either online or onsite! 🤗 📅 www.meetup.com/fr-FR/amster...

AmsterdamPHP Special PHPVerse Edition, mar. 17 juin 2025, 18:30 | Meetup

**🎉 Special AmsterdamPHP Meetup – June 17th, 2025** Right after **[PHPVerse 2025](https://lp.jetbrains.com/phpverse-2025/)**, we’re keeping the momentum going with a **sp

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Just finished documenting Stateless CSRF Protection as implemented in #Symfony 7.2! 🥵 Have a look, reviews pending! github.com/symfony/symf...

[Security] Tell about stateless CSRF protection by nicolas-grekas · Pull Request #20964 · symfony/symfony-docs

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Like always @blackfire.io helped a lot measuring the impact of the new @symfony.com JsonStreamer component! Serialization's share of the total request fell from 83% to 45% thanks to streaming – achieving an awesome 70% time saving and 50% memory reduction!

I'm gonna do it! I'm gonna share it! PHP, I'm coming back 🥰 I'm joining MongoDB's database experience team where I'll be doing loads of PHP OSS and community work. Can't wait!

Last day to get your early-bird tickets for the greatest international #Symfony conference, held in Amsterdam November 27+28!

Deprecating the implicitly nullable parameter in #PHP 8.4 had a huge cost for the maintainers. Even if there are solutions to automate the fixes, that breaks almost all old code with very low value for developers. My article about fixing this is by far the most popular I have ever published.

📣Dernier jour avant la hausse des tarifs d'inscriptions de #Symfony_Live Paris 2025 ! https://buff.ly/4gXyvBQ 🔥Rejoignez la communauté #Symfony pour assister à 15 conférences inspirantes, des formations pratiques et rencontrez les partenaires dans une ambiance chaleureuse #php

Je prépare un talk sur HTMX pour #SymfonyLive 😇 > Atteindre la qualité d'une SPA avec HTMX et Twig 🔎 Le programme complet : live.symfony.com/2025-paris/s...

🌟 Symfony 7.2.4 released ➡️ https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-7-2-4-released #symfony

🙌 New Core Team Members, 2025 Edition ➡️ https://symfony.com/blog/new-core-team-members-2025-edition #symfony

Dès demain, je serai à Montréal pour la @confooca.bsky.social. J’y présenterai FrankenPHP et @api-platform.com. J’interviendrai aussi avec @nicolasgrekas.bsky.social au meetup Symfony qui se tiendra demain 17h chez ÉTS Formation (1220, rue Notre Dame O, 3e étage). On s’y croise ? 🍻🍁

📢 Lors du prochain #SymfonyLive à Paris, j'aurais le plaisir d'animer un workshop pour vous apprendre à internationaliser vos applications #Symfony ! Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant à l'une des 2 sessions prévues les 25 et 26 mars ! live.symfony.com/2025-paris/w... @symfony.com #i18n #PHP