April 24, 2014 Javier Eguiluz

Today we are happy to introduce the first beta of the upcoming Symfony 2.5 version. As we announced a few months ago, Symfony project is currently focused on quality over features and backwards compatibility. That's why this new version is packed with dozens of bugfixes, code cleanups and improvements for each and every Symfony component.

This new Symfony version also takes backwards compatibility to the next level. In addition to being a core value for the project, we've introduced a new Backwards Compatibility Promise for minor Symfony versions.

With 142 commits, 301 modified files, 11,639 additions and 2,204 deletions, Symfony 2.5 is now feature frozen. During the next two months, we'll focus on tweaking these improvements and completing their documentation.

Meanwhile you can read the UPGRADE from 2.4 to 2.5 guide and test, hack and play with Symfony 2.5 code in many different ways:

Create a new project via Composer (recommended):

1 $ php composer.phar create-project symfony/framework-standard-edition somewhere/ 2.5.0-BETA1

Download the whole framework or the Standard Edition via GitHub

Download individual components via Github: https://github.com/symfony/{COMPONENT_NAME}/archive/v2.5.0-BETA1.zip