December 30, 2019 Javier Eguiluz

The end of the year is the best time to review all that we achieved as a community during the past twelve months. These are some of the highlights of the 2019 year for the Symfony Project.

Symfony Core Team¶ The Symfony Core Team is the group of developers that determine the direction and evolution of the Symfony project. In June, Symfony appointed Yonel Ceruto as the newest member of the team, totaling 19 active members and 4 former members. As it happened with most Core Team members, Yonel's first contribution to Symfony was to fix a typo in some code, so you may consider making your first Symfony contribution as one of your goals for 2020.

Symfony 5¶ One of the biggest news for Symfony in 2019 was the Symfony 5 release. Symfony 4 reimagined Symfony development experience entirely. Symfony 5 built on top of that to provide an even better developer experience and many new and powerful features.

Symfony Cloud¶ After two years of development and years of R&D with our partners, the technology behind SymfonyCloud was announced as production-ready in July 2019. SymfonyCloud is a fully-managed platform created for busy Symfony developers. It is the best way to host your Symfony applications and a nice way of funding the Symfony project development. Related to this, the Symfony CLI published around 40 releases and the Symfony Local Server provided by it added lots of new features.

Hackathon¶ In April, 50 of the more active Symfony developers gathered in Brussels (Belgium) to attend a Hackathon organized by the European Union through its EU-FOSSA 2 program. The hackathon resulted in a frantic Symfony development activity, allowing to boost or finish many important Symfony features, such as the new encrypted secrets management.

Security¶ We published 11 security advisories. Thanks to Fabien and Michael from the Security Team for their coordination work and thanks to all developers who reported vulnerabilities and thanks to those who fixed them. Check out your notification preferences if you want to receive an email whenever a new security release is published.

Symfony 5 Book¶ In October, a new book about Symfony was announced: Symfony 5: The Fast Track. It was originally launched as a crowdfunding project, and the project backers received it as a printed book, but it will also be published for free in the coming weeks. Check out this blog post for an overview of the book contents and the complex applications built with it.