March 16, 2016 Javier Eguiluz

Symfony 3.0.0 was released on November 2015 as planned by the Symfony 3 roadmap. As we do with any new Symfony version, we should publish a blog series explaining its new features.

However, Symfony 3.0 is a very special version which contains no new features comparing it with Symfony 2.8. Their only difference is that 3.0 removed any feature marked as deprecated in 2.8.

That's why we won't publish any "New in Symfony 3.0" post. Instead, let's do a quick recap of the new Symfony 2.8 features which are also available on Symfony 3.0.

New components : PropertyInfo (details), Guard Authentication (details), LDAP (details) and twelve Polyfill components (details).

: PropertyInfo (details), Guard Authentication (details), LDAP (details) and twelve Polyfill components (details). Major redesigns of the web debug toolbar (details) the profiler (details) and the console commands (details).

of the web debug toolbar (details) the profiler (details) and the console commands (details). New DependencyInjection features , such as "auto-wiring" (details), deprecated services (details), removed scopes (details) and more (details).

, such as "auto-wiring" (details), deprecated services (details), removed scopes (details) and more (details). A MicroKernel to create your own microframework based on Symfony (details).

to create your own microframework based on Symfony (details). Nice improvements and new features for the Console component (details), the Yaml component (details), the Form component (details), the Translator component (details), the VarDumper component (details) and the Security component (details).

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(details). And a lot of minor DX improvements to make you feel better and more productive when using Symfony (details).