
2021 is already here and we’re glad to meet you online again at our upcoming conferences! We'll have the pleasure to organize several online conferences, in dedicated languages:
A Polish Online Conference: SymfonyLive Online 2021 in Polish A French Online Conference: SymfonyLive Online 2021 in French A German Online Conference: SymfonyLive Online 2021 in German A Spanish Online Conference: SymfonyLive Online 2021 in Spanish
Early bird registration for all SymfonyLive Online conferences ends

This week, Symfony added support for binary/negatable options in console commands and introduced a feature in PhpUnitBridge to log deprecations into a file. In addition, it fixed some PHP 8 compatibility in DependencyInjection component and added future PHP 8.1 compatibility in VarDumper component.
Symfony development highlights
This week, 75 pull requests were merged (50 in code and 25 in docs) and 82 issues were closed (58 in code and 24 in docs). Excluding merges, 28 authors made 2,954 addi

This week, Symfony development activity focused on fixing some small issues. In addition, we published the Symfony 2020 Year in Review to summarize the Symfony activity during the past year.
Symfony development highlights
This week, 52 pull requests were merged (26 in code and 26 in docs) and 53 issues were closed (38 in code and 15 in docs). Excluding merges, 25 authors made 1,544 additions and 1,308 deletions. See details for code and docs.
4.4 changelog:
bbe1bb7: [Messenger] fixe

2020 was a year like no other. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the personal and professional lives of millions of people. Symfony was no exception and we struggled at times during this year. Nonetheless, thanks to your help and support, we won through and 2020 was a good year for Symfony, all things considered.
Releases¶ We released two new major versions: Symfony 4.1 in May and Symfony 5.2 in November. We also published 59 maintenance versions in six different branches (3.4, 4.3, 4.4, 5.0, 5.1

Symfony development highlights
This week, 33 pull requests were merged (20 in code and 13 in docs) and 49 issues were closed (44 in code and 5 in docs). See details for code and docs.
4.4 changelog:
18927fe: [Intl] updated the ICU data to 68.2 64cc4d8: [ProxyManagerBridge] fixed PHP notice and switched to "friendsofphp/proxy-manager-lts" 457c8b1: [Mailer] handle failure when sending the DATA command 018e33a: [VarDumper] fixed displaying 'mixed' as '?mixed' 0ed

This week, Symfony 4.4.18, [5.1.10](Symfony 5.1.10 released) and [5.2.1](Symfony 5.2.1 released) maintenance versions were released. Meanwhile, the pre-conference workshops for the next Symfony conferences were announced. Lastly, a special Christmas Sale was announced for all certifications.
Symfony development highlights
This week, 67 pull requests were merged (51 in code and 16 in docs) and 76 issues were closed (51 in code and 25 in docs). See details for code and docs.
4.4 changelog:
43

Symfony 5.2.1 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:
bug #39555 [FrameworkBundle] Fix NFS detection on macOs (@jderusse) bug #39545 [Notifier] [Mattermost] Host is required (@OskarStark) bug #39548 [Notifier] [Infobip][Zulip] Host is required (@OskarStark) bug #39550 [HttpFoundation] keep turning dots to underscores when using Request::create() (@nicolas-grekas) bug #39538 [Notifier] Fix parsing Dsn with empty user/password (@OskarStark) bug #3

Symfony 4.4.18 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:
bug #39531 [Mailer] Fix parsing Dsn with empty user/password (@OskarStark) bug #39518 [Ldap] Incorrect determination of RelativeDistinguishedName for the “move” operation (@astepin) bug #39476 [Lock] Prevent store exception break combined store (@dzubchik) bug #39433 [Cache] fix setting “rea _timeout” when using Redis (@nicolas-grekas) bug #39420 [Cache] Prevent notice on case matching metadata

Symfony 5.1.10 has just been released. Here is a list of the most important changes:
bug #39545 [Notifier] [Mattermost] Host is required (@OskarStark) bug #39538 [Notifier] Fix parsing Dsn with empty user/password (@OskarStark) bug #39531 [Mailer] Fix parsing Dsn with empty user/password (@OskarStark) bug #39518 [Ldap] Incorrect determination of RelativeDistinguishedName for the “move” operation (@astepin) bug #39510 [Notifier] [Free Mobile] Could not use custom host in DS

We’ve recently announced our Online SymfonyTour for the first semester of 2021. All Call for Papers are currently open, send in your talk proposals!
Each online conference comes with 2 days of online pre-conference workshops, organized on the days before the conference. We’re pleased to announce the pre-conference workshop topics, either 2-day workshops or a combo of two 1-day workshop:
Mastering OOP & Design Patterns (2-day workshop): Object Oriented Programming (OOP) goes beyond the des