In 2013, @fabpot started a challenge of creating a Symfony app with only 1 file and 200 lines of code. Today, I showcase how far we get with modern Symfony in my latest blogpost: wouterj.nl/2026/02/200-lines…

New blog post on how we manage env variables to configure our applications in Kubernetes, to allow changing them without a redeploy: wouterj.nl/2026/02/manage-en…

wouterj.nl/2025/12/symfony-2… To celebrate 20 years of Symfony, I've crunched a bunch of numbers and share some memories of Symfony development since the 2.0 release in 2011.

Agreed. The value of PR descriptions is often in things that are NOT directly inferable from the changes: - What original problem led to this PR? - Are there related issues / prior discussions? - What alternatives have been tried? Does this supersede previous attempts? - Why are certain seemingly unreasonable choices made? What are the tradeoffs? AI that generates summary based on the changes of an isolated PR is not really helpful in a meaningful way. Good PR descriptions need not only a holistic understanding of the entire codebase, but even the contribution history of the project. That’s of course harder to do, but I think it’s a possible direction to make it actually useful.

New post on my blog: 📝 Store Code Discussions in Git using Git Notes wouterj.nl/2024/08/git-notes We distribute code using Git, but the discussions in pull requests are just as important! I'll show how Symfony also distributes the discussions using Git.

MD5 and SHA-1 are useless today. For non-secure hashes, use the faster XXH algorithms. xxhash.com/ For security purpose, use secure algos with a seed. php.net/manual/en/function.p…

Thanks you #PHP community for showing up as one and supporting a fellow member in his fight to steal more years to live! We reached the goal of $250,000 on Ryan Weaver's fundraiser in 4 days. Let's continue supporting Ryan and his family 💙 gofund.me/82392317

Heartbreaking news. I can confidently say Ryan has supported every single person in the Symfony community through his passionate work on the docs, SymfonyCasts, GitHub, etc. Now it's time to give support back on a much more important topic and share the warmth of our community❤️

The average age of PHP code lines in @symfony 75% of the lines are edited within the past 4 years. That's pretty amazing for a codebase that it's 15 years old! Also interesting to see some components that were more or less feature complete from the start (Mime, RateLimiter,...)

Almost missed the day Symfony 7 was released! Check out the huge effort the past years by the Symfony community at symfony.com/7 Also, we've spent more time on the UPGRADE guide. If you're removing deprecations from your 6.4 app, take a look at github.com/symfony/symfony/b…

Live stream (attempt) happening tomorrow around this time 😅 We'll upgrade the Symfony demo from Encore -> AssetMapper. I'll post a link before, but it'll be through youtube.com/@weaverryan - come hang out!

Remember: it’s pretty easy to bump your deps to 6.4 and run your tests / try your app. It should still work exactly like before. If it’s not, let us know!

Yesterday, I wrote a post about login CSRF protection in Symfony: 📝Combatting Login CSRF with Symfony wouterj.nl/2023/10/combattin…

Remember this weird empty "logout controller" you have to implement in Symfony? That's myth of the past now thanks to MatTheCat's contribution in Symfony 6.4 ! github.com/symfony/symfony/p…

If you're hold back by a type declaration or final/visibility modifier in a third party package, talking to the maintainer about your *use-case* is always a better solution than bluntly deleting that modifier.

Symfony 7.0 Type Declarations #symfony symfony.com/blog/symfony-7-0…

Laravel Prompts look amazing, I assume this choice prompt allows using arrow keys to select one? 😍 Is it considered to contribute this back to Symfony Console? So tools like Composer and PHPstan can also use it?

It's bookworm release day! Across the world members of the release, publicity, images and FTP teams are brewing industrial quantities of coffee as their final preparations are completed #ReleasingDebianBookworm dlvr.it/SqSGhc