Symfony 1.1 The long-awaited release

Many of us waited for this day, kept abreast of it and even participated in the development of this wonderful framework. And now this day has come when we can celebrate the release of this real revolutionary framework which incorporates the best programming styles and practices. Symfony 1.1 brought a lot of innovation compared to Symfony 1.0 , here’s part of what awaits us:

• The new symfony architecture is highly configurable and fully independent, allowing you to use what you need and add / modify parts of it.
• Symfony Form Framework - allows you to create forms on the fly including fine-tuning widgets and validations, as well as the ability to use the Symfony Form Framework itself, independently of Symfony .
• A completely new task system - allows you to create your own CLI scripts and tasks.
• The new YAML parser is now in the form of a separate module with a decent error handling system.
• The new plug-in manager is fully compatible with the PEAR API, defines dependencies between plug-ins, and also gives more control over what you install / uninstall.
• Format processing system - allows you to choose the behavior of your applications depending on the request, for example, how to respond to the browser, mobile phone or other devices and programs.
• Propel 1.2 is now included in the Symfony package as a plugin, which makes it easy to replace it with Propel 1.3 or Doctrine .
• The routing system is now cached, which gives a significant acceleration, and can also be expanded or replaced depending on your needs.
• As well as much more and more than 8.500 unit and functional tests guaranteeing the stability of the framework in general.

Upgrade your existing projects

If you are planning to upgrade existing symfony 1.0 projects in order to use innovations of version 1.1, please do not forget to read the UPGRADE file. If you are already using Symfony 1.1RC2, then the symfony project: upgrade task will be enough to upgrade.

Documentation

All documentation has been updated to show the difference between symfony 1.0 and 1.1. Over the past 15 days, more than 10 new languages ​​have been added. Many new articles have been added to the Cookbook , and the first four chapters of the Symfony Form Framework are already ready. The Symfony API Documentation has also been updated.

Service

Symfony 1.1 is a transition release and its support is announced for a year starting today. Symfony 1.0 support announced until 2010.