This week, Symfony development activity focused on fixing bugs and updating tests to make them compatible with the newest PHPUnit versions. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 8.1 release started adding n…

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Symfony development this week focused on bug fixes and PHPUnit compatibility updates. The upcoming Symfony 8.1 release introduces new features including an #[AskChoice] attribute for interactive console questions, improved HTTP caching, and enhanced object mapping. Notable fixes include HTTP client header handling, session key prefixing, and DBAL v4 support for Messenger. Symfony UX released a new Toolkit package. The week saw 119 merged pull requests and 53 closed issues.

A Week of Symfony #993 (January 5–11, 2026) (Symfony Blog)