This week, development activity was very intense for the upcoming Symfony 8.1 release, which introduced new features across the framework. Meanwhile, we shared more details about the upcoming SymfonyL…

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Symfony 8.1 development saw 120 pull requests merged this week, including bug fixes for Redis authentication, BinaryFileResponse range handling, and validator date comparisons. New features include tag decoration support in DependencyInjection, error indicators in the profiler, cURL copy/paste in WebProfiler, image support in Console QuestionHelper, and a #[Serialize] attribute for controller results. SymfonyCasts announced a new Symfony 7 Security course, and SymfonyLive Paris 2026 details were shared.

A Week of Symfony #998 (February 9–15, 2026) (Symfony Blog)