Symfony Station Communiqué - Stardate: ✦ 17 October 2025 ✦ View
Welcome to this week's Symfony Station communiqué. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy.
There's good content in all of our categories, so please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you.
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Once again, thanks go out to Javier Eguiluz and the team at Symfony for sharing our communiqué in their Week of Symfony
My opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. Fuck 'em!
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Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.4 version deprecated the HTTP method override for the GET, HEAD, CONNECT, and TRACE methods, and added a new setAllowedHttpMethodOverride() method in the Request class to define which HTTP methods can be overridden. Meanwhile, the upcoming Symfony 8.0 version continued removing all the features marked as deprecated, like the Request::get() method and some DependencyInjection extension methods related to XML.
October 6–12, 2025: A Week of Symfony 980
They also have:
SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025: Installing Symfony with Symfony using the Browser
Sounds awesome.
SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025: Performance Milestone for the Symfony Ecosystem
SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025: Inside the first Git commit: powerful ideas behind a minimal start
SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025: From Runtime to Resilience: Scaling PHP
New in Symfony 7.4 Deprecated XML Configuration
SymfonyCasts has:
Featured Item
Symfony writes:
Twenty years of code, collaboration, and community. Twenty years of ideas that became innovations — and of people who turned open source into something deeply human.
From a PHP framework to a global project powering millions of applications, Symfony’s journey has always been about more than technology. It’s about people — contributors, maintainers, speakers, companies, and countless developers who believed in building something greater together.
Celebrating 20 Years of Symfony
This Week
JoliCode has:
The Castor Task Runner is Now Stable!
Les Tilleuls Coop has:
ForumPHP 2025 : Au cœur d'une révolution silencieuse
Un site anniversaire pour célébrer les 20 ans de Symfony!
Matt Mochalkin explores:
Effortless Data Mapping in Symfony: A Deep Dive into the ObjectMapper!
HomelessCoder examines:
Auto-Discovering Console Commands in Power Modules
eCommerce
Sylius has:
Ludovic Frank shares:
PrestaShop announces:
Platforms
Albert Hilton shows us:
How Yii MVC Architecture Streamlines Web Application Development
Other
CMSs
Joomla has:
Joomla 6.0 and Joomla 5.4 are here!
AlternativeTo reports:
Joomla 6 released with automatic core updates, new child template, and improved versioning
Concrete CMS has:
TYPO3 has:
Vote Now for the TYPO3 Best Extension Award 2025
Event recap: TYPO3 Camp London 2025
[Community Budget Report: A Modern Rich Text Editor (RTE) Experience With TipTap] https://typo3.org/article/community-budget-report-a-modern-rich-text-editor-rte-experience-with-tiptap
Torben Hansen announces:
My new TYPO3 extension "powermail_crshield" is available
Wolfgang Wagner looks at:
TYPO3 13.4.19 und 12.4.38 Maintenance-Releases veröffentlicht
Drupal
DrupalCon was this week, so lots of Drupal folks have items.
International Splash Awards Spotlight Excellence in Drupal Innovation at DrupalCon Vienna 2025
Drupal’s Turning Point: Running Toward the AI Storm
The Drop Times has:
"We are the Navigators Charting the Future of Open Web" - Dries Buytaert
Cheppers explores:
Canvas, SDC, and the Future of Drupal
Good stuff.
HashBangCode examines:
Drupal 11: Using SDC Component Library To Preview Single Directory Components
Very cool.
UI Suite shares:
UI Suite Monthly #31 - Display Builder Beta Approaches as We Race Toward Drupal 11.3
Sebastian takes:
A deep-dive into Web Push Notifications with Drupal using Push Framework Notifications
Specbee shows us:
How to create and apply a patch with Git Diff and Git Apply commands for your Drupal website
Droptica looks at:
16 Best Drupal Intranet Modules that Will Enrich Your System
Dripyard explores:
Handling images from Drupal and Canvas with the same component
Great stuff.
Previous Week
Sebastian shows us how to:
Cover the entire screen with your PWA on iOS
PHP
This Week
Laravel News explores:
DDEV has:
Contributor Training: Contributing to ddev.com
WordPress shares its:
WordPress Playground PHP Editor
Cool, a browser based PHP editor to test snippets.
David Duymelinck examines:
Donat Studios says:
[Fully Implementing PSR-16 Simple Cache is Less Than Simple](https://donatstudios.com/psr16-iterable-issue0
Ludovic Frank shares:
More Programming
W3C announces:
W3C logo refresh: more than a cosmetic change, a small step towards durable and sustainable success
Uwe Friedrichsen says we're:
Go Make Things expounds on some horsehit:
Arya Breadcrumbs reports:
Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?
Bruce Lawson has:
Goodbye Windows 10, Hello Zorin OS
This is the Linux distro I have experimented with and I like it. Unfortunately, I fucked up the install and didn't create a password. So, I can't update anything. :(
The Register reports:
Devs are writing VS Code extensions that blab secrets by the bucketload
Piccalil shares:
A pragmatic guide to modern CSS colours - part one
Mozilla has:
A beginner-friendly guide to view transitions in CSS
Security Week reports:
GitHub Copilot Chat Flaw Leaked Data From Private Repositories
Fighting for Democracy
Please visit Symfony Stations Support Ukraine page to learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually, like ending apartheid in South Africa).
The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery
EuroNews reports:
Philanthropists to invest €427 million to curbs tech giants’ influence on new AI
Let's hope they are successful.
The Register reports:
Librephone battles the proprietary binary blob
Fantastiqué.
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
EFF and Five Human Rights Organizations Urge Action Around Microsoft’s Role in Israel’s War on Gaza
Ars Technica reports:
Trump admin pressured Facebook into removing ICE-tracking group
Infrequently Noted reports:
The App Store Was Always Authoritarian
Cybersecurity and Privacy
BleepingComputer reports:
Spain dismantles “GXC Team” cybercrime syndicate, arrests leader
Wired reports:
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
Fediverse
Connected Places has:
Loops has:
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
ATProtocol Dev is:
Announcing ATmosphereConf: Vancouver, March 2026
Remember Bluesky is half-ass but ATProto has potential.
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