Symfony Station Communiqué - Stardate: ✦ 14 November 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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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, Symfony released maintenance versions 6.4.28 and 7.3.6. Meanwhile, we kept refining the upcoming Symfony 7.4 and 8.0 releases. Finally, we shared new details about some of the talks planned for SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025.
November 3–9, 2025: A Week of Symfony 984
They also have:
SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 Code and Conscience: Ethical Docs for AI
Here's my take on if ethical AI use for programming is possible.
SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 Blast Off Your CI with Dagger
SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 The CI/CD Pipeline in 2025, GitOps, AI, and Zero-Trust in Action
New in Symfony 7.4: DX Improvements (Part 1)
New in Symfony 7.4: DX Improvements (Part 2)
New in Symfony 7.4 Signing Messages
Featured Item
Anil Dash writes:
Even though AI has been the most-talked-about topic in tech for a few years now, we're in an unusual situation where the most common opinion about AI within the tech industry is barely ever mentioned.
Most people who actually have technical roles within the tech industry, like engineers, product managers, and others who actually make the technologies we all use, are fluent in the latest technologies like LLMs. They aren't the big, loud billionaires that usually get treated as the spokespeople for all of tech.
And what they all share is an extraordinary degree of consistency in their feelings about AI, which can be pretty succinctly summed up:
Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value.
Yep.
This Week
Matt Mochalkin explores:
Keycloak, WebSockets & Symfony: Solving Real-Time Auth Without Sacrificing Performance
JoliCode announces:
JoliMediaBundle, un nouveau bundle de médias pour vos projets Symfony
Jarosław Szutkowski says:
Stop Blaming Doctrine - Start Understanding It
Tideways show us:
How native lazy objects will change Doctrine and Symfony forever
eCommerce
PrestaShop issues a:
Call for contributions: Admin API - great start!
Centarro (Drupal Commerce) shows us:
How to Plan Your Enterprise eCommerce Project
Sylius shares its:
Platforms
Suraj Kumar examines:
PHP OOP for Web Developers: Build Smarter, Faster Applications
A good refresher.
CMSs
Sulu CMS has:
Sulu Releases 2.5.31 / 2.6.15 and 3.0.0-beta4
Joomla has:
Call for Candidate Manifestos - Treasurer Replacement
Concrete CMS has:
Concrete CMS November 2025 Roundup
TYPO3 has:
TYPO3 13.4.20 and 12.4.39 maintenance releases published
T3CON25 Preview: 10 Reasons to Get Excited about the TYPO3 Conference
Marketing Factory looks at:
Planning and performing automatic translations in TYPO3 with DeepL
Wolfgang Wagner has:
Composer 2.9: Automatische Sicherheitsprüfung für TYPO3
TYPO3 v14: Asset-Handling wird schlanker – Was sich für Integratoren ändert
Clickstorm explores:
PAGEVIEW in TYPO3 v13: FLUIDTEMPLATE nur einfacher
Drupal has:
DrupalCon Vienna 2025: A Celebration of Open Source and and Community Impact
HashBangCode shows us:
Drupal 11: Programmatically Change A Layout Paragraphs Layout
Specbee demonstrates:
Building an interactive event calendar in Drupal 10 using the FullCalendar View module
WebWash shares a:
First Look at Drupal CMS V2 (alpha1) + Drupal Canvas
Comprehensive.
The Drop Times looks at:
Drupal in a Day: Scaling Drupal Education from University Classrooms to Global Camps
Great and essential stuff. Also, see the item from Drupal below.
Previous Week
MRK shares:
Les Tilleuls Coop has:
Drupal explores the:
State of Drupal Open University
PHP
This Week
The PHP Foundation announces:
The PHP Foundation is Seeking a New Executive Director
Packagist announces:
Strengthening PHP Supply Chain Security with a Transparency Log for Packagist.org
Stitcher has:
And Milk Admin has:
Reinventing the Wheel: A Reflection on Software Development and Open Source
Philippe Charrière continues a series:
Drastically Reduce and Improve the CI/CD Feedback Loop by Going Local with Docker Compose
Tideways examines:
Debugging a running PHP process by attaching GDB
Jean Klebert de A Modesto looks at:
The #[SensitiveParameter] Attribute in PHP 8.2+
David Duymelinck continues a series:
Going from POC to releasable code
More Programming
Gaël Duval examines:
Why AI won’t “Kill Open Source”
Sebastian Bergmann warns of an:
Forgejo shares its:
Forgejo monthly report - October 2025
CSS Tricks has:
Headings: Semantics, Fluidity, and Styling — Oh My!
The Range Syntax Has Come to Container Style Queries and if()
Tighten looks at:
17 New(ish) Vanilla JavaScript Features You Might Have Missed
That HTML Blog shows us how to:
Write Custom Extensions for htmx to Make it Your Own Personal Toolkit
Smashing Magazine explores:
Older Tech In The Browser Stack
Dark Reading reports:
GlassWorm Returns, Slices Back into VS Code Extensions
Check out VS Codium friends.
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
Heise reports:
Office alternative from Germany by Ionos and Nextcloud is now available
Great.
Brookings says:
Preach brother.
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
The Guardian reports:
The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power.
The Register reports:
Big Tech's control freak era is breaking itself apart
The Techno Anarchist Manifesto lists tools to help you avoid most of this AI horseshit.
Cybersecurity and Privacy
IEEE Spectrum reports:
Your AI Agent Is Now a Target for Email Phishing. New tools can help thwart the attacks.
Like bitcoin, if you use this shit you deserve what you get.
DarkReading reports:
Orgs Move to SSO, Passkeys to Solve Bad Password Habits
Fediverse
Wrekage/Salvage has:
Total awesomeness that needs to blow up. We will cover (and support) Bonfire extensively on The Programmer's Fulcrum.
Bonfire explains:
Matters of care - why Bonfire maintenance comes first.
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
The Dabbler has:
Chicken Caesars: they're messing with your Bluesky feed
TechCrunch reports:
Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive
Hmm, this is built with Nostr.
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