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This week, Symfony development activity focused on merging pending new features for the upcoming Symfony 7.4 and 8.0 versions. In addition, we announced a new conference: SymfonyDay Montreal on June 4, 2026, and made a call for volunteers for SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025.

Save the date! SymfonDay Montreal 2026 is set for June 4. Don’t miss out and register today! Get involved as an attendee or sponsor!

Symfony is looking for motivated IT students to volunteer at SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025! Help out for a day and enjoy the rest of the conference for free! Talks, networking, and fun included!

Next week in Lille! The API Platform Conference (Sept 18–19) is the only event fully dedicated to the framework & its ecosystem: 30+ talks, 2 days, and 7 Symfony Core Team members on stage at EuraTechnologies 🚀

This week, Symfony development activity focused on merging new features for the upcoming Symfony 7.4 and 8.0 versions: added a Video constraint, introduced an access_decision() Twig function to get the security voter decision details, and added support for DTOs in Input attributes for invokable commands. We also announced that Symfony will provide the official MCP SDK for PHP, announced the first talks of the SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 conference and continued celebrating the legacy of Ryan Weaver.

Today, we are announcing that Symfony teamed up with The PHP Foundation, and Anthropic to launch the official MCP SDK. Our goal is a framework-agnostic, production-ready library the entire PHP ecosystem can rely on.

All of Ryan Weaver's Symfony conference talks are now available to watch for free. These sessions highlight his unique teaching style and contributions to the Symfony community.

From assembly language to the Web itself to ARM architecture—discover, with Laura Durieux, the hidden pioneers whose impact still powers our world today 💡

Turn your LLM into a truly helpful assistant with Tobias Nyholm. Discover how the MCP protocol makes AI answer your real questions, not just generic ones.

In his talk, Christopher Hertel cuts through the AI buzz to show you real, actionable ways to bring AI-powered features, far beyond chatbots, into your PHP applications and scalable architectures.