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, Symfony released the maintenance versions 6.4.26 and 7.3.4. Development on the upcoming Symfony 7.4 version also continued, with more features and deprecations added ahead of its release at the end of November. Finally, we announced additional talks for SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025.
September 22–28, 2025: A Week of Symfony #978
They also have:
SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 Unleash the Power of Symfony Messenger
SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025 Let's Build A Raffler With WebSockets!
SymfonyCasts has:
Featured Item
We made an official announcement this week.
Announcing The Programmer's Fulcrum, our final project
Note, I do hope I am still working on it 20 years from now. ;)
This Week
Winkel Wagen shares:
Symfony: Be careful with eventClass vs. eventName
Paragon Initiative Enterprises says:
Kévin Thérage reviews:
DDEV announces:
Upsun Support for DDEV in a New Add-on
eCommerce
Shopware has:
Shopware Developer Digest August 2025
Marco Steinhaeuser asks:
Fancy help shaping Shopware software decisions?
Centarro announces:
Drupal Commerce PayPal integrates Fastlane by PayPal
PrestaShop has:
PrestaShop Developer Conference 2025: Register now!
Other
Mautic has:
Start your Hacktoberfest with Mautic
CMSs
TYPO3 has:
TYPO3 9.5.55, 10.4.54, and 11.5.48 ELTS Released
TYPO3 Awards 2025: Nominees Announced Ahead of Düsseldorf Gala
New ELTS Pricing for TYPO3 v12 – Effective April 2026
Drupal
HashBangCode explores:
Drupal 11: Using Storybook To Preview Single Directory Components
The Drop Times examines:
How Fons Vandamme Built Webhaven to Simplify Drupal Project Development
Again, please drop the overuse of pop-ups. It makes you look like amateurs.
Specbee lists:
Top 10 Drupal SEO tips you can’t skip in 2025
Gizra shows us how to:
Make Impossible States Impossible (in Drupal Theming)
Droptica looks at:
Drupal implementation questions. What customers ask about in 2025?
Golems explores:
Container Security in Production: Best Practices and Tools
Aten Design Group demonstrates:
Enhanced Bot Protection with Cloudflare
Previous Week
Stefan Pilz examines:
Setting Up a New Shop in Shopware: Multi-Sales-Channel Decisions Explained
Balasaranya Varadhalingam has:
Building Powerful APIs in Symfony: A Complete Guide for Modern Frontend Integration
Building a Dynamic API in Symfony with Doctrine and MySQL
PHP
This Week
The PHP Foundation has:
The PHP Foundation application form for 2026 is now open
Call for Designs: Refresh the PHP 8.5 Release Page
php [architect] looks at:
What’s New in PHP 8.5? (Release Date + Must-Know Features)
spO0q explores:
Amit Merchant examines:
Seven Real-World Examples of Using the Pipe Operator in PHP 8.5
Alex Kirk has a:
Proposal: an Interactive Mode for phpcbf
Dave Liddament looks at:
Introducing the Friend attribute (example 1)
Albrecht Köhnlein shows us how to:
Use ddev pull with WordPress Projects
Ash Allen Design explores:
The Dangers of Dynamic Method Calls in PHP
Peter Soktor examines:
Modern PHP on Windows 11: VS Code, Podman, and MariaDB
David Duymelinck looks at:
Igor Nosatov explores:
Saga pattern with PHP: Masterful Coordination of Distributed Transactions in Microservices
Cees-Jan Kiewiet show us how to:
Unlock Composer Plugins by Self Hosting Renovate
Zend examines:
PHP Dependency Management Using Composer
Previous Week
Norbert Tech shares:
More Programming
The Guardian shares:
Why I gave the world wide web away for free
The Register has:
Greg Kroah-Hartman explains the Cyber Resilience Act for open source developers
JetBrains wants to train AI models on your code snippets
Futurism reports:
AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds
Chris Loy looks at:
My Flibber Flabber says:
In fact, React sucks.
CSS Tricks is:
Touring New CSS Features in Safari 26
F-Droid needs our help:
F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree
Fuck Google. This really boils my piss.
Android Authority reports:
We finally know how Android's new app verification rules will actually work
Dropdrift has coverage of Google's horseshit response:
Google: developer verification is about safety
404 Media has:
Details on the Ruby fiasco, which is kinda similar to the WordPress fiasco. Hopefully, the PHP Foundation can avoid a similar fuckup for our community. And fuck Shopify.
The same neo-fascists are spreading the rot to:
Linuxiac reports:
Ladybird Browser Gains Cloudflare Support to Challenge the Status Quo
Publii announces:
Publii CMS v0.47: Introducing the Notification Center, Many Fixes and Improvements
I just starting experimenting with Publii as part of The Programmer's Fulcrum project. Digging it so far.
Dries Buyaert advocates:
Writing for longevity versus reach
This is one of the reasons you should join the Open Media Network.
Fighting for Democracy
Here we feature several items from each section of Battalion's weekly "Defending Democracy" report.
Get all the news from the front of democracy's battle against autocracy via its latest "Defending Democracy" post. And please follow Battalion via RSS or on the Fediverse at battalion@battalion.mobileatom.net.
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
TechDirt reports:
Disney’s Stupid, Pointless Ban Of Jimmy Kimmel Lost Them 1.7 Million Streaming Subscribers
NPR reports:
Hundreds of celebrities relaunch a McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
TechCrunch reports:
UK government tries again to access encrypted Apple customer data: Report
The United Kuntdum is at it again.
Open Media Network says:
The #AI bubble might be nastier than the Dot.com crash
Cybersecurity and Privacy
Ben Werdmuller says:
Your private data isn't as private as you think
404 Media reports:
Red Hat Investigating Breach Impacting as Many as 28,000 Customers, Including the Navy and Congress
Whoops.
Fediverse
The Applied Social Media Lab has:
Introducing the ASML ActivityPub Fuzzer: Improving Testing in the Fediverse
Great, great stuff.
Newsmast announces:
Building apps for social spaces
This is exactly the type of content The Programmer's Fulcrum will cover. And we need more Fediverse businesses like this.
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
The Social Web Foundation says:
The BlueSky Patent Non-Aggression Pledge is Good for The Social Web
Internet Exchange reports:
Bluesky Adopts More Flexible Model for Content Moderation
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
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