• Francois Zaninotto
• about 1 year ago
• Releases
• 58

As we say in French: "Champagne!".

At last, the long-awaited 1.0 stable version of symfony is just released. For all those who waited for the "stable" status to dive into symfony, the time has come.

Symfony is more mature than ever, faster than ever, and more configurable and extendable than ever. A lot of websites officially declare using symfony, and we know of dozens of other applications, either Intranet or Internet, running symfony without any problem. The symfony framework is definitely ready to power complex web 2.0 applications with a lot of users. It has a tremendous amount of documentation and tutorials, including the just-released Definitive Guide to Symfony, a 490p book published by Apress, written by Fabien and me, and free to read online. And you will also find a vibrant community, always ready to give you a hand when starting up a symfony application.

The 1.0 is not just another release. We call it an "enterprise" release, which means that we will keep on maintaining it for a long time (that is, for several years). When a new release of PHP comes with its wagon of BC break, we will update symfony 1.0 to make it compatible. When a bug is found and corrected in one of the components of symfony 1.0, we will update the stable release to make the symfony experience always better.

To install symfony 1.0, head to the book installation chapter or do a checkout from the SVN repository. By the way, if you use svn:externals to reference the symfony libraries in your project, you might want to switch to the 1.0 branch (http://svn.symfony-project.com/branches/1.0), which is the feature-freeze, stable and maintained version of symfony, recommended for production. Newcomers should first give a look at the first project tutorial or at the Ajax screencast, which are good introductions to symfony.

Of course, the development of symfony doesn't stop there. We have tons of ideas for improvements and new features, and you can also add your own. Extending symfony 1.0 is already very easy thanks to plugins, which you can find and contribute in the symfony wiki.

Now, we need you, humble readers, to make some noise about symfony 1.0. If there is one moment to share your experience with symfony in social networks, forums or user groups, it is now. If there is a time to praise the symfony experience, the ease of development, the quality of code and documentation, and the fun, it is now. The more developers will come and use symfony, the better the community and the framework will get.

Finally, we would like to thanks you for all the encouragements we've received, all the tickets/patches/user documentation that you submitted, all the knowledge shared in the mailing list/forum/irc channel, and all the flowers you sent us. We are very happy to share this moment with you, and we hope that this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Comments

#1 cprior said 3 minutes later

When I looked for a PHP5 framework in december 2005 I quickly put all my "coins" on symfony. With todays announcement I feel again confirmed in my judgement: A framework with one dev and one technical writer, code with both complexity and surprising simplicity ("</form>" anybody?) and a stable infrastructure makes a trustworthy programming tool.

I hope that the symfony devs celebrate this day: Your baby grows up! May it live for 120 years... Thanks a lot for your open-source offer!

#2 Wouter said 10 minutes later

Congrats!

#3 Pierre Minnieur said 11 minutes later

Congratulations.

#4 NiKo said 16 minutes later

Well, so, what about Symfony 2.0 now ? ;)

Seriously, congrats fot the greatest PHP framework I've seen and used :)

#5 Klemen Slavič said 18 minutes later

Congrats!

#6 NoNo said 30 minutes later

Congrats !!!

But... hey SF 1.0 doesn't work for me -> heading to the forums !

#7 Jakuza said 31 minutes later

Champagne then! :) Happy to read, use and contribute. Thanks and best wishes for the future.

#8 heihachiro said 34 minutes later

Congratulations!

#9 XlunaR said 38 minutes later

Congratulations !

#10 nautilebleu said 41 minutes later

Well done symfony team !

#11 ed said about 1 hour later

excellent news, well done!

#12 Draven said about 1 hour later

Someone pinch me! *ouch*

The day has finally come, congratulations guys!

#13 jason rowe said about 1 hour later

awesome! well done.

#14 Dragan said about 1 hour later

Congratulations!

#15 Sylvio said about 1 hour later

Bravo !

Symfony, j'kiff grav' ;)

#16 （´・ω・`） said about 2 hours later

Congratulations!

#17 halk said about 2 hours later

Congratulations!!! Thank you, Symfony team! Well done!

#18 martin_h said about 2 hours later

Wow, this is awesome.
Hope you guys take a well deserved break for a week or so and after that continue the good work with symfony...

#19 Tiago Ribeiro said about 3 hours later

Congratulations fabien and francois. Impressive work.

#20 bladus said about 3 hours later

great!

#21 Eric Bartels said about 3 hours later

Superb!!!

#22 Peter Blazso said about 3 hours later

You guys rock! Symfony kicks ass! ;)

#23 moreweb said about 3 hours later

YEP!! Good news, congrats guys!!!

#24 jtodd said about 4 hours later

Fantastic work guys! Let's all spread the word about symfony!

#25 mishal said about 4 hours later

congratulations! symfony rocks!

#26 Mohammad said about 14 hours later

Congratulations.
Thanks guys

#27 Jordi Backx said about 16 hours later

Yeah .... go, baby, go!

#28 Muhammad Asif Ali said about 17 hours later

Congracts.. guys... good work.. symfony rocks

#29 qube said about 17 hours later

Thank you all for great work, it's wonderful framework.

It's first PHP framework I tried and I'm happy I chose this one, it pushes PHP to whole new level.

#30 Kumar said about 17 hours later

Congrats !!!

#31 ikomaru said about 18 hours later

Congratuation!

#32 nini said about 18 hours later

Cool! Thanks!

#33 damien said about 18 hours later

Congrats !
I feel great about this project, keep on !!

#34 Dejan Spasic said about 18 hours later

Congrats and thanks a lot.

#35 alessandro said about 19 hours later

another good news from symfony devs!
or just "THE NEWS"!

rhanks!

#36 Wildan Maulana said about 19 hours later

Selamat ! , Congrats !

#37 Benjamin Bender said about 19 hours later

Happy Birthday :)

#38 Azahari Zaman said about 20 hours later

Congrats, great work guys..

#39 clumsy said about 21 hours later

champagne indeed :D

#40 andy said about 22 hours later

Congratulations symfony Team!
I sent an email to heise News (German Press) and tada...they made a news, unfortunately, it´s in german ;) : http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85567

#41 Marc Köhlbrugge said about 24 hours later

Symfony is awesome, thanks :).

#42 Carlos Jacobs said about 24 hours later

Symfony is great!
Congratulations!

#43 bladus said 1 day later

golem (another german news site) also posted about 1.0 :)

http://www.golem.de/0702/50633.html

#44 Steffan said 1 day later

Nice work guys, congrats to the whole Symfony team!!!

#45 vitaille said 1 day later

Congratulations ! Your framework is THE choice now !

btw : I don't like champagne...Can I have a beer to celebrate ? ;-)

#46 roga said 1 day later

Great! A big THANK YOU to Fabien and Francois!

#47 LeMaire said 1 day later

Congratulations!

#48 tom said 1 day later

Félicitations! Champagne!

#49 Serega said 1 day later

GREATEST WORK!!!
Огромное СПАСИБО из России!
Успехов Вам!

#50 âlex said 1 day later

Champagne et merci !
You guys rock! =D

#51 tamcy said 1 day later

Congratulations! 恭喜!

#52 trauma said 2 days later

Congratulations on an amazing accomplishment!

#53 vinilios said 3 days later

congratulations ppl keep up the good work

#54 Liju Engandiyur said 3 days later

Congrats!!!

#55 COil said 3 days later

Many thanks to you, we were waiting this release for our next projects. The book is also great. :)

#56 stephan said 3 days later

Just "Bravo" , I am sure Symfony will become a very big reference for all developpers across the world. Your book is really good too.

#57 one user in japan said 4 days later

very good good job!!

thank you symfony dev team.

#58 nh-why said 6 days later

Thanks and congratulations for symfony framework!

Cảm ơn và chúc mừng cho symfony framework!
(In Vietnamese)