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Symfony 2022 Year in Review

After experiencing significant disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic over the
past two years, 2022 marked a year of recovery for many individuals and organizations.
The Symfony project was among them, and this year saw the return of practices
such as the organization of physical conferences.
We are grateful for your support, which enabled the Symfony project to have a
great year. This blog post highlights the key accomplishments of the Symfony
project in 2022.

Releases
We released two new major versions: Symfony 6.1
in May and Symfony 6.2 in November. We
also published 54 maintenance versions in six different branches (4.4, 5.3, 5.4,
6.0, 6.1, and 6.2).
We bumped the PHP requirement to 8.1
for the new Symfony versions (6.1 and 6.2).
In addition, we published 289 blog posts (41 more
than last year), including 39 New in Symfony articles
explaining the new features introduced by Symfony 6.1 and 6.2.
In May we published the 800th issue of A Week of Symfony
series, which makes it one of the longest-running series in the entire tech industry.

Events and Conferences
We organized four conferences:

The SymfonyCon conference in Disneyland Paris
was a blast
and gathered more than 1,300 people in the first world-wide physical conference
since the COVID-19 pandemic started.
In 2023 we plan to organize at least these conferences:

You can already send your Call For Paper proposals and buy your tickets for these
conferences. Stay tuned for more announcements about other upcoming conferences.

Symfony Core Team
The Symfony Core Team
is the group of developers that determine the direction and evolution of the
Symfony project.
In 2022, Symfony didn't appoint any new member to the group. We hope to add new
members in 2023, who will be selected among the most active contributors of
Symfony code and docs.

Symfony Components
Symfony components surpassed 15 billion downloads in 2022 (500 million in 2016,
1 billion in 2017, 3 billion in 2019, 6 billion in 2020 and 10 billion in 2021)
Check out our pseudo real-time download stats.
In 2022 we released lots of new components:

Security
We published one security advisory.
Thanks to the Symfony Security Team for their coordination work and thanks to
all developers who reported and fixed those vulnerabilities.
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if you want to receive an email whenever a new security release is published.

Contributors
According to GitHub contribution stats
these were the most active contributors in 2022 in the main Symfony repositories:

Symfony Code

  1. Nicolas Grekas: 345 commits
  2. Fabien Potencier: 274 commits
  3. Christian Flothmann: 96 commits
  4. Robin Chalas: 58 commits
  5. Thomas Calvet: 52 commits

Symfony Docs

  1. Javier Eguiluz: 323 commits
  2. Thomas Landauer: 50 commits
  3. Wouter de Jong: 40 commits
  4. Mohamed Gasmi: 59 commits
  5. Christian Flothmann: 22 commits

These are the stats for the two main Symfony repositories, but there are many
other contributors working on other repositories and there are many developers
working on third-party bundles too. In addition, some developers prefer to
contribute by reviewing the work of other contributors. Thanks to all of them!

Symfony Book
The Symfony book was
updated for Symfony 6.2
and translated into many languages.
Thanks to our voluntary translators and to the main book sponsors:
SensioLabs, QOSSMIC,
Blackfire
and Les-Tilleuls.coop.

Symfony Sponsorship Program
In 2021 we announced:

  • A Symfony Sponsorship Program
    that allows companies to sponsor different parts of the Symfony project, such as
    a full Symfony release or a Symfony component;
  • A SaaS Sponsoring Program
    so third-party providers can sponsor the package that integrates their services
    into Symfony applications.

In 2022, new companies joined the program or renewed their sponsorships:

  • Sulu which sponsors the Symfony 6.2 release;
  • Les-Tilleuls.coop which also sponsors the
    Symfony 6.2 release;
  • SensioLabs sponsors the Process and Messenger
    components;
  • SymfonyCasts sponsors the Security component;
  • Crowdin sponsors the Crowdin bridge of the
    Translation component;
  • Mercure.rocks sponsors the Notifier component;
  • Endava sponsors the Test pack;
  • alximy sponsors the Framework bundle.

Check out all the Symfony backers. Talk to your
company about this program and, if you are interested, contact us.

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Thank You
Overall, this was a great year for Symfony. All this was possible thanks to
your continuous support.
Thanks for being part of the Symfony community!

Sponsor the Symfony project.