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Symfony Station Communiqué — 17 January 2025 — A look at Symfony, Drupal, PHP, and other programming news!
This communiqué originally appeared on Symfony Station. 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. Drupal CMS was released this week. So, as you can imagine there is a ship ton of articles covering it. This is why we publish on Fridays. So you can savor it over your weekend. Or jump straight to your favorite section via our website. Symfony Universe PHP More Programming Defending Democracy Cybersecurity Fediverse Once again, thanks go out to Javier Eguiluz and 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. Symfony As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony. Highlight -> This week, Symfony development activity was very intense. The upcoming Symfony 7.3 version added a Slug constraint, introduced support for union types in OptionsResolver, enabled using HTTP/3 with the CurlHttpClient, and added support for invokable commands and input attributes. In addition, we published a summary of the Symfony project activity in 2024. A Week of Symfony #941 (6-12 January 2025) They also have: Announcing the Symfony UX Core Team Great news! Featured Item The best news in a long time came out with two announcements this week. First in, The people should own the town square, Mastodon announced: We are going to transfer ownership of key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components (including name and copyrights, among other assets) to a new non-profit organization, affirming the intent that Mastodon should not be owned or controlled by a single individual. Meanwhile, Free our Feeds announced: It will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app. We want to create an entire ecosystem of interconnected apps and different companies that have people’s interests at heart. Free Our Feeds will build a new, independent foundation to help make that happen. Meanwhile the Social Web Foundation said: The Social Web Foundation focuses on the network of platforms connected via ActivityPub. We also support efforts to make other distributed social networking protocols more open and equitable. For this reason, we are excited to support the FreeOurFeeds campaign launching today. This campaign is an opportunity to develop the capacity needed for the open social web protocols – ActivityPub along with Bluesky’s AT Protocol – to better interoperate, leveraging the entire open social ecosystem to create a working demonstration of algorithmic pluralism at scale. Open Future summarized: Both initiatives aim at the same problem: Ensuring that the underlying infrastructures powering social media services are run as public services that are resistant to capture from companies or individuals. They represent attempts to safeguard nascent public digital infrastructures for a new generation of social media services. So while the Free our Feeds include some suspect AI cheerleaders and the SWF is too Meta tolerant for my tastes, I hope some fantastic things can come from these developments. This Week Mayur Koshti explores: Mastering Custom Console Commands in Symfony Hugues Gobet continues a series: Logbook of Learning Domain-Driven Design: Day 3 TYPO3 has: Visitors From the Symfony World Contribute To TYPO3 Documentation Search Frontend eCommerce Sylius is: Introducing the Sylius Key Contributors Program Freelock examines: Creating Product Bundles in Drupal Commerce CMSs This week we published: How Goals It 2? An Update on last year's Website Tech Goals and what's in store for 2025 In Sulu news Roboles starts a series: Sulu Bundle Development: Part 1 Great stuff, except for the React. ;) TYPO3 has: Reflecting on 2024: A Year of Milestones, Growth, and Community Content Blocks in TYPO3 v13 LTS — Repository Moved to FriendsOfTYPO3 TYPO3 13.4.3 and 12.4.25 security releases published TYPO3 9.5.49, 10.4.48, and 11.5.42 ELTS Released In Joomla news Sergey Tolkachyov has: Joomla tip: Use the Joomla\Uri\Uri class to create a URL Concrete CMS has: January 2025 Concrete CMS Community Round-Up Drupal has: Drupal CMS 1.0 is now available! Drupal Launches Game-Changing CMS Platform, Empowering Marketers to Create Exceptional Digital Experiences Withdraw official presence from X/Twitter and Meta platforms Dries Buytaert provides his take: Drupal CMS 1.0 released 1X Internet shares: Drupal CMS is officially launched - discover its potential today Drupal Forge has a link to experiment with it here: Drupal CMS Specbee examines: Unboxing Drupal CMS (and setting it up)
This communiqué originally appeared on Symfony Station.
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. Drupal CMS was released this week. So, as you can imagine there is a ship ton of articles covering it.
This is why we publish on Fridays. So you can savor it over your weekend.
Or jump straight to your favorite section via our website.
Once again, thanks go out to Javier Eguiluz and 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.
Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> This week, Symfony development activity was very intense. The upcoming Symfony 7.3 version added a Slug constraint, introduced support for union types in OptionsResolver, enabled using HTTP/3 with the CurlHttpClient, and added support for invokable commands and input attributes. In addition, we published a summary of the Symfony project activity in 2024.
A Week of Symfony #941 (6-12 January 2025)
They also have:
Announcing the Symfony UX Core Team
Great news!
Featured Item
The best news in a long time came out with two announcements this week.
First in, The people should own the town square, Mastodon announced:
We are going to transfer ownership of key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components (including name and copyrights, among other assets) to a new non-profit organization, affirming the intent that Mastodon should not be owned or controlled by a single individual.
Meanwhile, Free our Feeds announced:
It will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app. We want to create an entire ecosystem of interconnected apps and different companies that have people’s interests at heart.
Free Our Feeds will build a new, independent foundation to help make that happen.
Meanwhile the Social Web Foundation said:
The Social Web Foundation focuses on the network of platforms connected via ActivityPub. We also support efforts to make other distributed social networking protocols more open and equitable. For this reason, we are excited to support the FreeOurFeeds campaign launching today. This campaign is an opportunity to develop the capacity needed for the open social web protocols – ActivityPub along with Bluesky’s AT Protocol – to better interoperate, leveraging the entire open social ecosystem to create a working demonstration of algorithmic pluralism at scale.
Open Future summarized:
Both initiatives aim at the same problem: Ensuring that the underlying infrastructures powering social media services are run as public services that are resistant to capture from companies or individuals. They represent attempts to safeguard nascent public digital infrastructures for a new generation of social media services.
So while the Free our Feeds include some suspect AI cheerleaders and the SWF is too Meta tolerant for my tastes, I hope some fantastic things can come from these developments.
This Week
Mayur Koshti explores:
Mastering Custom Console Commands in Symfony
Hugues Gobet continues a series:
Logbook of Learning Domain-Driven Design: Day 3
TYPO3 has:
Visitors From the Symfony World Contribute To TYPO3 Documentation Search Frontend
eCommerce
Sylius is:
Introducing the Sylius Key Contributors Program
Freelock examines:
Creating Product Bundles in Drupal Commerce
CMSs
This week we published:
How Goals It 2? An Update on last year's Website Tech Goals and what's in store for 2025
In Sulu news Roboles starts a series:
Sulu Bundle Development: Part 1
Great stuff, except for the React. ;)
TYPO3 has:
Reflecting on 2024: A Year of Milestones, Growth, and Community
Content Blocks in TYPO3 v13 LTS — Repository Moved to FriendsOfTYPO3
TYPO3 13.4.3 and 12.4.25 security releases published
TYPO3 9.5.49, 10.4.48, and 11.5.42 ELTS Released
In Joomla news Sergey Tolkachyov has:
Joomla tip: Use the Joomla\Uri\Uri class to create a URL
Concrete CMS has:
January 2025 Concrete CMS Community Round-Up
Drupal has:
Drupal CMS 1.0 is now available!
Withdraw official presence from X/Twitter and Meta platforms
Dries Buytaert provides his take:
1X Internet shares:
Drupal CMS is officially launched - discover its potential today
Drupal Forge has a link to experiment with it here:
Specbee examines:
Unboxing Drupal CMS (and setting it up)
Erdfisch has:
Drupal CMS: Einfach. Leistungsstark. Zukunftsweisend.
Use your browser translator for this as I only have beer German. Fraulein? De pilsner, bitte. Danke.
Evolving Web looks at:
Why Content Editors & Marketers Will Love Drupal CMS
Drupalize Me shares:
Drupal CMS Guide Update: The Challenge of Documenting a Fast-Moving Open Source Product
Tag1 Consulting says:
Performance Testing Leads To Major Improvements for Drupal CMS — and all of Drupal
Good stuff, especially the Gander testing integration.
Tag1 Consulting explores:
Migrating Your Data from D7 to D10: Entity type conversions. From nodes to user and taxonomy terms
Varnish has a:
DrupalCon Singapore 2024 Recap
Robert Roose reflects on:
Saving 10,000 euros with Drupal and the Webforms module
Amazee examines:
Headless Drupal Basics For Modern Enterprises
Golems looks at:
ECA module and integration with AI
Droptica shows us:
How to create inquiry forms in Drupal - Instructions
ImageX Media explores:
Voice Search and Drupal: Making Your Content Discoverable in a Conversational World
PHP
This Week
PhpStorm announces:
Support for .env Files: Now Built into PhpStorm
Stitcher reports:
PHP version stats: January, 2025
Zend examines:
PHP 7.3 End of Life: How to Support Critical Apps
Asian Digital Hub shows us:
Why Overcomplicate? Build a Minimalist PHP Framework Without the Bloat of Laravel!
Indeed. Start with this and add individual Symfony components as you need them.
Derick Rethans looks at:
Laravel News shares:
PeckPHP - A CLI tool designed to identify wording or spelling mistakes in your codebase
Andrii Ilkiv explores:
LTS as a Business: How an Old Project Can Become the Foundation for a New Business Model
Fernando Castillo shares:
Things I like about encapsulation: levels of understanding
Tomas Votruba shows us:
Alice, Nelmio, Hautelook, Faker - How to upgrade Doctrine Fixtures - Part 2
Valerio Barbera examines:
Php Base64 encode/decode — best practices and use cases
Al-Amin Islam looks at an:
Example of using Late Static Binding in PHP
Jérôme Tamarlle says:
PHP Closures and Generators can hold circular references
More Programming
The Spicy Web has:
Creative Strategies for Surviving the AI-pocalypse
Una Kravets explores:
Updates to the customizable select API
Damien Desfontaines shares:
Five things privacy experts know about AI
Lipp examines:
Rediscovering Web Frontend Development
CSS Tricks shows us:
How to Wait for the sibling-count() and sibling-index() Functions
Fancy Menu Navigation Using Anchor Positioning
Free Code Camp shows us:
How to Programmatically Highlight Text with the CSS Custom Highlight API
Sitepoint shares:
Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA): A Complete Tutorial
Whalers looks at:
Mastering Docker and Jenkins: Build Robust CI/CD Pipelines Efficiently
Fighting for Democracy (sponsored by Battalion)
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. Or even Bluesky if that floats your boat.
Please visit Symfony Stations Support Ukraine pageto 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 and other douchebaggery
The Verge reports:
Biden warns nation about the rise of American tech oligarchs
The Markup reports:
Fearing AI Will Take Their Jobs, Workers Plan a Long Battle Against Tech
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
The Record reports:
Russian espionage and financial theft campaigns have ramped up, Ukraine cyber agency says
CNN reports:
But for some reason they are on fascism-friendly Substack with it.
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Tech Policy reports:
What Trump’s Return Means For Encryption
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 99
The Social Web Foundation looks at:
Content Policy on the Social Web
Solarbird
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
The Fediverse Reports has:
Last Week in Bluesky and the ATmosphere -2025jan.b
DailyKos previews:
The Coming Enshittification of Bluesky
Ben Werder shares:
I have no doubt Bluesky will eventually become enshittified. Let's hope the ATProtocol won't be.
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