A Week of Symfony #1000 (February 23 – March 1, 2026)

This week, “A Week of Symfony” reaches an extraordinary milestone: issue #1,000. Nearly 20 years and 1,000 consecutive weeks reporting the weekly activity of the Symfony project. This is arguably the longest-running blog series in the tech industry. Thanks…

This week, "A Week of Symfony" reaches an extraordinary milestone: issue #1,000. Nearly 20 years and 1,000 consecutive weeks reporting the weekly activity of the Symfony project. This is arguably the longest-running blog series in the tech industry. Thanks to all of you who follow us every week, some even since the very beginning. The first "A Week of Symfony" issue was published on January 8, 2006, although the oldest issue available publicly is #18 from May 1, 2006.

To put that in perspective, here's a list of common products and services that didn't exist when "A Week of Symfony" started: Amazon AWS (March 2006), Twitter/X (July 2006), Netflix streaming (2007), iPhone (2007), Spotify (2008), GitHub (2008), Google Chrome (2008), Android (2008), Instagram (2010). To celebrate this milestone, we analyzed the contents of all "A Week of Symfony" issues and crunched some curious stats.

We use a Symfony Console based tool to automate the initial data collection, but every issue is curated by hand. For example, when building the changelog we skip trivial pull requests, group related changes, and keep the focus on what matters most. For the "They Talked About Us" section, we start with our RSS feed reader to discover new posts about Symfony, then we extend the search across platforms such as dev.to and Medium.

We've never failed to publish an issue in the last 1,000 weeks, so the streak has survived holidays, vacations, and nearly two decades of Sundays. That includes publishing "A Week of Symfony" on: The top publication hours are: 10:xx (CET) (24.6% issues), 11:xx (20.5%), 22:xx (11.2%), 09:xx(9.9%), 12:xx (7.7%). That weekly discipline has added up to something remarkable. Over 1,000 issues, "A Week of Symfony" has grown into: The longest issue was #153 (December 6, 2009) with 3,265 words (back then, "A Week of Symfony" also included the changelog of third-party plugins/bundles, and some weeks were intense).

Winter issues (in the Northern Hemisphere) are the longest on average (715 words), followed by Spring (695), Autumn (681) and Summer (611). Even open source seems to follow seasonal rhythms. After years of stable numbers in average issue length, 2025 became the year with the longest "A Week of Symfony" issues since 2011. And 2026 is already surpassing those numbers. Across 1,000 issues, "A Week of Symfony" has reported and documented Symfony's history.

Here are the defining moments, as they appeared: While "A Week of Symfony" is all about reporting great and positive news about Symfony, it also reflects the life of our community. In #974 (August 31, 2025), we reported the passing of Ryan Weaver, a beloved member of the Symfony community who, among many contributions, created SymfonyCasts and taught thousands of developers how to use Symfony. Rest in peace, Ryan.

We miss you. Fun fact: there are 240 occurrences of the exclamation sign ! and 320 occurrences of ?, so there's more curiosity than excitement. From plugins to bundles and from documentation to videos, the vocabulary evolved alongside the framework. Others that frequently appear: Console (1,266), Config (988), Translation (948), Messenger (915), HttpKernel (905), Routing (895), HttpFoundation (805), Serializer (759), Yaml (708), Process (494).

Symfony version mentions have remained relatively stable over time. Symfony 2.x is the most mentioned series, largely because it included nine minor releases instead of the usual five. Meanwhile, Symfony 7.x and 8.x are still too recent to catch up with the earlier versions: At its core, "A Week of Symfony" is a record of people building things together. We've tracked that work since day one, when we self-hosted code using a project called Trac because GitHub didn't even exist.

In issue #158, we moved to Git and GitHub. In this time, we've tracked (and linked to) 62,279 code changes (25,769 changesets in Trac and 36,510 PRs in GitHub). The most commented PRs in Symfony's history tell you a lot about what the community cares about most: Behind every mention is a bug fixed, a feature added, a contributor spending time to improve something. Thank you all. We asked key members of the Symfony community: what would you love to see happen in your area over the next 1,000 weeks?

Hugo Alliaume on the future of Symfony UX: In the next 1,000 weeks, I would like to see non-opinionated packages for WYSIWYG editor and maybe DataTable, and integration with PandaCSS. For easier contributions, adding an AGENTS.md (or something equivalent) to help contributors to work on Symfony UX codebase. For developers working on Symfony apps, some MCP tools to help to generate Symfony UX code.

Christopher Hertel on the future of Symfony AI: I hope in a 1,000 weeks from now we will still continue to build, learn, and ship software with fun, quality, and style – fueled with Symfony & AI, of course. And if that AI thing is only a hype, we will look back, and at least we learned something. However, I hope that we still collaborate on ideas and support each other in a vivid, respectful, diverse, and inclusive Open Source community.

Wouter de Jong on the future of Symfony Docs: In 1,000 weeks from now, I can only wish for the Symfony documentation to receive as much contributions as today. I hope the docs will keep providing the basis for people to learn about the framework and its packages. But most of all, I hope the community will have a big content creation scene outside of the official docs. With people sharing their own knowledge and practical solutions on their blogs, streams, books and other media.

Nicolas Grekas on the future of Symfony Code: 1,000 weeks from now, I hope Symfony will still be this friendly community where people share their passion, embrace diversity and tolerance, and solve real-world challenges together. Not just building software, but building trust, mentorship, and long-lasting connections. I hope "A Week of Symfony" keeps being published for many more years. With the rise of AI, I expect activity in the repos to increase, so the changelogs and feature listings will only get larger.

But the thing I want most is for the community to keep publishing blog posts about Symfony. Reading those and linking to them is my favorite part of "A Week of Symfony". What started in 2006 as a simple weekly summary has become the longest-running Symfony tradition. But "A Week of Symfony" was never really about the newsletter itself. It was about what it reflects: a community that ships code every single week, that writes blog posts and records videos, that reviews pull requests and files issues, that shows up at conferences and helps strangers on forums.

1,000 issues exist because 1,000 weeks of real work happened behind them. Thank you to everyone who has been part of that work, whether you contributed code, wrote a blog post, or simply read "A Week of Symfony" over your Sunday coffee. This week, 82 pull requests were merged (54 in code and 28 in docs) and 56 issues were closed (31 in code and 25 in docs). Excluding merges, 44 authors made 6,875 additions and 659 deletions.

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