Symfony 1.2 Beta Hits the Streets

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Hot on the heels of Symfony 1.1’s release—at least as far as software development goes—comes the Symfony 1.2 beta:

1.2 may sound like a minor release, but we’ve actually stuffed in quite a few upgrades. Our focus was on the Forms and ORM, which combined result in the new Admin Generator. Secondary focus was to streamline the symfony API, and allowing a better foundation for plugins. As you can see this is a natural continuation of the strategy we took when building 1.1.

Symfony 1.2 marks another milestone in Symfony’s development. The core Symfony team has done a lot of work transitioning from the older, more tightly coupled Symfony 1.0 code branch into a much more flexible, powerful and decoupled Symfony. As I’ve mentioned previously, one of my favorite aspects of the new Symfony is the ability to pick and choose which components you need in order to build your own sub-framework for those tasks that are speed or memory intensive.

Be sure to read the rest of the official blog post for more. If you’ve been using Symfony for some time and you just want to know what’s new, then there’s also a document just for you.