Symfony CMF 2.0.0 Stable Release
Over the summer, we have been tagging the 2.0.0 releases of the Symfony
CMF components and bundles. This week, we managed to wrap up the last
bits and pieces and tagged 2.0.0 of all parts of the CMF.
CMF version 2 runs on PHP 5.6 and 7, and is compatible with Symfony 2.8 LTS
and all maintained versions of Symfony 3. The sonata admin integration has
been moved into its own separate bundle to not clutter up the bundles with
an optional integration. We created a resource component inspired by puli.
The tree browser bundle was rebuilt on top of the new resource
infrastructure, and uses new Javascript libraries. Sonata PHPCR-ODM Admin
has also been updated to use the new tree bundle and been released as
version 2.0.0.
For a detailed list of changes, see the CMF 2 RC1 blogpost
and the changelog of each component.
As already mentioned in the RC blogpost, we had to abandon some packages to
focus our efforts. CreateBundle, MediaBundle, SearchBundle and
SimpleCmsBundle are currently not maintained. If you want to help
co-maintaining any of those packages, tell us in a GitHub issue or in
#symfony_cmf of Symfony slack.
How to upgrade?
A lot of deprecated code was removed. Before upgrading, run your tests and
check for deprecation warnings in the test log.
Each repository contains a UPGRADE-2.0.md file that should explain the
breaking changes when migrating to version 2. The instructions can be
incomplete at this point. If you have time to test the migration, please
reach out to us on GitHub or Slack if you find inaccuracies or information
is missing.
Next steps
We are happy with the current release, but there is of course always more
that could be done. When Symfony 4 starts to take shape, we will have to
make sure all components are compatible with it.
For CMF 2.1, there is a tentative roadmap in the CMF wiki.
Another topic we discuss is whether to use a mono repository
aproach or a tool to synchronize files into all our repositories,
similar to the Sonata dev-kit.
If you want to get involved, comment on the github issues or join us at
#symfony_cmf in the Symfony slack.