When to update? I guess this helps tell us
When to update? I guess this helps tell us
Posted Aug 10, 2026 19:12 UTC (Mon) by burki99 (subscriber, #17149)In reply to: When to update? I guess this helps tell us by cerebus
Parent article: Django moves to an annual release cycle
I really like the Symfony release cycle:
There are Symfony minor version (e.g. 7.1, 7.2, 7.3) every half year which are backwards compatible, so you can always move among these.
There is a Symfony major version (e.g. 6.0, 7.0, 8.0) every two years.
The LTS minor version x.4 is released at the same time and identical to the next major version (x+1).0 except removal of deprecations.
So you can move to LTS, start working on addressing all deprecations, and once you cleared those, move up to the next major branch.
LTS gets 3 years of bug fixes and 4 years of security support. So there is no rush to move from one major version to the next.
https://symfony.com/doc/current/contributing/code/release...