Sulu CMS

01/08/2025

AI isn’t a luxury for content management—it’s becoming essential. Learn how Sulu integrates AI with a human-centered, ethical approach that respects open source values.

https://sulu.io/blog/the-future-of-content-management-why-ai-is-essential-for-modern-cms-platforms

AI is reshaping content workflows. Discover why modern CMS platforms need AI—and how open source tools like Sulu are building an ethical, human-first future.

31/07/2025

New Sulu releases are here! 2.5.26 and 2.6.10 bring important fixes and improvements, plus we’ve migrated all REST routes to standard Symfony routing. Sulu 3.0.0-alpha4 now boasts redesigned SmartContent!

https://sulu.io/blog/sulu-release-2-5-26-2-6-10-and-3-0-0-alpha4

It's been a long time since the last Sulu releases, but we were not idle! We are providing fixes and improvements with Sulu 2.5.26 and 2.6.10. And sure there is some progress on the new major version. Curious? Give the new 3.0.0-alpha4 a try.

30/07/2025

It’s Hot Tip Wednesday! Got a large website? Speed up your sitemap loading by pre-generating and caching it on the filesystem. Sulu provides a command to dump your sitemap for better performance!

https://docs.sulu.io/en/2.6/cookbook/dump-sitemap.html

29/07/2025

Big news for PHP! Ben Ramsey’s new RFC proposes switching PHP to the Modified BSD License (3-clause) starting with PHP 9.0. This move would align PHP with OSI-approved, GPL-compatible standards. The community is weighing in!

https://linuxiac.com/php-proposes-switch-to-bsd-3-clause-license/

PHP may drop its legacy license in favor of BSD 3-Clause in version 9.0, thereby enhancing compatibility and simplifying distribution rights.

28/07/2025

Amazing PHP performance results: Static closures used 30x less memory and ran 4x faster than non-static ones! Sometimes the small details make the biggest difference.

https://dev.to/jszutkowski/static-vs-non-static-closures-in-php-a-surprising-benchmark-4ief

When PHP Inspections suggested to change my anonymous function in array_map to a static one, I...

25/07/2025

The Symfony AI Initiative launches with comprehensive AI components for PHP—including a unified interface for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and more, plus AI agents, RAG storage, and MCP protocol support.

https://symfony.com/blog/kicking-off-the-symfony-ai-initiative

Kicking off the Symfony AI Initiative

24/07/2025

SymfonyCon 2025 is coming to Amsterdam from November 25–28! Planning your trip? Check out the official travel and lodging guide with pre-booked hotel discounts, train connections, and flight deals.

https://symfony.com/blog/symfonycon-amsterdam-2025-travel-and-lodging-tips

Plan your trip to SymfonyCon Amsterdam! Hotels, travel deals & venue info here 👉

23/07/2025

Hot Tip Wednesday! Want to create custom link types in Sulu? Build your own link provider to let editors link to external systems like products, events, or any custom entities. Perfect for connecting your CMS to business data!

https://docs.sulu.io/en/2.6/cookbook/link-provider.html

22/07/2025

Local development just got a performance boost! DDEV now supports FrankenPHP and benchmarks show comparable performance to nginx-fpm.

https://ddev.com/blog/using-frankenphp-with-ddev/

Maintaining an add-on involves regularly updating it to stay compatible with new features in both the upstream ddev-addon-template and DDEV itself.

21/07/2025

PHP 8.5 (coming November 2025) brings two simple but powerful functions: array_first() and array_last(). Getting the first or last item from an array will be clean and intuitive. What used to take workarounds becomes one simple function call!

https://laravel-news.com/native-array-first-and-array-last-functions-in-php-85

PHP 8.5 will include array_first() and array_last() functions. Learn more about these native PHP functions developers can use to retrieve the first and last elements in an array.

18/07/2025

Command injection is a high-severity threat in Symfony. Never use shell_exec() or eval() directly with user input. Instead, stay secure by using the Symfony Process component with argument lists.

https://dev.to/pentest_testing_corp/symfony-command-injection-risks-secure-coding-2d7o

🚨 What Is Command Injection in Symfony? Command injection (aka OS command injection)...

17/07/2025

Doctrine ORM 3.4.0 is here with Native Lazy Objects and Property hooks—giving a massive reduction in boilerplate code and better performance. Sulu 3.0’s Doctrine-based storage will benefit further down the line.

https://www.doctrine-project.org/2025/06/28/orm-3.4.0-released.html

The Doctrine Project is an open-source PHP project that is home to home to several PHP libraries primarily focused on database storage and object mapping. The core projects are the Object Relational Mapper (ORM) and the Database Abstraction Layer (DBAL) it is built upon.