Symfony 1.0 beta released

Symphony, a popular PHP Ajax framework, has released a new beta. The new framework is easier to install and has major performance enhancements.

Amongst the other new features are:

• An easy plug-in system.
• A unit test library.
• Updated default pages
• Easier templating.
• Better and more flexible Model layer.
• A new mixin feature.
• New behaviors for Propel classes.
• More user-friendly development tools.
• More flexible filter system.
• New many-to-many relationships