On the Symfony blog they talk about a major milestone the framework has reached: one billion downloads of the components that make up the Symfony framework.

A Symfony unicorn!!? It's real! On September 5th, the Symfony Components crossed a huge landmark: the 1 billionth download! This happened less than one year after the last milestone: 500 million downloads. That's right: the PHP community downloaded the Symfony components more than 500 million times in just one year. That's well over 1 million downloads every day!

There are so many people that have made this possible, and we would like to thank all of you who have supported Symfony: developers, contributors, companies, evangelists and - of course - users! There are now over 80 Symfony packages and 1,500 people have contributed code to these. None of this is possible without your help. Congrats!

The post then talks about the current state of the components (including their download numbers), their backwards compatibility promise and how it relates to the upcoming Symfony 4 release.