symfony/console
Eases the creation of beautiful and testable command line interfaces
v8.1.5
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#6 most downloaded on composer
symfony/console
What this package is like to depend on
Last release 2 days ago
21 Aug 2026
Ships fairly regularly
a new release about every 2 weeks
Rarely documented
notes for 30 of 666 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
15 years old
771 releases · first in 2011
64 releases in the last 12 months
see the full history below
Release timeline
672 releases · Sep 2011 to Aug 2026Releases
latest 60 of 771-
v8.1.521 Aug 2026Release notes
Open source →Changelog (v8.1.4...v8.1.5)
- bug #65455 Do not resolve core utility parameters as command input (@lazerg)
- bug #65500 Keep backslashes preceding < and > when escaping text (@nicolas-grekas)
- bug #65471 Fix clearing more lines than a section holds (@nicolas-grekas)
- bug #65419 Consume the whole escape sequence when reading autocomplete input (@nicolas-grekas)
- bug #65367 Fix PHP 8.6 deprecations (@nicolas-grekas)
- bug #65321 Resolve UIDs whatever their format (@MatTheCat)
- bug #65263 Keep falsy answers when collecting an array with # (@sadiqk2)
- bug #65258 Restore the catchExceptions state after running a command message (@KevinMartinsDev)
- bug #65242 Fix parsing
#attribute on arguments of invokable commands (@HypeMC) - bug #65239 Fix terminator handling in the image protocols (@nicolas-grekas)
- bug #65196 Fix decoding chunked Kitty graphics payloads (@sadiqk2)
- bug #65197 Fix writing one-shot iterables to a CombinedOutput (@sadiqk2)
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v8.1.431 Jul 2026Release notes
Open source →Changelog (v8.1.2...v8.1.4)
- bug #65065 Fix column widths when a row spans columns (@wazum)
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v8.1.227 Jul 2026Release notes
Open source →Changelog (v8.1.1...v8.1.2)
- bug #64662 Decorate stdout and stderr independently when a formatter is injected (@jprivet-dev)
- bug #64903 Reduce buffer reallocations in FileInputHelper paste detection (@jorgsowa)
- bug #64659 Strip terminal control characters from displayed file names (@iliaal)
- bug #64843 Fix table borders around colspan cells and header-less tables (@wazum)
- bug #64886 Fix two ValueError crashes on multibyte / multi-column widths (@sadiqk2)
- bug #64856 Fall back to "stty sane" when restoring the captured terminal state fails (@lyrixx)
- bug #64849 Fix SymfonyStyle questions when using output sections (@javiereguiluz)
- bug #64778 Fix # arguments resolved as strings by BuiltinTypeValueResolver (@serhiilabs)
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v8.1.116 Jun 2026Release notes
Open source →Changelog (v8.1.0...v8.1.1)
- minor #64614 use mb_convert_encoding() instead of mb_convert_variables() (@Girgias)
- bug #64533 Render formatter tags in ChoiceQuestion default value (@ousamabenyounes)
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v8.1.029 May 2026Nothing published for this version
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v8.1.0-RC124 May 2026 pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v8.1.0-BETA319 May 2026 pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v8.1.0-BETA213 May 2026 pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v8.1.0-BETA105 May 2026 pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v8.0.1527 Jul 2026Release notes
Open source →Changelog (v8.0.14...v8.0.15)
- bug #64662 Decorate stdout and stderr independently when a formatter is injected (@jprivet-dev)
- bug #64843 Fix table borders around colspan cells and header-less tables (@wazum)
- bug #64886 Fix two ValueError crashes on multibyte / multi-column widths (@sadiqk2)
- bug #64856 Fall back to "stty sane" when restoring the captured terminal state fails (@lyrixx)
- bug #64849 Fix SymfonyStyle questions when using output sections (@javiereguiluz)
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v8.0.1416 Jun 2026Nothing published for this version
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v8.0.1324 May 2026Nothing published for this version
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v8.0.1113 May 2026Nothing published for this version
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v8.0.929 Apr 2026Nothing published for this version
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v8.0.830 Mar 2026Nothing published for this version
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v8.0.706 Mar 2026Nothing published for this version
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v8.0.625 Feb 2026Nothing published for this version
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v8.0.413 Jan 2026Nothing published for this version
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v8.0.323 Dec 2025Nothing published for this version
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v8.0.105 Dec 2025Nothing published for this version
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v8.0.021 Nov 2025Nothing published for this version
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v8.0.0-RC3no date pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v8.0.0-RC214 Nov 2025 pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v8.0.0-RC113 Nov 2025 pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v8.0.0-BETA227 Oct 2025 pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v8.0.0-BETA116 Oct 2025 pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v7.4.1721 Aug 2026Release notes
Open source →Changelog (v7.4.16...v7.4.17)
- bug #65500 Keep backslashes preceding < and > when escaping text (@nicolas-grekas)
- bug #65471 Fix clearing more lines than a section holds (@nicolas-grekas)
- bug #65419 Consume the whole escape sequence when reading autocomplete input (@nicolas-grekas)
- bug #65367 Fix PHP 8.6 deprecations (@nicolas-grekas)
- bug #65263 Keep falsy answers when collecting an array with # (@sadiqk2)
- bug #65258 Restore the catchExceptions state after running a command message (@KevinMartinsDev)
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v7.4.1631 Jul 2026Release notes
Open source →Changelog (v7.4.15...v7.4.16)
- bug #65065 Fix column widths when a row spans columns (@wazum)
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v7.4.1527 Jul 2026Release notes
Open source →Changelog (v7.4.14...v7.4.15)
- bug #64662 Decorate stdout and stderr independently when a formatter is injected (@jprivet-dev)
- bug #64843 Fix table borders around colspan cells and header-less tables (@wazum)
- bug #64886 Fix two ValueError crashes on multibyte / multi-column widths (@sadiqk2)
- bug #64856 Fall back to "stty sane" when restoring the captured terminal state fails (@lyrixx)
- bug #64849 Fix SymfonyStyle questions when using output sections (@javiereguiluz)
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v7.4.1416 Jun 2026Nothing published for this version
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v7.4.1324 May 2026Nothing published for this version
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v7.4.1113 May 2026Nothing published for this version
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v7.4.922 Apr 2026Nothing published for this version
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v7.4.830 Mar 2026Nothing published for this version
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v7.4.706 Mar 2026Nothing published for this version
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v7.4.625 Feb 2026Nothing published for this version
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v7.4.413 Jan 2026Nothing published for this version
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v7.4.323 Dec 2025Nothing published for this version
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v7.4.105 Dec 2025Nothing published for this version
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v7.4.027 Nov 2025Nothing published for this version
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v7.4.0-RC321 Nov 2025 pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v7.4.0-RC214 Nov 2025 pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v7.4.0-RC113 Nov 2025 pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v7.4.0-BETA227 Oct 2025 pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v7.4.0-BETA115 Oct 2025 pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v7.3.1013 Jan 2026Nothing published for this version
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v7.3.923 Dec 2025Nothing published for this version
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v7.3.805 Dec 2025Nothing published for this version
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v7.3.604 Nov 2025Nothing published for this version
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v7.3.514 Oct 2025Nothing published for this version
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v7.3.422 Sep 2025Nothing published for this version
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v7.3.325 Aug 2025Nothing published for this version
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v7.3.230 Jul 2025Nothing published for this version
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v7.3.127 Jun 2025Nothing published for this version
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v7.3.024 May 2025Nothing published for this version
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v7.3.0-RC1no date pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v7.3.0-BETA209 May 2025 pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v7.3.0-BETA107 Apr 2025 pre-releaseNothing published for this version
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v7.2.930 Jul 2025Nothing published for this version
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v7.2.827 Jun 2025Nothing published for this version