June has been another action-packed month for the Sylius ecosystem! From the highly anticipated SyliusCon 2025 agenda reveal to performance improvements and vibrant community events across three countries.
This month brought us milestones with Sylius 2.1’s industry-first support for PHP 8.4 and Symfony 7.3, exciting new plugins joining the official family, and a fresh approach to product development through documentation-driven strategies. Meanwhile, our global community came together in spectacular fashion – from SyliusParty in Toulouse to meetups in Poland and Germany, plus a unique rugby stadium gathering in Lyon that perfectly captured the spirit of our ecosystem.
Here’s a breakdown of June’s highlights:
June marked our first full month after the Sylius 2.1 release, and the pace hasn’t slowed a bit. We’ve officially completed the PHPspec-to-PHPUnit migration across the board, bringing sharper tests, consistent tooling, and easier contributions for everyone working with Sylius.
On the feature side, Sylius continues to mature with smarter API capabilities. Product variants now expose richer data, taxons return cleaner hierarchical trees, and new image filter endpoints make the storefront API more powerful for modern frontends. We also added impersonation checks for improved security tooling, bumped support for PHP 8.4 and Node.js 24, and made sure everything’s solid with Symfony 7.3.
User experience also saw steady refinement: from fully WCAG-compliant Shop templates and cleaner order history views, to more elegant product channel pricing with new accordion layouts. We even improved the “Back” button behavior in Admin and streamlined Stimulus controller usage across bundles.
Meanwhile, the ecosystem kept leveling up: Mollie’s plugin now supports advanced subscription workflows and refined surcharge handling. The B2BKit got serious about pricing lists with API support and a new pricing engine. And FrontWing 0.2.0 landed with refreshed checkout and secure account flows.
TL;DR: June was about leveling up everything – from tests to translations, APIs to accessibility – for developers and merchants alike.
Sylius 2.1 is officially here, and we’re proud to be the first open-source eCommerce platform supporting PHP 8.4 and Symfony 7.3! 🦢
This release brings full WCAG AA accessibility compliance to meet 2025 legal standards, a smarter admin dashboard with pending actions and KPIs at a glance, and a future-ready backend powered by Doctrine ORM 3, API Platform 4.1, and Node.js 24. We’ve also completed the move from PHPspec to PHPUnit, making testing simpler and more accessible for contributors.
Huge thanks to our community – this release was truly a team victory! 👏 Check out the complete insights on our blog for all the technical details.
Along with the recently adopted Wishlist plugin, we have also officially adopted the ProductBundle plugin. These plugins address core online store needs, creating dynamic product bundles that increase average order value and allowing customers to save products for later purchase decisions. Together, they deliver a smoother, more comprehensive shopping experience.
Both plugins are fully supported in Sylius v2 and ready to test on our demo.
We’ve been partners with Mollie since 2018, sharing values around community-first development and technological innovation. To strengthen this partnership even further, our Development Team has officially taken over maintenance of the Sylius/MolliePlugin!
The refreshed integration brings refactored architecture with upgraded dependencies, full support for Sylius 1.14 and 2.x LTS versions, PHP 8.1+ compatibility (including PHP 8.4), native recurring orders support for subscriptions, automated testing for long-term stability, and out-of-the-box support in Sylius-Standard CE.
Most importantly, you now get better SLA support backed by our development team. This closer alliance ensures reliable, future-proof payment processing that grows with your business.
Ready to dive deeper into what this partnership means? Check out the full story on our blog for all the technical details.
While building FrontWing, our React-based frontend for Sylius, the team discovered some API bottlenecks that needed attention. Instead of working around them, we decided to fix them properly.
The backend team delivered key optimizations based on this internal feedback. Access to critical product data is now much simpler, making it easier to retrieve associations, options, variants, and pricing information. This streamlines the integration process significantly.
We’ve also boosted performance across the board with faster response times for order and cart queries, plus introduced dedicated endpoints for product images and taxons. The new image filters give developers much more flexible control over visual assets and product image management.
Meet Codex 👋, an AI assistant that actually understands your Sylius projects! This isn’t just another code completion tool; once Codex grasps your project structure through a simple environment setup and agents.md file, it becomes a genuine development partner.
Codex handles the heavy lifting: writing tests, generating configurations, fixing bugs, and following Symfony conventions. It delivers cleaner code faster, provides meaningful test coverage suggestions, and fixes issues with contextual understanding of your specific domain.
Whether you’re building plugins or launching stores, Codex works like a teammate who knows your stack inside and out, never gets tired, and keeps everything clean and consistent.
Learn how to set up Codex for your project and start coding smarter, not harder.
Sometimes the biggest wins come from the smallest changes. Our team just achieved something remarkable: reducing large order processing time from 53.6 seconds to just 2.86 seconds – that’s an 18x performance improvement!
The best part? This massive optimization required changes to only six files with zero backward compatibility breaks. It’s a perfect example of surgical improvements that deliver huge real-world impact without disrupting existing implementations.
This OrderItemUnit optimization is still in proof-of-concept stage, but the results are so promising that we’re planning to dig deeper in the coming days. You can follow the technical details and progress on GitHub.
When performance improvements this significant are possible with minimal code changes, it shows the power of strategic optimization and deep platform knowledge. Stay tuned for more details as we refine this breakthrough!
We’ve been recently testing the capabilities of the Sylius CMS plugin in creating different kinds of blogs and articles. The plugin handles content creation while maintaining the flexibility that makes Sylius special. The integration feels natural, allowing merchants to manage both their store content and marketing materials from a single, unified interface.
Here’s a sneak peek of what we are currently doing in the Sylius demo (It will be available soon – stay tuned!)
This ambitious Dutch company from Oostburg launched three specialized webshops – handdoekentoiletpapier.nl for hygiene products, kantinewinkel.nl for office supplies, and dropwinkel.eu for candy, all built on a clever technical foundation that connects everything smoothly by our Professional Solution Partner, Nedbase.
The magic lies in the architecture: three custom webshops running on a smart middleware layer that handles order processing, inventory management, and operations behind the scenes. This creates both structural efficiency for the business and ordering convenience for customers across different product categories.
What makes this implementation particularly impressive is how it positions 4UStore for its next growth phase. The same intelligent foundation is now being extended to support a series of international webshops, proving that well-designed Sylius solutions can scale from local success to global ambitions.
Want to learn more about how 4UStore built its multi-store success? A detailed case study will be available soon on our website. Stay tuned!
The moment we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived – the complete SyliusCon 2025 agenda is officially live! 🇫🇷
This year’s conference is taking on an exciting new format with two tracks designed to serve every aspect of our community. Whether you’re deep in the code or steering business strategy, we’ve crafted content that speaks directly to your interests and challenges.
What’s new this year? We’re introducing technical and business tracks that run simultaneously, giving you the flexibility to explore the topics that matter most to your role. The technical track will discuss developments in performance optimization, AI integration, the powerful Sylius Grid system, cloud infrastructure, and API Platform innovations. Meanwhile, the business track focuses on SaaS strategies, marketplace development, and includes a fascinating panel discussion on CMS solutions that’s sure to spark some great conversations.
But wait, there’s more! 👀 We’re preparing something special for the day before the main conference on October 17th. We can’t reveal all the details just yet, but trust us – you’ll want to extend your stay in Lyon for this one.
Ready to see what’s waiting for you in Lyon? Head over to the conference website to explore the full agenda and secure your spot. With this level of content and the vibrant atmosphere that Lyon always delivers, this is one event you definitely don’t want to miss.
See you in France! 🦢
What an incredible month it was! Three countries, four completely different formats, but one common theme – Sylius taking center stage thanks to our amazing partners.
The full-day event hosted by EMAGMA delivered inspiring talks from Grégoire Pineau (JoliCode), Antoine Bluchet ( Les-Tilleuls.coop), Piotr Szymański (Sylius), and Joachim Løvgaard (Setono). The day included a fantastic panel discussion with Emil Janiszewski, Sidonie Brisson, Jean-François Viguier, Francis Hilaire, Alima Grine, and Ludovic Duval, followed by a plugin hackathon led by Joachim and lightning talks from Estelle Gaits and Sébastien L.
In case you missed it, here are the recording of the presentations. 🎞️
“Poranek z Marketing Automation” by User.com by Positive marked the 5th edition, sponsored by us alongside H2H.tech and Zaufane.pl, diving deep into customer loyalty automation. The lineup featured Mike Korba, Marcin Rzeczkowski, Sebastian Horoszko, Przemysław Połeć, and Radosław Żurawski, sharing smart strategies for loyalty automation.
The evening hosted by bitExpert AG showcased Max Pesch‘s Brille24 setup, combining Sylius with Sulu CMS, Jacques Bodin-Hullin‘s automation demo with n8n, and Stephan Hochdörfer‘s live coding session with Symfony and the Sylius Stack. Great turnout and fantastic community energy!
Akawaka and GL Events organized a unique Sylius France Community Meetup on July 3rd at the LOU Rugby stadium. The evening featured Guillaume Bassot & Arthur Engels from GL Events sharing insights on “The Sylius we wish we had found: multi-site and PIM-integrated”, Loïc Fremont & Estelle Gaits from Akawaka delivering “Pole position on the Sylius Grid”, and Łukasz Chruściel from Commerce Weavers exploring “Supercharging your Sylius 2.0 path with AI.”
More exciting events are coming – check out what’s ahead below 🔽
The summer and fall calendar is packed with exciting Sylius events you won’t want to miss!
Mark your calendars for August 21st! We’re teaming up with BitBag to bring you an evening of chill vibes and solid talk in Opole, Poland. The highlight will be a panel discussion “Sylius Live Update: Code, blood, sweat & pull requests” featuring the freshest commits to the core, behind-the-scenes stories you won’t find on GitHub, and exclusive insights into what’s cooking for the next release.
The event runs from 18:00 to 22:00 with pizza, cold beer, billiards, and darts. Free entry – just RSVP here to secure your spot!
This October 9-10 at Disneyland Paris – the PHP Forum 2025 anniversary edition! This milestone event celebrates the 30th anniversary of PHP, 25th anniversary of AFUP, 20th anniversary of Symfony, and 10th anniversary of API Platform.
We’re thrilled that Sylius will be represented with a dedicated 40-minute talk by Maxime Huran showing how to develop modern eCommerce projects with Sylius 2. The program covers essential topics including generative AI, PHP 8.5, Symfony 8, and, of course, Sylius 2 developments.
This promises to be a unique moment of exchange, learning, and celebration for the entire PHP community. Check out the full program and grab your tickets at the event’s website!
The Sylius community keeps growing with two new partners joining our ecosystem this month.
Antadis has joined as a Professional Solution Partner from France! 🇫🇷 Founded in 2002, this independent digital agency brings over 20 years of experience building custom eCommerce platforms for B2B and B2C businesses. With 70+ experts covering the full project lifecycle – from strategic consulting and UX/UI design to architecture and development – they’re already making waves across France and Switzerland. Their expertise spans both monolithic and headless architectures, making them perfect partners for ambitious Sylius projects.
Creoline GmbH comes aboard as our new Professional Hosting Partner from Germany! 🇩🇪 This specialized hosting agency focuses on cloud infrastructure for eCommerce businesses throughout the DACH region. Their performance-optimized stack includes LiteSpeed servers, Redis, OpenSearch, and CDN solutions built for speed and reliability. With trusted clients like BVB Borussia Dortmund, they bring serious credentials to Sylius hosting.
Welcome to both teams, we’re excited to see how these partnerships strengthen our ecosystem and open new opportunities for the community!
We’ve discovered something powerful at Sylius: sometimes the best features aren’t built into the UI – they’re built into the documentation. This led us to embrace “Doc-Driven Development,” a fresh approach that’s changing how we think about product development.
The challenge was real. How do you stay lightweight and flexible while providing the functionality modern businesses expect? Our answer came through comprehensive “How to” guides that show developers exactly how to implement features through customization rather than core bloat.
This approach delivers surprising benefits. Technical teams actually prefer solutions they can customize over rigid, built-in features. Plus, better documentation supercharges AI tools like Codex, making Sylius development significantly more efficient.
We’re investing heavily in practical documentation updates, especially in the “How to?” section. The formula is simple: Lightweight, flexible core + Documentation > Feature bloat. This approach lets us build the future of highly flexible eCommerce platforms without sacrificing what makes Sylius unique.
We’re halfway through 2025, and it’s time to assess our progress against the ambitious goals we set at the beginning of the year. From open-source improvements to ecosystem expansion, we’ve been busy delivering on our promises while discovering new opportunities along the way.
The journey continues, and the results so far have been promising. More feature announcements are coming – but that’s a story for another time.
Read Mikołaj’s article on roadmap.
Here are the really helpful articles from June. See it for yourself!
And here’s what our amazing community shared about Sylius on social media in June:
From revealing the complete SyliusCon 2025 agenda to achieving industry-first support for PHP 8.4 and Symfony 7.3 in Sylius 2.1, we’ve continued pushing the boundaries of open-source eCommerce.
Most importantly, the energy displayed at community events across France, Poland, Germany, and beyond reminds us why we’re passionate about this journey. As we head into the second half of 2025, with exciting events in Opole, PHP Forum at Disneyland Paris, and SyliusCon in October on the horizon, the future looks brighter than ever. Thank you for being part of this incredible journey – together, we’re building the future of a flexible, powerful eCommerce solution. 💪🦢
