Symphony.

Last year, a baker once asked me, "Do you want icing on your cake?" Now, if there is just one thing you need to know about me, it would be that my answer is always, "Yes, ALL the icing." This year, I've gone back to my baker to get a new cake. And before I continue with my fictitious story, yes, I have an appointed baker, like I do with tailors, hairdressors and manicurists. I'm an important man, dammit.

Allen raises his left fist. "You see this fist?", Allen remarks with conviction. "He has a brother." Allen then raises his right arm, but soon realised he didn't have a free hand to point to both his fists. Without the ability to point to his intimidating punching instruments of death, he feared the impact of his message would be somewhat diminished. "I really need someone to point to my fists", Allen quietly utters to himself.

Brendan, standing next to him heard Allen's mumble and like a true showman, pointed to Allen's pumping fists with gusto. Jazz hands were even involved at one point during the pointing affair.

It's clear that there hasn't been enough extension-loving recently, so here we introduce both an XML schema to document your extension metadata, and a handy aggregator website that watches Symphony extensions on GitHub to let you know what's what.

An idea was hatched earlier in the year from the Advocacy Working Group to have an online XML/XSLT service that allows users to transform their XML and XSLT and easily share these snippets. Meet xpathr!

Back in July, @nilshoerrmann logged an issue that kickstarted a discussion on how we can improve the extension categories to stop the growing number of 'Other' extensions. After some discussion, we'd like you to please welcome the Membership, Multilingual and Third Party Integration categories.

Hot on the heels of the Symphony 2.2.4 release, 2.2.5 fixes a couple of critical issues with the Select Box Link and Date fields.

This installment of the 2.3 Dev Notes includes information about the changes to localisation with the introduction of namespaces.

The Symphony working groups are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Symphony 2.2.4, a bugfix and security release.