Console is one of the most widely used Symfony components and is the 5 top most downloaded PHP package overall.

From mission-critical tools like Composer to other popular PHP frameworks and final applications, it's ubiquitous. The impact of this is that changing something into the component is hard - even the smallest bug fix is likely to break thousands of uses.

Nevertheless, the component is constantly improving thanks to countless contributions it receives since it's been introduced in 2010, while taking care of preserving backward compatibility.

But we think it's time to revisit it, not least to open up the component to more possibilities and rid it of some design issues. That's why we, a few key contributors have been working intensively to revisit it.

It's happening now! Hopefully it will be publicly available in Symfony 7.3.

Let me show you all this, get ready to rediscover the Console!