This is a meta-issue pointing to all the pending things that should be finished before the Symfony 2.6 launch. This launch is very special because complying with the new Symfony Best Practices requires some minor changes that could be included as part of the Symfony 2.6 launch.

symfony/symfony

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symfony/symfony-standard

• Add a new services.yml config file and import it from config.yml (Added a new services.yml file to comply with Symfony Best Practices symfony-standard#727)
• Add a new AppBundle (Added a new AppBundle to comply with Symfony Best Practices symfony-standard#728)
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symfony/symfony-installer

• The Milestone 1.0 lists all the issues that we want to fix before the first stable release of the installer.

symfony/framework-bundle

• translation:debug command doesn't work for translations stored in app/Resources/translations/ ([Translation] translation:debug for views in app/ folder #12273)

symfony/symfony-docs

• Update the Getting Started tutorial to follow the Symfony Best Practices (Update the Getting Started tutorial to follow the Symfony Best Practices symfony-docs#4360)
• Update the documentation to take into account the new AppBundle (Update the documentation to take into account the new AppBundle symfony-docs#4361)
• Lots of other minor things listed in the Milestone 2.6
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sensiolabs/SensioGeneratorBundle

• generate:bundle can't generate bundles without vendors ([DX] Re-work generate:bundle for simple app bundles #290 sensiolabs/SensioGeneratorBundle#299)
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Other

• To simplify the work of the new Symfony installer, symfony.com should provide symfony-latest.zip and symfony-latest.tgz files pointing to the most recent stable version (Fabien is working on this).
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