Sometimes even great open source packages just fall off the maintenance wagon. FOSUserBundle, a historic go-to for the Symfony community, is sadly looking like one of those cases right now. Behind on updates for modern, long-term support Symfony versions, with calls to reconsider its pervasiveness going back at least as far as 2016, it’s no wonder there are questions about a migration path.

Unfortunately many of the problems with the bundle’s design – being very tightly coupled to the parent framework while not necessarily keeping up with its best practice – also preclude writing a good general purpose migration guide. But I’m hoping by documenting the biggest changes I had to make for my project to get out of FOSUserPrison, I can slightly reduce the time it takes to migrate some other projects.

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