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+Symfony Standard Edition
+========================
+
+Welcome to the Symfony Standard Edition - a fully-functional Symfony2
+application that you can use as the skeleton for your new applications.
+
+For details on how to download and get started with Symfony, see the
+[Installation][1] chapter of the Symfony Documentation.
+
+What's inside?
+--------------
+
+The Symfony Standard Edition is configured with the following defaults:
+
+  * An AppBundle you can use to start coding;
+
+  * Twig as the only configured template engine;
+
+  * Doctrine ORM/DBAL;
+
+  * Swiftmailer;
+
+  * Annotations enabled for everything.
+
+It comes pre-configured with the following bundles:
+
+  * **FrameworkBundle** - The core Symfony framework bundle
+
+  * [**SensioFrameworkExtraBundle**][6] - Adds several enhancements, including
+    template and routing annotation capability
+
+  * [**DoctrineBundle**][7] - Adds support for the Doctrine ORM
+
+  * [**TwigBundle**][8] - Adds support for the Twig templating engine
+
+  * [**SecurityBundle**][9] - Adds security by integrating Symfony's security
+    component
+
+  * [**SwiftmailerBundle**][10] - Adds support for Swiftmailer, a library for
+    sending emails
+
+  * [**MonologBundle**][11] - Adds support for Monolog, a logging library
+
+  * [**AsseticBundle**][12] - Adds support for Assetic, an asset processing
+    library
+
+  * **WebProfilerBundle** (in dev/test env) - Adds profiling functionality and
+    the web debug toolbar
+
+  * **SensioDistributionBundle** (in dev/test env) - Adds functionality for
+    configuring and working with Symfony distributions
+
+  * [**SensioGeneratorBundle**][13] (in dev/test env) - Adds code generation
+    capabilities
+
+All libraries and bundles included in the Symfony Standard Edition are
+released under the MIT or BSD license.
+
+Enjoy!
+
+[1]:  http://symfony.com/doc/2.6/book/installation.html
+[6]:  http://symfony.com/doc/2.6/bundles/SensioFrameworkExtraBundle/index.html
+[7]:  http://symfony.com/doc/2.6/book/doctrine.html
+[8]:  http://symfony.com/doc/2.6/book/templating.html
+[9]:  http://symfony.com/doc/2.6/book/security.html
+[10]: http://symfony.com/doc/2.6/cookbook/email.html
+[11]: http://symfony.com/doc/2.6/cookbook/logging/monolog.html
+[12]: http://symfony.com/doc/2.6/cookbook/assetic/asset_management.html
+[13]: http://symfony.com/doc/2.6/bundles/SensioGeneratorBundle/index.html
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