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symfony/uid
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Provides an object-oriented API to generate and represent UIDs

v8.1.0(1mo ago)610316.3M↓10.2%1220MITPHPPHP &gt;=8.4.1

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Uid Component
=============

[](#uid-component)

The UID component provides an object-oriented API to generate and represent UIDs.

It provides implementations that work on 32-bit and 64-bit CPUs for ULIDs and for UUIDs version 1 and versions 3 to 8.

Sponsor
-------

[](#sponsor)

This package is looking for a [backer](https://symfony.com/backers).

Help Symfony by [sponsoring](https://symfony.com/sponsor) its development!

Resources
---------

[](#resources)

- [Documentation](https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/uid.html)
- [Contributing](https://symfony.com/doc/current/contributing/index.html)
- [Report issues](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues) and [send Pull Requests](https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pulls)in the [main Symfony repository](https://github.com/symfony/symfony)

###  Health Score

81

—

ExcellentBetter than 100% of packages

Maintenance94

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity75

Solid adoption and visibility

Community52

Growing community involvement

Maturity92

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor2

2 contributors hold 50%+ of commits

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~16 days

Recently: every ~0 days

Total

145

Last Release

28d ago

Major Versions

v7.4.4 → v8.0.42026-01-03

v7.4.8 → v8.0.82026-03-30

v7.4.9 → v8.0.92026-04-30

6.4.x-dev → 7.4.x-dev2026-06-05

7.4.x-dev → 8.0.x-dev2026-06-05

PHP version history (7 changes)v5.1.0-RC1PHP ^7.2.5

v5.1.5PHP &gt;=7.2.5

v6.0.0-RC1PHP &gt;=8.0.2

v6.1.0-BETA1PHP &gt;=8.1

v7.0.0-BETA1PHP &gt;=8.2

v8.0.0PHP &gt;=8.4

v8.1.0-BETA1PHP &gt;=8.4.1

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/47313?v=4)[Fabien Potencier](/maintainers/fabpot)[@fabpot](https://github.com/fabpot)

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