The latest stable release of the Symfony framework is 1.0.9 but the latest version in portage is 1.0.8
Created attachment 137359 [details] ebuild for dev-php5/symfony-1.0.9
Kindly see http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bugzilla-howto.xml#doc_chap6 (Zero-day bump requests)
*symfony-1.0.9 (06 Dec 2007) 06 Dec 2007; Markus Ullmann <jokey@gentoo.org> -symfony-1.0.8.ebuild, +symfony-1.0.9.ebuild: LICENSE fix from project overlay and version bump