diff --git a/best_practices/web-assets.rst b/best_practices/web-assets.rst
index a4160d62e2e..61a992b8181 100644
--- a/best_practices/web-assets.rst
+++ b/best_practices/web-assets.rst
@@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ much more concise:
Using Assetic
-------------
+.. caution::
+
+ Starting from Symfony 2.8, Assetic is no longer included by default in the
+ Symfony Standard Edition. Refer to :doc:`this article `
+ to learn how to install and enable Assetic in your Symfony application.
+
These days, you probably can't simply create static CSS and JavaScript files
and include them in your template. Instead, you'll probably want to combine
and minify these to improve client-side performance. You may also want to
diff --git a/book/templating.rst b/book/templating.rst
index f50085219c1..5b76fe410d4 100644
--- a/book/templating.rst
+++ b/book/templating.rst
@@ -1130,9 +1130,9 @@ advantage of Symfony's template inheritance.
.. tip::
This section will teach you the philosophy behind including stylesheet
- and JavaScript assets in Symfony. Symfony also packages another library,
- called Assetic, which follows this philosophy but allows you to do much
- more interesting things with those assets. For more information on
+ and JavaScript assets in Symfony. Symfony is also compatible with another
+ library, called Assetic, which follows this philosophy but allows you to do
+ much more interesting things with those assets. For more information on
using Assetic see :doc:`/cookbook/assetic/asset_management`.
Start by adding two blocks to your base template that will hold your assets:
diff --git a/cookbook/assetic/apply_to_option.rst b/cookbook/assetic/apply_to_option.rst
index 22c7506075f..6f132ec4641 100644
--- a/cookbook/assetic/apply_to_option.rst
+++ b/cookbook/assetic/apply_to_option.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
How to Apply an Assetic Filter to a specific File Extension
===========================================================
+.. caution::
+
+ Starting from Symfony 2.8, Assetic is no longer included by default in the
+ Symfony Standard Edition. Refer to :doc:`this article `
+ to learn how to install and enable Assetic in your Symfony application.
+
Assetic filters can be applied to individual files, groups of files or even,
as you'll see here, files that have a specific extension. To show you how
to handle each option, suppose that you want to use Assetic's CoffeeScript
diff --git a/cookbook/assetic/asset_management.rst b/cookbook/assetic/asset_management.rst
index af0055f5795..6fa15d80e5d 100644
--- a/cookbook/assetic/asset_management.rst
+++ b/cookbook/assetic/asset_management.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,91 @@
How to Use Assetic for Asset Management
=======================================
+Installing and Enabling Assetic
+-------------------------------
+
+Starting from Symfony 2.8, Assetic is no longer included by default in the
+Symfony Standard Edition. Before using any of its features, install the
+AsseticBundle executing this console command in your project:
+
+ .. code-block:: bash
+
+ $ composer require symfony/assetic-bundle
+
+Then, enable the bundle in the ``AppKernel`` file of your Symfony application::
+
+ // app/AppKernel.php
+
+ // ...
+ class AppKernel extends Kernel
+ {
+ // ...
+
+ public function registerBundles()
+ {
+ $bundles = array(
+ // ...
+ new Symfony\Bundle\AsseticBundle\AsseticBundle(),
+ );
+
+ // ...
+ }
+ }
+
+Finally, add the following minimal configuration to enable Assetic support in
+your application:
+
+.. configuration-block::
+
+ .. code-block:: yaml
+
+ # app/config/config.yml
+ assetic:
+ debug: "%kernel.debug%"
+ use_controller: false
+ filters:
+ cssrewrite: ~
+
+ # ...
+
+ .. code-block:: xml
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ .. code-block:: php
+
+ // app/config/config.php
+
+ $container->loadFromExtension('assetic', array(
+ 'debug' => '%kernel.debug%',
+ 'use_controller' => '%kernel.debug%',
+ 'filters' => array(
+ 'cssrewrite' => null,
+ ),
+ // ...
+ ));
+
+ // ...
+
+Introducing Assetic
+-------------------
+
Assetic combines two major ideas: :ref:`assets ` and
:ref:`filters `. The assets are files such as CSS,
JavaScript and image files. The filters are things that can be applied to
diff --git a/cookbook/assetic/index.rst b/cookbook/assetic/index.rst
index c37efdc16ee..8d2ac650587 100644
--- a/cookbook/assetic/index.rst
+++ b/cookbook/assetic/index.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
Assetic
=======
+.. caution::
+
+ Starting from Symfony 2.8, Assetic is no longer included by default in the
+ Symfony Standard Edition. Refer to :doc:`this article `
+ to learn how to install and enable Assetic in your Symfony application.
+
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
diff --git a/cookbook/assetic/jpeg_optimize.rst b/cookbook/assetic/jpeg_optimize.rst
index c55a32dc800..d479fdd8893 100644
--- a/cookbook/assetic/jpeg_optimize.rst
+++ b/cookbook/assetic/jpeg_optimize.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
How to Use Assetic for Image Optimization with Twig Functions
=============================================================
+.. caution::
+
+ Starting from Symfony 2.8, Assetic is no longer included by default in the
+ Symfony Standard Edition. Refer to :doc:`this article `
+ to learn how to install and enable Assetic in your Symfony application.
+
Among its many filters, Assetic has four filters which can be used for on-the-fly
image optimization. This allows you to get the benefits of smaller file sizes
without having to use an image editor to process each image. The results
diff --git a/cookbook/assetic/php.rst b/cookbook/assetic/php.rst
index c7e8c2e6b26..3bde1e7aef2 100644
--- a/cookbook/assetic/php.rst
+++ b/cookbook/assetic/php.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
Combining, Compiling and Minimizing Web Assets with PHP Libraries
=================================================================
+.. caution::
+
+ Starting from Symfony 2.8, Assetic is no longer included by default in the
+ Symfony Standard Edition. Refer to :doc:`this article `
+ to learn how to install and enable Assetic in your Symfony application.
+
The official Symfony Best Practices recommend to use Assetic to
:doc:`manage web assets `, unless you are
comfortable with JavaScript-based front-end tools.
diff --git a/cookbook/assetic/uglifyjs.rst b/cookbook/assetic/uglifyjs.rst
index a08569647a3..47eb82ba4f6 100644
--- a/cookbook/assetic/uglifyjs.rst
+++ b/cookbook/assetic/uglifyjs.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
How to Minify CSS/JS Files (Using UglifyJS and UglifyCSS)
=========================================================
+.. caution::
+
+ Starting from Symfony 2.8, Assetic is no longer included by default in the
+ Symfony Standard Edition. Refer to :doc:`this article `
+ to learn how to install and enable Assetic in your Symfony application.
+
`UglifyJS`_ is a JavaScript parser/compressor/beautifier toolkit. It can be used
to combine and minify JavaScript assets so that they require less HTTP requests
and make your site load faster. `UglifyCSS`_ is a CSS compressor/beautifier
diff --git a/cookbook/assetic/yuicompressor.rst b/cookbook/assetic/yuicompressor.rst
index 66cb5364ec7..698b9ab8ab9 100644
--- a/cookbook/assetic/yuicompressor.rst
+++ b/cookbook/assetic/yuicompressor.rst
@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@ How to Minify JavaScripts and Stylesheets with YUI Compressor
**strongly advised to avoid using YUI utilities** unless strictly necessary.
Read :doc:`/cookbook/assetic/uglifyjs` for a modern and up-to-date alternative.
+.. caution::
+
+ Starting from Symfony 2.8, Assetic is no longer included by default in the
+ Symfony Standard Edition. Refer to :doc:`this article `
+ to learn how to install and enable Assetic in your Symfony application.
+
Yahoo! provides an excellent utility for minifying JavaScripts and stylesheets
so they travel over the wire faster, the `YUI Compressor`_. Thanks to Assetic,
you can take advantage of this tool very easily.
diff --git a/reference/configuration/assetic.rst b/reference/configuration/assetic.rst
index 5a355b92932..16636e3271f 100644
--- a/reference/configuration/assetic.rst
+++ b/reference/configuration/assetic.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@
AsseticBundle Configuration ("assetic")
=======================================
+.. caution::
+
+ Starting from Symfony 2.8, Assetic is no longer included by default in the
+ Symfony Standard Edition. Refer to :doc:`this article `
+ to learn how to install and enable Assetic in your Symfony application.
+
Full Default Configuration
--------------------------
diff --git a/reference/twig_reference.rst b/reference/twig_reference.rst
index 8fd0c083ec9..e19857b8843 100644
--- a/reference/twig_reference.rst
+++ b/reference/twig_reference.rst
@@ -739,10 +739,7 @@ Those bundles can have other Twig extensions:
* **Twig Extensions** includes some interesting extensions that do not belong
to the Twig core. You can read more in `the official Twig Extensions
- documentation`_;
-* **Assetic** adds the ``{% stylesheets %}``, ``{% javascripts %}`` and
- ``{% image %}`` tags. You can read more about them in
- :doc:`the Assetic Documentation `.
+ documentation`_.
.. _`Twig Reference`: http://twig.sensiolabs.org/documentation#reference
.. _`the official Twig Extensions documentation`: http://twig.sensiolabs.org/doc/extensions/index.html