diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4373aacb..639f08b9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 ## [Unreleased]
 ...
 
+## 3.1.0 - 2019-07-02
+ - Add support for Symfony 2.8 (#233, thanks to @nocive)
+ - Fix handling of ESI requests (#213, thanks to @franmomu)
+
 ## 3.0.0 - 2019-05-10
  - Add the `sentry:test` command, to test if the Sentry SDK is functioning properly.
 
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 20e38c4b..435ce3e7 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@
         "php": "^7.1",
         "jean85/pretty-package-versions": "^1.0",
         "sentry/sdk": "^2.0",
-        "symfony/config": "^3.0||^4.0",
-        "symfony/console": "^3.0||^4.0",
-        "symfony/dependency-injection": "^3.0||^4.0",
-        "symfony/event-dispatcher": "^3.0||^4.0",
-        "symfony/http-kernel": "^3.0||^4.0",
-        "symfony/security-core": "^3.0||^4.0"
+        "symfony/config": "^2.8||^3.0||^4.0",
+        "symfony/console": "^2.8||^3.0||^4.0",
+        "symfony/dependency-injection": "^2.8||^3.0||^4.0",
+        "symfony/event-dispatcher": "^2.8||^3.0||^4.0",
+        "symfony/http-kernel": "^2.8||^3.0||^4.0",
+        "symfony/security-core": "^2.8||^3.0||^4.0"
     },
     "require-dev": {
         "friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer": "^2.8",
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
         "phpstan/phpstan-phpunit": "^0.11",
         "phpunit/phpunit": "^7.5",
         "scrutinizer/ocular": "^1.4",
-        "symfony/expression-language": "^3.0||^4.0"
+        "symfony/expression-language": "^2.8||^3.0||^4.0"
     },
     "autoload": {
         "psr-4" : {
diff --git a/src/DependencyInjection/SentryExtension.php b/src/DependencyInjection/SentryExtension.php
index bddca3a8..970ba1bf 100644
--- a/src/DependencyInjection/SentryExtension.php
+++ b/src/DependencyInjection/SentryExtension.php
@@ -4,8 +4,12 @@
 
 use Sentry\ClientBuilderInterface;
 use Sentry\Options;
+use Sentry\SentryBundle\Command\SentryTestCommand;
 use Sentry\SentryBundle\ErrorTypesParser;
+use Sentry\SentryBundle\EventListener\ConsoleListener;
 use Sentry\SentryBundle\EventListener\ErrorListener;
+use Sentry\SentryBundle\EventListener\RequestListener;
+use Sentry\SentryBundle\EventListener\SubRequestListener;
 use Symfony\Component\Config\Definition\Exception\InvalidConfigurationException;
 use Symfony\Component\Config\FileLocator;
 use Symfony\Component\Console\ConsoleEvents;
@@ -14,6 +18,7 @@
 use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Loader;
 use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Reference;
 use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\DependencyInjection\Extension;
+use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Kernel;
 
 /**
  * This is the class that loads and manages your bundle configuration
@@ -44,6 +49,7 @@ public function load(array $configs, ContainerBuilder $container)
         }
 
         $this->tagConsoleErrorListener($container);
+        $this->setLegacyVisibilities($container);
     }
 
     private function passConfigurationToOptions(ContainerBuilder $container, array $processedConfiguration): void
@@ -147,4 +153,18 @@ private function tagConsoleErrorListener(ContainerBuilder $container): void
 
         $listener->addTag('kernel.event_listener', $tagAttributes);
     }
+
+    /**
+     * BC layer for symfony < 3.3, listeners and commands must be public
+     */
+    private function setLegacyVisibilities(ContainerBuilder $container): void
+    {
+        if (Kernel::VERSION_ID < 30300) {
+            $container->getDefinition(SentryTestCommand::class)->setPublic(true);
+            $container->getDefinition(ConsoleListener::class)->setPublic(true);
+            $container->getDefinition(ErrorListener::class)->setPublic(true);
+            $container->getDefinition(RequestListener::class)->setPublic(true);
+            $container->getDefinition(SubRequestListener::class)->setPublic(true);
+        }
+    }
 }