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In this post we post a comprehensive list of all the features that we have worked on over the last 3 months.

In this new release, there are changes to many different parts of the Tideways stack. This includes new releases to the PHP extension (5.5.2), daemon (1.7.26, 1.7.28), CLI (0.4.6), and Chrome Web Extension (1.5.1).

Deprecating old code and replacing it with new and improved APIs is an established process in software development. In the core of PHP APIs are provided to trigger and to get notified of deprecations. As a PHP application developer you can then hook into all triggered deprecations using a user defined error handler. You can use this API to collect deprecations and fix them.

During Shopware Community Unconference 2022, we heard a lot about an internal performance week at Shopware, where they took tie to optimize different parts of the core of the Shopware platform. These were mostly performance problems that also affect our customers. Naturally, we are super excited about them their release in version 6.4.11. In this blog post we will look at one improvement to category navigation loading.

This new release of Tideways includes tracking exceptions with codes, improved notifications, improved trace filtering and sorting, several new features for the Callgraph Profiler and changes to the PHP extension.

This quarterly release of Tideways includes Distributed Tracing and Profiling, Traces in the History, and many more features. In this blog post, we will provide a detailed overview of all the changes.

Earlier this month the Shopware organized their Community Day (SCD) and I presented a talk on Shopware 6 Best Practices for Production. I have now published the slides to this talk for your reference.

The Shopware 6 software architecture heavily relies on a message queue to process tasks in the background. This is a fundamental change of how Shopware works compared to version 5, which did not have a message queue. To fully leverage the benefits of Shopware 6 you should make use of the message queue as much as possible.

This quarterly release of Tideways includes External HTTP Monitoring, Observations about PHP Metrics and Application Configuration, a redesigned Callgraph Compare screen, the ability to name traces, a new GitHub app to synchronize users into an organization and many other features. Update to PHP Extension 5.4 and Daemon 1.7 to access all new features of this release. In this blog post we will provide a detailed overview of all the changes.