At our October Hacktoberfest in Schöppingen, we came together with the community to share what we’ve been working on and explore what comes next.

Preparing for Shopware 6.8 was part of that conversation: I walked through the latest developments, with a practical focus on what you can start doing today.

From testing upcoming changes behind feature flags to checking compatibility and sharing feedback, there are steps that can make the next upgrade easier.

In this blog post, we’ll walk through those learnings and show how to make preparation part of regular development work, rather than leaving it until release day.

Our goal is to make 6.8 the smoothest, most predictable and easiest-to-upgrade Shopware 6 major release so far.

Compatibility tooling, testable feature flags and community feedback give agencies and plugin developers more time to understand the changes and prepare their projects.

You can already join the conversation in Discord #feedback-6_8 .

Trying the available tools and sharing difficult…