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Today is finally the day when Shopware packages is being released. You might ask what is Shopware packages, and what does it have to do with packages.friendsofshopware.com? Good question 🙂 What is Shopware packages? Shopware packages is the long-awaited official Composer package repository for all Shopware store extensions. But why do we want to use that or care about that? What can I expect from Shopware packages? With composer, we can manage all dependencies in our Shopware setups. We usually use a composer project template which requires Shopware and provides some basic tooling. When we want now update the Shopware version, we just pick a newer version of Shopware in composer, and we are ready to go. That’s nice and easy for our Shopware upgrades, but we mostly also use extensions for our shops such as PayPal. Typically, we download the ZIP-file from the Store, unpack and upload it to custom/plugins. Yes, we all are lazy and this really sounds annoying. With the new repository, we can treat the extensions as normal composer dependency like just using composer req store.shopware.com/swagpaypal like cool guys 😎. This will automatically get the most recent version compatible to our Shopware version and other requirements set by the extension manufacturer. Since the dependencies are built directly into Composer, we can use typical commands like composer update store.shopware.com/swagpaypal to update the extension or even update Shopware and all required extensions at once. It’s cool, isn’t it? ...