Shopware Community Edition

PHP based open source e-commerce software made in Germany.

Thriving · 89

E-commerce

89/100

Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 37/40

Releases 25/25

Community 12/20

Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 93% of tracked projects; popularity more than 60%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10 2745 total 2026-08

Stars	3.4k
Latest release	v6.6.10.27 · 24 Sept 2026
Repo updated	25 Sept 2026
Licence	MIT
Built with	PHP

Is Shopware Community Edition actively maintained?

Shopware Community Edition is under active development: 2745 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 395 commits a month in the most recent quarter.

Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 66% more commits than the one before it.

The most recent tagged release, v6.6.10.27, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.

Of the 25 projects we track in E-commerce, Shopware Community Edition ranks #7 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.

What Shopware Community Edition actually does

Shopware Community Edition is an open-source, PHP-based e-commerce platform designed to manage online stores and product catalogues. It provides a foundational framework for merchants to build and operate transactional websites with customisable storefronts and backend administration tools.

Best fit: It is well-suited for developers and businesses looking for an MIT-licensed, self-hosted online retail system built on a PHP stack.

Worth knowing: Operating a PHP-based e-commerce application requires ongoing maintenance for security patches, dependency management, and performance tuning under traffic load.

Deployment notes

You will typically need to provision a compatible PHP runtime, a relational database such as MySQL or MariaDB, and a web server configured with a reverse proxy for TLS termination and static asset handling.