Clockwork 5.3 released with HTTP requests and more

A new minor Clockwork release is now available, adding HTTP requests support, improved vanilla integration and more.

HTTP Requests

Clockwork now collects HTTP requests made by your application and presents them in a new HTTP tab. Requests made with the Laravel HTTP client will be automatically collected and you can easily set up any library using Guzzle to collect the requests.

You can expand a request, to inspect it's request and response data, headers, timing and other metrics.

Vanilla Integration

Clockwork now includes a zero-configuration support for applications compatible with the PSR-15 standard, with a new PSR-15 middleware. This is now the best way to use Clockwork with various micro-frameworks, like Slim or Mezzio.

For more information about how to use the new middleware, check out the installation instructions on the Clockwork website.

With this change we've also deprecated the Slim middleware, to be removed in Clockwork 6. You should use the new PSR-15 middleware instead.

Thanks to UlrichEckhardt and DominicDetta for their work on the vanilla integration improvements.

Manifest v3

The Clockwork Chrome extension has been recently updated to Manifest v3, which is required by Google for all extensions going forward. While this should have no impact on the user-experience, it's currently not working properly for some users using self-signed HTTPS certificates, because of a Chrome bug.

In Clockwork 5.3 we have improved the error messaging when loading Clockwork metadata, to better handle various connection errors. The Xdebug profile loading has also been improved to better handle invalid profiles.

Other Improvements

The Clockwork app has been finally updated to use Vue 3 and Vite build stack, which should bring a minor performance improvement.

Symfony integration has been improved to support Symfony 6 and 7. Doctrine integration has been improved to support Doctrine 3 and 4. And Monolog integration has been improved to support Monolog 2 and 3.

Clockwork now supports PHP 8.4 and for the first time in 4 years, we changed the minimal required PHP version to PHP 7.1. This should only affect 0.2% users, who can continue using Clockwork 5.2.

While working on this release, I've resolved more than 60 GitHub issues, dating back to 2019. To see a full list of improvements and fixes see the changelog.

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