The 9th Symposium on Software Performance (SSP 2018) will take place in Hildesheim, Germany on November 8-9, 2018. It will be a joint meeting of the Descartes, Kieker, and Palladio research groups.

In addition to invited talks from practitioners and researchers, we welcome contributions from academic, scientific, or industrial contexts in the field of software performance, including but not limited to approaches employing Descartes, Kieker, and/or Palladio.

We solicit technical papers (maximum 3 pages) and extended abstracts for industry or experience talks (maximum 700 words).

Details are provided on the symposium web site: http://www.performance-symposium.org/

We are pleased to anounce, that we released Version 3.1.0 of our Kieker Trace Diagnosis tool on June 02, 2018. As usual, you can download the release from https://github.com/kieker-monitoring/kieker-trace-diagnosis-ui/releases.

Some distinct and selected features:

• Monitoring logs can now be read directly from a ZIP file.
• The internal documentation has been improved.
• The signatures of method calls are now taken from the after operation events rather than from the before operation events. For most users, this is not important. However, some applications take the methods’ results into account for the records, which means that their after operation events have an enriched method signature compared to their before operation events.

We also fixed some minor bugs. You can find the full changelog in the release archive.