PHP 8 has been officially released! We've been hard at work behind the scenes to provide support for all our libraries so that upgrading to PHP 8 with Laravel is easy.
Dries Vints
Nov, 26 2020
As you may know, Vapor allows you to specify which PHP version a given environment runs on. Of course, we want you to be able to use the latest PHP features as soon as possible. Beginning today, you may now specify "php-8.0" as your application's runtime.
Nuno Maduro
Nov, 25 2020
Since launching Forge's Database Backup feature back in February, our customers have created thousands of backup configurations,...
James Brooks
Nov, 24 2020
Starting today, you can provision T4g AWS servers using Laravel Forge. These instance types are powered by AWS Graviton2, a...
Mohamed Said
Nov, 20 2020
Starting today, you may also choose the EU (Milan) region when starting a new project on Vapor. This new region offers low latency for customers seeking to serve end-users in Italy.
Nuno Maduro
Nov, 19 2020
The Laravel team is proud to introduce you to our new podcast: Laravel Internals - a live YouTube podcast about Laravel, Forge, Vapor, Envoyer related news, and more.
Nuno Maduro
Nov, 19 2020
Beginning today, all new load balancers will use a security policy that no longer supports TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1.
Nuno Maduro
Nov, 17 2020
Starting today, if you face a LetsEncrypt issue, Forge will do its best to diagnose the problem, and offer you at least one solution.
Nuno Maduro
Nov, 6 2020
Today we're excited to introduce a new feature to Laravel Forge called Nginx Templates. These templates allow...
James Brooks
Nov, 5 2020
Today we're excited to release our API for Envoyer!You can create new API tokens from your Envoyer...
James Brooks
Nov, 4 2020
Following the release of Composer 2 on October 24th, we wanted to share a guide on how to upgrade your servers to make the most of all the great benefits it brings.First, all new servers will automatically receive Composer 2 by default.For existing servers, you...
James Brooks
Oct, 26 2020
Over the last few days, we've been working on some enhancements on Vapor. Starting today, you can now quickly debug failing deployment hooks directly from the console.
Nuno Maduro
Oct, 22 2020
As of today, newly issued LetsEncrypt certificates on Laravel Forge servers that run on Ubuntu 20.04 have TLS 1.3 enabled by default. TLS 1.3 offers a faster handshake and more secure cipher suites.If you have an existing LetsEncrypt certificate, you will need to issue a new...
Mohamed Said
Oct, 20 2020
Starting today, the Vapor UI allows you to create an RDS proxy to efficiently manage your database connections and allow many more connections than would typically be possible.
Nuno Maduro
Oct, 14 2020
Forge has always supported using a custom Git provider for your projects, but starting today Forge has first-party support for...
James Brooks
Oct, 7 2020
When putting your application in maintenance mode using the `vapor down` command, your application will respond with a status code of 503 on every request. Beginning today, you may use the `secret` option on the `vapor down` command to specify a maintenance mode bypass token:...
Mohamed Said
Sep, 29 2020
Starting today, you can now serve assets from the root domain. To get started, just head over to your application's `config/vapor.php` file, and add an array of assets that should be served
Nuno Maduro
Sep, 23 2020
Yesterday we shipped an updated to [Envoyer](https://envoyer.io) that gives deployment steps a much needed refresh.  By default, Envoyer will perform four actions when deploying any project: 1. Clone New Release 2. Install Composer Dependencies (if configued) 3. Activate New...
James Brooks
Sep, 22 2020
Starting today, you can now disable Vapor updates on the laravel-vapor-role role and manage this role yourself in AWS Console. To disable updates on the laravel-vapor-role role, just head over to...
Nuno Maduro
Sep, 18 2020
We're excited to announce a few changes we've just shipped to Envoyer.Extended Deployment Timeouts Starting today, all...
James Brooks
Sep, 17 2020
As many of you know, we released Laravel 8.x and [Laravel Jetstream](https://jetstream.laravel.com) last week. Thanks to very valuable feedback from the community, I am thrilled to give you an overview of some new customization options and features in Jetstream that I think you will find...
Taylor Otwell
Sep, 14 2020
Today we are launching an exciting new feature for Vapor UI Dashboard: Job Metrics. The "Job Metrics" tab allows you to monitor in real-time...
Nuno Maduro
Sep, 14 2020
Over the last few weeks, we've been working on many new features and enhancements in Forge. I often
James Brooks
Sep, 7 2020
Today on Vapor, we're proud to introduce you to our new open-source package: Vapor UI. In short, this package provides a beautiful dashboard through your application that allows you to monitor your application's logs...
Nuno Maduro
Sep, 3 2020
