Forge: Ubuntu 22.04 Support

We're excited to announce that Laravel Forge now supports Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) - the latest Ubuntu LTS release from Canonical!

James Brooks May, 10 2022

Vapor: Aurora Serverless v2 Is Now Available

This new version adds support for MySQL 8.0, and has a faster, more granular, less disruptive scaling than Aurora Serverless v1.

Nuno Maduro May, 6 2022

Manage Composer Credentials with Laravel Forge

Forge now makes it even easier and quicker to manage your server's Composer package configurations and deployments with the introduction of the new "Packages" panel.

James Brooks Apr, 21 2022

Laravel Forge Command Palette

Today we're happy to ship a wonderful new feature to Laravel Forge: the Forge Command Palette! We love making Forge the fastest, simplest, and most enjoyable way to manage your Laravel servers across a variety of platforms. To make you even more productive, the new...

Taylor Otwell Apr, 19 2022

Spark 2.0 Now Available!

We're happy to announce that Spark 2.0 is now available! Spark Stripe 2.0 includes support for [Cashier Stripe](https://github.com/laravel/cashier-stripe) v13, offering the latest compatibility enhancements with Stripe. Check out [the upgrade guide](https://spark.laravel.com/docs/2.x/spark-stripe/upgrade.html) to update your Spark installation to this new major version. Also, Spark Paddle 2.0...

Dries Vints Apr, 12 2022

Laravel Nova 4.0 Now Available!

This week we are thrilled to launch Nova 4.0 - the largest update to Laravel Nova since its initial release in 2018. David, Mior, and the rest of the Nova team have been hard at work to make this the best Nova release ever. This...

Taylor Otwell Apr, 7 2022

Vapor: Applications May Now Have Up to 10 GB Of Temporary Storage

AWS recently announced that AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB ephemeral storage. In other words, this means that your Vapor environment functions may now hold up to 10 GB of information in the `/tmp` directory.

Nuno Maduro Mar, 28 2022

Laravel 9.0 Now Available!

This week we shipped Laravel 9.0 - the exciting next chapter in our journey to make web development enjoyable and productive! Laravel 9 continues the improvements made in Laravel 8.x by introducing support for Symfony 6.0 components, Symfony Mailer, Flysystem 3.0, improved `route:list` output, a...

Dries Vints Feb, 10 2022

Deploying Soketi to Laravel Forge - Part 2

In Part I of this tutorial we learnt how to install and deploy Soketi to our Laravel Forge servers. Currently, Soketi is accessible over our server's IP address, behind port 6001. In this post we're going to modify our setup so that we can access our socket server via socket.my-domain.com. We'll do this by using an Nginx reverse proxy.

James Brooks Jan, 11 2022

Managing Disk Space With "ncdu"

Linux ships with a useful command called `du` (Disk Usage), which is used to find the size of files and directories. When provisioning your server, Forge installs `ncdu` which is an advanced version of `du` that allows you to easily navigate your directories via an ncurses interface. This makes it much quicker to identify large files and directories.

James Brooks Jan, 6 2022

Deploying Soketi to Laravel Forge

Soketi is a simple, fast and resilient open-source WebSockets server written in Typescript. It's fully compatible with the Pusher v7 protocol which makes it a great replacement to Pusher when using Laravel Echo.

James Brooks Jan, 5 2022

Servers for Artisans: The Next Generation

During Laracon NYC 2014, Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel, announced both Laravel Homestead and Laravel Forge, instantly simplifying the entire process of building Laravel applications - from first download to final deployment.

Claudio Dekker Dec, 15 2021

Log4j Vulnerability Update

Log4j is a Java library by Apache used to log debug messages within applications. It's recently been featured in news outlets around the world due to a vulnerability (known as Log4Shell) that was discovered allowing remote code execution using a specific string.

James Brooks Dec, 15 2021

Laravel ecosystem — including Laravel, Forge, and Vapor — is PHP 8.1 ready

As you may have noticed in the past few weeks, we ensured that Laravel, first-party libraries, Forge, Envoyer, Nova, and Vapor, do support PHP 8.1 since day one. So, let's take a look at what you need to start using PHP 8.1.

Nuno Maduro Nov, 24 2021

Forge: MariaDB 10.6 and PostgreSQL 14

We're happy to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.6 and PostgreSQL 14 database versions on Laravel Forge.

James Brooks Nov, 1 2021

Vapor: RDS Proxies Now Support MySQL 8.0

Starting today, you may use Vapor's managed RDS Proxies with MySQL 8.0 — the most recent MySQL version.

Nuno Maduro Oct, 25 2021

Vapor: PHP 8.1 Release Candidate Is Now Supported

Starting today, you may use PHP 8.1 Release Candidates in your Vapor environments. To get started, simply specify "php-8.1:al2" as your preferred runtime in your "vapor.yml" configuration file.

Nuno Maduro Oct, 19 2021

Forge: PHP 8.1 Release Candidate Is Now Supported

Starting today, you may install PHP 8.1 Release Candidates by choosing "PHP 8.1 RC" while creating a new server. Or, you may install the release candidate on an existing server via the PHP tab on a server's management dashboard.

Nuno Maduro Oct, 11 2021

Vapor: Octane Support Is Now Available

Today we're pleased to announce that Octane support is now available in Laravel Vapor. The speed improvements are just mind-blowing, so put on your seat belt, and let's get into the details.

Nuno Maduro Oct, 4 2021

Forge: Let's Encrypt Compatibility Changes

On Thursday, September 30th there will be a small change in how older browsers and devices will treat Let's Encrypt's certificates. While most sites will be unaffected, it will likely impact you if you're providing an API or support IoT devices.

Claudio Dekker Sep, 28 2021

Envoyer: Transfer Projects

Starting today, it's possible for project owners to transfer projects to another Envoyer account. Collaborators will not be able to...

James Brooks Sep, 8 2021

Forge: Introducing The Forge CLI

Today we're proud to introduce you to our new command-line tool: Forge CLI. In short, this new open-source tool provides a number of helpful commands that can assist you in managing your Forge servers, sites, and resources, from the command-line.

Nuno Maduro Aug, 9 2021

Forge: Infrastructure Upgrades

On July 7th, we've made infrastructure upgrades on Laravel Forge to increase its stability and capacity. Due to the upgrades, we've updated the list of IP Addresses that may SSH into your server.

Nuno Maduro Jul, 8 2021

Laravel 9 Release Date

As you may know, this year we updated the Laravel release cycle to include one major release per year. Previously, we released two major versions per year. These release changes would typically indicate that a Laravel 9 release is due in September of this year....

Taylor Otwell Jul, 7 2021
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