Vapor allows you to easily create and manage scalable Redis Cache Clusters directly from the Vapor UI or using the Vapor CLI. Starting today, in addition to Redis 5.x Clusters, **you may now also create and manage Redis 6.x Clusters**....

April has been a busy month at Laravel Forge. With such a feature-packed month, I thought it would be great to finish the month with a blog post highlighting some of the best bits.Firstly, Claudio Dekker joined us on the 5th April. Cla...

Today we have released security patches via Laravel 6.20.26 and 8.40.0. These patches resolve a security vulnerability that allowed SQL injection when unfiltered user input was passed directly to the `limit` and `offset` methods of the...

As you may know, Vapor offers support for deploying your serverless application to a region of your choice. Starting today, you may also choose the **Asia Pacific (Osaka)** region when starting a new project on Vapor. This new region o...

Back in March, Taylor announced the new Laravel Octane project at Laracon Online. Since then, we've been busy working on bug fixes and enhancements to Octane, as well as adding support to Laravel Forge.Today we're pleased to announce t...

A few weeks ago, [DigitalOcean introduced new **Premium Droplets**](https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/premium-droplets-intel-cascade-lake-amd-epyc-rome) with faster Intel and AMD CPUs, enhanced memory performance, and high-performance ...

We introduced the Deployments panel back in October 2020 and have continued to improve the functionality of it since. The panel shows the last 10 deployments including: the commit hash, author, message, and deployment status.Rolling ba...

Forge has had the ability to execute arbitrary Bash scripts on your server via Recipes for some time now. However, sometimes you may just need to run a quick command without the overhead of creating a new recipe.So, today we're shippin...

On the morning of March 18th all Laravel Forge sessions were manually logged out. This was done so that we could enable a new security feature in Forge that allows you to manage other browser sessions.Managing Browser Sessions in Forge...

Today we're excited to announce MeiliSearch as a new addition to the recently released Server Types feature.MeiliSearch is an open source, blazingly fast and hyper relevant search-engine that will improve your search experience.Laravel...

With the newly released v4.2 update of the Laravel installer comes an exciting new feature: Git Support! It's now possible to initialise a Git repository with the base skeleton already committed when setting up a new project. Simply ma...

As your server infrastructure and number of sites grows, finding the right server or site can become increasingly cumbersome. Thankfully, Laravel Forge makes managing your infrastructure easier with the use of tags.Tags can be added to...

The video series "Learn Laravel Vapor" has been completed and is now available for viewing on YouTube. With 2 hours of content, our team will help you launch your Laravel infrastructure on Vapor and fall in love with the scalable simp...

A few months ago, we announced Vapor support for Docker based runtimes, which allows developers to package and deploy Lambda functions as Docker container images of up to 10GB.Previously, only a few regions supported Docker runtimes. B...

In this week's episode, our team members Dries Vints and Nuno Maduro chat about the recent developments on the Laravel ecosystem.Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel so you don't miss the next episode!

Today we are excited to announce that Cashier Stripe has received some long anticipated updates, including support for [Stripe Checkout](https://stripe.com/en-be/payments/checkout) as well as support for [Metered Billing](https://strip...

Today we are excited to announce a new way to provision different types of servers within Laravel Forge. When creating a Forge server, you will now have your choice of six different server types: App Server, Web Server, Worker Server, ...

For the last 4 years, Laravel has released a new "major" version every 6 months. Before adopting the "semantic versioning" standard - the second number in the Laravel version number changed every 6 months. With the adoption of semantic...

As you may know, Laravel and PHPUnit execute your tests sequentially within a single process. However, a single process doesn’t use multiple cores; therefore, your test execution is seriously bottlenecked!

![image](https://laravel-blo...

Forge is used by agencies all over the world to provision servers and deploy sites on behalf of their clients.

Currently, when Forge provisions a server, that server's SSH key is added to the SSH keys of the Forge user's connected sou...

Earlier this week we released a security update to address a problem with query parameter binding in Laravel. However, the 6.x and 7.x releases were done before the Git sub-tree splits had completed running; therefore, anyone using the...

This morning we released Laravel 6.20.11, 7.30.2, and 8.22.1. These updates contain a security related patch; therefore, we encourage all Laravel users to update their applications as soon as possible.

In this episode I discuss the release of Jetstream 2.x, Forge Circles, Spark "Next", and React SPA starter kits.

When subscribed to Laravel Forge's Business plan, it's easy to share servers with other Forge users via "Circles". However, these circle members were never allowed to create servers within the circle. That changes today!As a circle own...

We have reverted a pull request that was merged into Laravel Fortify 1.7.3 which introduced a potential security vulnerability. Please update your applications using Fortify 1.7.3, including all Jetstream based applications, to Fortify...

Today I'm excited to announce the release of Laravel Jetstream 2.0! This release of Jetstream adds several highly requested features to the application starter kit, including:Team Member InvitationsInertia Authentication ViewsTeam Swit...

In this week's episode, our team chat about the recent developments on the Laravel ecosystem.Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel so you don't miss the next episode!

In this week's episode, our team members Dries Vints and Mohamed Said chat about the recent developments in Open Source and Vapor.Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel so you don't miss the next episode!

In this episode, I discuss recent comments regarding my previous podcast, give a recap of the authentication packages covered in the last podcast, and discuss Laravel Passport and Sanctum with particular focus on SPA authentication.
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Beginning today, you may provide a list of email addresses that you would like to receive invoice PDFs when your Envoyer and Vapor subscriptions successfully renews.

We recently added this feature to [Forge](https://blog.laravel.com/...

In this episode I discuss the history and purpose of Laravel authentication scaffolding and what led me to write Laravel Fortify, Jetstream, and Breeze.

The `runtime` configuration option in the `vapor.yml` allows you to specify which PHP version a given environment uses.

Amazon recently announced the second version of its operating system: [Amazon Linux 2](https://aws.amazon.com/amaz...

Envoyer's powerful deployment hook system allows you to create bespoke deployment plans for your projects. Envoy can install your dependencies and compile your assets or even interact with third-party APIs. Our customers use deployment...

One of the limitations of AWS Lambda is that the deployment size, including layers, must not exceed 250 MB. This is not ideal for large projects that have many composer dependencies. In addition, many people interested in Laravel Vapor...

Beginning today, you may provide a list of email addresses that you would like to receive invoice PDFs when your Forge subscription successfully renews. This new feature is available on your "Profile > Billing" dashboard.

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PHP 8 has been released and it includes many new features and improvements: **[php.net/releases/8.0](https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php)**.

As you may know, Forge allows you to specify which PHP version a given site runs on. Of c...

One of Forge's killer features is that it can provision servers with your choice of database: MySQL, MariaDB or PostgreSQL. Once the server has provisioned you can then use Forge to:Create new databasesCreate new database usersManage d...

[PHP 8 has been officially released](https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php)! 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.

First, make sure you're...

PHP 8 has just been released and it includes many new features and improvements: **[php.net/releases/8.0](https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php)**.

As you may know, Vapor allows you to specify which PHP version a given environment r...

Since launching Forge's Database Backup feature back in February, our customers have created thousands of backup configurations, which have made hundreds of thousands of backups and counting. In June, we extended the backup providers t...

Starting today, you can provision T4g AWS servers using Laravel Forge. These instance types are powered by AWS Graviton2, a processor built by AWS using 64-bit ARM cores. These instance types provide a performance benefit of up to 40...

As you may know, Vapor offers support for deploying your serverless application to a region of your choice. Starting today, you may also choose the **EU (Milan)** region when starting a new project on Vapor. This new region offers low ...

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.In this week's episode, our team members James Brooks and Nuno Maduro...

By default, Vapor routes HTTP traffic to your serverless applications using AWS API Gateway. As an alternative to API Gateway, some customers have chosen to route their application traffic using **Load Balancers**, which can provide la...

As you may know, Forge can generate free SSL certificates for your website using LetsEncrypt:However, when generating certificates using LetsEncrypt, you may encounter various errors due to small misconfigurations like improper DN...

Today we're excited to introduce a new feature to Laravel Forge called Nginx Templates. These templates allow you to define your own base Nginx configuration files that can be used when creating your sites.You may have found yourself n...

Today we're excited to release our API for Envoyer!You can create new API tokens from your Envoyer account page. Each token can be scoped to provide limited access to your data.Creating an API Token in EnvoyerWe're excited to continue ...

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...

Over the last few days, we've been working on some enhancements on Vapor. Now, before we talk about what's new, make sure you are running the latest version of the packages `laravel/vapor-core`, and `laravel/vapor-cli` — otherwise, you...

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 LetsEncr...

Even though your serverless Laravel applications running on Vapor can handle extreme amounts of web traffic, traditional relational databases such as MySQL can become overwhelmed and crash due to connection limit restrictions.

So, sta...

Forge has always supported using a custom Git provider for your projects, but starting today Forge has first-party support for self-hosted GitLab installations.This means that Forge now provides a better integration for your self-hoste...

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 t...

As you may know, during deployment Vapor automatically extracts all of the assets in your Laravel project's public directory and uploads them to S3. Also, Vapor creates an AWS CloudFront (CDN) distribution to distribute these assets ef...

Yesterday we shipped an updated to [Envoyer](https://envoyer.io) that gives deployment steps a much needed refresh.

![Envoyer Deployment Steps](https://laravel-blog-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/zpU2i4q89msOjcUroeNwCA1FJRsxaATVSHP4dCcf.png ...

When running your first Vapor deployment, Vapor creates a **laravel-vapor-role** role within your AWS account that grants permission to your applications to access certain AWS services such as AWS CloudWatch for logs or AWS SQS for que...

We're excited to announce a few changes we've just shipped to Envoyer.Extended Deployment Timeouts Starting today, all customers on the Premium Plan have a 15 minute timeout on deployments. Customers on the Basic and Plus plans remain ...

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...

On September 3rd, we released the [Vapor UI Dashboard Package](https://blog.laravel.com/vapor-ui-dashboard-package). In short, this package provides a beautiful dashboard within your Vapor powered application that allows you to monitor...

Over the last few weeks, we've been working on many new features and enhancements in Forge. I often tweet about these changes since they don’t warrant a full-blown blog post by themselves, but that means that they're also missed by a l...