As you may know, Vapor has built-in support for [Amazon RDS Proxies](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/proxy/). RDS Proxies allow you to efficiently manage your database connections and allow many more connections than would typically be poss...

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.

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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.

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Today we're pleased to announce that **[Octane](https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/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.

I...

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 Io...

Starting today, it's possible for project owners to transfer projects to another Envoyer account. Collaborators will not be able to transfer a project away from its owner.Project transfers may be initiated from the project's settings p...

Today we're proud to introduce you to our new command-line tool: **[Forge CLI](https://github.com/laravel/forge-cli)**. This new open-source tool provides a number of helpful commands that can assist you in managing your Forge servers,...

On July 7th, we 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.

If you are restricting SSH access to our ...

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 du...

Next.js is a React framework developed by [Vercel](https://vercel.com). It includes functionality such as server-side rendering and static site generation. Today we’ll explain how you can deploy your Next.js application with [Laravel F...

Nuxt.js is a framework for generating static websites using Vue.js. Today we’re we're going to explore how to deploy your Nuxt.js application with [Laravel Forge](https://forge.laravel.com).

If you're following along with your own For...

In traditional servers, you typically use a web server like NGINX or Apache to route HTTP traffic to your Laravel application. However, when using an AWS serverless infrastructure powered by Vapor, you have three different options to c...

On June 12th we upgraded Envoyer's infrastructure, which allowed us to migrate to PHP 8, Laravel 8, and Spark Next. Due to the upgrades, it means that Envoyer is now using new IP addresses.We emailed all subscribed customers on Wednesd...

Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform for Laravel, powered by AWS. With Vapor, you can quickly set up a serverless infrastructure that auto-scales with zero server maintenance.

Yet, while you can achieve blazing-fast load ...

We're excited to announce the immediate availability of Cashier v13. This Cashier release introduces support for more payment methods and numerous other small improvements. We'll highlight some of the most significant improvements belo...

A whole month has flown by since our last post which rounded up all of the things we shipped to Laravel Forge in April.This month we've also been refactoring parts of Forge, laying the ground work for some exciting new things...SSL Def...

Today, we are proud to introduce Vapor's managed firewalls for basic protection against denial-of-service attacks targeting your environment, as well as protection against pervasive bot traffic that can consume your environment's resou...

Vapor allows you to easily create and manage RDS and Aurora Serverless databases. And, starting today, you may [upgrade an existing database](https://docs.vapor.build/1.0/resources/databases.html#upgrading-databases) directly from the ...

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!

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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 ...