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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

Beginning today, all new load balancers will use a security policy that no longer supports TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1.

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...

Starting today, if you face a LetsEncrypt issue, Forge will do its best to diagnose the problem, and offer you at least one solution.

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 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.

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. Starting today, you can now quickly debug failing deployment hooks directly from the console.

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...

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...

Beginning today, you may now customize the "weight" of your load balancer servers, indicating that some servers should serve more traffic than others. In addition, you may now specify servers as "backup" servers. These servers will be ...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Today we're proud to introduce you to our new [open-source package](https://github.com/laravel/vapor-ui): Vapor UI. In short, this package provides a beautiful dashboard within your Vapor powered application that allows you to monitor ...

Beginning today, phpMyAdmin is now available as a "one click" installation option on Laravel Forge!When installing phpMyAdmin, you will be asked to create an additional database and database user if you have not already done so.If you ...

Beginning today, phpMyAdmin is now available as a "one click" installation option on Laravel Forge!When installing phpMyAdmin, you will be asked to create an additional database and database user if you have not already done so.If you ...

Beginning today, you may now customize the "weight" of your load balancer servers, indicating that some servers should serve more traffic than others. In addition, you may now specify servers as "backup" servers. These servers will be ...

Amazon just announced that API Gateway 2.0 now supports wildcard custom domain names.

With this new feature, you can now combine a wildcard domain...

Amazon just [announced](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/08/amazon-api-gateway-http-apis-supports-wildcard-custom-domain-names/) that [API Gateway 2.0](https://blog.laravel.com/vapor-added-support-for-the-new-http-apis) ...

**Note: This security patch only affects applications using the `$guarded` property on models. In addition, applications that set `$guarded` to `[]` or `['*']` are not affected by the bug described in this post.**

Today we are releasi...

**Note: This security patch only affects applications using the `$guarded` property on models. In addition, applications that set `$guarded` to `[]` or `['*']` are not affected by the bug described in this post.**

Today we are releasi...

Today we released a security patch for Laravel 6.x and 7.x.

In previous releases of Laravel, it was possible to mass assign Eloquent attributes that included the model's table name:

```
$model->fill(['users.name' => 'Taylor']);
```

...

Today we released a security patch for Laravel 6.x and 7.x.

In previous releases of Laravel, it was possible to mass assign Eloquent attributes that included the model's table name:

```
$model->fill(['users.name' => 'Taylor']);
```

...

Load balancers in Forge are used to distribute web traffic amongst two or more servers and are often used for websites which receive high volumes of traffic.Starting today, you may now choose one of three load balancing methods:Round R...

Load balancers in Forge are used to distribute web traffic amongst two or more servers and are often used for websites which receive high volumes of traffic.Starting today, you may now choose one of three load balancing methods:Round R...

We are excited to announce that you can now configure and manage password protected paths within the Forge dashboard.Previously, this had to be done manually by logging into the server and configuring the protection by hand within Ngin...

We are excited to announce that you can now configure and manage password protected paths within the Forge dashboard.Previously, this had to be done manually by logging into the server and configuring the protection by hand within Ngin...

Today we released several fixes to address a security vulnerability in the framework that we were notified of during the weekend.

Application's using the "cookie" session driver were the primary applications affected by this vulnerabi...

Today we have released a security patch for Laravel versions 6.x and 7.x. These releases have been released as Laravel 6.18.29 and 7.22.2. All Laravel users are encouraged to upgrade to these versions as soon as possible.

Upgrading to...