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December 6, 2016

Laravel Release Schedule

I always have a hard time figuring out what versions where released when and how much longer We'll have support for which versions. I decided to do some research and come up with a chart. General rule is that Laravel will release new version in January and July. (To coincide with Laracon Events) Based on that here's a current list of Laravel versions and their support dates from Laravel 5.0 to...

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December 5, 2016

Laravel Homestead 4.0 and Box 1.0.1

Today we're releasing Homestead 4.0 and an updated box version 1.0.1 for VMware and Virtualbox. Homestead 4.0 requires box version 1.0.0 or higher since we are making the jump from PHP 7.0 to PHP 7.1. Open your projects "composer.json" file and ensure the "laravel/homestead:" line is: Then run: You may need to run the Homestead make command again to update your Homestead.yaml:...

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November 22, 2016

Use Laravel Shift for your next upgrade

I've had an eye on LaravelShift.com since it first made it's way across my twitter feed some time ago. I've also had the pleasure of meeting and talking with it's creator Jason McCreary at a few conferences over the past year. I think it's really awesome when community members are able to take a product to market that not only scratches their own itch, but can provide value to the rest of the...

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November 22, 2016

Laravel Homestead Box Updated to 0.6.0

Between the day job and the amazing week I just had at the always great php[world] conference, I finally got around to doing my first Homestead box release. Taylor asked me a couple of weeks ago if I'd be interested in helping build the Homestead box and since the project is near and dear to me I said "Absolutely" The first task was to build the Virtualbox version of the box and that went just...

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