This new version adds support for MySQL 8.0, and has a faster, more granular, less disruptive scaling than Aurora Serverless v1.
Nuno Maduro
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
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 Forge command palette allows you to navigate your servers and sites in seconds. To get started, just hit Cmd+K or Ctrl+K on your keyboard and start typing the name of one of your servers or sites.  Once you select a server or site, you may quickly navigate to any of the server / site specific tabs to manage things like SSH keys, queue workers, daemons, scheduled tasks, and more.  In addition, when first opening the command palette, you can perform other common Forge actions like managing your source control accounts, server provider accounts, or opening the Forge documentation.  We thank you for your support of Laravel Forge and the entire Laravel ecosystem and we hope you love this new feature! If you don’t have a Forge account, now is a great time to [sign up](https://forge.laravel.com)! Forge allows you to painlessly create and manage PHP servers which include MySQL, Redis, Memcached, database backups, and everything else you need to run robust, modern Laravel applications.
Taylor Otwell
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 was released and includes minor maintenace improvements and fixes. Please consult [the upgrade guide](https://spark.laravel.com/docs/2.x/spark-paddle/upgrade.html) for notes regarding these minor updates. Additionally, both new Spark versions include a new "Next Payment" section in the Billing Portal so that your customers can easily see when and how much they'll be billed the next time they are charged by your application.  We hope you enjoy these new releases!
Dries Vints
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 release includes amazing new features like a fresh, responsive design, dark mode, filterable fields, dependent fields, batchable actions, CSV export, and more. To learn more about this amazing release of Nova, visit the official [Nova website](https://nova.laravel.com) and read over the [release notes](https://nova.laravel.com/docs/4.0/releases.html).
Taylor Otwell
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
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
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
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
We're happy to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.6 and PostgreSQL 14 database versions on Laravel Forge.
James Brooks
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