Forge: Ubuntu 20.04 & New AWS Regions

Beginning today, Forge will provision all new servers with Ubuntu 20.04, the latest Ubuntu LTS release. If you would like to provision a new server using Forge's "Custom VPS" option, you should now ensure your server Ubuntu 20.04 installed.

In addition, we have introduced support for two new AWS regions:

  • Cape Town
  • Milan

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ProductJun 4, 2026

Laravel May Product Updates

Full-stack scale-to-zero compute and managed queues on Laravel Cloud, @fonts and MySQL 8.4 in Forge. Here's everything that shipped in May.

Laravel Team