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<title>MySQL 8.4 upgrade plan</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<author>Erin Strand</author>
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<description><![CDATA[Upgrade your fortrabbit app from MySQL 8.0 to MySQL 8.4. MySQL 8.4 is now the default for newly created fortrabbit apps. This guide covers two methods for upgrading your existing (old platform) App before we will retire MySQL 8.0 in June 2026.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Upgrade your fortrabbit app from MySQL 8.0 to MySQL 8.4. MySQL 8.4 is now the default for newly created fortrabbit apps. This guide covers two methods for upgrading your existing (old platform) App before we will retire MySQL 8.0 in June 2026.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>The story of our new ENV vars edit experience</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:38:48 GMT</pubDate>
<author>Erin Strand</author>
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<description><![CDATA[Building a fairly simple looking feature. Editing ENV vars should be easy, right? Here's how we iterated to make it more powerful and developer-friendly, tackling devilish details.]]></description>
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<title>PHP 8.5</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:44:59 GMT</pubDate>
<author>Erin Strand</author>
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<description><![CDATA[Changelog on new versions. We finally rolled out PHP 8.5 and here are the details.]]></description>
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<title>Testing code for PHP 7</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<author>Erin Strand</author>
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<description><![CDATA[How to check your PHP code for future compability. This post helps running automated tests on your code to detect breaking changes before switching the PHP version. It includes instructions on how to use our predefined Docker image with PHPCompatibility.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How to check your PHP code for future compability. This post helps running automated tests on your code to detect breaking changes before switching the PHP version. It includes instructions on how to use our predefined Docker image with PHPCompatibility.</p><figure><img src="https://blog.fortrabbit.com/images/php7-testing.gif" alt="Testing code for PHP 7" /></figure>]]></content:encoded>
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<title>PHP 7.2 upgrade path</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<author>Erin Strand</author>
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<description><![CDATA[Migrating your Apps to PHP 7.2 here on fortrabbit. The official security support for PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 will end in December 2019. We plan to force-update all Apps on those versions to PHP 7.1 in February 2019. The exact date will be announced. We recommend you to update well before that. Here is how, exactly.]]></description>
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