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October 2026: simpler uploads, better logs, multiple queues, and Vapor migrations
What’s new with Bref in September: simpler large file uploads with Laravel, multiple SQS queues, a guide for migrating from Laravel Vapor, logs and deployments in the terminal with bref logs, the logs of a single request, and clearer errors when a deployment fails.
August 2026: osls v4 and zero-downtime assets
A few Bref updates from the last couple of months: osls v4 is out (upgraded to AWS SDK v3, hardened, SSO support), zero-downtime deploys for website assets with versionedAssets: true, easier public files on S3, Laravel 13 fonts support, and Bref Cloud updates: the free plan is open again, serverless databases, and better tracing with AWS Transaction Search.
Bref 3.0 is released 🎉
Bref 3.0 is here! Since Bref 2.0, we’ve grown from 10 billion to 40 billion Lambda executions every month. The package has been installed more than 8 million times, and we’ve crossed 4,000 commits across all Bref repositories.
Today, we celebrate these achievements and the release of Bref 3.0 🎉
Bref 2.0 is released 🎉
The work on what would be Bref 2.0 started in October 2021, about 1.5 year ago. We went through many different strategies, experiments, rewrites, over 700 commits to finally land with the stable release.
So far, Bref has been installed more than 2 million times and powers more than 10 billion Lambda executions (aka requests) every month.
That’s 1 in every 1000 AWS Lambda executions !
Today, we celebrate these achievements, the ongoing work and the release of Bref 2.0 🎉
Let’s dive in what’s new in v2 👇
Bref 1.0 is released 🎉
Bref started in November 2017, 3 years ago. Back then, running PHP on AWS Lambda was experimental at best.
Over the years, as the Bref community grew, as AWS features landed, and as contributors worked, creating serverless PHP applications has become a reality. Bref 0.2 has seen 37 releases. Bref 0.5 has 33. In total, we’ve released 89 versions since the project started.
Needless to say Bref is stable and has been for a long time.
Today, we’re finally releasing Bref 1.0!