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:information_source: Laravel 11 no longer requires you to maintain the default configuration files. Your configuration [now merges with framework defaults](https://laravel-news.com/laravel11-streamlined-configs). Shift [streamlined your configuration files](https://github.com/blade-ui-kit/blade-ui-kit.com/pull/149/commits/32b75fd6c4c583a78f3db6f92fbbc2ef9c2c8427?w=1) by removing options that matched...

:information_source: Shift detected customized options within your configuration files which may be set with an `ENV` variable. To help keep your configuration files streamlined, you may set the following variables....

:warning: The `BROADCAST_DRIVER`, `CACHE_DRIVER`, and `DATABASE_URL` environment variables were renamed in Laravel 11 to `BROADCAST_CONNECTION`, `CACHE_STORE`, and `DB_URL`, respectively. Shift [automated this change](https://github.com/blade-ui-kit/blade-ui-kit.com/pull/149/commits/4b107b93e2eb151336e51b78a5f3fdcb5e82d7b4?w=1) for your committed files, but you should...

:x: The `bootstrap/app.php` file has been completely rewritten in Laravel 11 to allow configuring your Laravel application in a single location. Shift [overwrote your file](https://github.com/blade-ui-kit/blade-ui-kit.com/pull/149/commits/4bcc32417af7fe9d53f763f5f515b81b8570101c?w=1), but detected it may have...

:information_source: Shift [updated your dependencies](https://github.com/blade-ui-kit/blade-ui-kit.com/pull/149/commits/d2f85051cafd2393bbe1e9950084118533908976?w=1) for Laravel 11. While many of the popular packages are reviewed, you may have to update additional packages in order for your application to be...

:information_source: The base `Controller` class has been marked as `abstract` in Laravel 11, with its traits and inheritance removed. This is to prevent using this base controller directly and to...

:warning: The `CreatesApplication` testing trait has been removed in Laravel 11. Its `createApplication` method is now defined in the `TestCase` class. To avoid a conflict, Shift [removed this method](https://github.com/blade-ui-kit/blade-ui-kit.com/pull/149/commits/78318330c2f200914cdb4abb8b9fc3efa3f59c4c?w=1) from...

:information_source: Laravel 11 now updates the timestamp when publishing vendor migrations. This may cause problems in existing applications when these migrations were previously published and ran with their default timestamp....

:information_source: The following files previously included in a Laravel application appeared to be customized and were not removed. Shift encourages you to review your customizations to see if they are...

:warning: Previously, Laravel would append a colon (`:`) to any cache key prefix for DynamoDB, Memcache, or Redis. Laravel 11 no longer appends a colon to your cache key prefix....