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Laravel Homestead Now with MySQL 5.7 and Node 5.0

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Announced today is a new update to the Homestead Vagrant box.

This release adds support for MySQL 5.7 and Node 5.0. You can grab the latest version by running:

vagrant box update

Also, with the addition of MySQL 5.7 comes support for a JSON column type and support for this will be coming in Laravel 5.2.

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