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Laravel Homestead v0.4.2 is released

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A new version of Homestead is now released and it includes updates to the Personal Package Archives (PPA) and the inclusion of Mcrypt which many PHP apps require.

You can get the latest version by running the following from terminal:

vagrant box update --box laravel/homestead
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