# Forge: April Round-Up

DevFeed: [Forge: April Round-Up](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/forge-april-round-up-3644.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://laravel.com/blog/forge-april-round-up>)

Author: James Brooks

Published: 2021-04-30T09:57:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Laravel Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/laravel-blog.md>)

Topics: [Laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/laravel.md>), [audit trail](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/audit-trail.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssh.md>), [nginx](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/nginx.md>), [SDKs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sdks.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [audit-trail](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/audit-trail.md>), [backup](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backup.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [feature](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/feature.md>), [laravel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/laravel.md>), [nginx](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/nginx.md>), [php](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/php.md>), [sdk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sdk.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>)

## AI overview

Laravel Forge's April roundup highlights a new Server Events panel that provides a 30-day event history and audit trail. It also covers Site Commands improvements and API access through forge-sdk, easier security-rule updates, automatic internationalized-domain encoding and decoding, changes to databases included in backups, and Hetzner backup support.

## Source excerpt

April has been a busy month at [Laravel Forge](https://forge.laravel.com). With such a feature-packed month, I thought it would be great to finish the month with a blog post highlighting some of the b...