What changed in EnvKit, straight from releases.

New

First run: the setup now starts with what you want to build (Laravel/PHP, WordPress, Node, Python, Rust or Go, or just the tools) and installs only that. You can also skip it, and the Dashboard offers "Choose what to install" until something is installed.

Databases → Users: create MySQL/MariaDB and PostgreSQL users, set passwords and choose which databases they can use (#180).

Settings → Ports → LAN access: turn off access from other devices so sites answer only on this computer (#184). It stays on unless you change it. On macOS it can't be turned off while a web server uses a port below 1024.

Fixed

Stopping MySQL/MariaDB is now a clean shutdown instead of a kill, so the next start doesn't run crash recovery. A server that doesn't stop within 20 seconds is still ended.

Windows: a site can call another EnvKit site over HTTP or HTTPS without hanging, because PHP now runs several workers (#183).

PHP trusts the EnvKit Local CA, so PHP calling an https://*.test site no longer fails on the certificate.

Stop all no longer brings PHP back a moment later (#181).

If PHP's main process is killed, its leftover workers are cleaned up, PHP really restarts, and Stop leaves nothing on the port.

Share on LAN: picking an address no longer asks "Discard changes?" (#185).

Links to sites and admin tools include your HTTPS port when it isn't 443.

New

Settings → Performance → Reduce visual effects. Turns off the card hover glow, shine, animated backgrounds and transitions, for slower PCs.

Settings → Ports: Caddy and FrankenPHP HTTP/HTTPS ports can be changed, so FrankenPHP can start when 80/443 are taken.

Fixed

Windows: folders you add to PATH by hand under EnvKit's data folder (for example services\mysql\…\bin) are no longer removed when EnvKit starts (#178).

Databases → Import (PostgreSQL): a dump made by a newer pg_dump (\restrict lines) imports into an older server, and a pg_dump custom-format archive saved as .sql is restored with pg_restore.

FrankenPHP worker mode: ThinkPHP routes work with the worker (/index.php?s=…).

Dropping a MySQL/MariaDB database that fails with "can't rmdir … errno 41" now tells you which folder and files are left so you can move them out.

A Node dev server whose script finishes right away now says so and points at Site → Run → Dev server.

New

FrankenPHP worker mode per site (Site → Run → Worker mode). With FrankenPHP as the web server, a site can keep PHP loaded in memory between requests. Laravel runs through Octane's FrankenPHP worker, so it also works on Windows. A worker that fails at boot is taken out and the site keeps serving the normal way; the error shows on the site.

Fixed

Python: python main.py can import modules that sit next to the script again on Windows (#177). Existing Python installs get the fix the next time EnvKit starts.

phpMyAdmin settings: clearing the password for config login now saves an empty password instead of keeping the old one.

Site → Share online and Octane: the trusted-proxies line goes into the Laravel app folder when the app lives in a subfolder like core/.

A service that takes longer than 5 seconds to start now logs where the time went, so slow starts can be tracked down.

Fixed

Windows: nginx no longer shows Failed with "nothing is listening on port 80" while your sites load. On some PCs Windows briefly leaves the port out of its connection list; EnvKit now checks the port itself before calling it not listening, and never restarts nginx over it.

Site → Share online and Octane: the trusted-proxies line EnvKit adds to a Laravel app now trusts only your own machine (127.0.0.1 / ::1) instead of every address, so it's safe if the app is committed and deployed (#176). An older '*' block written by EnvKit is upgraded the next time you turn on sharing or Octane. If your deployed app relied on that block behind a load balancer, add your own trustProxies setting.

Dev server, Octane and Reverb port pickers: when the port check can't run, the picker says it couldn't check instead of offering a port that may be taken.

Fixed

Windows: when EnvKit can't read the system's port or process list (a busy or locked-down machine), it now treats the answer as unknown instead of "nothing is running". It no longer starts a second copy of a service, marks a running one as failed, ends a process it can't identify, or picks a port that may be taken. If a start can't check its port, it says so and asks you to try again.

Safety: a database folder or certificate authority that can't be read is never replaced or deleted. A PostgreSQL data folder that isn't a cluster is moved aside instead of deleted, and the services list on disk is never rewritten after a failed read.

Tools → Global CLI tools: Update shows only when a newer version exists (#172).

Site → Processes: a process you removed and add again starts again (#170).

Sites: the hover glow on site cards no longer redraws the card while the mouse moves, and it's off when Windows animation effects (or macOS Reduce motion) are off.