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RoboRobok's avatar

Is Homestead 10.0 beta broken?

I just updated my Homestead to 10.0 beta. My database causes Sequel Pro crashing on launch. I also don't understand what happened to the encoding. When I try to create a new database, here's what I get:

Sequel Pro

As you can see, all utf8mb4 are missing and there are lots of bizarre duplicates.

What happened? And how can I install stable version of Homestead? I don't understand why vagrant box update installs beta by default, it's ridiculous.

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Braunson's avatar

I'm using Homestead (latest) and utf8mb4 with no issue. I do not use Sequel Pro but are you sure it isn't Sequel Pro's issue? I've noticed in Sequel's GitHub issue area there are a few tickets related to utf8mb4.

RoboRobok's avatar

@braunson @gavmrz are you guys using Homestead 10.0 beta? I used previous version without problem and utf8mb4 used to work just fine.

RoboRobok's avatar

If anyone experiences the same problem, I just installed the latest stable version of Homestead, which is 9.5.1 and everything works fine:

vagrant box add laravel/homestead --box-version '~> 9'

I don't think this has anything to do with Sequel Pro itself. It's rather some misconfigured MySQL. Or maybe, just maybe it's some new format that abandoned Sequel Pro doesn't handle?

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