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Progress Report: April 2025

Hey there, April has gone by - wow, that was fast. This month, a lot of our energy went into preparing the Backpack v7 release, including upgrading our own website to the latest Laravel version (from a shamefully old one, to be ho...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report: March 2025

Hey there, March has been a focused month for us. Most of our energy went into preparing Backpack v7 for release, and we’re nearly there. Still, there’s plenty to share — so here’s what we’ve been up to. Maintenance Backpack v6 ha...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report: February 2025

Wow, another month - February truly is a short one, isn't it?! This month we've still focused on the next version of Backpack... but we...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - January 2025

First month of 2025 has already come and gone - wow! We're working on a few big things, that haven't seen the light of day yet, so... w...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - December 2024

This was a slower month at Backpack HQ. We had burned out our tires last month with the Black Friday rush and security fixes, so it was...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - November 2024

Another busy month at Backpack HQ. This month was dominated by a security issue, our Black Friday promo and our work on Backpack v7. Le...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Black Week DISCOUNTS - Hurry Up!

Are you on the fence on buying Backpack? Have you wanted to upgrade to a bigger plan... but it was too expensive for you? We've got GRE...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - October 2024

New month, new things to share! Hold onto your seats... this one has some very juicy announcements - new features, new add-ons, new bug...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New: Docs AI Answers your Community Questions

We have great news! But first, context: last month we launched our experimental AI in our docs. If you have purchased any premium Backp...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - September 2024

Another month of progress here, at Backpack HQ. Most of the things we've been working on are under-the-hood, since our current goal is...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - August 2024

Another good month of progress here at Backpack HQ, despite the summer holidays and all. Again, our current goal is to solidify the cur...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - July 2024

Another good month of progress here at Backpack HQ. Our current goal is to solidify the current version. We're doing that by improving...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - June 2024

Another full month here at Backpack. Let's dig into it: Maintenance This month, Pedro has been working hard on Uploaders, which has an...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Huge Discounts to Celebrate 8 Years of Backpack! Go get 'em!

As I mentioned in my previous article, we're celebrating Backpack turning 8 years old... with a BANG! If you've been with us for a whil...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - May 2024

Another full month here at Backpack. Both Jorge and Antonio have been missing this month, but that doesn't mean we don't have anything...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report: April 2024

Another full month here at Backpack. Let's dig into it: Support It's been a busy month for Jorge and Karan, but they've handled it like...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report: March 2024

Another good month here at Backpack. Let's dig into it: Maintenance Pedro has been on 🔥 yet another month: All our packages now suppo...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report: February 2024

2024 has started strong, and February proves it. Many new users this month, so a lot more issues came in, but Jorge and Karan have done...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report: January 2024

Happy new year, everyone! This is our first report of 2024, and we can clearly say... this year has started at full speed. A lot more i...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - December 2023

Ho ho ho! 🎅 Hope you enjoyed your holidays, if you celebrate them! Most of us here do, so it's been an "light" month for tea...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - November 2023

We've been hard at work this month, fixing and polishing - our software, our processes and our services offering. Here's what's new, fr...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Many Many Discounts - Black Week, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and more

'Tis the season to be jolly! Wait, it's not Christmas yet. 👀 'Tis the season to be buying! That's more like it. If you've been with us...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - October 2023

Happy to report that we've launched two new features this month. Both features make it dead-simple to do stuff that is more complex, bu...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - September 2023

This will be a short one. Not because we haven't done much - we have, but because we've been more focused on actually finishing things....

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Cristian Tabacitu

Question: Would You Buy 1-on-1 Consulting With a Backpack Core Maintainer?

Hey there! Context for those who don't know... we also offer web development and UX/UI services. Most of our clients are CTOs and found...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Give a discount, get a discount! Introducing Backpack Rewards.

We have great news if you have friends... who are still not using Backpack. You can now refer people to Backpack and get rewarded for i...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Spread the word and we'll share the profit. Become an Affiliate!

Do you have an audience that is interested in Laravel and/or admin panels? Then we're a great match, let's do business together! We'll...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New FREE Add-on - Activity Log

As we build features for ourselves and our clients, we try to release them to you too. Either as features in our existing products, or...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - August 2023

This was a very productive month for us. We've not only fixed bugs in our newest software, but we've also streamlined our support syste...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New basset() helper (yes, helper)

As part of Backpack v6, we've invented a new way of loading assets in Laravel. And we've done that as an open-source package - one that...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - July 2023

This was a crazy month for us. After having launched Backpack v6 at the beginning of the month (😱), we had a bit of calm... before the...

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Cristian Tabacitu

30% Discount - Backpack v6 Launch Party

It's been a few weeks already since Backpack v6 has been not only launched, but the default version everybody uses. In the past 3 weeks...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Excellent New Theme - Tabler

We're happy to announce our Tabler theme is finally out of beta 🎉 We've been working with Tabler for a long time, and it is spectacula...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Backpack v6 launches this weekend - with a huge discount!

We have EXCELLENT news. Thanks to an all-team-effort for the past month, we are very happy with the state of Backpack v6 - our latest a...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - June 2023

This month our entire team has been working on Backpack v6. And for the first time ever... it felt like we were moving at incredible sp...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - May 2023

This was a stressful month for the Backpack team. We've been polishing the last big things we had to merge into v6, finding and fixing...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - April 2023

This was another good month for the Backpack team. We’ve been steadily working towards a stable v6, that you’ll be able to try pretty s...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - March 2023

We don't mean to brag... but March has been very good to us 😀 Work on Backpack v6 has been going very very well, so we have a lot to u...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - Feb 2023

We've been firing on all cylinders in February. We're working on two HUGE features that we will be launching next month in Backpack v5....

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - Jan 2023

We've started this new year in full force. Not only have we been working on the next iteration of Backpack (which you'll have access to...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Giveaway - win up to $2500 of premium Laravel resources

Did you know Backpack is partly "Made in Portugal"? Yes, that's were two of our team members live - Pedro and Antonio. So we...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - Dec 2022

It's been a crazy month here at Backpack. We've been working in more areas than ever (v5, v6, marketing, design, legal) but I won't bor...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - Nov 2022

It's been a busy month here at Backpack. We've started working on Backpack v6, organized a Black Friday AND managed to start and finish...

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Cristian Tabacitu

100 Huge Discounts for Black Week

We’re celebrating Black Week, Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year with a HUGE discount: The first 100 people that use the BLACKFRID...

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Progress Report - Sep-Oct 2022

Since our last progress report, our team has put the final touches on quite a few difficult features. These have been multi-month effor...

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Progress Report - August 2022

Since our last progress report, on Aug 19th, our focus has been on improving overall Developer Experience and fixing papercuts. We've b...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - July 2022

Our last progress report was on July 19th, and our team has done A LOT since then. Maintenance 9 new patch releases for Backpack CRUD...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - June 2022

This will be a short one - since not everything we've been working on this month has also been launched. And we don't want to bother yo...

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Cristian Tabacitu

We recommend you fix this vulnerability

We regularly conduct private security audits of our software. Unlike most times, in March 2022 we’ve discovered a security issue that m...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New Feature - CrudField Javascript Library

If you haven't read our May 2022 Progress Report... we have BIG news for you. In fact it's so big, that it made us bump the version fro...

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Cristian Tabacitu

We present you the new face of Backpack

👏Clap your hands if you’ve seen our new Backpack logo 👏 We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. We do have big plans for this y...

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Alexandra Popescu

Progress Report - May 2022

Quite a few new features to announce here. I'm so happy we've started writing these monthly reports for you. They've really helped us f...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Looking for new team members: part-time or full-time

We have big BIG plans this year. In order to get those plans done… we need more people to join our team. Why? Because this year, we ha...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Progress Report - April 2022

Good news! Now that Backpack v5 is launched, polished and stable, we can dedicate more time to finer details. To gradually improve ever...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Backpack v5 is here! And it's open-core.

For the past 8 months we've been working on a new version and now... we've finally launched it. We call it 🥁🥁🥁... Backpack v5. But f...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Black Friday - Up To 50% Discount

If you're been waiting for a discount to purchase Backpack - this is your moment 😀 We've decided to join the Laravel trend again this...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Four New Pricing Options

We're pleased to announce that we have added four new options to purchase Backpack, to fix some common worries and misconceptions when...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New: Prototype Before Coding, Using our Backpack Figma Template

We’ve saved you hours, days or weeks when coding admin panels. Now let’s save you time when planning and designing admin panels. Think...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Now in Private Beta - Backpack DevTools

You know how every time you add a new entity to your project, you probably create a Migration, Model, CRUD, and maybe even a Seeder and...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Celebrating 1.000.000 downloads

Today, it hit us. We found out that... we've recently surpassed 1 million unique downloads... and we were... blown away. We wanted to...

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Cristian Tabacitu

New and Improved Way to Create Backpack Add-Ons

Have you ever copy-pasted custom code, from one admin panel to another? It didn't feel right, did it? You knew there's a better way to...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Security Issue If You Use SQL Server (May Affect <0.02% Backpack Projects)

This is the first security post we have to write, in the 5 years since we've been running Backpack. We're trying to be as direct and tr...

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Cristian Tabacitu

November 2020 Newsletter - Progress Report

Hey there, It’s been more than 6 months since our last newsletter. As promised, we try not to bother you unless we have a lot to say. A...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Your Invoices May Include a Value Added Tax

Starting with November 1st 2020, we are bound by local & EU law to add 19% Value Added Tax to our invoices, in a few select cases....

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Cristian Tabacitu

New payment methods - credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, iDEAL, bank transfers

We're happy to announce that starting today, we've added more ways for you to pay for your Backpack for Laravel license. Thanks to a ne...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Backpack 4.1 is now in public beta

Good news everyone! The new free upgrade to Backpack 4.0 is right around the corner. And I have to say... it is so so cool. I've never...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Laravel 5.8 is out, and Backpack 3.6 provides support for it

Laravel 5.8 has been launched on Feb 26th 2019. It provides a few new features, but what we find most important is the upgrade to Carbo...

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Cristian Tabacitu

September 2018 Newsletter

3 months ago you told us what your biggest wishes are for Backpack improvements. I’m proud to say in August we've finished 2 of your to...

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Cristian Tabacitu

July 2018 Newsletter Is Out (Issue #19)

We have this habit of sending an email every month to our users, detailing what's happened in Backpack in the past month. It keep us ac...

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Cristian Tabacitu

We're giving away a free Laracon US 2018 ticket

If you’ve been dying to go to Laracon US 2018 and don’t have a ticket yet, well... it has been sold out for a while now. But we have go...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Github probots to the rescue!!

Starting today, we're using a bunch of Github Probots, to help with issue & PR management. Here's a list of all the the features we...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Getting Started Email Series

If you haven't had time to go through all Backpack features yet, we've just launched something you might like: a free 5-day email cours...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Backpack\CRUD 3.3 is launched

After a lot of work, Backpack\CRUD has finally reached the 3.3 milestone. There have been A LOT of changes, but we've managed to keep i...

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Cristian Tabacitu

Moving from Donationware to Trustware

After a lot of consideration, I’ve decided that instead of asking for donations, we should charge a small fee for commercial use. This...

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Cristian Tabacitu