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title: "No more down migrations"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/no-more-down-migrations-dj2tgadoa
source_url: https://freek.dev/2927-no-more-down-migrations
type: article
source: "FREEK.DEV"
published: 2025-09-19T10:06:46.214Z
updated: 2025-09-19T10:07:02.781Z
tags: ["database", "php"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 20
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# No more down migrations

**[FREEK.DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/freek)** · 1 min read · 20 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Tempest framework has refactored its database migration system, eliminating the need for down migrations. This change simplifies the migration workflow by removing the complexity of rollback functionality, focusing on forward-only database schema changes.

## Full article

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