Laravel 5.2 not reading env file

Question

After upgrading to Laravel 5.2, none of my .env file values are being read. I followed the upgrade instructions; none of my config files were changed except aut

Answer 1

I missed this in the upgrade instructions:

Add an env configuration option to your app.php configuration file that looks like the following: 'env' => env('APP_ENV', 'production')

Adding this line got the local .env file to be read in correctly.