Ping @ericp-mrel, maybe you'd like to reopen the PR you've made on OC to fix this?

Yeah, I can re-create a PR since OctoberCMS rejected my changes.

PRs have been created. Let me know if there's anything I need to do or could improve in the PRs.

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Going forward (1.2+) .env files will be first class citizens in Winter so we no longer wish to support setting the application key in the config file by default. If someone has a legitimate need for it we can re-evaluate in the future but as of wintercms/storm#40 the key:generate command is reverted back to mostly the Laravel default (exception is that it will generate a .env file if none exists).