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August 2026 brought Laravel Framework v13.24.0 through v13.29.0, with a steady stream of additions around filesystem migration, semantic search in Scout, Eloquent, and queue management. Laravel Cloud and Laravel Forge also shipped sizable updates, published in the official monthly product update post “Laravel August product updates”. Sources:

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Laravel Framework

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read-through filesystem driver

A new read-through filesystem driver was added that lets you migrate storage disks with zero downtime. It checks the primary disk first, and when a file only exists on the fallback disk, it serves the file from there while copying it over for next time. New writes go to the destination disk, and old files are promoted as they are accessed. See the Filesystem page for details.

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artisan dev now runs through @laravel/multiplex

As of v13.26.0, php artisan dev now runs internally through @laravel/multiplex. This strengthens the mechanism that runs the development server, Vite, queue workers, and more simultaneously in a single tabbed UI, and fixes an issue where projects that don’t use Vite were unnecessarily prompted to start Vite or install multiplex. Scout gained a Turbopuffer engine with batch indexing and vector distance metadata. Alongside it, semantic and hybrid search are now available in Scout’s database and Meilisearch engines — just chain ->semantic() or ->hybrid() onto an existing Scout builder to search by meaning instead of keywords. See the unified search guide and the Scout page for details.

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Cloud facade

v13.27.0 added the Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cloud facade. Your app can detect at runtime whether it is hosted on Laravel Cloud, and check for and directly access managed queue connections.

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Queue::forward()

v13.27.0 added Queue::forward(), which lets you forward jobs from one queue connection to another.

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Eloquent’s refreshForUpdate()

v13.29.0 added the refreshForUpdate() method, which reloads a model within a transaction while acquiring a FOR UPDATE lock. See the Eloquent page for details. Eloquent’s AsVector cast and the vector similarity search methods such as whereVectorSimilarTo and orderByVectorDistance are now available on MariaDB 11.7 and later, in addition to PostgreSQL (pgvector).

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Other changes

  • Image processing gained expanded support for the HEIC and AVIF formats.
  • The query builder gained whereBinary(), and the Eloquent builder gained orWhereKey() / orWhereKeyNot().
  • Bindings registered with the #[BindWhen] attribute are now re-evaluated when the condition was not met.
  • The queue test fake gained totalXSize-style methods for retrieving the total size of jobs.

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Laravel Cloud

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Pre-deploy package checks

Cloud now reads your composer.lock on every push and warns you before deploying about missing or outdated packages such as Octane, Inertia SSR, and Nightwatch. Notifications clear automatically once you push a fix.

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Managed Queues revamp

Managed Queues gained two compute classes: “Flex”, which scales to zero and starts in under a second, and “Pro”, which stays always-on for latency-sensitive, steady throughput. FIFO queues also guarantee that jobs are delivered exactly once and in the order they were sent, for workloads where ordering matters such as payments and ledger updates.

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Scoped API tokens

Organization API tokens can now be scoped to specific permissions and restricted to a single application and environment. You can grant automations and agents only the minimum access they need.

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HIPAA support for Private Cloud

Teams building healthcare software can now request a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) and deploy to dedicated, audited infrastructure.

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Laravel Forge

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Multiple source control connections

You can now connect multiple source control accounts per provider. This is handy for teams that were connecting and disconnecting every time they switched between personal and organization accounts.

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Ubuntu 26.04

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is now available across all server providers. Ubuntu 22.04 is no longer offered for new servers.

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Other changes

  • In-app notification preferences were added, letting you toggle notifications such as successful deploys and stalled servers individually, separately from email.
  • The Brotli compression module is now compiled and loaded by default on new servers and can be enabled in your Nginx configuration.

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Summary

August stood out for changes that raise the reliability of existing systems and the search experience, such as the read-through driver for safe storage migrations and Scout’s semantic and hybrid search. On the Laravel Cloud side, production-minded improvements continued with the Managed Queues revamp and scoped API tokens. MariaDB support for vector search is good news for projects using databases other than PostgreSQL.
Last modified on September 5, 2026