Overview
This section collects articles that don’t fit under a single Laravel feature. It covers a wide range of topics that are useful in day-to-day development, from new version release notes and upgrade guides to initial investigations of official packages and development environment setup.Changelog
June 2026
Bus::bulk(), Postgres transaction pooler, MCP client/server, artisan dev, route metadata, Symfony on Cloud.
May 2026
The @fonts Blade directive, interruptible jobs, subagent support, Cloud Scale-to-Zero, Managed Queues.
April 2026
Passkeys (passwordless auth), debounceable jobs, MCP UI App, full Redis Cluster support.
March 2026
Laravel 13 release, AI SDK, JSON:API, Inertia v3, and a slew of package updates.
New repository investigations
Laravel Maestro — the starter kit development orchestrator
Walkthrough of how Maestro manages multiple starter kit variants inside a single monorepo.
Laravel Sentinel — investigating the route protection middleware
A driver-based route protection middleware and how it guards admin tooling.
Laravel's new code analysis ecosystem
An introduction to the static analysis ecosystem made up of the surveyor, ranger, and roster packages.
Laravel Passkeys initial investigation
An initial investigation of passkeys-server (PHP) and @laravel/passkeys (npm), covering installation, configuration, and the frontend API.
laravel/agent-skills — Laravel's official AI agent skill pack
An overview of skills shipped as plugins for Claude Code and Cursor, plus installation and per-skill details.
Laravel Agent Detector — detecting AI agents
A walkthrough of the official Laravel package that detects execution environments for major AI agents like Claude, Copilot, and Cursor.
Laravel PAO — output optimization for AI agents
A package that compresses PHPUnit, Pest, PHPStan, and Artisan output to JSON, reducing token usage by up to 99.8%.
Upgrade guides
Upgrading from Laravel 12 to 13
Steps for upgrading from Laravel 12 to 13, breaking changes, deprecations, and new feature highlights.
Upgrading from Laravel 11 to 12
Steps and major changes for upgrading from Laravel 11 to 12.
Upgrading from Laravel 10 to 11
Steps and major changes for upgrading from Laravel 10 to 11.
Upgrading from Laravel 9 to 10
Steps and major changes for upgrading from Laravel 9.x to 10.x.
Upgrading from Laravel 8 to 9
Steps and major changes for upgrading from Laravel 8.x to 9.x.
New versions and new features
Laravel 13 new features roundup
A tour of the major new features and improvements in Laravel 13, released in March 2026.
Official packages and products
Building SPAs with Inertia.js
An introduction to Inertia.js v3, which lets you build SPAs without an API. Explains how it bridges a Laravel backend with Vue, React, or Svelte.
⚡Getting started with Livewire 4
Build interactive UIs without writing JavaScript. Walkthrough from installation to real-world examples with Livewire 4.
Getting started with Laravel Telescope
A debug and monitoring tool that dramatically improves development efficiency, from HTTP requests to spotting N+1 problems.
Implementing feature flags with Laravel Pennant
A walkthrough of the official feature flag package for gradual rollouts, A/B testing, and beta feature management.
Getting started with Laravel Nightwatch
Differences from Telescope and Pulse, installation, and settings for practical use on the free plan.
Testing Laravel with Pest PHP
A senior-engineer’s introduction to Pest PHP, which is the default starting in Laravel 11. Also covers differences from PHPUnit and migration cost.
Laravel Cloud — the full picture of a Laravel-only PaaS
Laravel Cloud arrived in 2025. Learn the differences from Forge, what it excels at, what it’s not good at, and the practical benefits of using it.
Laravel Cloud Hibernation (auto-sleep)
How Laravel Cloud’s auto-sleep works, how to enable it, its limitations, and preventing unwanted wake-ups with Path Blocking.
Introducing the Blaze package
Speed up Blade component rendering with Livewire’s official Blaze package.
Introducing Laravel Wayfinder
An overview of Laravel Wayfinder, which took over from Ziggy in the Inertia starter kit. How it type-safely connects a TypeScript frontend to Laravel.
Laravel AI agents now support MCP servers
The new MCP client feature added to Laravel AI SDK and Laravel MCP. How to drop MCP server tools straight into an agent’s tools().
Development environment and tools
Installing PHP, Composer, and Node.js with Homebrew (macOS)
A step-by-step guide to installing PHP, Composer, and Node.js with Homebrew on macOS and preparing a Laravel development environment.
Installing PHP, Composer, and Node.js on WSL (Windows)
A guide to installing PHP, Composer, and Node.js using WSL 2 on Windows 10/11 and preparing a Laravel development environment.