> ## Documentation Index
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# Blog

> A collection of articles that don't fit neatly under a specific feature. Covers new version announcements, upgrade guides, initial investigations of tools and packages, development environment setup, and more.

## 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

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  <Card title="June 2026" icon="calendar" href="/en/blog/changelog/202606">
    Bus::bulk(), Postgres transaction pooler, MCP client/server, artisan dev, route metadata, Symfony on Cloud.
  </Card>

  <Card title="May 2026" icon="calendar" href="/en/blog/changelog/202605">
    The @fonts Blade directive, interruptible jobs, subagent support, Cloud Scale-to-Zero, Managed Queues.
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  <Card title="April 2026" icon="calendar" href="/en/blog/changelog/202604">
    Passkeys (passwordless auth), debounceable jobs, MCP UI App, full Redis Cluster support.
  </Card>

  <Card title="March 2026" icon="calendar" href="/en/blog/changelog/202603">
    Laravel 13 release, AI SDK, JSON:API, Inertia v3, and a slew of package updates.
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## New repository investigations

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  <Card title="Laravel Maestro — the starter kit development orchestrator" icon="music" href="/en/blog/maestro-introduction">
    Walkthrough of how Maestro manages multiple starter kit variants inside a single monorepo.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Laravel Sentinel — investigating the route protection middleware" icon="shield-halved" href="/en/blog/sentinel-introduction">
    A driver-based route protection middleware and how it guards admin tooling.
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  <Card title="Laravel's new code analysis ecosystem" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/en/blog/laravel-ecosystem-analysis">
    An introduction to the static analysis ecosystem made up of the surveyor, ranger, and roster packages.
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  <Card title="Laravel Passkeys initial investigation" icon="key" href="/en/blog/passkeys-introduction">
    An initial investigation of passkeys-server (PHP) and @laravel/passkeys (npm), covering installation, configuration, and the frontend API.
  </Card>

  <Card title="laravel/agent-skills — Laravel's official AI agent skill pack" icon="wand-magic-sparkles" href="/en/blog/agent-skills-introduction">
    An overview of skills shipped as plugins for Claude Code and Cursor, plus installation and per-skill details.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Laravel Agent Detector — detecting AI agents" icon="robot" href="/en/blog/agent-detector-introduction">
    A walkthrough of the official Laravel package that detects execution environments for major AI agents like Claude, Copilot, and Cursor.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Laravel PAO — output optimization for AI agents" icon="compress" href="/en/blog/pao-introduction">
    A package that compresses PHPUnit, Pest, PHPStan, and Artisan output to JSON, reducing token usage by up to 99.8%.
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## Upgrade guides

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  <Card title="Upgrading from Laravel 12 to 13" icon="arrow-up" href="/en/blog/upgrade-12-to-13">
    Steps for upgrading from Laravel 12 to 13, breaking changes, deprecations, and new feature highlights.
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  <Card title="Upgrading from Laravel 11 to 12" icon="arrow-up" href="/en/blog/upgrade-11-to-12">
    Steps and major changes for upgrading from Laravel 11 to 12.
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  <Card title="Upgrading from Laravel 10 to 11" icon="arrow-up" href="/en/blog/upgrade-10-to-11">
    Steps and major changes for upgrading from Laravel 10 to 11.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Upgrading from Laravel 9 to 10" icon="arrow-up" href="/en/blog/upgrade-9-to-10">
    Steps and major changes for upgrading from Laravel 9.x to 10.x.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Upgrading from Laravel 8 to 9" icon="arrow-up" href="/en/blog/upgrade-8-to-9">
    Steps and major changes for upgrading from Laravel 8.x to 9.x.
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## New versions and new features

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  <Card title="Laravel 13 new features roundup" icon="star" href="/en/blog/laravel-13-new-features">
    A tour of the major new features and improvements in Laravel 13, released in March 2026.
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## Official packages and products

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  <Card title="Building SPAs with Inertia.js" icon="layer-group" href="/en/blog/inertia-introduction">
    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.
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  <Card title="⚡Getting started with Livewire 4" icon="bolt" href="/en/blog/livewire-introduction">
    Build interactive UIs without writing JavaScript. Walkthrough from installation to real-world examples with Livewire 4.
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  <Card title="Getting started with Laravel Telescope" icon="telescope" href="/en/blog/telescope-introduction">
    A debug and monitoring tool that dramatically improves development efficiency, from HTTP requests to spotting N+1 problems.
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  <Card title="Implementing feature flags with Laravel Pennant" icon="flag" href="/en/blog/laravel-pennant">
    A walkthrough of the official feature flag package for gradual rollouts, A/B testing, and beta feature management.
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  <Card title="Getting started with Laravel Nightwatch" icon="moon" href="/en/blog/nightwatch-introduction">
    Differences from Telescope and Pulse, installation, and settings for practical use on the free plan.
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  <Card title="Testing Laravel with Pest PHP" icon="vial" href="/en/blog/pest-introduction">
    A senior-engineer's introduction to Pest PHP, which is the default starting in Laravel 11. Also covers differences from PHPUnit and migration cost.
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  <Card title="Laravel Cloud — the full picture of a Laravel-only PaaS" icon="cloud" href="/en/blog/laravel-cloud">
    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.
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  <Card title="Laravel Cloud Hibernation (auto-sleep)" icon="pause" href="/en/blog/laravel-cloud-hibernation">
    How Laravel Cloud's auto-sleep works, how to enable it, its limitations, and preventing unwanted wake-ups with Path Blocking.
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  <Card title="Introducing the Blaze package" icon="fire" href="/en/blog/blaze-introduction">
    Speed up Blade component rendering with Livewire's official Blaze package.
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  <Card title="Introducing Laravel Wayfinder" icon="compass" href="/en/blog/wayfinder-introduction">
    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.
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  <Card title="Laravel AI agents now support MCP servers" icon="plug" href="/en/blog/ai-sdk-mcp-client">
    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().
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## Development environment and tools

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  <Card title="Installing PHP, Composer, and Node.js with Homebrew (macOS)" icon="apple" href="/en/blog/mac-setup">
    A step-by-step guide to installing PHP, Composer, and Node.js with Homebrew on macOS and preparing a Laravel development environment.
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  <Card title="Installing PHP, Composer, and Node.js on WSL (Windows)" icon="windows" href="/en/blog/windows-setup">
    A guide to installing PHP, Composer, and Node.js using WSL 2 on Windows 10/11 and preparing a Laravel development environment.
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