Double is a PHP mocking library from Jason McCreary with one API for mocks, spies, and partials, plus failure messages that show the actual call log. The post Mock PHP Classes in Tests With the Double Library appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like th...

Laravel 13.16 added php artisan dev to run your server, queue worker, logs, and Vite together, with the process list configured in PHP instead of composer.json. The post Laravel artisan dev: Run Server, Queue, Logs, and Vite appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel ...

Laravel Discount adds percentage and fixed coupons, expiry windows, per-user usage limits, and stacking rules to Laravel apps, with Laravel Cart support. The post Laravel Discount: Coupon Codes, Usage Limits, and Stacking appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel art...

Laravel Truss renders your database schema as a live, zoomable ER diagram inside your application. The post Laravel Truss: Live Interactive Database ER Diagrams appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

Saga Lara Flow is a Laravel package by Andriy Karpishyn that runs long-lived business processes as replayable PHP methods, with automatic rollback when a step fails. The post Saga Lara Flow: Durable Workflows and Compensating Transactions on Laravel Queues appeared first on Laravel News. Join the La...

A few weeks ago, the Filament team asked for your help testing a beta release for v4 and v5 that was intended to have a massive improvement in performance for complex Filament applications. Well, you all delivered, and thanks to your help, as of versions v4.12.6 and v5.7.6, Filament has released the...

Laravel 13.24 can extract an image's dominant color as a hex string. Use it for placeholder backgrounds, letterbox fills, and readable overlay text. The post Extract an Image's Dominant Color in Laravel appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this dir...

Laravel 13.24 adds an array_keys validation rule that rejects arrays containing keys you did not allow, with a message naming the offending keys. The post Reject Unexpected Array Keys with Laravel Validation appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like thi...

Laravel 13.24 accepts HEIC and AVIF uploads in the image API and validation rules. Here's how to take iPhone photos and serve them as WebP or AVIF. The post Validate and Convert HEIC Images in Laravel appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this direc...

Laravel Boost project rules store your app's conventions in .ai/rules, scoped by file globs, so an agent only reads the instructions that apply. The post Laravel Boost Project Rules: Teach Agents Your Conventions appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles lik...

Laravel 13.24 adds dominant color detection and HEIC support to the image API, a modelKeys() query builder method, and an array_keys validation rule. The post Image Dominant Color and HEIC Support in Laravel 13.24 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles li...

The official Laravel extension for Zed wires up Laravel LSP, giving you completions, hovers, diagnostics, and code actions in PHP and Blade files. The post Official Laravel Zed Extension: LSP for PHP & Blade appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like thi...

Announced in Taylor Otwell's Laracon US 2026 keynote, Laravel Head is a first-party package that manages your document head with a fluent API covering titles, Open Graph, robots directives, JSON-LD schemas, and performance hints across Blade, Livewire, and Inertia. The post Laravel Head: Manage Meta...

JetBrains has released PhpStorm 2026.2 with a new Laravel tool window, a FileReference attribute for PHP, PHP 8.5 pipe operator support, and an agent skills manager. The post PhpStorm 2026.2 Released appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this direct...

Run php artisan doctor to check your Laravel app's environment, config, database, queue, and storage, then let it auto-fix what it safely can. The post Laravel Doctor: Diagnose Your App With One Artisan Command appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like ...

Announced at Laracon US 2026, the Laravel AI SDK's new human-in-the-loop API pauses an agent before it runs a sensitive tool so a person can approve, reject, or edit the tool call first. The post Laravel AI SDK Adds Human-in-the-Loop Tool Approval appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel New...

cpx 2.0 is a full rewrite of the Composer package executor. It runs a command from any Composer package without adding it to your project, prefers the binaries your project already pins, and returns JSON when an AI agent is driving it. The post CPX: The Composer Package Executor for PHP appeared fir...

Nuno Maduro announced Pest 5 at Laracon US 2026. The PHP testing framework adds test impact analysis, an agent plugin, evals, PHPStan, and Rector support. The post Pest 5 Released With Test Impact Analysis, Agent Verification, and Evals appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to ...

Pint 1.30.0 adds a --blade flag that formats .blade.php files through Prettier, alongside fixes for --diff, --quiet, and a new in key for pint.json. The post Blade Formatting in Laravel Pint appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in you...

Inertia DevTools, the official Chrome DevTools panel for inspecting Inertia.js visits, props, and route metadata, is now listed on the Chrome Web Store instead of requiring an unpacked install from GitHub. The post Inertia DevTools Is Now on the Chrome Web Store appeared first on Laravel News. Join ...

Queue-SQL is a Laravel package that turns mass updates, deletes, and inserts into batches of parallel queued jobs. The post Queue-SQL: Run Mass Deletes and Updates Across Parallel Queue Jobs appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in you...

Laravel is gauging interest in the Founders Summit, a one-day gathering in November 2026 for founders and leaders running businesses built on Laravel. The post Laravel Announces the Founders Summit, a One-Day Event for Founders appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Larav...

Learn how to use Laravel's new Illuminate\Image API introduced in Laravel 13.20 to resize, transform, convert, and store images with practical examples. The post A Practical Guide to Laravel's First-Party Image Processing appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel art...

Laravel 13.21 adds a #[RouteKey] attribute for Eloquent route model binding, a base64 validation rule, a RequestAttribute contextual attribute, and new output formats for the Image component. The post RouteKey Model Attribute in Laravel 13.21 appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newslett...

Laravel Time Machine profiles every stage of the Laravel request lifecycle, from bootstrap to termination, with a timeline dashboard and SQL query capture. The post Laravel Time Machine: A Request Lifecycle Profiler appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles ...

Laravel SMS Catcher captures outgoing SMS notifications during local development and displays them in a phone-inspired inbox dashboard. The post Laravel SMS Catcher: A Local Dashboard for SMS Notifications appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this ...

Laravel Installer v5.31.0 introduces a command to scaffold Laravel packages, along with environment variable propagation for node-less setups and automated PHP version matching for GitHub Actions. The post Scaffold Packages with the `laravel package` Command in Laravel Installer v5.31.0 appeared fir...

Vocalizer is a native PHP extension for local speech synthesis, embedding sherpa-onnx and audio.cpp to run eight TTS model families — including Chatterbox voice cloning — behind one API. The post Vocalizer: Local Text-to-Speech for PHP appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to g...

Learn how to define a Laravel route that responds to the new HTTP QUERY method and use Laravel Scout's database driver to build a search API endpoint. The post Build a Laravel Scout Search Endpoint With the HTTP QUERY Method appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel ...

A Laravel package that enforces per-action, per-owner cooldown periods with a fluent API, an Eloquent trait, route middleware, atomic locking, and cache or database storage. The post Enforce Per-Action Waiting Periods in Laravel with Cooldown appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newslett...