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Laravel 13.36 adds Rule:: methods for required_with, accepted_if, url, uuid, distinct, and the other string-only validation rules, with IDE autocompletion.

Spatie's Laravel URL AI Transformer fetches web pages, runs them through Laravel AI agents, and stores JSON-LD, summaries, or schema-validated data.

Laravel 13.36 adds Rule:: builders for the remaining validation rules, DB::olap() for PlanetScale, and an option to reset sticky connections between queue jobs.

PHP News is a new site from Eric Barnes and Matt Stauffer covering PHP core, RFCs, releases, packages, and events, plus a free weekly PHP newsletter.

Inertia.js v3.9 adds a background option to pause polling in hidden tabs, a navigate event type for history restores, and fixes for back navigation.

Puzzle Party isn't a game. It's a place to play the games you're already playing --- Wordle, Connections, Strands, crosswords, and other daily puzzles --- with people you already know.

BashBox runs AI-generated bash scripts in pure PHP, with a virtual filesystem, execution limits, and opt-in network access. No exec or proc_open calls.

Laravel 13.35 adds Schedule::alwaysOnOneServer() to run every task once across servers, and a way for long scheduled commands to stop during a deploy.

Laravel 13.35 lets assertPushed(), assertDispatched(), and assertSentTo() take an array of expected properties in place of a callback.

Laravel 13.35 adds Route::query(), an opt-in defaults() method for models, property arrays in fake assertions, percentage worker memory limits, and more.

Laravel AI SDK 1.1 adds Agent Skills support, Cohere text generation, approval for built-in tools, and failover that skips provider tools a provider lacks.

VMPal gives your AI agent its own macOS, Windows, or Linux VM on Apple silicon, so Claude Code or Codex can work without you approving every prompt.

Synapse from Redberry lists your Laravel AI SDK agents, lets you chat with them in the browser, and shows their tool calls and token usage.

Grant defines Laravel roles and permissions with PHP enums, stores role assignments in the database, and checks access through Laravel's Gate.

A single yes or no doesn't tell you much about a draft. In this episode of Decide with Jev, we ask Jev three questions in one request and get back a Boolean, a choice and a score. Then we read every part of each answer i...

If you keep up with Filament news, you've likely heard that there are now over 1,000 community plugins in the Filament plugins directory. So with these 1,000 plugins and growing, it's time to talk about how Filament hand...

LayaPHP sends text to a self-hosted model and returns typed classifications with confidence values for PHP and Laravel applications.

Inertia.js v3.8 adds a WhenMounted component for browser-only code under SSR, BigInt support for large integer props, Form callback fixes, and more.

Postcodes for Laravel adds typed GB postcode lookups, validation, geography data, distance searches, and test fakes through the GB Postcodes API.

Laravel 14 adds a defaults() method to Eloquent models, so default attribute values can use config, feature flags, and dates instead of constant expressions.

Security advisories for the Laravel AI SDK and Laravel MCP fix an SSRF bug and an OAuth redirect issue. Here are the affected versions and how to update.

Laravel 13.34 counts worker crashes toward maxExceptions, notifies interruptible jobs before a timeout, adds job durations to JobProcessed, and more.

Mailbox for Laravel captures outgoing mail in a local dashboard and lets you test rendered HTML, recipients, and attachments with fluent assertions.

How Laravel releases work: one major version a year, weekly minor releases, 18 months of bug fixes, and support dates for Laravel 10 through 14.

Elastic Bridge brings fluent Elasticsearch and OpenSearch queries to Laravel, with model-style documents, aggregations, pagination, and testing fakes.

Unlearn is free on October 10 and 11. Bring your Laravel app and a ticket from your backlog, then spec, build and review it with AI. Grab your weekend pass.

Tashil is a Laravel package for subscription plans, feature limits, and usage tracking. It creates invoices and records payments from any gateway.

Decide with Jev is a new mini course where we build an app that checks if a draft does what its brief asked for. It uses Jev, an AI model from TypeSafe that answers with a number instead of text. In episode 1 we set it u...

Use Cache::memo()->tags() in Laravel to read tagged cache values once per request and serve repeat lookups from memory, with writes and flushes kept in sync.

JetBrains Air runs Claude Agent, Codex, Junie, and other AI coding agents in PhpStorm and other JetBrains IDEs, with team automations and AI cost controls.

Laravel 13.33 adds tags to Cache::memo(), a Refreshes attribute for generated columns, AsCollection::nullable(), inplace() index migrations, and more.

Laravel's new Refreshes attribute reloads storedAs and virtualAs columns after create() and update(), so the model has the database value without refresh().

Laravel AI SDK 1.0 is out with Jev classification, Vercel Chat and AG-UI streaming, approvable tool calls, and per-step agent middleware.

Watch all 17 Laravel Live Denmark 2026 talks on YouTube, including sessions on PHP, Inertia, NativePHP, security, AI, and open source.

Nuno Maduro, Brent Roose, and Matthieu Napoli spent two days at the JetBrains office building a full social network in PHP, and recorded all of it.

Health for Laravel adds Kubernetes liveness, readiness, and startup probes, a Prometheus metrics endpoint, and 10 built-in health checks to your app.