[In Depth #39] Public Properties may look like PHP class properties, but they're really hidden form fields, just waiting for your input... 😈
Apr 17, 2026
This Week in Laravel: New Laravel Features, Filament Tricks, and Upwork Jobs
Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of April 16, 2026.
Apr 17, 2026
AI Generative Engine Optimization for Laravel
Generative Engine Optimization for Laravel is a package by Hitesh Zope that helps get your products and content surfaced in AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and more.
Apr 16, 2026
NEW in Laravel Debugbar 4.2: AI Skill for Laravel Boost
In this 9-minute video for Premium members, I'm trying out a new AI skill of Laravel Debugbar, to detect/fix N+1 queries straight from your Claude Code or other AI agent.
Apr 16, 2026
Attach PDFs Directly to Mailables in laravel-pdf 2.6.0
The laravel-pdf package adds the Attachable contract to PdfBuilder, letting you pass generated PDFs directly to Laravel mailables and notifications without saving them to disk first.
Apr 16, 2026
Integrating Community Feedback into Foundation Strategy Part 1
The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language
Apr 15, 2026
Composer 2.9.6 Fixes Two Perforce Command Injection Vulnerabilities
Composer 2.9.6 and 2.2.27 LTS fix two Perforce VCS driver command injection vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary command execution. Update immediately.
Apr 15, 2026
Ship AI with Laravel: Your AI Agent Has Amnesia. Let's Fix It.
Your agent looks up orders and pulls customer history but forgets everything between messages. Ask about order 1042, follow up with "can I return it?" and it has no idea what you're talking about. In this episode we add conversation memory so follow-ups actually work.
Apr 15, 2026
Redis Cluster Support for Queues in Laravel 13.5.0
Laravel 13.5.0 adds first-class Redis Cluster support for queues and the concurrency limiter, completes #[Delay] attribute coverage for queued mailables, and expands enum support across manager classes.
Apr 14, 2026
Time-Based Sharding in Pest v4.6.0
Pest v4.6.0 introduces time-based test sharding, allowing CI jobs to distribute tests by actual execution time for more balanced parallel runs.
Apr 14, 2026
How I Built an AI-Powered CRM with Laravel in a Week
How a senior freelance developer built a full Laravel MVP in under a week using Laravel Herd, Cloud, and the AI SDK to automate critical workflows.
Apr 14, 2026
Flaky Test Retries in Pest v4.5.0
Pest v4.5.0 introduces a flaky() method and --flaky CLI option for automatically retrying unstable tests, a toBeCasedCorrectly architecture assertion, and a --only-covered coverage filter.
