Official Laravel Zed Extension: LSP for PHP & Blade
The official Laravel extension for Zed wires up Laravel LSP, giving you completions, hovers, diagnostics, and code actions in PHP and Blade files.
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Laravel Head: Manage Meta Tags, Open Graph, and JSON-LD
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.
Laravel Doctor: Diagnose Your App With One Artisan Command
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.
PhpStorm 2026.2 Released
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.
Pest 5 Released With Test Impact Analysis, Agent Verification, and Evals
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.
Laravel AI SDK Adds Human-in-the-Loop Tool Approval
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.
CPX: The Composer Package Executor for PHP
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.
Blade Formatting in Laravel Pint
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.
Queue-SQL: Run Mass Deletes and Updates Across Parallel Queue Jobs
Queue-SQL is a Laravel package that turns mass updates, deletes, and inserts into batches of parallel queued jobs.
Vocalizer: Local Text-to-Speech for PHP
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.