Saga Lara Flow: Durable Workflows and Compensating Transactions on Laravel Queues
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.
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Major performance improvements & security patches for Filament v4.12 and v5.7!
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 these improvements onto their stable release channels for everyone to use!
Extract an Image's Dominant Color in Laravel
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.
Reject Unexpected Array Keys with Laravel Validation
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.
Validate and Convert HEIC Images in Laravel
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.
Laravel Boost Project Rules: Teach Agents Your Conventions
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.
Image Dominant Color and HEIC Support in Laravel 13.24
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.
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.
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.