Laracon US 2026 Reveals Its Full Speaker Lineup
Laracon US 2026 has announced its complete speaker lineup for July 28-29 in Boston, headlined by Taylor Otwell, Aaron Francis, Nuno Maduro, and Kent C. Dodds.
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The State of PHP 2026 Survey Is Now Open
JetBrains and The PHP Foundation have launched the first State of PHP survey, gathering data on how PHP developers work, what tools they use, and where the language should go next.
Version-Controlled Documentation Inside Your Laravel App with Laradocs
Laradocs turns markdown files committed alongside your code into a served documentation site at /docs, with folder-based navigation, front-matter metadata, and content reuse via variables and macros.
Typed Translation Accessors in Laravel 13.15.0
Laravel 13.15.0 adds typed translation accessors, JSON Schema deserialization, a dedicated Cloud queue driver, and security fixes for date validation and route unserialization.
Refresh Your Laravel Database Without Dropping Every Table
Custom Fresh adds a `fresh:custom` Artisan command that rebuilds your Laravel database while leaving the tables you name untouched.
JSON Schema Deserialization in Laravel 13.14
Laravel 13.14 adds JsonSchema::fromArray() for turning JSON Schema arrays back into Type objects, queue inheritance fixes, job inspection improvements, and several HTTP client and mail fixes.
Generate Short, URL-Safe IDs From Numbers With Sqids
Sqids is a PHP library that encodes one or more integers into short, URL-safe strings and decodes them back, with options for minimum length, a custom alphabet, and a profanity blocklist.
Scheduler List: A Web Dashboard for Laravel's Scheduled Tasks
Scheduler List adds a Pulse-style web interface to Laravel that lists every scheduled task, lets you search and filter them, and can run a task on demand while streaming its output.
Community Laravel Extension for Zed
Laravel for Zed is a community LSP extension that adds go-to-definition, hover cards, find references, rename, and Blade tooling to the Zed editor through static analysis of your project.
Bulk Job Dispatching with Bus::bulk() in Laravel 13.13
Laravel 13.13 adds Bus::bulk() for dispatching many jobs at once, storage-backed notification attachments, PSR-18 HTTP client support, cache memoization, and more.