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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.

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.