Running Laravel's Scheduler on Multiple Servers
Laravel 13.35 adds Schedule::alwaysOnOneServer() to run every task once across servers, and a way for long scheduled commands to stop during a deploy.
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Laravel Fake Assertions Now Accept Property Arrays
Laravel 13.35 lets assertPushed(), assertDispatched(), and assertSentTo() take an array of expected properties in place of a callback.
Route::query() and Model defaults() in Laravel 13.35
Laravel 13.35 adds Route::query(), an opt-in defaults() method for models, property arrays in fake assertions, percentage worker memory limits, and more.
Laravel AI SDK 1.1 Adds Agent Skills and Cohere Chat
Laravel AI SDK 1.1 adds Agent Skills support, Cohere text generation, approval for built-in tools, and failover that skips provider tools a provider lacks.
VMPal: Give Your AI Agent a Whole Computer
VMPal gives your AI agent its own macOS, Windows, or Linux VM on Apple silicon, so Claude Code or Codex can work without you approving every prompt.
Synapse: A Dev Dashboard for Laravel AI SDK Agents
Synapse from Redberry lists your Laravel AI SDK agents, lets you chat with them in the browser, and shows their tool calls and token usage.
Grant: Enum-Based Roles and Permissions for Laravel
Grant defines Laravel roles and permissions with PHP enums, stores role assignments in the database, and checks access through Laravel's Gate.
Decide with Jev: Three Questions in One Request with the Laravel AI SDK
A single yes or no doesn't tell you much about a draft. In this episode of Decide with Jev, we ask Jev three questions in one request and get back a Boolean, a choice and a score. Then we read every part of each answer in PHP.
Securing Filament plugins with Plumb
If you keep up with Filament news, you've likely heard that there are now over 1,000 community plugins in the Filament plugins directory. So with these 1,000 plugins and growing, it's time to talk about how Filament handles plugin security and what have implemented to help you make informed decisions about which plugins to install!
LayaPHP: Self-Hosted Text Classification for PHP and Laravel
LayaPHP sends text to a self-hosted model and returns typed classifications with confidence values for PHP and Laravel applications.