Laracon US 2026 Announced
Laracon US 2026 is heading to Boston, Massachusetts on July 28–29, 2026. Tickets are now available with speakers including Taylor Otwell, Aaron Francis, and Nuno Maduro.
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ArtisanFlow: A Flowchart Engine for Laravel and Alpine.js
ArtisanFlow The flowchart engine Alpine.js never had. An open source, Node-based UIs built with directives you already know. Animation engine included.
Laravel QuickBooks MCP Server: Connect QuickBooks Online to AI Clients
A Laravel package that exposes QuickBooks Online as a Model Context Protocol server, giving AI clients full CRUD access to 11 QBO entities through 50 callable tools.
JSON Alexander Gives Developers a Simpler, More Trustworthy Way to View JSON in the Browser
Wes Bos has released JSON Alexander, a new browser extension for viewing JSON files with tree, formatted, and raw modes after concerns surfaced around another popular JSON formatter extension.
Manage Software Licenses in Laravel with Laravel Licensing
Enterprise-grade license management for Laravel with offline verification, seat-based licensing, cryptographic security, and multi-product support.
Matt Stauffer Joins the PHP Foundation Board — What It Means for Laravel
Matt Stauffer joins Eric Barnes to talk about his brand-new seat on the PHP Foundation board — what the foundation actually does, how it relates to PHP internals, and why he thinks it's the key to finally fixing PHP's reputation problem.
Log User Activity in Your Laravel App with Activity Log v5
Laravel Activitylog v5 drops support for PHP < 8.4 and Laravel < 12, introduces a HasActivity trait, activity buffering for bulk inserts, and renames several methods for consistency.
Manage Laravel Cloud from the Terminal with the New Cloud CLI
Laravel has released the open source Cloud CLI, a Laravel Zero-powered command line tool for deploying and managing Laravel Cloud applications, environments, databases, domains, and more.
UnitTest Attribute and More in Laravel 13.3.0
Laravel 13.3.0 adds a new #[UnitTest] attribute to skip framework booting per test method, variadic model attributes, a BatchStarted event, and memory reporting in verbose queue worker output.
PAO: Agent-Optimized Output for PHP Testing Tools
PAO by Nuno Maduro detects when tests run inside AI agents and converts verbose test output to compact JSON, cutting token usage by up to 99.8%.