The Laravel team has published framework release v12.69.0 on GitHub, tagged to the 12.x branch on September 1.

The release contains two changes, both contributed by crynobone. The exception page tooltip now disables HTML by default, closing a potential injection surface in the debug error rendering.

The second change hardens session authentication: before a user is authenticated via the remember-me cookie, Laravel now verifies that the password hash matches the value stored in that cookie. This prevents stale or tampered cookies from granting access after a password change.