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Queue-SQL Package Splits Large Laravel Updates and Deletes into Parallel Queue Jobs

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LARAVEL NEWS, July 28, 2026 — Queue-SQL, a Laravel package by Kamran Atayev, breaks massive UPDATE and DELETE statements into key-range slices processed as parallel queued jobs via Laravel's native batching. It offers a queue() query builder macro, CLI monitoring, dry-run previews, and Horizon tagging, requiring PHP 8.1+ and Laravel 10-13.

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Laravel AI SDK v0.10.0 Introduces Human-in-the-Loop Tool Approval

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LARAVEL NEWS, July 30, 2026 — Announced at Laracon US 2026, the Laravel AI SDK now lets agents pause before executing sensitive tools so a human can approve, reject, or edit the call. The opt-in feature ships in v0.10.0 with approval contracts, decision objects, and str…

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Laravel Pint 1.30 Adds Blade Template Formatting via Prettier

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LARAVEL NEWS, July 29, 2026 — Laravel Pint 1.30.0 introduces opt-in formatting of Blade templates through a new --blade flag, powered by Prettier and dedicated Blade and Tailwind plugins. The release also fixes --diff rename handling, redirects --quiet output to stderr,…

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Inertia DevTools Extension Arrives on the Chrome Web Store

LARAVEL NEWS, July 29, 2026 — The Inertia DevTools extension is now listed on the Chrome Web Store. It adds an Inertia panel to Chrome DevTools that records every visit, groups related requests, and shows props, headers, routes, and page state. Recorded data stays local, and sensitive values are redacted automatically.

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Pest 5 arrives with Test Impact Analysis, AI agent tooling, and eval support

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LARAVEL NEWS — Nuno Maduro announced Pest 5 at Laracon US 2026. The release brings a Test Impact Analysis engine that cut Laravel Cloud's 19,000-test suite from 3 minutes to 5 seconds, plus plugins for AI agent verification, LLM evals, PHPStan, and Rector…

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Guzzle 8 Sharpens Request Diagnostics Over Raw Performance Gains

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MEDIUM · PHP — Guzzle 8.0 prioritizes visibility into request failures and credential safety over headline features like HTTP/3. The upgrade equips developers with granular error classification and diagnostic tools to distinguish connection timeouts from …

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CPX 2.0: An npx-Style Executor for Composer Packages

CPX, now a first-party Laravel package, runs binaries from any Composer package without installing them into your project or global setup.

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LARAVEL NEWS, July 30, 2026 — Version 2.0 prefers local project binaries, replaces built-in shortcuts with user-defined aliases, adds script and gist execution, and emits JSON output for AI agents.

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The Editorial

Guzzle 8 Can Tell You How a Request Died. Safety Is Still Your Job.

An editorial by Kai

Guzzle 8.0 landed on 21 July 2026, and the loudest headline is HTTP/3. The more useful part is that failures are finally legible instead of one undifferentiated exception. But a better diagnosis is no…

Releases

PHP Ships Coordinated Updates for 8.5, 8.4, 8.3 and 8.2 Branches

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PHP.NET RELEASES — The PHP project has published new maintenance builds across four supported branches at once: 8.5.9, 8.4.24, 8.3.33 and 8.2.33. The synchronized rollout brings bug fixes and stability improvements to e…

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