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LARAVEL NEWS, August 19, 2026 — Laravel v13.26.0, released on August 18, 2026, adds a read-through filesystem driver that promotes files from a fallback disk on first read, debouncing for queued event listeners via #[DebounceFor], and a Queue::forward() method that reroutes queues without touching job classes. Process, Eloquent and queue tooling also see fixes.
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August 19, 2026 — Laravel 13.25's tabbed dev UI will collect the screenshots, but the release's real gift is queue:pause --all: a precise fix for the deploy window where fresh code meets stale workers. I argue why that command, and the careful thinking behin…
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LARAVEL FRAMEWORK RELEASES, August 18, 2026 — Laravel 12.67.0 tightens temporary upload URL handling, closes a loose-comparison bypass in validation rules, and escapes single quotes in Postgres JSON paths. It also adds retries for timed-out cloud agent long-polls and avoids quadratic w…
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THE PHP FOUNDATION, August 19, 2026 — The PHP Foundation's Ecosystem Security Team has published a step-by-step guide by Sebastian Bergmann for PHP maintainers who receive a vulnerability report. It covers private triage, safe proof-of-concept handling, GitHub Security Advisories, Composer blocking, and long-term hardening.
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LARAVEL NEWS — Laravel Chores, a package by Amr Lotfy Saleh, wraps one-off data operations in batches that checkpoint progress to the database after every batch. An interrupted run resumes where it stopped. Inspired by Shopify's maintenance_tasks gem, it …
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LARAVEL NEWS — The serversideup/php v4.6.0-beta1 images introduce a CADDY_ACME_PROFILE variable that selects Let's Encrypt's shortlived profile, the only profile under which IP-address certificates are issued. A FrankenPHP container reachable only by IP c…
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Symfony 8.0, released November 27, 2025, removes the XML configuration loader for services and routes entirely.
MEDIUM · PHP, August 19, 2026 — YAML remains supported and gains JSON schema tooling, while a new array-based PHP format replaces the deprecated fluent config builders.
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LARAVEL NEWS — Lerd is a free, MIT-licensed local development environment for Linux and macOS that positions itself against Laravel Herd. It offers per-project PHP versions, trusted HTTPS on .test domains, a debuggi…
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For years, writing your own attribute-driven listener in Symfony meant smuggling state through request keys and running on every request just to check for presence. Symfony 8.1 moves attribute storage…
Reads: NativePHP v4 Turns Blade Components Into Native SwiftUI and Compose Screens B2
Releases: Leaf 5 ships with AI-assistant workflows built into the framework B2
The Editorial: Lazy Objects Moved Into the Engine, and Ghosts Should Be Your Default B2
The Editorial: PHP 8.6 Deprecations Are Mail for Developers. Stop Delivering Them to Ops B2
RFC Watch: Debate over CSV deprecations in the PHP 8.6 deprecations RFC B2
News: PHP 8.6 Deprecation Wave Could Inflate Your Logging Costs B2
Reads: Laravel 13.25 Lets Routes Return Images Directly: Responsable Images, toFormat() and fromStream() B2
News: Symfony App Migration to FrankenPHP Worker Mode Yields 20% Gain, Not the Advertised 3.5x B2
News: PHP 8.6 RFC Season Closes: 31 of 35 Deprecation Proposals Accepted B3
Reads: Laravel 13.25 Adds Global Queue Pause for Safer Deployments B3
Releases: PHP 8.6.0beta1 ready for testing B3
Reads: Laravel 13.25 Upgrades artisan dev with Dedicated Process Terminal UI B3
RFC Watch: FFI struct mapping to PHP classes moves toward formal RFC B3
Reads: Laravel 13.25 Brings Global Queue Control and Terminal UI Redesign B3
News: PHP 8.6 Deprecations Pose CI and Logging Challenges for Vendor Dependencies B3
Releases: Laravel 9, 10, and 11 Receive Maintenance Updates B3
Releases: Laravel Framework v12.66.0 ships with three targeted fixes B4
Reads: Double: Jason McCreary's New PHP Test Double Library Rethinks Mocking B4
RFC Watch: Closure Optimizations RFC Accepted, but Static Inference Dropped After Edge Case Found B4
Reads: Laravel Truss Renders Live Interactive ER Diagrams of Your Database B4
Reads: Laravel 13.16: php artisan dev Runs Server, Queue, Logs and Vite in One Command B4
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