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Sun, August 10
Building High Trust: The Artisan of the Day Is John Drexler
If your biggest problems at work aren't technical, you're not alone. The good news is that John Drexler has the solutions.
Under Laravel Eloquent’s Hood: The Artisan of the Day Is Chris Morrell.
Chris Morrell believes Eloquent relations are just PHP code, like everything else in the Laravel framework.
Sat, August 9
You Should Reinvent the Wheel. The Artisan of the Day Is Thiery Laverdure.
When Thiery Laverdure saw Laravel Echo's JavaScript codebase, he saw the potential for a Laravel-style, swappable driver system to expand developer choice.
Thu, August 7
Design Patterns Are Everywhere in Laravel. The Artisan of the Day Is Mary Perry.
When it comes to finding the poetry hidden in Laravel's architecture, Mary Perry sees what others miss.
Wed, August 6
Prism Makes AI Feel Laravel Native. The Artisan of the Day Is TJ Miller.
When it comes to bridging the gap between Laravel and AI's challenges, TJ Miller is leading the charge.
Tue, August 5
Testing Can Be Joyful with Pest 4! The Artisan of the Day Is Nuno Maduro.
If it starts with “P” and makes your life as a PHP developer easier, odds are Nuno Maduro built it.
Mon, August 4
You Can Just Do Things! The Artisan of the Day Is Aaron Francis.
Aaron Francis has been a familiar name in the Laravel community for years. But before all that, Aaron was a CPA at a Big Four accounting firm. His journey from spreadsheets to PHP is exactly the kind of leap we love in this community: bold and unconventional, yet pragmatic. When he pivoted into software development, he found a home in Laravel and hasn’t looked back.
Wed, July 30
Everything We Announced at Laracon US 2025
All the highlights from Laracon 2025, including Laravel Cloud autoscaling, Forge upgrades, framework changes, and Nightwatch pricing.
Thu, July 24
One Minute or Less: How We Built Laravel Cloud’s Architecture
A trip behind the scenes of Laravel Cloud's architecture: how we built a scalable, multi-tenant platform using Kubernetes, Cloudflare, and custom operators.
Tue, July 22
Finding 402 Errors Within Hours of Installing Laravel Nightwatch
Dev shop Tighten used Laravel Nightwatch to uncover 402 errors, slow routes, and user issues within hours of installation.
Wed, June 25
Nightwatch Found 78K Exceptions in 2.7B Events on Forge
How we tested Laravel monitoring using Nightwatch on Forge to surface real-world insights from 2.76 billion events.
Tue, June 24
Building a Multi-Tenant Architecture Platform to Scale the Emmys
How Crowd Favorite built their multi-tenant Emmy Awards management platform and scaled it to handle user spikes of up to 570%.
Tue, June 17
160+ Servers. 550M+ HTTP Requests. Geocodio Monitors with Laravel Nightwatch
Read how Geocodio uses Nightwatch for Laravel performance monitoring in production, unearthing issues across 160+ servers with zero system impact.
Announcing Laravel Nightwatch
Nightwatch is a monitoring solution for Laravel applications. See how to track and solve issues like slow controllers, failing jobs, and timed-out API endpoints.
Thu, May 29
Laravel Certification: Does It Make You a Better Developer?
There's no official Laravel certification. Taylor Otwell explains why it barely matters and the three steps that actually build real skill.
Fri, May 9
How Emmy® Award Competitions handled 570% more users with Laravel
Developers at Crowd Favorite used Laravel to modernize the Emmy® Awards system and unlock the scalability the Emmys needed to grow 10x in just two years.
Thu, May 1
5 Tools to Estimate Your Laravel Cloud Bill
Discover 5 essential tools to estimate and manage your Laravel Cloud costs: Interactive Pricing Calculator, Live Invoice Preview, Detailed Usage Dashboard, Clear Pricing Documentation, and upcoming Usage Alerts. Learn how to make usage-based pricing predictable and easy to understand.
Wed, March 26
Laravel Cloud achieves SOC 2 Type 1 Compliance
SOC 2 Type 1 compliance achieved with SOC 2 Type 2 coming soon for Laravel Cloud as well as Laravel Forge and Laravel Nightwatch.
Thu, March 20
Laravel Starter Kits: A New Beginning for Your Next Project
We’ve overhauled our starter kits, replacing Jetstream and Breeze with three distinct, purpose-built starter kits in Livewire, React, and Vue. These new kits allow you to focus on building your app instead of creating boilerplate code from scratch.
Sat, February 22
Laravel Cloud is live! Can you ship in 1 minute?
Today we shipped Laravel Cloud, Starter Kits (React, Vue, & Livewire), VS Code Extension, and Laravel 12.
Wed, December 18
Laravel Nova 5.0 Now Available
Laravel Nova 5.0 is now ready for upgrade. This release focuses on modernizing Nova's core dependencies while introducing several useful features to improve resource management and field handling.
Sat, December 14
Announcing Inertia 2.0: Redefining Frontend Development for Laravel
Inertia 2.0 brings powerful new features to Laravel frontend development including async requests, deferred props, prefetching, and polling. Learn how these improvements help you build faster, more responsive applications without the complexity of maintaining a separate API.
Fri, November 22
Vapor: PHP 8.4 Is Now Supported
Starting today, you may use PHP 8.4 in your Vapor environments. To get started, simply specify "php-8.4:al2" as your preferred runtime in your "vapor.yml" configuration file.
Thu, November 14
Laracon AU 2024: Nightwatch Unveiled
This 6th annual Laracon AU brought together the biggest crowd in Australia yet. After months of teasing a new Laravel product, Taylor and Jess announced Nightwatch, a fully managed application monitoring platform for Laravel.
Tue, October 8
Taylor’s Morning Routine & Laravel’s Open Source Pledge
I start every morning by opening up a GitHub search that shows me [all the open pull requests](https://github.com/search?q=org%3Alaravel+is%3Apr+is%3Aopen) across Laravel's open source ecosystem. It’s...
Fri, September 13
Herd 1.11 Now Available
We're thrilled to announce the next big step for Laravel Herd, making the best development environment for macOS and Windows users even better. This update ships an integration with Laravel Forge, a profiler, a way to store your project configuration in your repository, and massive improvements for the dump debugger.
Thu, September 5
Accel invests $57M into Laravel Products & Open-Source Framework
Laravel took a $57M Series A investment from Accel, Taylor Otwell continues to lead as CEO, & Laravel is doubling down on building powerful products for Web Artisans.
Mon, July 8
Improving Laravel Application Security with Aikido
As your Laravel application grows, managing security objectives becomes more challenging, especially for small teams or solo developers. Today, Laravel has teamed up with Aikido to provide a seamless solution for securing your Laravel application. With Aikido, Laravel developers using Forge can effortlessly scan for and identify potential security vulnerabilities, all in less than 1 minute.
Tue, July 2
Spark Stripe: PayPal Support
We're happy to announce that Spark Stripe now supports PayPal for starting new subscriptions.
Tue, June 4
Laravel Application Monitoring & Debugging with Sentry
At Laravel, we equip PHP developers with the most advanced tools to create exceptional applications. Today, we announce our partnership with Sentry, making it a preferred monitoring and debugging solution for Laravel projects using Forge or Vapor. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in our mission to ensure that PHP developers have access to modern, powerful tools to streamline app development.
Thu, April 4
Encryption and the In-between
Last year, we introduced a simple but surprisingly useful feature to Laravel Forge: the ability to add notes to servers. While checking the uptake of this feature, we noticed that customers were ofte...
Wed, March 13
Spark Stripe: SEPA and Link Support
We're happy to announce that Spark Stripe now supports SEPA Direct Debit payments and Link payments.
Tue, March 12
Laravel 11 Now Available
Today, we're thrilled to announce the release of Laravel 11 and Laravel Reverb.
Mon, January 15
Spark 5.0 Now Available
We're happy to announce the immediate availability of Spark 5.0 for both Paddle and Stripe.
Thu, December 21
Vapor: Serverless ElastiCache Support
Recently, AWS announced a new addition to the ElastiCache service, serverless ElastiCache. Serverless ElastiCache radically simplifies the management of your cache, negating the need to provision a f...
Vapor: Sub-Minute Scheduled Tasks
To invoke Laravel's internal scheduler, you must call the schedule:run Artisan command once every minute. In a traditional serverful hosting environment, you may achieve this using a utility such as cron.
Tue, December 19
Octane + FrankenPHP
Today, we're super excited to announce a new Laravel Octane integration: FrankenPHP - a modern PHP server, developed by Kévin Dunglas, that supports modern web features such as early hints, automatic SSL certificate management, and Zstandard compression.
Fri, September 22
Vapor: RDS Certificate Authority Expiry
AWS has been providing certificates from the rds-ca-2019 Certificate Authority, but these certificates are due to expire in August 2024. If you are running an RDS instance using this Certificate Authority, it must be updated to prevent any interruption in connectivity after this date.
Thu, August 17
Forge: Zero-Downtime Deployments
Zero-downtime deployments are now native to Laravel Forge, allowing users to avoid even brief milliseconds of downtime. Deployments of sites to multiple servers are available via Envoyer.
Thu, July 27
Introducing Volt: An elegantly crafted functional API for Livewire
Volt is an elegantly crafted functional API for Livewire, allowing component's PHP logic and Blade templates to coexist in the same file. Behind the scenes, the functional API is compiled to Livewire class components and linked with the template present in the same file.
Tue, July 25
Introducing Folio: Page Based Routing
Today, we are releasing the first beta of Laravel Folio. Folio is a powerful page-based router designed to simplify routing in Laravel applications. With Laravel Folio, generating a route becomes as effortless as creating a Blade template within your application's "resources/views/pages" directory.
Wed, June 28
Vapor: Multi-level Subdomains
Vapor has always made it straightforward to deploy your application to a custom domain, subdomain, or even wildcard subdomain. However, it’s only been possible to utilize single-level subdomains - me...
Wed, June 7
Vapor: Native Runtime Deprecations
Today, we’re announcing the deprecation of a number of our native runtimes and wanted to take the opportunity to communicate what this looks like both now and moving forward.
Thu, May 11
Vapor: Farewell to Debug Logs
When Vapor handles incoming HTTP requests or queued jobs, it writes debug information to your CloudWatch logs. This includes logging when your application's configuration is cached, environment variab...
Tue, May 2
Forge: Deployment Webhook Improvements
Laravel Forge's "quick deploy" feature gives your team a seamless push-to-deploy experience. Whenever new code is pushed to your deployed branch, Forge will kick off a new deployment. This ensures tha...
Mon, April 17
Vapor: Arm Architecture Support
Today we're super pumped to announce Arm powered runtimes on Vapor. Powered by AWS Graviton 2 processors, applications will see up to 20% better performance at a 20% cost reduction.
Tue, April 4
Vapor: Queue Management
Today, we're excited to announce that we're bringing queue management to the Vapor dashboard!
Fri, March 24
Vapor: Application Logs Reloaded
Today, we're excited to announce that by combining the power of CloudWatch with the sleek and intuitive Vapor UI, we're making application logs available directly in the Vapor dashboard.
Tue, February 14
Laravel 10 Released
Today we're thrilled to announce that we have tagged the Laravel 10.0 release! Laravel 10 continues the improvements made in Laravel 9 by introducing argument and return types to all application skel...
Mon, January 30
Vapor: Individual Queue Concurrency
Today, we're excited to announce it's now possible to set the maximum concurrency of individual Vapor queues. This new feature will allow you to ensure that not one of your queues can consume all of the available resources.