Eric L. Barnes

Eric is the creator of Laravel News and has been covering Laravel since 2012.

Laravel Cloud Adds Scale-to-Zero and Spending Limits image

Laravel Cloud Adds Scale-to-Zero and Spending Limits

Laravel Cloud is rolling out Scale-to-Zero Flex compute that wakes the full stack in under 500ms, plus a new $5 Starter plan and hard monthly spending...

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Laracon AU 2026 Announces Full Speaker Lineup, Schedule, and Workshops image

Laracon AU 2026 Announces Full Speaker Lineup, Schedule, and Workshops

Laracon AU has officially unveiled its full 2026 schedule, including all speakers, talks, and workshops for this year's event.

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Malware Blocking and Dependency Policies in Composer 2.10 image

Malware Blocking and Dependency Policies in Composer 2.10

Composer 2.10 adds malware blocking for Packagist.org packages, a new dependency policy configuration system, and several security-focused changes for...

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The PHP Foundation Launches an Ecosystem Security Team

The PHP Foundation has received a grant from Alpha-Omega to start a dedicated Ecosystem Security Team, with Volker Dusch leading the effort as the AI...

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Moat: A Security Review for Your GitHub Account image

Moat: A Security Review for Your GitHub Account

Moat is a new tool from Nuno Maduro that reviews the security posture of a GitHub user, organization, or repository and reports settings that fall sho...

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Frontend Nation 2026 Returns June 3-4 with Laravel in the Lineup image

Frontend Nation 2026 Returns June 3-4 with Laravel in the Lineup

Frontend Nation 2026 is back June 3-4 as a free, two-day online event covering web development and AI. Laravel is named in the framework lineup, with...

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Manage Laravel Cloud Deployments Inside PhpStorm image

Manage Laravel Cloud Deployments Inside PhpStorm

PhpStorm just shipped a new Laravel tool window that lets you manage and troubleshoot Laravel Cloud deployments without leaving the IDE.

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DHH Joins Laravel Live Denmark 2026 for Fireside Chat with Taylor Otwell image

DHH Joins Laravel Live Denmark 2026 for Fireside Chat with Taylor Otwell

Laravel Live Denmark announced this week that David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator of Ruby on Rails, will appear on stage at the 2026 event in Cope...

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Laravel's AI SDK adds sub-agents image

Laravel's AI SDK adds sub-agents

Laravel's AI SDK now lets you hand off agents as tools to other agents, turning the SDK into a proper orchestration layer.

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Laravel Introduces First-Party Passkey Authentication Support image

Laravel Introduces First-Party Passkey Authentication Support

Laravel released a new first-party passkey authentication package with WebAuthn support for Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello, and security keys.

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RedBerry to Host Georgia's First Laravel Meetup in Tbilisi image

RedBerry to Host Georgia's First Laravel Meetup in Tbilisi

The Laravel community continues to expand globally, and now it’s reaching the South Caucasus. On May 14th, the first official Laravel meetup in Tbilis...

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A Free Shift to Check If Your App is Ready for Laravel Cloud image

A Free Shift to Check If Your App is Ready for Laravel Cloud

One of the biggest questions developers ask before migrating to Laravel Cloud is a simple one: will my app just work? Until recently, the only way to...

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