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Log User Activity in Your Laravel App with Activity Log v5

Laravel Activitylog v5 drops support for PHP < 8.4 and Laravel < 12, introduces a HasActivity trait, activity buffering for bulk inserts, and renames...

UnitTest Attribute and More in Laravel 13.3.0

Laravel 13.3.0 adds a new #[UnitTest] attribute to skip framework booting per test method, variadic model attributes, a BatchStarted event, and memory...

PAO: Agent-Optimized Output for PHP Testing Tools

PAO by Nuno Maduro detects when tests run inside AI agents and converts verbose test output to compact JSON, cutting token usage by up to 99.8%.

PHPantom: A Fast PHP Language Server Built in Rust

PHPantom is a PHP Language Server Protocol implementation written in Rust that starts in under a second and uses 59 MB of RAM, with support for generi...

PHP Debugger: A Lightweight Xdebug Alternative Built for Speed

PHP Debugger is a fork of Xdebug stripped down to step-debugging only, with benchmarks showing up to 97% less overhead when the extension is loaded bu...

New Expressive Model Attributes in Laravel 13.2.0

Laravel 13.2.0 adds new symmetrical model attributes, enum support in queue attributes, releaseOnSignal for withoutOverlapping, and UniqueConstraintVi...

Inertia.js v3.0.0 Is Here with Optimistic Updates, useHttp, and More

Inertia.js v3.0.0 is now released, shipping optimistic updates, a useHttp hook for non-navigation requests, SSR in Vite dev mode, and the removal of A...

Laravel Boost v2.4.0 Adds Security Audits and a Laravel Best Practices Skill

Laravel Boost v2.4.0 adds a security audit step to the add-skill command, a new laravel-best-practices skill, and an option to ignore skill updates.

Prism Workers AI — A Cloudflare Workers AI Provider for Prism PHP

The Prism Workers AI package adds a Cloudflare Workers AI provider for Prism PHP and Laravel AI SDK, with support for text generation, embeddings, str...

Prompt Deck: Manage AI Prompts as Versioned Files in Laravel

Prompt Deck is a Laravel package that stores AI prompts as versioned markdown files on disk, with support for variable interpolation, A/B testing, and...

Circuit Breaker for Laravel

The circuit-breaker package by algoyounes brings the circuit breaker pattern to Laravel, giving you a way to manage failing service calls and define c...

SlideWire: Build Presentations with Livewire and Blade

SlideWire is a Laravel package that lets you build browser-based presentation decks using Livewire components and Blade templates, with built-in navig...