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New Colors Added in Tailwind CSS v4.2

Tailwind CSS v4.2.0 adds a new webpack plugin, four new default color palettes, a full set of logical property utilities for block-direction spacing a...

Factory makeMany() Method in Laravel 12.52.0

Laravel v12.52.0 adds a Factory makeMany() method, new withoutAfterMaking() and withoutAfterCreating() factory helpers, temporary upload URL support f...

Laravel Adds an Official Svelte + Inertia Starter Kit

Laravel now has an official Svelte starter kit, joining the existing React, Vue, and Livewire options. Learn more about Laravel's latest starter kit a...

Capture Web Page Screenshots in Laravel with Spatie's Laravel Screenshot

Laravel Screenshot by Spatie provides a way to capture web page screenshots in Laravel applications.

Nimbus: An In-Browser API Testing Playground for Laravel

Nimbus is a Laravel package that adds an in-browser API client to your application for inspecting and testing endpoints during development.

Laravel 12.51.0 Adds afterSending Callbacks, Validator whenFails, and MySQL Timeout

Laravel v12.51.0 adds notification afterSending() callbacks, fluent whenFails() and whenPasses() methods on the Validator, a MySQL query builder timeo...

Driver-Based Architecture in Spatie's Laravel PDF v2

Spatie's laravel-pdf v2 introduces a driver-based architecture for PDF generation, letting you choose between Browsershot, Cloudflare Browser Renderin...

Filament v5.2.0 Adds a Callout Component

Filament v5.2.0 ships five new features, including a Callout component for highlighting important information in forms, stacked table rows for better...

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.3-Codex, a New Codex Model for Agent-Style Development

OpenAI introduced GPT‑5.3‑Codex, a Codex model focused on agent-style development workflows where the model can use tools, operate a computer, and com...

Claude Opus 4.6 adds adaptive thinking, 128K output, compaction API, and more

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 with adaptive thinking, doubled output tokens (128K), a new Compaction API for long conversations, and data residen...

`hasMany()` Collection Method in Laravel 12.50.0

Laravel v12.50.0 introduces a new `hasMany()` collection method for checking if a collection contains multiple matching items, along with support for...

Mask Sensitive Eloquent Attributes on Retrieval in Laravel

The Laravel Attribute Mask package by Fazle Rabbi automatically masks sensitive Eloquent model attributes when they are retrieved.