Laravel has launched a new holiday-themed microsite, the Laravel OSS Advent Calendar 2025, which reveals a short video and spotlight on a different open source package every day from December 1 through 25.
Each day’s “door” focuses on one part of the official Laravel ecosystem, with a quick overview, install instructions, and health stats for the project, all in one place.
How the Laravel OSS Advent Calendar works
The Advent page at laravel.com/advent presents a horizontal calendar from December 1–25, showing which days have been unlocked so far and a countdown to the next video drop.
Every unlocked day includes:
- A short video about the package
- A one-line tagline that explains what it does
- Links to “Start using” the package and its GitHub repository
- The composer require command for quick installation
- Current version, total downloads, GitHub stars, and contributor count
It is essentially a browsable catalog of first-party Laravel tools, framed as a festive Advent experience rather than a dry product list.
Packages featured in the calendar
The calendar focuses on well-known first-party packages, along with newer additions to the ecosystem. As of today, unlocked entries include: 
- Laravel Pennant – a lightweight feature flag package for Laravel. Release features gradually, A/B test with confidence, and control feature rollouts across your application. Simple, elegant, and powerful.
- Prompts - Create stunning terminal interfaces with text inputs, selections, confirmations, and more. Transform boring command-line interactions into delightful user experiences.
- Telescope – Monitor requests, exceptions, database queries, jobs, and more in a beautiful dashboard.
- Pail – Real time log streaming in your terminal with filtering.
- Laravel Sail – The official Docker based local development environment.
- Laravel Pint – Opinionated code formatting that follows Laravel conventions.
- Laravel Passport and Sanctum – First-party solutions for OAuth2 and token based API authentication.
- Laravel Octane – Performance and real time tooling, from high throughput app servers to WebSockets and Livewire friendly components.
Why this is useful for developers and teams
For developers who mostly interact with Laravel through the main framework and a handful of packages, the Advent Calendar is a simple way to:
- Discover official tools you may not have tried yet
- Quickly check the install command and current version
- Get a short, visual explanation of what each package is for
- See maturity signals like download counts and stars when pitching tools to a team 
It is also a handy reference for teams evaluating which problems can be solved with supported first-party packages instead of piecing together third-party solutions.
How to follow along
You can browse all unlocked days and upcoming entries at https://laravel.com/advent
Each package section links directly to docs and GitHub, so you can go from discovery to installation in a few clicks.
