JetBrains has released PhpStorm 2026.1 with updates across Laravel tooling, AI integrations, and developer experience.
Laravel and PHP
This release adds framework support for Laravel 13, Livewire, and Filament, along with new package support for Laravel Wayfinder and staudenmeir packages. Eloquent method handling has been improved, Find Usages is more accurate, and there's a new Route Search UI for navigating application routes.
On the PHP side, generics get better type inference for callable generic types, and a new quick-fix can detect opportunities to use the PHP 8.5 pipe operator and convert code automatically.
MCP Server and Agent Support
PhpStorm's built-in MCP server now exposes inspections, quick-fixes, IDE search, and IDE actions to third-party agents like Claude Code and Windsurf. There is also a Laravel Idea MCP server integration for Laravel-specific tooling.
AI Features
Next Edit Suggestions provide AI-powered related changes across a file without consuming AI quota. JetBrains also introduced the Junie CLI beta, an LLM-agnostic coding agent with bring-your-own-key pricing.
Testing and Debugging
Breakpoints can now be set in non-PHP files (.ezt extensions) with native path mapping support. Go to Test navigation works better with PHPUnit's #[UsesClass] attributes, and Pest test navigation in the Test Runner has been improved.
Project indexing optimization
PhpStorm now automatically detects framework-specific directories that contain frequently changing generated, cached, or user-uploaded content and excludes such directories from project indexing.
Developer Experience
- Git worktrees: First-class support for working on multiple branches in parallel without switching
- Terminal completion: In-terminal command discovery for Git, Docker, kubectl, and custom scripts
- Smooth caret animation: Visual feedback improvements in the editor
- Native Wayland support on Linux with X11 fallback
Frontend
TypeScript now uses a service-powered type engine by default. This release also adds React use memo and use no memo directive highlighting, Vue 3.1.8 integration, Angular 21.x template support, and modern CSS color() function support.
Sunset Notice
Code With Me, JetBrains' collaboration service, is being sunset after this release and will transition to a standalone marketplace plugin.
For the full details, check out the PhpStorm 2026.1 release announcement.
