Laravel ecosystem news — August 1, 2026
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Hey Laravel artisans 👋
The ecosystem gathered in Boston this week for Laracon US 2026 — and what a conference! Taylor Otwell's keynote delivered a flood of announcements: Laravel LSP, the official language server bringing Laravel-aware autocomplete to every editor, CPX 2.0 (PHP finally gets its npx!), and a big Cloud push with scale-to-zero across the whole stack and Next.js/Nuxt deployments.
To top it all off, Nuno dropped Pest 5 on stage, with its Test Impact Analysis engine that took Laravel Cloud's suite from 3 minutes to 5 seconds. Yes, you read that right.
It's a packed issue — enjoy, and happy coding 💻
— Fred
🚀 Framework & Releases
Everything Announced at Laracon US 2026
Published July 29, 2026 — Laravel Blog
Taylor Otwell's keynote covered a lot of ground. On the framework side: Laravel LSP, Blade support in Pint, the artisan dev command, debounced jobs, refreshable locks, and the head tag API. On the Cloud side: scale-to-zero Flex (your whole stack, MySQL included, wakes in under 500 ms), managed queues that scale to zero, a secrets manager, and Next.js/Nuxt deployments from the same repo.
Laravel LSP — Laravel intelligence in any editor
Published July 28, 2026 — Laravel News
Announced on stage at Laracon US, Laravel LSP is a first-party language server that generalizes the VS Code extension's features to any LSP-capable editor: completions for routes, views, translations, config keys and container bindings, plus hover, diagnostics, and go-to definition. One-line install with composer global require laravel/lsp — NeoVim, Zed, Sublime Text, Cursor, and even OpenCode are supported.
Pest 5 — Test Impact Analysis, agent plugin, and evals
Published July 29, 2026 — Laravel News
Nuno Maduro announced Pest 5 on stage in Boston, tagging v5.0.0 during the conference. Highlights: the TIA engine that only re-runs tests affected by your changes (Laravel Cloud's 19,000+ test suite went from 3 minutes to 5 seconds), an agent plugin giving AI one command to verify its changes, an evals plugin scoring LLM output through expect(), plus first-party PHPStan and Rector plugins. Requires PHP 8.4 and PHPUnit 13.
Laravel 13.23.0 — monthly log driver, SES tenants, using() for PostgreSQL
Released July 27, 2026
This release adds a monthly log driver (one file per month, sitting between single and daily), X-SES-TENANT-NAME header support for isolating SES sending reputation in the v2 transport, a ->using() clause on ->change() migrations for PostgreSQL, and a timing-safe comparison for the maintenance mode bypass secret.
Livewire v4.3.4 — Fixes and a renderless wire:model
Released July 31, 2026
Livewire 4 keeps rolling out fixes: stale reactive snapshots on overlapping wire:model.live requests, validateOnly() retaining previous field messages, HTTP redirects misparsed as Livewire payloads, and a new renderless wire:model for binding a property without rendering an element.
📦 Packages & Plugins
CPX 2.0 — The npx for PHP, rebuilt by Laravel
Published July 31, 2026
CPX is to Composer what npx is to npm: run a command from any Composer package without adding it to your composer.json. Version 2.0, now a first-party laravel/cpx package, prefers your project's local binary when it exists, supports personal aliases, running PHP files straight from a GitHub gist, and returns JSON when an AI agent is driving it.
Queue-SQL — Mass writes across parallel queue jobs
Published July 29, 2026
By Kamran Atayev, Queue-SQL turns mass UPDATE and DELETE statements into batches of parallel queued jobs: it slices your primary key range into bounded chunks and dispatches a Bus::Batch with then, catch, finally, throttling, and CLI monitoring (queue-sql:status --watch). Perfect for backfills without locking your database for minutes.
📘 Articles & Tutorials
Laravel AI SDK: Human-in-the-loop approval for agents
Published July 30, 2026 — Laravel News
Agents built with the Laravel AI SDK can now pause before acting: the new human-in-the-loop (HITL) API intercepts specific tool calls and waits for a decision — approve, deny, or modify — before an agent executes a sensitive action. Bonus: built-in filesystem tools, a zero-config Str::summarize(), and multimodal embeddings for images and audio.
🎥 Videos & Talks
Laracon US 2026: The keynotes, replayed
*Broadcast July 28-29, 2026 — YouTube
Missed the conference? Taylor Otwell's keynote (Laravel LSP, CPX 2.0, scale-to-zero) and Nuno Maduro's (Pest 5) are available on Laravel's YouTube channel — an hour that sums up the whole week on its own.
🛠️ Tools & Services
Laravel Cloud: Scale-to-zero across the stack, Next.js and Nuxt
Published July 28, 2026 — Laravel Blog
A big Cloud push: the new Flex compute puts your entire stack (MySQL included) to sleep and wakes it in under 500 milliseconds — 20 times faster than the previous implementation. Managed queues scale back to zero when empty, a secrets manager centralizes keys at the organization level, and you can now deploy a Next.js or Nuxt frontend from the same repository as your Laravel backend, on a single bill.
🌐 Community
Laracon US 2026: The community comes together in Boston
Held July 28-29, 2026
This week the whole Laravel community gathered in Boston. As Taylor reminded the audience in his keynote: the number of Laravel apps created by agents doubles roughly every five weeks — and a strongly opinionated framework doubles as a guardrail for AI. Maybe the best announcement of the week.
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