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Laracon US came back for its 2026 edition on July 28 and 29, at the SoWa Power Station in Boston's arts district. Two days, one stage, and a lineup of eighteen speakers that ranged from Taylor Otwell himself down to independent educators, package authors, and engineers visiting from outside the Laravel world entirely. If you couldn't make it to Boston, or you were there and want the announcements in one place without re-watching eight hours of stream, here's what actually happened on stage.
Forge now provisions Valkey caches and object storage buckets directly from the dashboard, bringing two more pieces of app infrastructure under one roof.
Laravel's June 2026 updates added Bus::bulk(), which queues large batches of jobs with a single database insert per connection instead of one write per job.
Laravel's first-party AI SDK gives you one framework-native API for text, embeddings, tool-calling agents, and more across multiple providers.
Laravel Herd's July 2026 Windows update brings Forge organization support, a herd php:update all command, and a migration to the Forge v2 API.
A new @fonts Blade directive backed by a Vite font runtime lands in Laravel 13.x, handling preload tags, @font-face rules, and CSP nonces for you.
Subscriptionify is a new gateway-agnostic Laravel package that models subscription plans and feature quotas entirely in your own database.
Laravel 13.17 ships first-class route metadata, a Postgres transaction pooler, the new dev:list command, and a ShouldNotRetry exception handler.
Filament v5 arrived alongside Filament Blueprint, an AI tool. The headline is Livewire v4 support, and the upgrade is refreshingly painless. Here is what changed.
PHP 8.5 brings a real pipe operator, a proper URI extension, clone with property overrides, and the NoDiscard attribute. Here is what matters for Laravel developers.
Laravel 13.16.0 lands with a built-in artisan dev command, a smarter queue worker, and a foreignUuidFor migration helper. Here is what changed and why it matters.