[0:00] Hello guys. So Laravel 13 is officially
[0:02] released as every year they release a
[0:05] new major version every March. So what's
[0:08] inside? In this video I will show you
[0:10] not that many new features to be honest
[0:12] but we will try it out in action. So
[0:15] first when you run Laravel new you will
[0:17] not see much different things except for
[0:21] downloading Laravel version 13.0 zero
[0:25] and maybe a few versions of underlying
[0:27] packages are upgraded. All the other
[0:30] installation is pretty much as it was
[0:34] except for one thing, the ordering of
[0:37] Laravel boost. Do you see when it was
[0:40] triggered? So boost was upgraded to be
[0:43] triggered after the npm commands. So
[0:46] this is a change not in Laravel 13 but
[0:48] very recent yesterday. This is a new
[0:50] version of Laravel installer which you
[0:53] should upgrade anyway and keep upgrading
[0:55] to receive those new features. But this
[0:58] thing move boost install after
[1:00] installation of node packages because
[1:03] then boost can detect those packages
[1:06] after they are npm installed. So now
[1:09] Laravel boost will see more things for
[1:12] you. It's not actually visually seen.
[1:15] But just so you know, boost guidelines
[1:17] are no better if it's after npm install.
[1:19] And now on my homepage, I can refresh
[1:22] and you can see the animation for
[1:24] Laravel 13 version. So that's the
[1:27] installation. Now what features are
[1:29] inside and what you need to know for
[1:31] that? There's a page called release
[1:33] notes. Let me zoom that in and let's
[1:36] scroll through that because scrolling is
[1:39] enough in this case. There are not that
[1:41] many new features, no breaking changes,
[1:45] which reminded me of a video on Laravel
[1:47] 12 I shot a year ago, no new features,
[1:50] and I called it the boring version. And
[1:53] this thumbnail was I was in Egypt at
[1:56] that time. So, I shot this picture to
[1:58] specifically express that it's a boring
[2:00] version, but in a good way. So Laravel
[2:04] 13 continues that tradition of being
[2:06] stable which is also very good for AI
[2:09] agents which are trained on Laravel
[2:12] versions before Laravel 13. So new
[2:15] version will not add much for AI agentic
[2:18] changes. But if we scroll through that
[2:20] release notes what do we see? First
[2:23] important thing is minimum PHP version
[2:26] 8.3 now. So for Laravel 12 it was 8.2 2.
[2:30] Now it's bumped to 8.3 which you should
[2:33] upgrade anyway again because of life
[2:35] cycle of PHP language. And also another
[2:39] important thing that Laravel 11 doesn't
[2:42] get security fixes anymore. So if you
[2:44] care about security fixes and you're
[2:46] still on Laravel 11, you probably should
[2:48] upgrade especially since the upgrade
[2:51] isn't that big at all. In fact, now
[2:53] let's try to upgrade. So in the official
[2:56] tweet there's this new thing. So I will
[2:59] open Laravel 12 project and run upgrade
[3:01] from Laravel boost and let's see what
[3:03] happens. So here's a project I installed
[3:05] earlier today this morning on Laravel
[3:08] framework 12 at the time for AI related
[3:11] video and this is basically just the
[3:12] starter kit and let's open cloud code
[3:15] and let's try upgrade. Well no the
[3:18] default upgrade seems to be related to
[3:20] cloud code not that one. Laravel boost
[3:24] upgrade seems to be only for LiveWire 4.
[3:28] Maybe I need to upgrade Laravel boost as
[3:30] well. So let's do composer update on
[3:32] that project and let's see if Boost new
[3:35] version comes up. And yeah, as expected,
[3:38] Boost 2.3.4,
[3:40] which was released 50 minutes ago and
[3:43] unrelated, but here's the one 2.3.2. I
[3:48] think that's the one. Add upgrade
[3:49] Laravel prompt. Actually, let's read
[3:52] what's inside. Right. So, it's following
[3:54] live wire upgrade prompts. Let's try
[3:57] again. So, I will launch cloud code
[3:59] fresh and then let's see upgrade. Yep,
[4:03] now we have it. Laravel boost upgrade
[4:05] Laravel version 13. What is happening?
[4:09] Is it just that agent will upgrade and I
[4:12] don't need to check anything else? So,
[4:15] did they actually kill Laravel shift in
[4:17] a way? Let's see. Actually, this is
[4:19] another topic for another video. I
[4:21] should probably compare this to Laravel
[4:24] shift update and see what happens. But
[4:26] for now, let's see if it actually works
[4:28] and what else we need to do. Code bases
[4:31] clean. So just composer JSON update here
[4:35] with tinker update to version three and
[4:38] something else was str snake session.
[4:43] This is kind of a small thing.
[4:44] Serializable classes and yeah that's it.
[4:48] Upgrade complete. Summary of changes
[4:50] since it was just starter kit as the
[4:53] agent says no application code changes
[4:56] were needed. Out of curiosity let's see
[4:58] what's inside. What is the prompt behind
[5:00] that? So here's the prompt. Laravel 12
[5:03] to13 upgrade specialist upgrade process.
[5:07] This is actually pretty big. So I will
[5:09] not read it in this video but you get
[5:11] the idea. You upgrade boost and then
[5:14] launch upgrade command with your AI
[5:17] agent. And if you try let me know in the
[5:19] comments. Did it work for you? And now
[5:21] finally let's finish reading the release
[5:22] notes of Laravel 13. Minimal breaking
[5:25] changes as I mentioned already. And
[5:28] actually I talked to Taylor Otwell at
[5:30] Laracon EU and India before about
[5:32] Laravel 13 and he just confirmed that
[5:35] Laravel 13 will be official release of
[5:38] some of the things that were even in
[5:40] Laravel 12. So for example, Laravel AI
[5:42] SDK becomes stable with Laravel 13. But
[5:46] I covered Laravel AI SDK previously on
[5:49] this channel and separately I have a
[5:51] course on Laravel daily AI SDK 6
[5:54] practical examples and I will probably
[5:56] upgrade it in 2026 later with more
[5:59] examples but that AI SDK isn't actually
[6:02] new. Also JSON API resources it's not
[6:06] also a new thing on my channel. I
[6:09] covered that they were released actually
[6:11] in version 12.45 45 a few months ago,
[6:14] but they were released pretty silently
[6:16] without fancy announcements. So now they
[6:18] are kind of officially out in the wild.
[6:21] Then a few small things, expanded PHP
[6:24] attributes. This is probably the most
[6:27] significant visual change. So in many
[6:30] more places you may see something like
[6:32] this. So middleware authorize and other
[6:36] PHP attributes. I probably will shoot a
[6:39] separate video about them in action. But
[6:41] in the documentation here, you may see
[6:43] just a few of examples and also I had a
[6:46] few more examples in my article after
[6:48] Laracon EU where Taylor showed PHP
[6:51] attributes. So I will link that article
[6:53] as well in the description below. Then
[6:56] if we scroll down the release notes,
[6:58] some minor things. Semantic vector
[7:01] search. This is also pretty big, but it
[7:03] was also released in Laravel 12 for
[7:06] posgrql. You can now use vector search
[7:09] which is powering AIS SDK. So now we can
[7:12] use something like where vector similar
[7:15] 2. And look at that, we're done here.
[7:18] Basically, there's nothing else that you
[7:21] need to know about Laravel 13. That's
[7:23] it. Boring version. stable version, good
[7:26] version. There are actually a few more
[7:28] things that Taylor promised related to
[7:31] starter kits with Laravel 13 about teams
[7:34] in starter kits and pass keys in starter
[7:36] kits, but those will be separate topics.
[7:38] For now, I don't see them released yet.
[7:41] So maybe they come out later and I will
[7:43] have separate videos on those as well as
[7:47] upgrade versus Laravel shift. I'm
[7:49] personally interested how it works now
[7:52] and if I see anything else comes up
[7:53] related to Laravel 13 or new starter
[7:56] kits or something like that of course as
[7:58] always I will cover that on this
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[8:36] do you think about Laravel 13? Did I
[8:38] miss any details? We can discuss as
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