[0:00] Laravel 13 is due out next month,
[0:04] so just around the corner.
[0:06] Today, let's talk about some of
[0:08] the new features that
[0:09] are coming to Laravel 13.
[0:11] So far, not much has actually been said.
[0:16] The reason why is because I feel
[0:18] like Laravel has been
[0:19] focused on all these other areas,
[0:21] so the framework really
[0:22] hasn't needed to change much.
[0:24] We've got the Laravel AI SDK,
[0:27] the Laravel Boost, Laravel MCP.
[0:30] We've got all these new tools that are
[0:33] not technically part of the framework,
[0:36] so they've been built
[0:38] and they're awesome,
[0:40] but they're on their own
[0:41] repos and everything else.
[0:43] So the framework itself,
[0:45] now version 13 is pretty stable,
[0:48] so it's not needing a ton of changes.
[0:52] Laravel 13 is going to be
[0:55] a basic upgrade, I believe,
[0:58] but it's not due out till next month,
[1:00] so there's still time
[1:01] for stuff to change,
[1:02] so who knows what's going to happen.
[1:04] But as of today,
[1:05] let's go through and look
[1:07] at everything we know so far.
[1:09] So first up, the big
[1:12] feature is PHP Attribute Support.
[1:16] Taylor made a tweet about this,
[1:18] and one of the important things
[1:21] is it's non-breaking.
[1:23] So you're not going to
[1:25] have to do anything here,
[1:26] but you'll have those features
[1:29] in Laravel 13, which is nice.
[1:32] What's cool though is if
[1:33] you look at the examples,
[1:34] eloquent models, you
[1:35] can define the table,
[1:37] the hidden, the fillable,
[1:38] all that right as attributes,
[1:41] versus the way we do
[1:42] it now as properties.
[1:46] Here is the available model attributes,
[1:49] there's a whole bunch of them.
[1:50] But it doesn't end with eloquent,
[1:52] it works off of queue
[1:53] jobs, console commands,
[1:56] and it says other
[1:58] components, form request,
[2:01] API resources,
[2:02] factories, and test-seaters.
[2:04] So we're getting
[2:04] those kind of everywhere,
[2:05] which I think is going to
[2:06] be awesome as we progress
[2:09] as a community and sort of
[2:10] switch from those properties
[2:11] over to these.
[2:14] Outside of that,
[2:16] a cache-touch method that
[2:20] extends a cache item's time
[2:22] to live without fetching
[2:23] or restoring the value.
[2:25] Here's some examples, extend by seconds,
[2:28] you can just
[2:29] cache-touch this user session
[2:30] for 3,600 seconds,
[2:33] you can actually
[2:33] extend it with a date time,
[2:36] which works off of the carbon instance,
[2:39] and you can even extend it indefinitely.
[2:43] So that's kind of cool.
[2:45] And then the final thing, PHP 13,
[2:47] I mean, Laravel 13 will require PHP 8.3
[2:50] as the minimum version,
[2:52] but that is the minimum version,
[2:55] but as a developer, you
[2:58] should always run the latest.
[3:01] You should be running up to
[3:02] the latest version of PHP,
[3:04] that's out, because that
[3:05] gives you all the security fixes,
[3:07] all the bug fixes, all the other things.
[3:09] And the same way with Laravel,
[3:12] some people want to run a year behind,
[3:14] but of course, I always
[3:15] recommend running the latest,
[3:17] and not only for the bug fixes,
[3:19] but any security thing, anything else,
[3:22] just the latest is always
[3:23] sort of the way to go with this.
[3:25] So coming up next
[3:27] month, I say next month,
[3:29] coming up in like a week
[3:30] and a half, is Laricon EU.
[3:33] And Laricon News, we are
[3:35] gonna be an official partner
[3:37] of Laricon EU 2026,
[3:39] and we're actually gonna
[3:39] run the live stream live
[3:41] on the Laricon News website.
[3:43] So we have a little
[3:44] registration page here,
[3:46] it's larvel-news.com slash laricon-eu.
[3:53] And the only, it's free,
[3:55] but we have the register up,
[3:57] that way you can throw your email in,
[3:59] and I'm gonna email you next
[4:00] week when I get the page live,
[4:02] that way I'll send you the
[4:03] link to the location of it,
[4:06] so you can go watch it.
[4:07] Of course, you don't have to
[4:08] do this, it doesn't matter.
[4:09] We'll have a big banner on the website,
[4:12] the day of the event
[4:13] with a link over to it.
[4:17] But from there, as part of the schedule,
[4:20] the first day, the last talk is Taylor
[4:23] giving a Larvel update,
[4:25] and he will go through,
[4:27] you know, some of the Larvel 13 stuff,
[4:29] but also some of the other new stuff
[4:31] that they've been working on.
[4:32] So you'll definitely
[4:32] wanna tune into that.
[4:34] I think it's gonna be great.
[4:35] Again, this is coming, what is the dates?
[4:38] This is coming next week,
[4:40] and I think it's March 1st
[4:41] and 2nd is the actual dates.
[4:45] So tune into that and get ready to
[4:48] upgrade to Larvel 13.
[4:51] You know, if you're dreading the upgrade,
[4:52] there's always Larvel Shift.
[4:55] You know, it's probably the easiest,
[4:57] most straightforward
[4:58] way to update Larvel.
[5:00] You can just, you
[5:01] know, give it your repo,
[5:02] it'll send you a ton of pull
[5:03] request with all the features.
[5:05] The great thing though is
[5:07] it actually goes through
[5:09] and like those attributes,
[5:13] they're a non-breaking change,
[5:14] but I guarantee you Shift will go ahead
[5:16] and move your code to those.
[5:18] That way you're ready for, you know,
[5:20] the next major version,
[5:21] which will be 14 in 2027.
[5:24] Go check out all that stuff.
[5:25] So sign up for Laricon EU livestream,
[5:27] check out Larvel Shift
[5:28] and tune in to Taylor's talk
[5:31] when it happens live on
[5:33] the first day of Laricon EU.
[5:37] So I hope you have a great day.
[5:38] Get ready for this update
[5:39] and we will talk to you soon.