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title: 'Laravel 13 Preview: New Features, Release Timeline, and What We Know So Far'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=v1lozr16KyA'
video_id: 'v1lozr16KyA'
date: 2026-07-28
duration_sec: 342
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# Laravel 13 Preview: New Features, Release Timeline, and What We Know So Far

> Source: [Laravel 13 Preview: New Features, Release Timeline, and What We Know So Far](https://youtube.com/watch?v=v1lozr16KyA)

## Summary

Laravel 13 is due out next month, bringing a few new features like PHP Attribute Support and a cache-touch method. The framework remains stable, with most innovation happening in separate tools like Laravel AI SDK and Laravel Boost.

### Key Points

- **Laravel 13 Release Timeline** [0:09] — Laravel 13 is due out next month, but not much has been announced yet because the framework is stable.
- **PHP Attribute Support** [1:09] — A major new feature is PHP Attribute Support for Eloquent models, queue jobs, console commands, form requests, API resources, factories, and seeders. It's non-breaking.
- **Cache Touch Method** [2:14] — A new cache-touch method extends a cache item's TTL without fetching or restoring the value. Supports seconds, DateTime, and indefinite extension.
- **PHP 8.3 Minimum Requirement** [2:45] — Laravel 13 will require PHP 8.3 as the minimum version. The speaker recommends always running the latest PHP and Laravel versions for security and bug fixes.
- **Laracon EU Livestream** [3:25] — Laracon EU is happening next week (March 1-2). Laravel News will be an official partner and run a free livestream. Taylor will give a Laravel update talk on the first day.

### Conclusion

Laravel 13 is a minor upgrade focusing on PHP attributes and cache improvements. Developers should upgrade to stay current, and the Laracon EU livestream will provide more details.

## Transcript

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