[0:00] Laravel 13 is now released.
[0:03] >> [music]
[0:03] >> Um they just announced today that it's
[0:05] official. Um
[0:07] not a whole lot of features, really, but
[0:08] uh PHP 8.3 is now the minimum required.
[0:12] >> [music]
[0:12] >> Uh it's got new attributes, Laravel AI,
[0:15] and a smoother upgrade path. So, let's
[0:17] dive in and take a look [music] at some
[0:19] of these new features. So, here on
[0:20] Laravel News, we covered them, um but I
[0:23] think the highlight is [music] this
[0:25] first intro sentence from the Laravel
[0:27] team themselves. It says, "Much of our
[0:29] focus during the release cycle has been
[0:31] on minimizing breaking changes. [music]
[0:33] Instead, we have dedicated ourselves to
[0:35] shipping continuous quality-of-life
[0:37] improvements throughout the [music] year
[0:38] that do not break existing
[0:40] applications."
[0:42] Um and what that means for me is, you
[0:44] know, as Laravel has sort of [music]
[0:46] matured where it, you know, version 13
[0:48] now,
[0:49] uh they're trying to prevent [music]
[0:51] a lot of breaking changes, you know,
[0:52] they're wanting the upgrade to be
[0:54] simple, they're wanting to, you know,
[0:56] not make [music] anything drastic like
[0:59] they probably have done in the past. You
[1:01] know, I'm thinking of like, I think it's
[1:02] [music] version 4 to version 5 was kind
[1:04] of a huge upgrade.
[1:06] Maybe 5 to 6, but there was just two or
[1:08] three in there that were kind of [music]
[1:10] really difficult upgrades.
[1:12] But uh from 12 to 13, it's not a whole
[1:15] lot of breaking stuff. So, that's kind
[1:17] of cool, and it also, you know, it's
[1:19] sort of better for the whole ecosystem
[1:20] as a whole because,
[1:21] >> [music]
[1:22] >> you know, packages and your your apps
[1:24] and everything in between can now
[1:26] upgrade pretty smoothly on down. So, PHP
[1:30] 8.3 is now the minimum required. Um
[1:34] Laravel drops support [music] for 8.2.
[1:37] Um 8.3 is actually, you know, been out.
[1:41] I think it's been out a while now, so it
[1:43] shouldn't be that hard of an upgrade,
[1:44] but you should definitely want to stay
[1:45] up on [music] the latest PHP versions.
[1:48] So, make note of that. That is one
[1:50] probably big [music] change that could
[1:52] be um a little annoying for you if
[1:55] you're, you know, if you're running
[1:55] [music] like PHP 8.1 or 8.2 or something
[1:58] like that. And then the biggest, [music]
[2:01] I guess, change, but this is not really
[2:03] like um it's fully optional and it's
[2:06] backward [music] compatible, but
[2:07] first-class support for PHP attributes.
[2:10] And I have an example here. So, this is
[2:12] actually going to change for models,
[2:14] jobs, console commands, and
[2:16] >> [music]
[2:16] >> I've got 15 other locations. So,
[2:19] basically what it does is here's an
[2:20] example model. You can see, you know,
[2:22] you can now define the table.
[2:24] Uh this [music] was In this example, the
[2:26] users table, um your key,
[2:30] key type, and whether it's incrementing.
[2:32] >> [music]
[2:32] >> And then the hidden field is password,
[2:34] and fillable is name and email.
[2:36] So, that's pretty cool, and it kind of
[2:38] does tighten it up a little bit.
[2:40] >> [music]
[2:40] >> Um but again, completely optional in
[2:42] your own apps. Um if you don't want to
[2:44] use this, you don't have to, but it's
[2:47] totally up to you. Another big change is
[2:49] [music]
[2:50] the Laravel SDK AI SDK. So, they've been
[2:53] pushing a lot on AI stuff in this last,
[2:55] I don't know, [music] 6 months.
[2:57] Um and all those, you know, like Boost
[3:00] and a couple of the other things are
[3:01] all, you know, [music] separate
[3:03] packages. So, even though Laravel 13's
[3:05] launched um
[3:07] you know, this, I guess,
[3:09] >> [music]
[3:10] >> is technically already been out, but now
[3:11] it's official with Laravel 13. But I'm
[3:14] assuming they're going to go down
[3:15] different paths, [music] you know, like
[3:17] when they when they come up with updates
[3:19] on those, they'll they'll come out on
[3:20] their own versus, [music] you know,
[3:23] Laravel 13.1 for a feature of the
[3:25] Laravel AI SDK. So, basically completely
[3:28] independent now, they can upgrade or do
[3:29] whatever in between. [music] First-party
[3:31] JSON API resources, um
[3:34] uh so, again, more more stuff for API
[3:37] back end, queue routing.
[3:40] >> [music]
[3:40] >> Um you can see here an example.
[3:43] Native vector query support, [music]
[3:46] um and then here's an example where
[3:48] vector similar to embedding and the
[3:50] wineries [music] in Napa Valley.
[3:52] Uh next up, cache touch, and you can
[3:55] extend [music]
[3:57] um
[3:58] extends a cached item's time to live
[4:01] without fetching or restoring the value.
[4:03] [music]
[4:03] So, that's pretty cool. And then
[4:05] finally, the support timeline. Uh we're
[4:08] on Laravel 13 now. PHP 8.3 to 8.5, and
[4:12] [music]
[4:13] it gets bug fixes in until Q3 of 2027,
[4:17] and security fixes till Q1 of 2028. So,
[4:20] [music] you'll get 2 years of those
[4:21] security fixes.
[4:23] Um but we have the whole support
[4:24] timeline [music] here. The main thing
[4:26] though is Laravel 12, you have 1 more
[4:29] year left of security fixes, but the bug
[4:32] fixes are only going to last until
[4:34] August of this year. [music]
[4:35] So, you know, if you haven't upgraded
[4:37] yet, of course you haven't cuz we're
[4:39] just announcing it today, but if you
[4:41] haven't upgraded by August 13th, you
[4:43] need to get that done.
[4:44] Um and then finally, upgrading to
[4:46] Laravel 13.
[4:47] >> [music]
[4:47] >> Lar- if you're on Laravel 12, they do
[4:50] have a Boost command to upgrade. I
[4:52] >> [music]
[4:52] >> I haven't used it yet. I'm assuming it
[4:54] just sort of goes through and does it by
[4:57] AI, but if you want something a little
[4:58] bit more like in-depth is [music]
[5:00] Laravel Shift. Um that's been out for,
[5:03] man, quite a few years now, but what it
[5:05] does is it tries to bring your entire
[5:06] application up to all the 13 standards.
[5:09] >> [music]
[5:09] >> Um and it it does it through pull
[5:12] requests. It's it's pretty sweet. That's
[5:13] what I've always used, and I'll continue
[5:15] to use that going forward. [music] So,
[5:16] check out Laravel Shift if you want an
[5:18] easy way of upgrading.
[5:20] Um so, that's sort of the highlights of
[5:22] Laravel 13. It's not a huge update, um
[5:25] but it is, you know, it [music] is
[5:27] following that yearly major version
[5:30] update cycle. So, for those that are not
[5:33] familiar, Laravel 13 is now, Laravel 14
[5:36] [music] will be
[5:38] Q1 of 2027 now.
[5:41] So, it always runs this way, and then
[5:43] every week we seem to get like minor
[5:45] updates and sort of new features if they
[5:47] come about, but they try to kind of
[5:49] limit breaking changes for the major
[5:51] versions. And in this case, we just
[5:53] didn't have that many this year.
[5:55] Um so, go and get upgrading and go and
[5:57] check everything out. Uh you can read
[6:00] about it on our website,
[6:01] laravel-news.com/laravel-13-released.
[6:06] And happy updating.