Laravel 13 Preview: New Features, Release Timeline, and What We Know So Far

[00:00] Laravel 13 is due out next month,

[00:04] so just around the corner.

[00:06] Today, let's talk about some of

[00:08] the new features that

[00:09] are coming to Laravel 13.

[00:11] So far, not much has actually been said.

[00:16] The reason why is because I feel

[00:18] like Laravel has been

[00:19] focused on all these other areas,

[00:21] so the framework really

[00:22] hasn't needed to change much.

[00:24] We've got the Laravel AI SDK,

[00:27] the Laravel Boost, Laravel MCP.

[00:30] We've got all these new tools that are

[00:33] not technically part of the framework,

[00:36] so they've been built

[00:38] and they're awesome,

[00:40] but they're on their own

[00:41] repos and everything else.

[00:43] So the framework itself,

[00:45] now version 13 is pretty stable,

[00:48] so it's not needing a ton of changes.

[00:52] Laravel 13 is going to be

[00:55] a basic upgrade, I believe,

[00:58] but it's not due out till next month,

[01:00] so there's still time

[01:01] for stuff to change,

[01:02] so who knows what's going to happen.

[01:04] But as of today,

[01:05] let's go through and look

[01:07] at everything we know so far.

[01:09] So first up, the big

[01:12] feature is PHP Attribute Support.

[01:16] Taylor made a tweet about this,

[01:18] and one of the important things

[01:21] is it's non-breaking.

[01:23] So you're not going to

[01:25] have to do anything here,

[01:26] but you'll have those features

[01:29] in Laravel 13, which is nice.

[01:32] What's cool though is if

[01:33] you look at the examples,

[01:34] eloquent models, you

[01:35] can define the table,

[01:37] the hidden, the fillable,

[01:38] all that right as attributes,

[01:41] versus the way we do

[01:42] it now as properties.

[01:46] Here is the available model attributes,

[01:49] there's a whole bunch of them.

[01:50] But it doesn't end with eloquent,

[01:52] it works off of queue

[01:53] jobs, console commands,

[01:56] and it says other

[01:58] components, form request,

[02:01] API resources,

[02:02] factories, and test-seaters.

[02:04] So we're getting

[02:04] those kind of everywhere,

[02:05] which I think is going to

[02:06] be awesome as we progress

[02:09] as a community and sort of

[02:10] switch from those properties

[02:11] over to these.

[02:14] Outside of that,

[02:16] a cache-touch method that

[02:20] extends a cache item's time

[02:22] to live without fetching

[02:23] or restoring the value.

[02:25] Here's some examples, extend by seconds,

[02:28] you can just

[02:29] cache-touch this user session

[02:30] for 3,600 seconds,

[02:33] you can actually

[02:33] extend it with a date time,

[02:36] which works off of the carbon instance,

[02:39] and you can even extend it indefinitely.

[02:43] So that's kind of cool.

[02:45] And then the final thing, PHP 13,

[02:47] I mean, Laravel 13 will require PHP 8.3

[02:50] as the minimum version,

[02:52] but that is the minimum version,

[02:55] but as a developer, you

[02:58] should always run the latest.

[03:01] You should be running up to

[03:02] the latest version of PHP,

[03:04] that's out, because that

[03:05] gives you all the security fixes,

[03:07] all the bug fixes, all the other things.

[03:09] And the same way with Laravel,

[03:12] some people want to run a year behind,

[03:14] but of course, I always

[03:15] recommend running the latest,

[03:17] and not only for the bug fixes,

[03:19] but any security thing, anything else,

[03:22] just the latest is always

[03:23] sort of the way to go with this.

[03:25] So coming up next

[03:27] month, I say next month,

[03:29] coming up in like a week

[03:30] and a half, is Laricon EU.

[03:33] And Laricon News, we are

[03:35] gonna be an official partner

[03:37] of Laricon EU 2026,

[03:39] and we're actually gonna

[03:39] run the live stream live

[03:41] on the Laricon News website.

[03:43] So we have a little

[03:44] registration page here,

[03:46] it's larvel-news.com slash laricon-eu.

[03:53] And the only, it's free,

[03:55] but we have the register up,

[03:57] that way you can throw your email in,

[03:59] and I'm gonna email you next

[04:00] week when I get the page live,

[04:02] that way I'll send you the

[04:03] link to the location of it,

[04:06] so you can go watch it.

[04:07] Of course, you don't have to

[04:08] do this, it doesn't matter.

[04:09] We'll have a big banner on the website,

[04:12] the day of the event

[04:13] with a link over to it.

[04:17] But from there, as part of the schedule,

[04:20] the first day, the last talk is Taylor

[04:23] giving a Larvel update,

[04:25] and he will go through,

[04:27] you know, some of the Larvel 13 stuff,

[04:29] but also some of the other new stuff

[04:31] that they've been working on.

[04:32] So you'll definitely

[04:32] wanna tune into that.

[04:34] I think it's gonna be great.

[04:35] Again, this is coming, what is the dates?

[04:38] This is coming next week,

[04:40] and I think it's March 1st

[04:41] and 2nd is the actual dates.

[04:45] So tune into that and get ready to

[04:48] upgrade to Larvel 13.

[04:51] You know, if you're dreading the upgrade,

[04:52] there's always Larvel Shift.

[04:55] You know, it's probably the easiest,

[04:57] most straightforward

[04:58] way to update Larvel.

[05:00] You can just, you

[05:01] know, give it your repo,

[05:02] it'll send you a ton of pull

[05:03] request with all the features.

[05:05] The great thing though is

[05:07] it actually goes through

[05:09] and like those attributes,

[05:13] they're a non-breaking change,

[05:14] but I guarantee you Shift will go ahead

[05:16] and move your code to those.

[05:18] That way you're ready for, you know,

[05:20] the next major version,

[05:21] which will be 14 in 2027.

[05:24] Go check out all that stuff.

[05:25] So sign up for Laricon EU livestream,

[05:27] check out Larvel Shift

[05:28] and tune in to Taylor's talk

[05:31] when it happens live on

[05:33] the first day of Laricon EU.

[05:37] So I hope you have a great day.

[05:38] Get ready for this update

[05:39] and we will talk to you soon.