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This Week in Laravel: New Laravel 13 - Main Things You Need to Know

March 20, 2026
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Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of March 19, 2026.

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From my LaravelDaily.com

PHP Attributes in Laravel 13: The Ultimate Guide (36 New Attributes!)
laraveldaily.com


From my YouTube Channel

NEW Laravel 13: Main Things You Need to Know
youtube.com

A new major version of the framework but pretty minor in terms of changes.


New in Laravel 13: Added 36 (!) PHP Attributes
youtube.com

Laravel 13 went all-in on PHP attributes.


143 AI Skills for Laravel/PHP on NEW Skills.laravel.cloud
youtube.com

I noticed a new website with skills for Laravel/PHP projects and decided to try what's inside.


Laravel Queues Example: Telegram Bot with Self-Dispatching Jobs
youtube.com

Interesting example of queued jobs in a Telegram bingo bot project with Laravel on the back-end.


Filament Dashboard: Visual Customizations with Custom Blade/Tailwind
youtube.com

Question: is it worth switching from default Filament dashboard widget designs and go into custom Laravel Blade + Tailwind?


NEW Filament v5.3: Demo with 4 New Features
youtube.com

I will show a few changes from the latest Filament 5.


Filament Widget for Gannt-Like Calendar Grid/Table
youtube.com

An example of Filament widget that shows the availability table with colors.


From Laravel Community

Laravel 13 Released: PHP 8.3, Attributes, Laravel AI, and a Smoother Upgrade Path
laravel-news.com

Laravel 13 is now released and let's look at the release highlights


Laravel Shift on X: "Of the 6500 Laravel packages Shift tracks, 5300 already have support for Laravel 13."
x.com

This is the largest amount of support pre-release we can recall. We're glad to see it, so everyone can upgrade when Laravel 13 is officially released later this week.


Newton Job on X: "Laravel 13 now supports browser native Sec-Fetch-Site headers to determine cross-site requests."
x.com

This means those nasty 419 errors will hardly ever be a thing anymore, and we can all just delete our custom exception handlers for the TokenMismatchException. Great stuff


Joe Tannenbaum on X: "Laravel Prompts v0.3.15 is out!"
x.com

A ton of new primitives came out of building the Cloud CLI (+ some unreleased stuff 👀), so we decided to bake them in Prompts itself.


Browse and Execute Artisan Commands from an Interactive TUI
laravel-news.com

Artisan Browse provides an interactive terminal UI for discovering, searching, and executing all Laravel artisan commands.


Managed Databases Are Now Available in Laravel Forge
laravel.com

Let Laravel Forge handle managed Postgres clusters for you with automated backups, PITR, high availability, and monitoring, all from your Forge dashboard.


Why I Chose Atlas Over Laravel AI SDK | Tim Marois
marois.dev

A practical comparison of Atlas and Laravel AI SDK, and why Atlas better fits how I build AI features in Laravel.


YazidKHALDI/laravel-ilsawn: A Laravel package to manage multilingual translations through a single CSV file.
github.com

Comes with a Livewire management UI, an Inertia.js integration, and JS adapters for React, Vue 3, and Svelte.


nagi1/larainspect
youtube.com

Laravel and php security inspection tool - demo video


Nuno Maduro on X: "Laravel pint rule that removes all the docblock "prose" from your code is now out."
x.com

This is an opt-in rule; to enable it, you need to add this to your pint.json file: "rules": {"Pint/phpdoc_type_annotations_only": true} if you don't like this rule, just don't use it.


Wendell Adriel on X: "I just released SlideWire A package to create beautiful presentations with Blade/Livewire only, without any JS!"
x.com

A package to create beautiful presentations with Blade/Livewire only, without any JS! It uses Phiki for code highlight and integrates in Laravel apps as routes, so you can also create beautiful websites with slide-like animations! Check the


David Joos on X: "Just shipped my first product - thanks to @nativephp and @laravelphp"
x.com

It's about novelists, writers, storytellers - that want to get the work done :-)


Freek Van der Herten on X: " We just released v7 of laravel-query-builder, our package for building flexible API endpoints in Laravel."
x.com

Your API consumers pass query parameters in the URL, and the package translates them into the right Eloquent queries. You define what's allowed, the package handles the


sarderiftekhar/pdf-studio
github.com

Design, preview, and generate PDFs using HTML and TailwindCSS in Laravel


lchris44/laravel-email-preference-center
github.com

Laravel email preference center with per-category settings, digest frequency controls, one-click unsubscribe links, List-Unsubscribe headers, and GDPR consent logging.


Jiordi Viera on X: "Velyx is now live."
x.com

A CLI-first ecosystem where developers can discover modern Laravel components and tools, then install them directly in their projects. Copy. Paste. Install. No complex setup. Just the components you need.


I Built a Laravel Blog Package That Uses Markdown Files Instead of a Database
jcfrane.com

I've been building Laravel apps with Inertia frontends, and every time I needed a blog, I'd reach for a CMS. WordPress, Ghost, headless options — they all work, but they felt heavy for what I actually needed. So I built https://github.com/jcfrane/laravel-md-blog — a Laravel package that lets you


Newton Job on X: "Want to use your app in prod with debug mode turned on whilst turned off for other users?"
x.com

You can turn on debug mode at runtime based on your IP address. This trick massively helped us better debug an issue, since we can see errors more clearly with queries in the debugbar.


Building Multi-Agent Workflows with the Laravel AI SDK
laravel.com

Build Anthropic's five multi-agent patterns with the Laravel AI SDK, from prompt chaining and routing to parallelization, and more.


Filip Ganyicz on X: "Blaze v1.0.7 is out"
x.com

And it now ships with a Laravel Boost skill! Just ask your LLM to optimize your app using Blaze and it will guide you through the entire process, suggest refactors and even use the profiler data to identify bottlenecks.


Shadcn on X: "shadcn/create works out of the box with Laravel"
x.com

Run laravel new, build your preset then apply it using the cli.


Maxiz88/laravel-eloquent-guard
github.com

Lightweight, production-ready runtime performance monitor for Laravel. It detects N+1 queries and slow database operations as they happen, helping you keep your application fast and efficient.


How to easily access private properties and methods in PHP
freek.dev

Sometimes you need to access a private property or method on an object that isn't yours. Maybe you're writing a test and need to assert some internal state. Maybe you're building a package that needs to reach into another object's internals.


Wendell Adriel on X: "In this video, I show you how you go from @laravelphp new with the React Starter Kit to a totally redesigned application in a few minutes and commands using @shadcn create tool + shadcn CLI"
x.com


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