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Manage your servers, deploy sites, and monitor your infrastructure from anywhere. Anvil is a native mobile app that puts the full power of Laravel Forge in your pocket - with secure API key storage, biometric protection, and one-tap deployments.
We are excited to announce the release of Laravel Patches v4.0, featuring a completely rewritten test suite using Pest, enhanced CLI tools for better visibility, and robust safeguards for your patch workflow. This release focuses on developer experience and reliability, ensuring you can manage your database patches with the same confidence as your migrations.
Laravel Lockout v6.0 is a major upgrade that expands the package from basic read-only mode to a full maintenance and access-control system. It now supports Laravel 11 and 12 and introduces 10 new features, including IP allow/deny lists with CIDR, role-based bypass rules, customizable responses, route and pattern whitelisting, automatic API handling, a health-check endpoint, configurable caching, a full event system, Artisan management commands, and a new maintenance view. With 77 tests, refined middleware, and improved code quality, v6.0 is production-ready and built for precise control during maintenance or emergencies.
We're excited to announce the release of Laravel Authentication Log v6.0.0! This major release brings significant improvements to security, user experience, and developer productivity. With support for Laravel 11.x and 12.x, enhanced suspicious activity detection, comprehensive session management, and numerous bug fixes, this release represents a substantial step forward for the package.
Learn how to send Laravel notifications to users at their local hour by checking timezones in a scheduled command that runs hourly via cron. Includes schema tips, examples with Carbon, queues, performance, and edge cases like DST.
Modern HTML includes a bunch of small but powerful elements that improve semantics, accessibility, and UX without heavy JavaScript. In this guide, we’ll explore lesser‑used tags you can add to your toolkit today. We’ll focus on what they’re for, how to use them accessibly, and common pitfalls. Examples are intentionally minimal so you can copy-paste and adapt.
If you’ve ever written a long chain of null checks to fetch a deeply nested value — foo['bar']['baz'] ?? null — you’ll love Laravel’s data_get() helper. It’s a tiny, dependable utility that safely retrieves values from arrays, objects, ArrayAccess implementations, and even nested structures using a simple “dot notation.”
PHP 8.5 introduces a game-changing feature that developers have been eagerly awaiting: comprehensive stack trace support for PHP Fatal errors. This enhancement represents a significant improvement in PHP's error handling capabilities, making debugging critical issues more straightforward and efficient than ever before.
Among the exciting features in PHP 8.5, the pipe operator stands out as a game-changing addition to the language's syntax arsenal. This innovative operator transforms how we write sequential operations, making code more intuitive and less nested. Let's dive into this new feature and discover how it can revolutionize your PHP coding practices.