Newsletter 600!

This weekend marks the 600th issue of the Laravel News newsletter, which honestly feels a little unreal to type. I put together a quick little YouTube short to celebrate. 🎉 Thanks for being a subscriber. This newsletter is something I genuinely look forward to putting together every week.

Laravel News started as a pretty simple idea: share a handful of interesting links each week and help people keep up without feeling overwhelmed. Over time, it turned into a habit for me and maybe a habit for you too. The stack has changed, the ecosystem has grown, and Laravel itself has evolved a ton, but the goal has stayed the same.

If you have been reading for a long time, thank you for sticking around. If you are newer here, I am glad you found your way in. I really appreciate every read, reply, share, and kind message more than you probably realize. Thanks for letting Laravel News be part of your week.

Now on to this weeks updates!
- Eric Barnes

Laravel News Is the Live Stream Partner for Laracon EU 2026

Laravel News is the exclusive live stream partner for Laracon EU 2026, bringing live coverage during breaks and lunch for the global Laravel community.

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The Fastest Growing AI Companies Choose WorkOS

AI companies are scaling faster than ever and hitting enterprise requirements far earlier in their lifecycle.

SSO, directory sync, granular permissions, audit logs, compliance. These are non-negotiable for enterprise customers, and expensive and difficult to build and maintain in-house.

That’s why OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and Vercel, and more use WorkOS to power authentication, identity, and security. It's the infrastructure layer that makes applications enterprise ready without slowing teams down.

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Restrict User Actions with Time-Based Sanctions Using Laravel Prohibitions

The Laravel Prohibitions package allows you to prohibit users from executing specific actions for a determined period of time.

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Laravel Invite Only Adds a Full User Invitation System with Tokens, Events, and Reminders

Laravel Invite Only manages user invitations with token-based security, automatic reminders, and polymorphic relationships for any model.

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Query Builder Expression Aliases in Laravel 12.48

Laravel v12.48.0 introduces query builder expression aliases, new batch lifecycle events, enhanced JSON decoding options for HTTP responses, and a BatchFinished event.

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Migrating Laravel News from Laravel Forge to Cloud

Watch how Laravel News migrated a live production app from Laravel Forge to Laravel Cloud in a real-time livestream, including deployment steps, checks, and lessons learned.

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Fair Queue Distribution with Laravel Balanced Queue

Balanced Queue for Laravel is a package for queue management with load balancing between partitions (user groups). Perfect for scenarios where you need fair job distribution and concurrency control per user/tenant.

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Speeding Up Laravel News With Cloudflare

Jason McCreary breaks down how Cloudflare page caching can dramatically speed up Laravel apps using Laravel News as a real production case study.

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Livewire 4 Support in Laravel VS Code Extension v1.4.3

Laravel VS Code Extension v1.4.3 introduces support for Livewire 4, a new configuration option for artisan make commands, a fix for the Pint formatter, and improved handling of namespaced Blade components.

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