Laravel Cloud API & CLI, MySQL 8.4 upgrade notice, Forge MySQL 9, Nightwatch MCP & Linear integration, and new Framework AI updates.

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Laravel's February 2026 updates span the entire ecosystem. The Framework 12.x gained AI SDK provider default model configuration via config/ai.php, a new Svelte starter kit with Inertia, and VS Code test runner integration. Laravel Cloud launched a fully programmable API for managing deployments, databases, and scaling (useful for CI/CD and AI agents), a new CLI, and issued a MySQL 8.0 end-of-life notice urging upgrades to 8.4 LTS before April 2026. Laravel Forge added npm private package support with automatic .npmrc management, MySQL 9.x support for new servers, and an OpenClaw server type. Laravel Nightwatch introduced an MCP server for querying observability data from your editor, Linear integration for issue tracking, sort-by-occurrences for exceptions, and per-user filtering across requests, jobs, and logs.

Laravel February Product Updates