Best of Laravel News — October 2025

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   PHP 8.5 Introduces a New URI Extension

   PHP 8.5 adds a built-in URI extension that provides standards-compliant parsing for both RFC 3986 and WHATWG URL standards. The extension includes Uri and Url classes with methods for parsing, normalizing, and manipulating URLs, with proper error handling through exceptions or referenced error arrays. Laravel applications can already use similar functionality through Laravel's URI class (available since 11.35), which wraps the league/uri package implementing RFC 3986.

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   Craft CMS is moving to Laravel

   Craft CMS announced at their Dot All conference that version 6 will be built on Laravel instead of Yii 2. The transition includes a Yii 2 adapter package to minimize breaking changes for existing plugins and modules. Craft 6 will introduce content releases, scheduled drafts, content importing, approval workflows, edit page commenting, element activity logs, and a redesigned UI with dark mode. Beta release is planned for Q3 2026, with general availability in Q4 2026.

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   Http Client Batch Method in Laravel 12.32

   Laravel 12.32.0 introduces HTTP batch requests with lifecycle callbacks for concurrent request handling, an afterRollback database callback for transaction rollback handling, batch job failure callbacks for granular error management, and response-based rate limiting to control throttling based on HTTP responses rather than just requests. Additional improvements include SQS FIFO queue support and various bug fixes.

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