Best of Laravel News — February 2026

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    What We Know About Laravel 13

    Laravel 13 is scheduled for Q1 2026 and will require PHP 8.3 as the minimum version. The headline feature is first-class PHP 8 Attributes support as an alternative to class properties for configuring Eloquent models (e.g., #[Table], #[Fillable], #[Hidden]), queue jobs (#[Connection], #[Tries], #[Timeout]), console commands (#[Signature]), form requests, API resources, and more. A new Cache::touch() method allows extending a cached item's TTL without fetching or re-storing the value, using driver-native commands like Redis EXPIRE. Support timeline runs bug fixes through Q3 2027 and security fixes through Q1 2028.

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    Laravel Adds an Official Svelte + Inertia Starter Kit

    Laravel now offers an official Svelte starter kit, complementing existing React, Vue, and Livewire options. The kit combines Svelte 5 with TypeScript, Inertia 2, Tailwind CSS, shadcn-svelte, bits-ui, and Vite. Authentication is powered by Laravel Fortify and includes login, registration, password reset, email verification, and two-factor auth. The kit ships with sidebar and header layouts, multiple variants for each, and SSR support out of the box. New projects can be bootstrapped via `laravel new my-app` and selecting Svelte when prompted.

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    Nimbus: An In-Browser API Testing Playground for Laravel

    Nimbus is a Laravel package that provides an in-browser API testing playground for development. It automatically discovers routes and validation rules from FormRequest classes, Spatie Data objects, or OpenAPI specs. Key features include transaction mode for testing destructive operations without data loss, user impersonation for authorization testing, shareable request configurations, automatic test data generation, and dd() output handling. Unlike Swagger or Scribe, it's not for customer-facing documentation but rather a developer tool to speed up API iteration.

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    Chief: Run Claude Code on Large Projects with Task-Based Workflows

    Chief is a CLI tool designed to extend Claude Code's capabilities for large projects by breaking work into discrete tasks. Each task runs in its own context window, avoiding the limitations of a single long-running session. Progress is persisted to disk between runs, allowing work to be stopped and resumed. Chief can be installed via Homebrew or a curl install script.

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    Capture Web Page Screenshots in Laravel with Spatie's Laravel Screenshot

    Spatie's Laravel Screenshot package enables web page screenshot capture in Laravel applications through a driver-based architecture. It supports two drivers: Browsershot (using Chromium) and Cloudflare Browser Rendering API. Key features include customizable viewport dimensions, image quality control, queued background processing with callbacks, testing utilities with fake mode, and flexible disk storage options. The package defaults to 1280x800 viewport with 2x device scale factor and PNG format, waiting for network idle before capture.

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