Laravel News Podcast Frontend hooks, birthdays, and passkeys
Jun 5, 2025
Dive into the latest Laravel updates, including exciting features from versions 12.14 to 12.17, like array methods and URI enhancements. Celebrate PHP’s 30th anniversary while exploring mobile capabilities of the Filament admin panel. Discover innovations like the Laravel Seeder Generator for efficient seeding and Passkeys for secure authentication. Learn about Deployer for zero-downtime PHP deployments and how AI tools like CodeRabbit can improve code reviews. Plus, find out about optimizing caching strategies to boost your Laravel applications!
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Laravel 12.14 Key Improvements
- Laravel 12.14 introduces the Arr::from() method that converts JSONable or arrayable objects to arrays efficiently.
- The Context class gains except and exceptHidden methods to retrieve values excluding specified keys.
Laravel 12.16 Validation and URI Enhancements
- Laravel 12.16 adds validation rules like in_array_keys and fluent contains for improved data validation.
- Stringable now includes a toUri method, which converts strings into URI instances directly.
Laravel 12.17 Model Casts and Attributes
- Laravel 12.17 introduces an AsUri model cast to treat database URI fields as URI instances.
- The new Give attribute allows contextual dependency injection directly in controllers for clearer bindings.