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Laravel 13's first-party AI SDK brings provider-agnostic text, image, audio, and embedding generation to PHP developers with a clean, familiar API.

Composer 2.9 and 2.10 bring automatic security blocking, a new repo CLI command, and malware filtering. Here's what changed and how to use it.

NativePHP Air goes free and open source with a modular plugin system. Here's what changed, how plugins work, and why this matters for PHP developers.

PHP 8.5's #[NoDiscard] attribute warns you when critical return values are silently discarded. Here's how to use it to write safer, self-documenting APIs.

Laravel Pennant makes feature flags a first-class citizen in your app. Learn how to use it for gradual rollouts, A/B tests, and premium tiers.

MySQL window functions let the database do ranking, running totals, and row comparisons that most PHP devs still handle in application code.

Learn how to expose your Laravel application to AI agents using the official laravel/mcp package — tools, resources, and prompts in minutes.

Symfony's new Tui component brings CSS-like styling, widget toolkits, and PHP Fibers to terminal UI development in pure PHP 8.4+.

Laravel Herd now ships with a built-in MCP server that connects AI clients like Claude to your local PHP environment with 218 tools.

Laravel Nightwatch delivers production-grade observability for Laravel apps with zero-config setup, deep telemetry, and real-time alerting.