Laravel 13.24, Filament 90% faster, managed queues on Cloud

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All articles Laravel 13.24, Filament 90% faster, managed queues on Cloud — A Day With Laravel #063 Aug 8, 2026•7 min read managedqueuesfilamentphplsplaravelcloud

a]:no-underline prose-h3:[&>a]:no-underline prose-h4:[&>a]:no-underline prose-h5:[&>a]:no-underline prose-h6:[&>a]:no-underline prose-a:underline prose-a:decoration-dotted prose-a:underline-offset-2">Laravel ecosystem news — August 8, 2026 Table of contentsEDITO Hey Laravel artisans 👋 After a packed Laracon week, the ecosystem keeps rolling. Laravel 13.24 polishes the image API with dominant color detection and HEIC support (hello, iPhone photos!), and the first-party team keeps expanding its lineup: Laravel Head for your document head, Laravel Doctor to diagnose your app in one command, and Laravel LSP officially landing in Zed. This week, two announcements deserve your full attention: Filament 5.7.6 delivers roughly 90% faster form rendering — along with security patches you'll want to install right away — while Laravel Cloud launches managed queues that autoscale and drop back to zero on their own. Personally, I need to take the time to try out this image API. Happy reading and happy coding 💻 — Fred Subscribe now

🚀 Framework & Releases Laravel 13.24.0 — Dominant color, HEIC, modelKeys() Published August 4, 2026 — Laravel News The framework keeps pushing its image API forward: dominantColor() returns an image's average color (perfect for placeholders), the dominant background fills letterbox bars and rotation corners, AVIF/HEIC/HEIF are accepted as input with toHeic() output, and the image validation rule now recognizes all three formats. Also on board: modelKeys() on the Eloquent query builder, a new array_keys validation rule with an :unexpected placeholder, and a fix that stops wildcard validation from stalling a request for over a minute on large arrays. » Read the article Livewire v4.3.5 — SFC fix Released August 3, 2026 Livewire 4.3.5 fixes single-file component (SFC) detection when a PHP attribute's arguments are passed as an array — a small patch that touches multi-file editing directly. Worth noting in the same window: Laravel 12.65.0 (August 5), a 12.x branch bugfix (deprecation logging, Factory::insert() with a zero count, schedule:list timezone conversion). » View release note 📦 Packages & Plugins Laravel Head — Manage your document head with a first-party package Published August 4, 2026 — Laravel News Announced on stage at Laracon US, Laravel Head is the new official package from Laravel's open-source team. A fluent API for everything in your : titles, meta descriptions, canonical URLs, Open Graph, robots directives, JSON-LD structured data (with builders for product, article, faq, organization…), and resource hints (preload, preconnect, prefetch). Metadata resolves across five priority layers (defaults, route group, route, runtime, errors), can be attached straight to routes via withHead(), and renders in Blade (@head), Livewire, and Inertia (serverHead). » Read the article Laravel Doctor — Diagnose your app with one command Published August 3, 2026 — Laravel News php artisan doctor runs a battery of health checks on your application: .env presence and APP_KEY, PHP version matching your composer.json constraint, required extensions, loaded config, reachable database, pending migrations, cache, queue, scheduler, storage, and security (debug mode, .env git-ignored, dependency audit). Each check returns one of six statuses (from pass to error), and where it's safe, --fix repairs things on its own (creating .env, generating APP_KEY, disabling debug in production…). Packages can register their own diagnostics, and the --format=json output is built for AI agents. » Read the article Saga Lara Flow — Durable workflows and compensating transactions on your queues Published August 7, 2026 — Laravel News By Andriy Karpishyn (Discovery Ukraine), Saga Lara Flow writes your long-running business processes as plain PHP methods on top of Laravel queues. Every step is recorded to the database: when a run resumes, handle() is replayed but action() returns the already-recorded results without re-running the actions. And if a step throws, compensations registered via compensateWith() fire in reverse order — the classic saga pattern. Take the concrete example of an online order. The workflow chains three actions: charge the card (compensated by a refund), reserve the stock (compensated by a release), then ship the parcel: php class ProcessOrderWorkflow extends Workflow public function handle(int $orderId): void $this->action(ChargeCard::class, $orderId)->compensateWith(RefundCard::class, $orderId)->run(); $this->action(ReserveStock::class, $orderId)->compensateWith(ReleaseStock::class, $orderId)->run(); $this->action(ShipOrder::class, $orderId)->run();

If shipping throws, the stock is automatically released and then the card refunded —...

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