Laravel Release Notes

Pull request by @bram-pkg

Opt-in support was added for loading the initial Inertia page data from a <script type="application/json"> element instead of the body tag. This results in a greatly reduced initial page data size, faster parsing, and makes the initial page data a breeze to inspect with your browser's dev tools.

You can opt in to this behavior as follows:

createInertiaApp({
    // ...
    defaults: {
        future: {
            useScriptElementForInitialPage: true,
        },
    },
});

Pull request by @pascalbaljet

Some data rarely changes, is expensive to compute, or is simply large. Rather than including this data in every response, once props are remembered by the client and reused on subsequent pages that include the same prop.

return Inertia::render('Billing', [
    'plans' => Inertia::once(fn () => Plan::all()),
]);

Pull request by @pushpak1300

Previously, all third-party package guidelines needed to be added to the global context, which could grow unbounded as more packages were integrated.

Boost is now reducing global context bloat by adding guidelines for only actively used packages that are loaded, thereby improving token efficiency and leaving room for more application-specific information.

Pull request by @pushpak1300

Support was added for the MCP completion utility, allowing servers to provide IDE-like autocompletion suggestions for prompt arguments and resource template variables.

Pull request by @pushpak1300

Three annotation types are now available for use with Resource classes: audience, priority, and lastModified. This adheres to the MCP specs and allows the server to provide hints to clients about how to use or display the resource.

Pull request by @macbookandrew

Support for output schemas and structured content was added to the MCP package, enabling better integration with ChatGPT Apps and AI clients that need parseable tool results.

Pull request by @N1ebieski

A new "Generate Namespace" command was added to the extension, allowing the user to quickly generate the correct namespace for a class.

Pull request by @pascalbaljet

Some data rarely changes, is expensive to compute, or is simply large. Rather than including this data in every response, once props are remembered by the client and reused on subsequent pages that include the same prop.

return Inertia::render('Billing', [
    'plans' => Inertia::once(fn () => Plan::all()),
]);

Pull request by @macbookandrew

Support for output schemas and structured content was added to the MCP package, enabling better integration with ChatGPT Apps and AI clients that need parseable tool results.

Pull request by @yousefkadah

Previously, there wasn't a way to schedule tasks on multiple arbitrary days of the month (e.g., 1st, 10th). A daysOfMonth() method was added that allows scheduling tasks to run on multiple specific days of the month with a clean, intuitive API.

$schedule->command('process-payroll')
    ->daysOfMonth(1, 15) // 1st and 15th of each month
    ->timezone('America/New_York');

Pull request by @ziadoz

A new encoding validation rule was added that checks the contents of a file or string matches a specific encoding using mb_check_encoding(), ensuring that uploaded files are encoded as expected before processing.

Validator::validate($input, [
    'attachment' => [
        'required',
        File::types(['csv'])->encoding('utf-8'),
    ],
]);

Pull request by @taylorotwell

New interval helper functions were added for fluently getting the current time with adjustments:

use Illuminate\Support\{ now, minutes }

Cache::put('name', 'Taylor', minutes(5));

Invitation::create([
    'expires_at' => now()->plus(hours: 6),
]);

Pull request by @yousefkadah

Sometimes you may need to temporarily prevent a queue worker from processing new jobs without stopping the worker entirely. Now you can with newly added artisan commands:

php artisan queue:pause database:default
php artisan queue:continue database:default

Pull request by @browner12

The new @hasStack directive can be used to wrap @stack directives for conditional output depending on if the stack is empty or not. This is useful if you want some markup to wrap the stack only if it is not empty.

@hasStack("list")
<ul>
    @stack("list")
</ul>
@endif

Pull request by @jasonmccreary

A --middleware option was added to the route:list command to filter output by middleware. This can be a single middleware class name or a middleware group name, allowing you to easily see routes with the specified middleware applied.

php artisan route:list --middleware=api
php artisan route:list --middleware=ThrottleRequests

Pull request by @cosmastech

A new testing trait called WithCachedRoutes was introduced. This testing trait stores the routes as a static property within a Testing\CachedState object during test setup, ensuring subsequent tests do not need to read from disk.

Pull request by @cosmastech

The insert() method was added to Eloquent Factories, allowing you to perform a mass insert of models. This increases performance during testing with numerous of database records.