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July 2026 brought Laravel 13 minor releases that added features around image processing, queues, the container, and logging. On Laravel Cloud, Managed Queues and deployments for Next.js and Nuxt apps were announced, and Laracon US 2026 introduced new tooling including the Laravel LSP and Inertia DevTools. Unlike June, a monthly product update post was not published in July. This page collects the official releases and blog posts published during the month. Sources:

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Laravel Framework

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First-party image processing

Laravel 13.20.0 added first-party support for image processing. The new Image class lets you transform images and manipulate images loaded from storage using Laravel’s own API.

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Conditional container binding

13.22.0 added the #[BindWhen()] attribute. You can now move container bindings that depend on runtime conditions out of your service provider’s registration logic and onto the class as an attribute.

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Queue and job improvements

  • queue:clear can now target multiple queues.
  • QueueFake can report the creation time of the oldest pending job.
  • The Delay attribute is now supported on Bus::batch and bulk.
  • Queue tests now take delay time into account.

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Logging and security

13.23.0 introduced a monthly log channel and a monthly log driver, letting you configure logs that rotate every month through the standard logging configuration. Maintenance mode bypass secrets are now compared using a timing-safe comparison, and credentials in HTTP tests are treated as sensitive values.

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Other changes

  • RateLimiter can now be configured to be macroable.
  • The expiration handling of Cache::touch() was fixed.
  • An assertEmpty assertion was added to the Storage facade.
  • The #[SensitiveParameter] attribute was applied to parameters that accept sensitive information.
  • ImageManager::fromStorage now accepts an Enum as the disk name.

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Laravel Cloud

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Managed Queues

Managed Queues were added to Laravel Cloud. Workers scale automatically based on queue load, failed jobs can be inspected in the dashboard, and workers can scale down to zero when idle.

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Next.js and Nuxt deployments

Laravel Cloud can now deploy Next.js and Nuxt frontends alongside a Laravel app in the same project, letting you manage the application and its frontend through the same deploy flow.

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Security defaults

Every Laravel Cloud deployment now ships with WAF, runtime patching, audit logs, network isolation, and package vulnerability scanning as standard.

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Laracon US 2026

At Laracon US 2026 in July, the following updates across the Laravel ecosystem were announced:
  • Laravel LSP: Language Server Protocol support for Laravel projects
  • Inertia DevTools: Developer tooling for Inertia applications
  • Managed Queues: Automatic queue worker scaling on Laravel Cloud
  • Scale to Zero: Idle scale-down for Laravel Cloud

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AI development

An evaluation from the Laravel Boost team introduced work on measuring not just whether AI coding agents can make Laravel tests pass, but whether they can write idiomatic Laravel code. Correct use of Laravel conventions and framework APIs is being treated as an evaluation axis for AI development.
Last modified on August 21, 2026

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