PHP 8.5 Highlights

Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.

This episode is sponsored by CodeRabbit; Smart CLI Reviews act as quality gates for Codex, Claude, Gemini, and you.

Show links

• Blade @hasStack Directive Added in Laravel 12.39 
• Time Interval Helpers in Laravel 12.40 
• Pause a Queue for a Given Number of Seconds in Laravel 12 
• PHP 8.5 is released with the pipe operator, URI extension, new array functions, and more 
• Introducing Mailviews Early Access 
• Prevent Disposable Email Registrations with Email Utilities for Laravel 
• A DynamoDB Driver for the Laravel Auditing Package 
• Build Production-ready APIs in Laravel with Tyro 

Tutorials

• Separate your Cloudflare page cache with a middleware group 
• PostgreSQL vs. MongoDB for Laravel: Choosing the Right Database 
• Modernizing Code with Rector - Laravel In Practice EP12 
• Static Analysis Secrets - Laravel In Practice EP13