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A production playbook for upgrading to Laravel 13 without downtime: PHP pre-flight checks, Composer strategy, additive migrations, atomic symlink deploys, worker restarts, and a rollback plan that actually works.
Laravel 13.15 adds typed translation accessors, JSON Schema unions, a dedicated Cloud queue driver, and a date_equals security fix worth updating for today.
Laravel route metadata shipped in 13.17. See how metadata() and getMetadata() replace route name hacks, with 5 practical cache-safe examples and code.
The Laravel AI SDK goes stable March 17 with Laravel 13. What changed in beta, your production readiness checklist, and whether your existing code still works.
Learn how to use PHP Attributes in Laravel 13 to replace class properties in models, queue jobs, and artisan commands. Practical before/after examples.
Queue::route() in Laravel 13 lets you define which queue and connection every job uses from one place. No more scattered properties or onQueue() chains.
Laravel 12 to 13 upgrade guide: what actually breaks, what to pin in .env before running composer update, and how to use Laravel Boost to automate it.