Whether you are attending the first Laracon US since 2019 or watching from the sidelines, this week will be an amazing week for the Laravel community.

The Laravel team updated the Slack notification channel to support Slack's BlockKit API and improved sending Slack notifications to external workspaces.

This release promises to bring an array of exciting features that will make it feel like a major version without actually being one - it's Pest v2.9.0 - so it's just a "composer update" away from you.

Day two of Laracon is kicking off now, and you can watch it on the Youtube live stream.

Laravel Livewire v3 is now released and includes a rewritten core, Alpine integration, improved component nesting, and much more.

Laravel Herd is a blazingly fast, native Laravel and PHP development environment for macOS.

The 2023 Laracon US is now wrapped up, and it was a fantastic week of new product releases, training, inspiration, and meeting new and old friends.

Meet Harpoon, the next-generation time-tracking and invoicing software that records your financial past and helps you plan and predict a profitable future.

Taylor's "State of Laravel" keynote presentation is now live on Youtube. See Laravel Folio, Laravel Herd, Laravel Volt, Laravel 11, and more.

Laravel Folio is a new automatic file and directory-based routing system. This gives you a "pages" directory; when one of those pages is hit from the URL, it automatically loads.

Laravel 11 is now released, including a minimum PHP v8.2, a new Laravel Reverb package, streamlined directory structure, and more

Caleb Porzio's "Livewire 3" presentation is now live on Youtube. See all the new Livewire features unveiled from the stage of Laracon US 2023.

This week, the Laravel team released v10.16 with support for BackedEnum in the Collection groupBy() method, improvements to the schedule:list output, and more:

Marcel Pociot's NativePHP presentation is now live on Youtube. See how you can write rich, native desktop applications using PHP from is Laracon US 2023 talk.

Nuno Maduro's Pest 2 - Summer of Spice talk is now live on Youtube. Check out the spicy new features available in our favorite PHP testing framework.

Get the basics of Livewire 3, Volt, and Folio, in this tutorial as we build a simple app that lists out episodes of the Laravel News podcast.

Level Up is a Laravel package introducing gamification into your applications. Users can earn experience points and gain levels through your application.

Learn about Prompts—powerful new CLI prompt features—coming to Laravel that allow you to prompt users with select options, checklists, and more!

Tim MacDonald's "Laravel Precognition" talk from Laracon US is now live on Youtube. Learn how to build incredible user validation experiences with Laravel!