Faster tests, vantage points, and cleaning assets

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

• Background Queue Connection in Laravel 12.37 
• Cache Routes and Config During Testing in Laravel 12.38 
• New Book: Laravel for the Rest of Us launches November 18, 2025 
• CodeRabbit raised $60M and celebrated with a hilarious short film 
• All Talks for Wire:Live are Available on YouTube 
• Early Bird Tickets are out for Laracon EU - Secure Your Spot by Nov 22! 
• Supabase Package for Laravel 
• Track, Manage, and Monitor Queue Jobs with Vantage 
• Asset Cleaner Package for Laravel 
• HydePHP v2 
• Laravel Livewire Async Select 
• Define LLM JSON Schemas in Laravel With Forerunner 
• TikAPI SDK is PHP and Laravel Package for the TikAPI 

Tutorials

• Laravel Fluent isEmpty and isNotEmpty Methods
• Authentication With Laravel and MongoDB
• Cloudflare Turnstile versus CSRF tokens
• The Practical Guide to Laravel + Nova on OpenAI Codex Web
• MongoDB Transactions in Laravel
• Cache Smart Invalidation - Laravel In Practice EP10
• Cache Pre-warming Explained - Laravel In Practice EP11
• Modernizing Code with Rector - Laravel In Practice EP12

Creators and Guests

Host

Jacob Bennett

Host

Michael Dyrynda

Dad. @laravelphp Artisan. @LaraconAU organiser. Co-host of @northsouthaudio, @laravelnews, @ripplesfm. Opinions are mine.

What is Laravel News Podcast?

The Laravel News Podcast brings you all the latest news and events related to the Laravel PHP Framework