Laravel August product updates | Laravel - The clean stack for Artisans and agents

TL/DR: It’s been a whole month since LaraconUS and a lot has since shipped! Missed the sessions? Watch them here.

The Laravel Framework shipped read-through filesystems for migrating between storage disks without downtime, Turbopuffer and semantic search in Scout, and a Cloud facade for inspecting Laravel Cloud at runtime.

Laravel Cloud rebuilt managed queues with FIFO ordering and Flex/Pro compute classes, added pre-deploy package checks , scoped API tokens, and made Private Cloud HIPAA compliant.

Laravel Forge connected multiple source control accounts per provider and rolled out Ubuntu 26.04 to every server provider.

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Read-through filesystems: A new read-through filesystem driver for migrating between storage disks with no downtime. It checks the primary disk first, and when a file only exists on the fallback disk, Laravel serves it and copies it over for future requests, so new writes land on the destination while old files promote themselves as they're touched.
Turbopuffer and semantic search in Scout: Scout adds a Turbopuffer engine with batched indexing and vector distance metadata, plus semantic and hybrid search for Scout's database and Meilisearch engines. Chain ->semantic() or ->hybrid() onto the familiar Scout builder to search by meaning instead of just keywords.
A Laravel Cloud facade: A new Cloud facade lets your app detect at runtime whether it's hosted on Laravel Cloud, check for a managed queue connection, and access that connection directly.
MariaDB vector support: Eloquent's AsVector cast and vector query methods like whereVectorSimilarTo and orderByVectorDistance now support MariaDB alongside PostgreSQL.

Pre-deploy package checks: Cloud now reads your composer.lock on every push and flags missing or outdated packages, such as Octane, Inertia SSR, or Nightwatch, before you deploy, clearing the notice as soon as you push the fix.
Managed queues, rebuilt: Managed queues now offer two compute classes: Flex, which scales to zero and wakes in under a second, and Pro, which stays warm for steady, latency-sensitive throughput. FIFO queues guarantee jobs are delivered exactly once and in the exact order they were sent, ideal for workloads like payments or ledger updates where getting the order wrong would corrupt state.
Scoped API tokens: Organization API tokens can now be scoped to specific permissions and restricted to a single application or environment, so automation and agents get exactly the access they need.
Private Cloud is HIPAA-compliant: Teams building healthcare software can now request a Business Associate Agreement and deploy on dedicated, audited infrastructure.

Multiple source control connections: You can now connect more than one source control account per provider, useful for teams juggling separate personal and organization GitHub accounts without disconnecting and reconnecting.
Ubuntu 26.04: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is now available across every server provider. Ubuntu 22.04 is no longer offered for new servers.
In-app notifications: Notification preferences now cover in-app notifications alongside email, with successful deployment and stale server notifications toggleable individually.
Brotli compression: Brotli modules are now compiled and loaded on new servers, ready to enable in your Nginx configuration.