Laravel February Product Updates

In February, we shipped AI-powered tooling, deeper integrations, and a wave of developer experience improvements across the Laravel ecosystem.

Laravel Cloud introduced a fully programmable API, a new CLI for terminal-driven workflows, and an important MySQL upgrade notice.

Laravel Forge added npm private package support, MySQL 9, and a new OpenClaw server type on Laravel VPS.

Laravel Nightwatch added an MCP server for querying your observability data directly from your editor, a Linear integration for issue tracking, and per-user filtering across requests, jobs, exceptions, and logs.

Laravel Framework 12.x

AI SDK Provider Default Models: Configure the default models for text, images, audio, transcription, and embeddings in config/ai.php instead of relying on package defaults.
Svelte Starter Kit: Get up and running with Inertia, Svelte, and Laravel conventions quickly so you can spend time on product code instead of scaffolding.
VS Code Test Runner Integration: Run and iterate on your test suite directly from VS Code's built-in test runner, shortening the edit-test loop without leaving your editor.

Laravel Cloud API: Manage your entire Laravel Cloud infrastructure programmatically, including deployments, environments, databases, caches, object storage, and scaling. Ideal for CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code workflows, and AI agents provisioning or querying resources.
New CLI: Run and script Laravel Cloud operations directly from your terminal with smart defaults for quick setup and full control when needed.
MySQL 8.0 End of Life: Laravel MySQL 8.0 reaches end of life in April 2026 and will no longer receive security updates, so we recommend upgrading to MySQL 8.4 LTS. Back up your database and follow the upgrade guide.

npm Private Packages: Configure npm credentials at the server and site level to install private packages during deployments, with automatic .npmrc management.
MySQL 9.x Support: MySQL 9 is now available when provisioning new servers.
OpenClaw Server Type: Create OpenClaw servers on Laravel VPS.

MCP Server: Connect your AI assistant directly to Nightwatch to browse issues, view stack traces, and add comments from your editor or terminal.
Linear Integration: Create and link Linear issues directly from Nightwatch, with team routing built in.
Sort by Issue Occurrences: Exception and performance issues now show occurrence counts so you can sort by impact.
Filter by User: Filter requests, jobs, exceptions, and logs by individual users across every page.