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Laravel

Laravelis afree and open-sourcePHP-basedweb frameworkfor building web applications.[3]It was created by Taylor Otwell and intended for the development of web applications following themodel–view–controller(MVC)architectural patternand based onSymfony.Some of the features of Laravel include modularpackaging systemwith a dedicated dependency manager, different ways for accessingrelational databases,utilities that aid inapplication deploymentand maintenance, and its orientation towardsyntactic sugar.[4][5]: 2, 5–9 [6][7]

Developer(s)Taylor Otwell
Initial releaseJune 2011;13 years ago(2011-06)[1]
Stable release
11.3.3[2]Edit this on Wikidata / 19 November 2024;21 days ago(19 November 2024)
Repositorygithub/laravel/framework
Written inPHP
TypeWeb framework
LicenseMIT License
WebsitelaravelEdit this at Wikidata

Thesource codeof Laravel is hosted onGitHuband licensed under the terms ofMIT License.[8]

History

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Taylor Otwell created Laravel as an attempt to provide a more advanced alternative to theCodeIgniterframework, which did not provide certain features such as built-in support for userauthenticationandauthorization.Laravel's firstbeta releasewas made available on June 9, 2011, followed by the Laravel 1 release later in the same month. Laravel 1 included built-in support for authentication,localisation,models,views,sessions,routing and other mechanisms, but lacked support forcontrollersthat prevented it from being a trueMVCframework.[1]

Laravel 2 was released in September 2011, bringing various improvements from the author and community. Major new features included the support for controllers, which made Laravel 2 a fully MVC-compliant framework, built-in support for theinversion of control(IoC) principle, and atemplating systemcalledBlade.As a downside, support for third-partypackageswas removed in Laravel 2.[1]

Laravel 3 was released in February 2012 with a set of new features including thecmdcommand-line interface(CLI) namedArtisan,built-in support for moredatabase management systems,database migrations as a form ofversion controlfor database layouts, support for handlingevents,and a packaging system calledBundles.An increase of Laravel's userbase and popularity lined up with the release of Laravel 3.[1]

Laravel 4, codenamedIlluminate,was released in May 2013. It was made as a complete rewrite of the Laravel framework, migrating its layout into a set of separate packages distributed throughComposer,which serves as anapplication-level package manager.Such a layout improved the extensibility of Laravel 4, which was paired with its official regular release schedule spanning six months between minorpoint releases.Other new features in the Laravel 4 release includedatabase seedingfor the initial population of databases, support formessage queues,built-in support for sending different types of email, and support for delayed deletion of database records calledsoft deletion.[1][9]: 18–19 

Laravel 5 was released in February 2015 as a result of internal changes that ended up in renumbering the then-future Laravel 4.3 release. New features in the Laravel 5 release include support for scheduling periodically executed tasks through a package calledScheduler,an abstraction layer calledFlysystemthat allows remote storage to be used in the same way as localfile systems,improved handling of package assets throughElixir,and simplified externally handled authentication through the optionalSocialitepackage. Laravel 5 also introduced a new internaldirectory treestructure for developed applications.[5]: 13–14 [10]

Lumen 5.0 is the initial release of the Lumen framework, a light derivative of Laravel optimized for speed.[11]This initial release is based on the Laravel 5.x series of PHP components, and following versions reflect the Laravel versions with which it shares common infrastructure.[12]As of 2022, authors no longer recommend the use of Lumen for gaining these advantages, and promote Laravel Octane instead.[13]

Laravel 5.1, released in June 2015, was the first release of Laravel to receivelong-term support(LTS). New LTS versions were planned for one every two years.[14]

Laravel 5.3 was released on August 23, 2016. The new features in 5.3 are focused on improving developer speed by adding additional out of the box improvements for common tasks.[15]

Laravel 5.4 was released on January 24, 2017, with many new features like Laravel Dusk, Laravel Mix, Blade Components and Slots, Markdown Emails, Automatic Facades, Route Improvements, Higher Order Messaging for Collections, and many others.[16]

Laravel 6 was released on September 3, 2019. It incorporated shift blueprint code generation, semantic versioning, compatibility with Laravel Vapor, improved authorization responses, improved job middleware, lazy collections, and sub-query improvements. The frontend scaffolding was removed from the main package and moved into the laravel/ui package.[17]

Laravel 7 was released on March 3, 2020, with new features like Laravel Sanctum, Custom Eloquent Casts, Blade Component Tags, Fluent String Operations and Route Model Binding Improvements.[18]

Laravel 8 was released on September 8, 2020, with new features like Laravel Jetstream, model factory classes, migration squashing,Tailwind CSSfor pagination views and other usability improvements.[19]

Laravel 9 was released on February 8, 2022.[12]

Laravel 10 was released on February 14, 2023.[20]

Laravel 11 was released on March 12, 2024. It was announced on the Laravel blog and other social media, it was also discussed in detail at Laracon EU in Amsterdam on 5–6 February.[21]Along with Laravel 11, a first-party websocket server called Laravel Reverb was released.

Release history

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Starting with Laravel 5 and up to Laravel 8, versions designated LTS were supported with bug fixes for 2 years and security fixes for 3 years. Other releases were supported with bug fixes for 6 months and security fixes for 1 year.[22]As of version 8, major versions are released yearly, and the support timeline was changed to provide every version with 18 months of bugfixes and 2 years of security fixes. For additional libraries, only the latest major release receives bug fixes.[19]

Version Release date[23] Bug Fixes Until Security Fixes Until PHP version
Old version, no longer maintained:1.0 June 2011
Old version, no longer maintained:2.0 September 2011
Old version, no longer maintained:3.0 February 22, 2012
Old version, no longer maintained:3.1 March 27, 2012
Old version, no longer maintained:3.2 May 22, 2012
Old version, no longer maintained:4.0 May 28, 2013 ≥ 5.3.0
Old version, no longer maintained:4.1 December 12, 2013 ≥ 5.3.0
Old version, no longer maintained:4.2 June 1, 2014 ≥ 5.4.0
Old version, no longer maintained:5.0 February 4, 2015 August 4, 2015 February 4, 2016 ≥ 5.4.0
Old version, no longer maintained:5.1 LTS June 9, 2015 June 9, 2017 June 9, 2018 ≥ 5.5.9
Old version, no longer maintained:5.2 December 21, 2015 June 21, 2016 December 21, 2016 ≥ 5.5.9
Old version, no longer maintained:5.3 August 23, 2016 February 23, 2017 August 23, 2017 ≥ 5.6.4
Old version, no longer maintained:5.4 January 24, 2017 July 24, 2017 January 24, 2018 ≥ 5.6.4
Old version, no longer maintained:5.5 LTS August 30, 2017 August 30, 2019 August 30, 2020 ≥ 7.0.0
Old version, no longer maintained:5.6 February 7, 2018 August 7, 2018 February 7, 2019 ≥ 7.1.3
Old version, no longer maintained:5.7 September 4, 2018 March 4, 2019 September 4, 2019 ≥ 7.1.3
Old version, no longer maintained:5.8 February 26, 2019 August 26, 2019 February 26, 2020 ≥ 7.1.3
Old version, no longer maintained:6 LTS September 3, 2019 January 25, 2022 September 6, 2022 7.2 – 8.0[24]
Old version, no longer maintained:7 March 3, 2020[25] October 6, 2020 March 3, 2021 7.2 – 8.0[19]
Old version, no longer maintained:8 September 8, 2020 July 26, 2022 January 24, 2023 7.3 – 8.1[26]
Old version, no longer maintained:9 February 8, 2022[24] August 8, 2023 February 6, 2024 8.0 – 8.2[24]
Old version, yet still maintained:10 February 14, 2023 August 6, 2024 February 4, 2025 8.1 – 8.3[20]
Current stable version:11 March 12, 2024 September 3, 2025 March 12, 2026 ≥ 8.2[27]
Future release:12 Q1 2025 Q3 2026 Q1 2027 ≥ 8.2[27]
Legend: Old version, not maintained Old version, still maintained Current stable version Latest preview version Future release

Laracon

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Laraconis the official Laravel conference centered around the Laravel framework, covering its development, uses, and related generalsoftware developmenttopics. Laracon has taken place in theUnited States,Europe,India,Australiaand online in the past.[28][29]Typically, the conference happens in theUnited StatesandEuropeevery year. 2017 was the first year a Laracon was held as an online event only. 2018 was the first year a Laracon was held in Australia. Each year the conference has a different variety of sponsors and organizers, but Laravel, Laravel News and UserScape are usually the primary organizers.

While the numerous Laracon conferences are officially run, a number of other conferences are run under the name of Laravel Live. Currently, there are yearly held Laravel Live UK, Laravel Live Denmark and Laravel Live India conferences.[30][31][32]While these are not officially run, they have the permission of Taylor Otwell to use the name Laravel.

See also

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