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• My Laravel PR Was Auto-Closed in 16 Seconds — 3 Lessons From Contributing to laravel/framework
  1 project | dev.to | 4 Oct 2026

  Issue #61788 reported that on 12.x, ? in route parameters gets encoded (? → %3F), breaking URLs built with pre-encoded values. The fix had already landed on 13.x as PR #61610, which introduced a tiny EncodedParameter wrapper so already-encoded values pass through RouteUrlGenerator::encodeParameter() untouched.

• Slow Jobs, Killer Containers: Laravel Queue Timeouts and Crashes in Docker
  1 project | dev.to | 1 Oct 2026

  The problem is that maxExceptions only counts real exceptions. A job that pushes the worker into OOM, gets killed, returns to the queue and pushes the next worker into OOM increments nothing. It loops until retryUntil() runs out, burning CPU and — if it calls a paid model — billed requests. The author of PR #61737 describes hitting exactly this with a worker being OOM-killed on Laravel Cloud.

• PostgreSQL index bloat: why VACUUM never shrinks an index, and how to measure it with avg_leaf_density
  1 project | dev.to | 26 Sep 2026

  Laravel wraps migrations in a transaction, and only on PostgreSQL. DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY inside a migration fails with cannot run inside a transaction block, and nothing in the migration file explains why. The reason is three files deep in the framework. Migration.php declares public $withinTransaction = true;, Migrator.php wraps the call when supportsSchemaTransactions() && $migration->withinTransaction, and PostgresGrammar.php sets protected $transactions = true;. The MySQL grammar does not override it, so it inherits false from the base class. The same migration passes on MySQL and fails on PostgreSQL. The fix is one line in the migration class:

• Laravel's New whereBinary(): Simple Case-Sensitive Queries in MySQL
  1 project | dev.to | 22 Sep 2026

  The feature was added in Laravel framework PR #61261. It also adds whereNotBinary(), orWhereBinary(), and orWhereNotBinary().

• Inside the Laravel 13 Scheduler: From Cron Entry to Event Execution
  1 project | dev.to | 16 Sep 2026

  The command is implemented by Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\ScheduleRunCommand. Its handle() method receives four dependencies from the container:

• Laravel's Native Vector Search Now Speaks MariaDB — Plain MySQL Is Still Left Out
  1 project | dev.to | 8 Sep 2026

  On August 20, PR #61250 was merged into Laravel's 13.x branch, bringing the query builder's native vector search — whereVectorSimilarTo and friends — to MariaDB. Until then it was PostgreSQL-with-pgvector only. I care about this for two reasons: I spent eleven years building business software on Laravel and MySQL, and the way the PR is written is a small lesson in driver design worth more than the feature itself. There's a third, less cheerful reason too: if your projects run on plain MySQL, as most of my older ones do, you're still left out — and not because anyone was lazy.

• "I just chose words carefully."
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2026
• Laravel 13.20 Image Processing: A Production Guide
  1 project | dev.to | 15 Jul 2026

  Laravel Framework v13.20.0 release

• bcrypt and Laravel: 72 Bytes, Not 72 Characters
  1 project | dev.to | 21 Jun 2026

  Laravel PR #54509: Add bcrypt byte limit

• How Blade's @context directive broke our JSON-LD
  2 projects | dev.to | 25 Apr 2026

  We hit this last week on a blog index running 12.44.0. The page returned HTTP 500 for every visitor for three weeks before anyone noticed. There is a public issue with the same symptom against 12.20+: laravel/framework#56248.

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