Vite 8 shipped on March 12, 2026, and Tailwind merged @tailwindcss/vite support the same day. Here is what has shipped already, what is still only on main, and who should care.
Inertia.js v3 entered beta on March 5, 2026. The big shifts for Laravel teams are async requests, optimistic updates, infinite scrolling, and dropping the Axios dependency.
Laravel Cloud now lets new users start with $5 in credits and no credit card. It also moves Git connections from the organization level to the user level.
Laravel 12.54.0 adds PostgreSQL tsvector columns, BinaryFileResponse test assertions, Model::withoutRelation(), and several queue and validation fixes. Laravel 12.54.1 is a tiny follow-up release.
