Laravel 12 is a maintenance and improvements release. The framework focused on improving the framework itself while making sure to have non-breaking changes only or minimal breaking changes. We do not really have big features or big changes to the framework itself, except for some changes to the starter kits, which still can work with the Laravel 12 but are no longer kept up.
Laravel 12 was released on Feb 24th 2025. It has been 2 weeks since its release. Make sure to check it out:
https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/releases
The changes
Laravel 12 came with a rebrand of the Laravel website and the documentation. It is sleek, beautiful modern and very aesthetic overall. Besides all that the real changes are worth mentioning.
We have lost support for the blade starter kits like Breeze and Jetstream. We have other great starter kits for the Js frameworks like React. But the blade starter kits are gone. but there is one possibility for them if we have the community starter kits, which was talked about recently.
This could allow for a lot of new possibilities and make the framework even better. Imagine if just built a unique authentication system for yourself you can publish that for others to too, or at least for yourself to reuse. All in your style and taste.
Laravel also includes the support for the WorkOS AuthKit. Which is a toolkit to build an authentication system for your application. It makes authentication and social sign-ins pretty smooth.
Check it out at: https://www.authkit.com/
Other than that the default page for a newly deployed Laravel application was also updated to a more modern and beautiful design and looks even better.
Final notes
While we did not have any major changes as some of us might have expected (Taylor did inform us about this), it seems great to me. The community focused on the stability of the framework as this will help in the long-term success of the framework.
Laravel is a big, beautiful and very strong framework. And that is why I think these releases are crucial for the vision of the Laravel framework.
Thank you and see you in the next one.
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