The ecosystem

II.1 2014 Forge A server management and deployment service. Product · Hosting and deploy led to Envoyer, Laravel Cloud, Laravel VPS II.2 2014 Homestead A pre-packaged Vagrant box: Ubuntu with Nginx, PHP, MySQL, Postgres, Redis and Node, so no PHP or server software went on the laptop. Package · Local environment led to Valet II.3 2014 Envoy A task runner for remote servers, written in Blade. Package · Hosting and deploy II.6 2014 Elixir A fluent wrapper over Gulp for compiling Sass, Less and ES2015 into `public/`, with hashed filenames for cache busting. Package · Frontend and kits led to Mix II.7 2014 Cashier Stripe subscription billing as a trait on your user model. Package · Data, auth and admin led to Spark II.8 2014 Socialite OAuth login with a provider's account instead of a password. Package · Data, auth and admin

II.4 2015 Envoyer A zero-downtime deployment service for PHP. Product · Hosting and deploy from Forge led to Vapor II.5 2015 Lumen A separate, smaller framework built from Laravel's components for APIs and small services. Package · Runtime and ops II.9 2016 Spark SaaS billing scaffolding on top of Cashier. Product · Data, auth and admin from Cashier II.10 2016 Valet A local development environment for macOS. Package · Local environment from Homestead led to Sail, Herd II.11 2016 Passport A full OAuth2 server for a Laravel app, on the League OAuth2 server. Package · Data, auth and admin led to Sanctum II.12 2016 Scout Driver-based full-text search for Eloquent models. Package · Data, auth and admin II.16 2016 Echo The JavaScript client for Laravel broadcasting. Package · Runtime and ops led to Reverb

II.13 2017 Dusk Browser tests through ChromeDriver, with no Selenium or JDK to install. Package · Testing and tooling II.14 2017 Mix A fluent wrapper that writes a webpack configuration from a short webpack.mix.js. Package · Frontend and kits from Elixir II.15 2017 Horizon A dashboard and a code-driven supervisor for Redis queues. Package · Runtime and ops led to Telescope II.17 2018 Nova A paid admin panel for an existing Laravel app. Product · Data, auth and admin II.18 2018 Telescope A debug assistant for local development. Package · Runtime and ops from Horizon led to Pulse II.19 2019 Vapor Serverless Laravel on AWS Lambda, in your own AWS account. Product · Hosting and deploy from Envoyer led to Laravel Cloud

II.20 2020 Sanctum Authentication for SPAs, mobile apps and plain token APIs, without OAuth. Package · Data, auth and admin from Passport II.21 2020 Fortify A headless authentication backend: the routes and controllers for login, registration, password reset, verification, two-factor and passkeys, with every screen left to you. Package · Data, auth and admin led to Jetstream II.22 2020 Breeze The minimal starter kit for Laravel 11 and earlier: login, registration, password reset, email verification and a profile page, as controllers and views copied into your app. Package · Frontend and kits led to Starter kits II.23 2020 Jetstream The full starter kit of the Laravel 8 era: login, verification, two-factor, sessions, Sanctum tokens and optional teams, on Livewire or Inertia. Package · Frontend and kits from Fortify led to Starter kits II.24 2020 Sail A command-line wrapper for a Docker development environment. Package · Local environment from Valet led to Herd II.25 2021 Octane A long-running application server. Package · Runtime and ops II.26 2022 Pint An opinionated PHP code style fixer built on PHP CS Fixer. Package · Testing and tooling II.33 2022 Precognition Live validation without a second copy of the rules. Package · Frontend and kits

II.27 2023 Pennant Feature flags without a vendor. Package · Data, auth and admin II.28 2023 Herd A native local environment for macOS and Windows. Product · Local environment from Sail, Valet II.29 2023 Prompts Form controls for the terminal: text, select, search, confirm and the rest, with placeholders, validation and a spinner. Package · Testing and tooling II.30 2023 Folio Page-based routing. Package · Frontend and kits II.31 2023 Volt A single-file form for Livewire: the PHP and the Blade of a component in one file, written as functions (state, mount, computed) or as an anonymous class. Package · Frontend and kits from Livewire 3 II.32 2023 Pulse A performance dashboard inside your own app. Package · Runtime and ops from Telescope led to Nightwatch II.34 2023 Pail A log tail for the terminal that works with any log driver, Nightwatch, Sentry or Flare included, because it listens for log events and keeps its own temporary files under `storage/pail`, rather than tailing the app's log file. Package · Testing and tooling II.35 2023 Livewire Interactive pages written as PHP classes and Blade, with no JavaScript of your own. Package · Frontend and kits led to Volt II.36 2024 Reverb A first-party WebSocket server. Package · Runtime and ops from Echo II.37 2024 Inertia React, Vue or Svelte pages served by Laravel controllers, with no API in between. Package · Frontend and kits led to Wayfinder

II.38 2025 Laravel Cloud Laravel's own managed platform. Product · Hosting and deploy from Vapor, Forge led to Private Cloud, Go, Py, Rails II.39 2025 Starter kits Four scaffolds for a new application: React, Vue and Svelte over Inertia, or Livewire with Flux. Package · Frontend and kits from Breeze, Jetstream II.40 2025 Nightwatch Laravel's hosted monitoring. Product · Runtime and ops from Pulse II.41 2025 Boost Context for a coding agent, generated from the app: an MCP server the agent runs over artisan, guideline files assembled for the packages installed, and skills loaded on demand. Package · Agents and AI II.42 2025 Laravel MCP A third entry point to the app beside the web and the API: tools, resources and prompts an AI client can call, written as classes and registered in routes/ai.php. Package · Agents and AI led to AI SDK II.43 2025 Laravel VPS Servers sold by Forge itself: Ubuntu machines on DigitalOcean's infrastructure, provisioned in seconds, with root access, a terminal in the browser and one bill. Product · Hosting and deploy from Forge II.44 2026 Private Cloud Laravel Cloud with nobody else in it: a dedicated Kubernetes cluster, VPC and AWS account for one customer, managed by Laravel and deployed to from the same Cloud dashboard. Product · Hosting and deploy from Laravel Cloud II.45 2025 Wayfinder TypeScript generated from the Laravel app: the frontend imports a controller action and gets its URL, method and parameters typed. Package · Frontend and kits from Inertia 2 II.46 2026 Laravel PAO Agent-optimised output. Package · Testing and tooling II.47 2026 AI SDK One API for every model provider, in the shape of the framework: an agent is a class, a tool is a class, a conversation is rows in your database, and a tool that matters pauses for a person. Package · Agents and AI from Laravel MCP II.48 2026 Rails, Go and Python on Cloud Sheet not yet drawn. Product · Hosting and deploy from Laravel Cloud