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Laravel 12.40-41, Build Your Own Private, Self-Hosted AI Applications with Ollama & Laravel, A Guide to Laravel Queues, The State of AI, How to sell to engineers & more

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Ahmad
December 07, 2025

Hey Makers 👋

We’re down to the last call for the SaaSykit Cyber Monday deal — your final chance to grab 25% off SaaSykit Complete using the code BLACKFRIDAY2025 before it’s gone for good.

If you’ve been sitting on a SaaS idea or waiting for the right moment to start building, this is it. 🚀

And on top of that, the Laravel team just dropped two fresh packed releases, loaded with quality-of-life improvements and shiny new features that make building even more enjoyable.

Let’s jump into these interesting updates 👇

Laravel 12.40-41 updates

  • New Time & Duration Helpers

    • New plus() / minus() named-argument methods added to Illuminate\Support\Carbon: 

Carbon::now()->plus(months: 2, hours: 3);
Carbon::now()->minus(days: 12);

  • New lightweight duration helpers returning CarbonInterval:

use function Illuminate\Support\{milliseconds, seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years};

minutes(10); // 10-minute interval
days(14);    // 2-week interval

  • Schedule Tasks on Specific Month Days

    • New daysOfMonth() scheduler method allows specifying multiple days: 

$schedule->command('generate-reports')->daysOfMonth(1, 15, 28);
$schedule->command('generate-reports')->daysOfMonth([1, 15, 28]);

  • Encoding Validation Rule

    • A new file encoding validation rule ensures uploaded files have the expected encoding: 

Validator::validate($data, [
    'file' => [
        'required',
        File::types(['csv'])->encoding('UTF-8'),
    ],
]);

  • Encoding Validation Rule

    • A new file encoding validation rule ensures uploaded files have the expected encoding: 

php artisan queue:pause database:default
php artisan queue:continue database:default

  • New throwUnless() on HTTP Responses

    • The HTTP client’s Response now includes throwUnless()

$response->throwUnless($shouldContinue);

$response->throwUnless(fn ($resp) => $resp->status() === 200);

  • New artisan reload + Provider-Defined Reload Hooks

    • A new reload command is available.

    • Service providers can register their own post-deployment reload steps: 

public function boot()
{
    $this->reloads('reverb:restart');
}


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