Laravel 12 Released with New Starter Kits

Laravel 12 was released on 24 February 2025. The framework team described it as a largely maintenance release that updates upstream dependencies while keeping breaking changes to a minimum, so most Laravel 11 applications can upgrade with little or no code change.

Highlights

• New application starter kits for React, Vue and Livewire, replacing Breeze and Jetstream for new projects. The React and Vue kits use Inertia 2, TypeScript, Tailwind and shadcn-style components.
• An option to use WorkOS AuthKit in the starter kits for social login, passkeys and SSO.
• Updated dependencies and small quality-of-life improvements across the framework.

Laravel 12 requires PHP 8.2 or newer, so applications still running on PHP 8.1 or older must upgrade PHP before moving to it.

Source: Laravel 12 release notes

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