The Laravel 13 Features That Matter in Real Projects

Laravel 13 has been released with zero application-level breaking changes, requiring PHP 8.3. It includes PHP 8-style #[Attribute] support for Eloquent models and controllers, improving readability on large domain models. Use attributes incrementally, as mass-converting existing models can introduce errors. Additionally, Laravel 13 introduces a new Cache::touch() method for extending cache item TTLs without fetching or rewriting the value.