Upgrading to Laravel 13

Laravel 13 (released March 2026) is a deliberately small upgrade. Work through this checklist in a dedicated branch with green tests before and after.

Prerequisites

• PHP 8.3+ (13.x supports PHP 8.3–8.5; 8.2 is dropped)
• Green test suite on 12.x before starting

Commands

# Bump core dependencies in composer.json
"laravel/framework": "^13.0",
"laravel/tinker": "^3.0",
"phpunit/phpunit": "^12.0",
"pestphp/pest": "^4.0"

sail composer update                 # or: composer update