Featuring Laravel creator Taylor Otwell and many others who’ve contributed to making Laravel the technology and community that it is today, Laravel Origins tells the story of why Laravel came to be, how it's grown over the last 10 years and what the future may hold for Taylor and the wider Laravel community.
Laravel Origins was filmed in late 2021, produced by OfferZen and directed by Dewald Brand, with shoots in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Egypt.
Credit to Romega Digital as well as the LaraconEU and StreamACon YouTube channels for the conference footage.
Laravel 1 was released on 14-06-2011
Laravel 1 included built-in support for authentication, localisation, models, views, sessions, routing and other mechanisms, but lacked support for controllers that prevented it from being a true MVC framework.
Laravel 2 was released on 14-09-2011
Bringing various improvements from the author and community. Major new features included the support for controllers, which made Laravel 2 a fully MVC-compliant framework.
Laravel 3 was released on 14-02-2012
With a set of new features including the cmd command-line interface (CLI) named Artisan.
Laravel 4 was released on 14-05-2013
Laravel 4, codenamed Illuminate, was released in May 2013. It was made as a complete rewrite of the Laravel framework, migrating its layout into a set of separate packages distributed through Composer.
Laravel 5 was released on 14-02-2015
Including support for scheduling periodically executed tasks through a package called Scheduler, and an abstraction layer called Flysystem that allows remote storage.
Laravel 6 was released on 03-09-2019
With improved job middleware, lazy collections, and sub-query improvements.
Laravel 7 was released on 03-02- 2020
With new features like Laravel Sanctum, Custom Eloquent Casts, Blade Component Tags, Fluent String Operations and Route Model Binding Improvements.
Laravel 8 was released on 08-09-2020
With new features like Laravel Jetstream, Tailwind CSS for pagination views and other usability improvements.
Laravel 9 was released on 08-02-2022
Laravel 10 was released on 14-02-2023
Laravel 11 was released on 12-03-2024
Laravel 12 was released on 24-02-2025