Laravel Roundup - October

Laravel has raised a $57 million Series A from Accel, which has allowed the creation of a world-class engineering and leadership team, resulting in products like Laravel Cloud and another product to be announced at Laracon AU in November. Pinkary is now fully open source, and a new interview series on the Laravel YouTube channel highlights creators within the community. PHP 8.4 RC1 has been released, and Laravel continues its weekly release schedule with new features. Pest 3 has been released for mutation testing. Several companies are hiring Laravel developers, including positions for full stack engineers, senior developers, and engineering managers. There are also upcoming events like PHP Stoke, Laravel Switzerland, UpstatePHP, Laracon AU, and Laracon EU. Popular Laravel packages include generating entity-relationship diagrams, a product information management system, an eloquent filtering package, and a PHP extension for VSCode.