Laravel 10 Release: New Features, Requirements, and Upgrade Guide

Laravel 10 has been released, requiring PHP ^8.1 and introducing new packages such as Laravel Pennant for feature flags, an enhanced Process layer, native type declarations in the skeleton, and invokable validation rules as the default.

The framework now follows a yearly release cadence: Laravel 9 was released on February 8 2022, Laravel 10 on February 14 2023, and Laravel 11 is planned for the first quarter of 2024; bug‑fix support for Laravel 9 ends on August 8 2023 and security fixes continue until February 14 2024, while Laravel 10 receives bug fixes until August 6 2024 and security fixes until February 14 2025.

Key additions include the Process facade for running CLI commands: use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Process; $result = Process::run('ls -la'); $result->successful(); $result->failed(); $result->exitCode(); $result->output(); $result->errorOutput(); $result->throw(); $result->throwIf($condition); , the ability to profile slow tests with the --profile option, and the new Str::password() helper for generating secure random passwords.

Deprecated methods from Laravel 9 have been removed, and developers are encouraged to follow the official upgrade guide to migrate projects safely.

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