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Amit Merchant argues that skills, prompts, plugins, and MCP servers are becoming dependencies of AI agents, and should be versioned and managed like application code. He also highlights APM as a way to install reproducible agent tooling, with Dependabot now able to keep those dependencies up to date.

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Learn how to version your Laravel APIs properly in this walk through tutorial.

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Seb explains why it's perfectly safe to drop a major version of PHP without tagging a new major version of a package.

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A couple of months ago Jason McCreary, creator of Laravel Shift, wrote down his opinion on the Laravel's LTS release. I couldn't agree more with this piece.

The more developers that get trapped by LTS, the more of a drag it creates on the Laravel community. Potentially having adverse affects on its growth. Using LTS as a minimum compatibility line for a Laravel package or other third-party code is understandable. But freezing your apps to an LTS version is not. Your apps should run the latest stable version of Laravel.

https://medium.com/@jasonmccreary/laravel-lts-is-a-trap-97b1d1103961

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One of the main questions when doing a major release is which minimum PHP version to support going forward. Last summer I decided I wanted to do a big jump from 5.3 and directly target PHP 7. It provides a lot of nice features as well as performance improvements, and as Monolog is one of the most installed packages on Packagist I wanted to help nudge everyone towards PHP 7.

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