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VALIDATION / 7 MIN

exclude_unless dropped the field and required never fired

The client omitted one field and the validator silently discarded a different one. validated() came back without it, the required rule never fired, and update() kept the old price.

Oct 9, 2026

VALIDATION / 6 MIN

exists validated a row you already soft deleted

Your form request accepts a project_id that passed the exists rule. The project was deleted three weeks ago. The rule never looked at deleted_at, and the model class you passed it did not help.

Oct 5, 2026

VALIDATION / 7 MIN

The unique rule ignored nothing and the row failed itself

Your update form rejects the email address the record already owns. You passed the model to ignore() as documented, the id it extracted was falsy, and the rule dropped the exclusion.

Oct 5, 2026

VALIDATION / 6 MIN

validated() handed create() the keys you never validated

You used validated() instead of all() because it is the safe one. With an array field and no nested rules, it returns every key the client sent, including the ones you never wrote a rule for.

Oct 5, 2026

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Simon Willison 1d ago

Quoting Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang

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OpenAI 1d ago

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Laravel Releases 1d ago

v13.37.0

[13.x] Fix race condition with jobs using both onOneServer() and withoutOverlapping() by @tanerkay in #62007 [13.x] Respect faked Sleep in limiter block() timeout by @grzegorczykp in #62017 [13.x] Improve getForeignKeys...

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