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Upgrades · 2026-11-12 · 4 min readWhat actually breaks when a Laravel app passes end of support
The failures are rarely dramatic. They arrive as a package that will not update, a payment library that drops your version, and a security review you cannot pass.Read the article
Payments · 2026-11-12Payment succeeded, access denied: tracing a webhook failure end to endInherited code · 2026-11-12You inherited a codebase with no documentation. The first five days.Reference · kept currentEnd-of-support calendar for Laravel, Yii and PHP
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