Laravel 13.36.0 concentrates on queue workers, Redis failover and lost locks

Victoria Shinder14 October 2026, 09:202 min read

Laravel published framework v13.36.0 on 13 October 2026. The changelog holds about fifty merged pull requests, and the largest group by far concerns queues: how workers start, stop, report and hold connections.

Queue workers. The default queue configuration gains a background connection (#61917), and workers can now flush sticky connections between jobs (#61915). The --json output of queue:work now includes the connection in its paused, resumed and stop events (#61896, #61858). Two fixes change behaviour in error paths: the worker no longer calls its "killback" twice (#61940), and the exit code for a timed-out worker is now actually reachable (#61623, backported to 12.x).

Locks and transactions. Unique queued listeners could keep their lock when the surrounding transaction was rolled back; #61974 releases it. A related fix stops scheduled callbacks from re-throwing an exception from a previous run on later runs (#61973), and queued mailables now honour DeleteWhenMissingModels and FailOnTimeout (#61899). Broadcasting recognises UniqueFor attributes on events (#61981).

Redis and database connections. When no Redis cluster node is reachable, the phpredis client is rebuilt instead of being reused (#61911), and the persistent socket is released before that happens (#61919). Notifications pushed to a Redis queue are now batched (#61965). On the database side, PgBouncer SSL EOF failover errors are recognised as lost connections (#61918), recursive reconnects during a reconnect are prevented (#61995), and MySqlConnection gains IsVitess() and olap() (#61932).

Everything else. Validation rule builders now cover the remaining built-in rules (#61833). Schema::getColumn() becomes case-insensitive, JSON path updates are no longer lost after reading an attribute accessor, increment and decrement no longer skip casts on extra attributes, and Notification::locale() stops leaking into later notifications (#61904, #61959). One entry, "Prevent escaping from bypassing protection" (#61755), is listed without further detail in the release notes; anyone who wants to know what it protects should read the pull request itself rather than the one-line title.

The release notes announce no breaking changes for the 13.x line; most of the entries are bug fixes in queue, Redis and Eloquent code paths.

Source: Laravel, framework v13.36.0 release notes — https://github.com/laravel/framework/releases/tag/v13.36.0