Who contributed to Laravel on August 17, 2026?

5 developers shipped this update, including Gujiassh, pushpak1300, sulimanbenhalim, calrloco, and CamilleScholtz.

What were the notable Laravel updates?

Send text/plain for all text document sources on Anthropic, Send text/plain for all text document sources on Anthropic (#886), and Add support for the OpenRouter web fetch server tool.

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ANTHROPIC ATTACHMENT BUG FIXED, OPENROUTER GAINS WEB FETCH, BOOST PATCHES CONFIG TRAP

By RepoJournal · Filed 06:56 UTC on August 17, 2026 · About Laravel

5 people shipped this

sulimanbenhalim @sulimanbenhalim 5 cited

Gujiassh @Gujiassh 2 cited

calrloco @calrloco 2 cited

CamilleScholtz @CamilleScholtz 2 cited

pushpak1300 @pushpak1300 1 cited

Laravel/ai shipped a critical fix for Anthropic file attachments that were failing on media type alone, while OpenRouter gained web fetch support and Boost plugged a config hole that breaks MCP initialization.

The Anthropic gateway was sending CSV and Markdown files with their correct MIME types to a document source that only accepts `text/plain`, causing API rejections before the model touched the content [1]. That's fixed now [2]. On the same desk, OpenRouter's `openrouter:web_fetch` server tool is now mapped and reachable, matching what Anthropic and Gemini already support [3] [4]. Over in Boost, a blank `BOOST_PHP_EXECUTABLE_PATH=` in `.env` was treated as a valid path instead of unset, causing `boost:install` to write malformed `.mcp.json` and break every artisan invocation in the generated Claude config [5] [6]. The OpenAI-compatible gateway also now strips markdown code fences from structured output, since local backends like vLLM and llama.cpp often wrap JSON without honoring the schema format spec [7]. MCP itself gained OAuth challenge exposure for authenticated routes [8] [9], and v0.9.4 shipped with searchable tool catalogs [10]. Boost documentation also corrected its retry example to include an idempotency key, preventing double-charges when Stripe connection errors occur [11] [12].

Action items

→ Upgrade laravel/ai to pick up the Anthropic media type and OpenRouter web fetch fixes laravel/ai [immediate]
→ If you use Boost with a blank BOOST_PHP_EXECUTABLE_PATH, reinstall now laravel/boost [immediate]
→ Review OpenAI-compatible backend integrations for structured output handling laravel/ai [plan]

References

[1] Send text/plain for all text document sources on Anthropic ↗ laravel/ai
[2] Send text/plain for all text document sources on Anthropic (#886) laravel/ai
[3] Add support for the OpenRouter web fetch server tool ↗ laravel/ai
[4] Add support for the OpenRouter web fetch server tool (#889) laravel/ai
[5] Treat blank executable path config values as unset ↗ laravel/boost
[6] Treat blank executable path config values as unset (#937) laravel/boost
[7] Strip markdown code fences from OpenAI-compatible structured output ↗ laravel/ai
[8] Expose OAuth challenges on authenticated MCP routes ↗ laravel/mcp
[9] Expose OAuth challenges on authenticated MCP routes (#322) laravel/mcp
[10] v0.9.4 ↗ laravel/mcp
[11] Send an idempotency key in the retried charge example ↗ laravel/boost
[12] Send an idempotency key in the retried charge example (#938) laravel/boost

Quick answers

What shipped in Laravel on August 17, 2026?: Laravel/ai shipped a critical fix for Anthropic file attachments that were failing on media type alone, while OpenRouter gained web fetch support and Boost plugged a config hole that breaks MCP initialization. In total, 7 commits, 7 pull requests, and 1 releases landed.
Who contributed to Laravel on August 17, 2026?: 5 developers shipped this update, including Gujiassh, pushpak1300, sulimanbenhalim, calrloco, and CamilleScholtz.
What were the notable Laravel updates?: Send text/plain for all text document sources on Anthropic, Send text/plain for all text document sources on Anthropic (#886), and Add support for the OpenRouter web fetch server tool.

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