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Product Decisions This Supports

• Framework upgrade planning (Laravel 11 → 12): This release removes a hard blocker on the Laravel 12 upgrade path. If your platform roadmap includes a Laravel 12 migration, this package can now be included in scope rather than treated as a dependency risk requiring a workaround or replacement.
• Build vs. buy: Confirmed vendor responsiveness on framework-currency is a signal in favor of buy/adopt. A maintainer shipping major-version support promptly lowers the cost of the "build it ourselves" comparison, since the hidden cost of build is exactly this kind of ongoing compatibility maintenance.
• Dependency risk register: Moves this package out of the "unmaintained / upgrade-blocking" category and into "actively maintained." Useful input for technical due diligence, security reviews, and SLA conversations with stakeholders.
• Roadmap sequencing: Teams currently pinned to an older Laravel major can plan the upgrade without sequencing around this dependency. Conversely, if the package requires Laravel 12, adoption implies a platform upgrade — treat that as a coupled decision, not an independent one.
• Support matrix / EOL commitments: A 3.5.0 minor bump with framework support (rather than a major version) suggests an incremental, low-friction adoption. Worth recording which Laravel majors your supported product versions can run, both for customer-facing compatibility statements and internal support burden.

When to Consider This Package

Consider adoption when:

• Your application is on, or actively planning to move to, Laravel 12 — the maintenance signal here is timely and reduces integration risk.
• You need a maintained dependency rather than a fork; the fact that framework support arrives as a routine minor release implies a disciplined release cadence and a working CI matrix against current framework versions.
• You are consolidating overlapping bespoke code and want a supported package to own that surface area.

Look elsewhere or defer when:

• You are on a much older Laravel major. This release says nothing about backward compatibility. Confirm the support matrix for your current version before adopting — a package that only targets 12 may block you just as hard in the other direction.
• The release notes are the only signal you have. "Laravel 12 support" is a compatibility statement, not a capability statement. It tells you the package still works; it tells you nothing about whether it solves your problem better than alternatives. Do not let a maintenance release substitute for a functional evaluation.
• You need a documented long-term support commitment. Framework-currency is a proxy for health, not a guarantee. If you need formal EOL dates, security disclosure policy, or a commercial support channel, verify those separately.
• You are mid-freeze on a critical release. Minor version bumps can still carry transitive dependency changes; treat 3.5.0 as a normal upgrade with normal regression testing, not as a drop-in no-op.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

To executives: This is a low-drama but genuinely useful signal. The package we depend on shipped support for the current Laravel major version as a routine minor update. That means it is actively maintained, and it is no longer a reason we cannot complete our framework upgrade. No new spend, no migration project triggered by this — it unblocks one that was already on the roadmap.

To engineering: Version 3.5.0 adds Laravel 12 support. Before upgrading, confirm two things: (1) the package's minimum supported Laravel version, so we know whether adopting it forces a platform upgrade or merely permits one, and (2) whether any transitive dependencies moved in this release. Update our compatibility matrix and dependency risk register accordingly. Recommend we run the standard regression suite against 3.5.0 in a branch rather than treating the bump as a no-op.

To security and procurement: Framework-version currency is a leading indicator of maintenance health and reduces the window in which we'd be carrying a dependency that cannot receive upstream fixes on our platform version. It is not by itself a security attestation — if we need that, request the package's disclosure policy and release history directly.