Laravel 13.26.1

Laravel has shipped version 13.26.1, a maintenance release published on August 18, 2026, that walks back a feature introduced just hours earlier in 13.26.0.

The release notes, published by the framework's maintainers on GitHub, list exactly one commit: a revert of the orWhereKey and orWhereKeyNot methods added to the Eloquent Builder in the previous release. The revert was authored by Taylor Otwell and merged as pull request #61236.

What Changed

Version 13.26.0 landed earlier the same day with a headline addition: two new query-builder shortcuts, orWhereKey and orWhereKeyNot, designed to let developers chain key-based filters onto Eloquent queries with OR logic.

13.26.1 removes both methods from the framework core. The change is a straight revert — the Eloquent Builder returns to the exact state it was in before 13.26.0, with no other code changes bundled in.

Why It Matters

For teams that upgraded to 13.26.0 and immediately adopted the new methods, the practical takeaway is straightforward: orWhereKey and orWhereKeyNot no longer exist in the latest release. Any code written against them will throw an undefined-method error and must be rewritten using the conventional whereKey/orWhere combinations that predate the feature.

Because the release is a single, surgical revert, the risk profile is low — applications that never touched the two new methods can upgrade to 13.26.1 without behavioural changes.

What's Next

The framework's maintainers have not yet commented on whether the key-based OR methods will return in a revised form. For now, the 13.26.x line continues to be the recommended target for Laravel 13 applications, and the standard weekly release cadence resumes next week.

Laravel 13.26.1 is available immediately via Composer with composer update laravel/framework.