Worker Metrics on the WorkerStopping Event in Laravel 13.18

What's New in Laravel 13.18

Laravel 13.18.0 ships a focused set of improvements across the queue worker, scheduler, Artisan dev commands, and Number helpers, alongside a batch of targeted bug fixes.

Worker Metrics on the WorkerStopping Event

The WorkerStopping event now exposes two new properties that describe what a worker did before it shut down:

• jobsProcessed (int|null) — the total number of jobs the worker handled during its lifetime.
• lastJobProcessedAt (int|float|null) — a microtime timestamp of the last job processed, or null if the worker stopped before processing anything.

use Illuminate\Queue\Events\WorkerStopping;

Event::listen(function (WorkerStopping $event) {
    $event->jobsProcessed;      // int|null
    $event->lastJobProcessedAt; // int|float|null (microtime)
});

Both values are populated whether the worker exits normally or is killed. This gives you a clean hook to record per-worker throughput or emit metrics to an observability platform when a daemon exits, without instrumenting the job loop yourself.

PRs: #60592 and #60608

Graceful Shutdown for schedule:work

schedule:work now catches SIGINT, SIGTERM, and SIGQUIT. On receiving one of these signals it stops scheduling new runs and waits for any in-progress schedule:run to finish before exiting — mirroring the existing behavior of queue:work.

This is particularly relevant in container environments like Kubernetes, where pods receive SIGTERM on shutdown. Previously, that signal could interrupt a task mid-execution.

PR: #60616

Priority-Based Dev Command Registration

Dev commands registered for artisan dev now carry a source priority: userland application commands win over vendor package commands, which win over framework defaults — regardless of service provider boot order.

use Illuminate\Foundation\Console\DevCommands;

DevCommands::artisan('reverb:start --host="0.0.0.0"', 'reverb');

This replaces the previous vendor auto-registration blocker approach with explicit priority, so your overrides always take effect. Additionally, artisan dev now runs with --kill-others-on-fail, meaning if one process in the group fails, the rest are stopped rather than left running.

PRs: #60580 and #60606

Number Helpers Hardened Against INF and NAN

Number::forHumans(), Number::abbreviate(), and Number::fileSize() previously threw exceptions when passed INF or NAN. All three are now fixed to handle these edge-case inputs without crashing.

PRs: #60617 and #60625

Other Fixes and Improvements

• Reduced unnecessary cache hits when using debounced jobs (#60575)
• Fixed cache headers not being set on HEAD requests (#60589)
• Prevented the restored event from firing when a soft-delete restore fails (#60605)
• Fixed RateLimited middleware not serializing releaseAfter in __sleep() (#60609)
• Fixed flexible() lock and defer label collisions in TaggedCache (#60626)
• Fixed JSON parsing for top-level zero bodies (#60614)
• Added conditional return types and synced getter return types with property generics

Key Takeaways

• Listen to WorkerStopping to capture per-worker job counts and last-processed timestamps without custom instrumentation.
• schedule:work now handles SIGTERM gracefully — important for Kubernetes and other container runtimes.
• Userland artisan dev command registrations always win over vendor and framework defaults via explicit priority.
• Number::forHumans(), Number::abbreviate(), and Number::fileSize() no longer crash on INF or NAN inputs.
• Several cache, scheduler, and middleware edge-case bugs are resolved in this release.

Source: Laravel News — Laravel 13.18.0