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This package is a maintained compatibility replacement for mcamara/laravel-localization, kept compatible with WNCMS and modern Laravel.

Release line

2.4.x is the active minor line for the Laravel 13 upgrade track.

• PHP: ^8.4
• Laravel: ^13.0
• Testbench: ^11.0
• PHPUnit: ^12.5

Why this exists

The upstream package is effectively unmaintained for our use case, while WNCMS depends on locale alias behavior such as tw -> zh_TW.

This fork keeps the original namespaces and public APIs so it can remain a drop-in replacement, while carrying the compatibility fixes needed by WNCMS.

What changed in 2.4.x

• Laravel 13 / PHP 8.4 dependency baseline
• Verified middleware redirect behavior under Laravel 13
• Verified localized URL generation and translated route lookup under Laravel 13
• Fixed translated route generation and lookup when localesMapping aliases are used

Compatibility

• Same namespaces
• Same service provider
• Same facade
• Same config contract
• Intended as a drop-in replacement for mcamara/laravel-localization

Validation scope

The package now includes Testbench-based coverage for:

• mapped default locale handling with hideDefaultLocaleInURL
• translated route URL generation
• translated route lookup from alias-based localized URLs
• session-based locale redirection middleware
• hidden default locale redirection middleware

Composer usage

composer require secretwebmaster/laravel-localization:^2.4