At the beginning of 2026, I decommissioned the following Shifts.
- Upgrade Checker
- Tailwind Converter
- Dusk Converter
Most of these Shifts received very little usage in 2025, but relatively high support. While I'm always looking to improve Shifts, that math wasn't mathing.
Upgrade Checker
There's really no longer a need to run the Upgrade Checker. Back with Laravel 5, this made sense when many of the underlying features had continued support. While Laravel still has many optional changes in releases, recent Shifts offer more overlap. That is to say, if you are using Shift to upgrade, the Upgrade Checker should never find anything.
If you are not staying up-to-date, then something like the Laravel Slimmer or Laravel Fixer will modernize your project enough. In addition, there are many Workbench tasks which can refactor legacy Laravel code.
Tailwind Converter
The Tailwind Converter was targeted to convert Bootstrap to Tailwind in my own projects when Tailwind gained popularity several years ago. I don't think this conversion is very common anymore. Those looking to convert have probably done a complete redesign, or are asking AI to do the conversion for them.
Dusk Converter
Much like the Tailwind Converter, I wanted to use this on my own projects as I have grown very tired of supporting Dusk over the years. At Laracon 2025, Nuno touted browser testing in Pest as being better than Dusk. Unfortunately, that has not proven true — or at least Pest's browser testing is not a one-to-one replacement of all Dusk functionality.
As Pest's browser testing continues to mature, I may revive this Shift. But as it stands now, unless you have very basic Dusk tests, your converted tests were likely incomplete. Therefore, you'd be better off keeping Dusk or using Playwright directly.