Killed over 2 years ago, The official Vagrant box that provided a standardized local development environment for Laravel without requiring you to install PHP or Nginx on your machine. It was over 9 years old.
Killed over 3 years ago, Originally Illuminate/Html, it was removed from core and maintained closely by the community. Eventually abandoned as pure HTML and Blade components became preferred. It was almost 8 years old.
Killed almost 4 years ago, A beloved, fluent API wrapper around Webpack for asset compilation. It made Webpack actually enjoyable to use, but was eventually replaced by Vite as the default frontend bundler. It was over 5 years old.
Killed about 4 years ago, A stripped-down, lightning-fast "micro-framework" version of Laravel specifically meant for APIs and microservices. Superseded by Laravel Octane and the sheer speed of modern PHP. It was almost 7 years old.
Killed over 5 years ago, Spark Classic shipped with massive amounts of Vue.js scaffolding and essentially dictated your entire frontend architecture. Replaced by a more isolated standalone billing portal. It was over 4 years old.
Killed over 5 years ago, A simple frontend package that provided basic Bootstrap, Vue, and React scaffolding along with the classic make:auth commands. Replaced by Laravel Jetstream and Breeze. It was about 1 year old.
Killed about 6 years ago, A featherweight authentication system for SPAs. The package wasn't killed, but the name was: weeks after launch, Laravel was forced to rename it to Sanctum over a trademark dispute. It was about 1 month old.
Killed over 7 years ago, Originally, Laravel Cashier supported Stripe and Braintree. The Braintree integration was extracted and subsequently abandoned so the team could focus purely on Stripe and Paddle. It was about 3 years old.
Killed about 9 years ago, The predecessor to Laravel Mix. It was a fluent wrapper around Gulp instead of Webpack. Killed as the frontend ecosystem shifted away from task runners. It was over 2 years old.
Killed about 9 years ago, The original way Laravel handled application testing before Laravel 5.4. Replaced by the much cleaner HTTP Testing API and Laravel Dusk for actual browser-based automation. It was over 3 years old.