Taylor Otwell presents new features in Laravel 5.3 at Laracon EU. He covers improvements to queues, file storage, notifications system, and introduces Laravel Echo for real-time features. The talk demonstrates practical examples of each feature, showing how Laravel 5.3 makes PHP development more accessible while keeping pace with modern web development trends.

Taylor Otwell presents the new features in Laravel 5.3 at Laracon. He covers major updates including a new mailable system for cleaner email handling, Laravel Scout for full-text search functionality, Laravel Passport for OAuth2 authentication, and a new notification system. The talk demonstrates practical implementations of these features with live coding examples and explains how they simplify common development tasks.