Laravel 2,157 replaces the session_start(), $_SESSION and setcookie() of Sessions and Uploads with a driver-based session store, encrypted cookies, and a cache API. Examples run on Laravel 13.33.0 and PHP 8.5.4 at B=127.0.0.1:8316, against the shop database grown to 500,016 order lines and Redis 8.0.5 2,763 via predis/predis 3.6.1. Timings come from one shared WSL2 6 machine: trust the ratios.