The Laravel team released v6.12.0 this week with the ability to load factories from a package, dump test session data, and many other features! This release is jam-packed with contributions that add some sweet syntactic sugar for repetitive things like filtering a request input as a Boolean. Load Factories from a Package Gergo D. Nagy…

Nexmo Voice Channel is a package that adds a notification channel to Laravel using Nexmo’s voice API: This package provides a notification channel for the Laravel framework that works with Nexmo’s voice API, allowing text-to-speech phone calls. It also provides a fluent interface to construct your message content. To use this notification channel, you route a notification through VoiceChannel and provide a toVoice() method. The readme documents an example so you can get a visual of using this package:

The Laravel team released v6.5 this week with a new remember function added to the LazyCollection. Also, this release includes a few new string helpers, custom unless blade conditions, and a few new query builder methods. First, a new LazyCollection::remember() method which remembers any enumerated values and will not pull…

The Laravel team released v6.4 this week with a password reset security fix and the latest new features: First, a security fix related to password resets was contributed. The fix throttles users to only creating one password reset record every 60 seconds. This prevents attackers from submitting many password requests…

The Laravel team announced the immediate availability of Laravel v6.1.0 with a new eager() a method added to Lazy Collections along with the latest updates for Laravel 6. LazyCollections — a new feature added to Laravel 6 — now has an eager() a method which “enumerates all of the lazy…

Laravel 5.8 is now released and available to everyone. This release includes several new features along with the latest bug fixes and improvements to the framework’s core. PHP dotenv An integration with PHP dotenv 3.0 ships with Laravel 5.8 and includes the following new features through PHP dotenv 3.0: More flexibility in…

Laravel 5.7.13 was released Wednesday with some new collection methods and the ability to return an array of messages in a custom validation rule. First, new empty collection methods were added, including whenEmpty, whenNotEmpty, unlessEmpty, and unlessNotEmpty. For example, the whenEmpty method will fire this callback on an empty collection: …

Laravel 5.7.7 is now released and includes both bug fixes and thanks to Derek MacDonald a big improvement to Mail Localization. With the release of Laravel 5.7, the Illuminate\Notifications\Notificationclass started offering a locale method to set the desired language. The application will change into this locale when the notification is…

Dump Server to Ship At Laracon US 2018 Taylor Otwell announced that Laravel Dump Server would come packaged with Laravel in version 5.7! It will be a development dependency in laravel/laravel composer file. Starting in Laravel 5.7 you’ll get this command out-of-the-box that allows you to dump data to the console or an HTML…