Selective Maintenance Mode in Laravel 5.7
The latest Larvel 5.7 ships with a new small feature (see PR) that enables you to except URIs from maintenance mode, which can be pretty handy if you want your users to access pages even when your application is down.

When you are running your online business within the European Union you usually need to put your name, address and contact possibilities on your website to comply with EU law (please be aware that this is not a legal advice).
In the past this was quite difficult to achieve when using the maintenance mode in Laravel. You were required to put your contact information on your 503.blade.php template. Since Laravel 5.7 the basic laravel/laravel composer package ships with a CheckForMaintenanceMode default middleware that defines an empty $except array. Within here you are able to define URIs that shall be accessible even when the application is in maintenace.
For more information about the latest Laravel 5.7 release check out the official changelog.
