Laravel v5.6.18 released

Please be mindful about the response code change of the ValidationException in ThrottlesLogins from 423 to 429.

Added

• Added support for MySQL 8 (#23948)
• Added support for custom filesystem drivers URLs (#23964)
• Added more PostgreSQL operators (#23945)
• Added support for JSONP callback when broadcasting using Pusher (#24018, b9ab427)

Changed

• Support chaining using $this->be() helper (#23919)
• Improved pagination accessibility (#23962)
• Changed response code of ValidationException in ThrottlesLogins to 429 (#24002)
• Throw exception if called command doesn’t exist (#23942)
• Made notification email translatable (#23903)

Fixed

• Fixed saving timestamp columns on pivots without parent (#23917)
• Quote collation names in MySQL migrations (#23989)
• Fixed sending plain-text only emails (#23981)
• Fixed counting the number of jobs on Queue::fake() (#23933)