#3 - Laravel 11.5 Released 🚀, New The Laravel Ecosystem video series 📺, Test for speed in Laravel with Benchmark ⏱️, report() helper 📝

Laravel 11.5 arrives with a suite of upgrades and new features. Notable features include anonymous event broadcasting and a significant ~20% speed boost in blade component rendering. The make:trait and make:interface commands will create the files in the proper namespaces when they exist.

28th of April, 2024

#2 - Laravel 11.4.0 released 🚀, Property hooks RFC 🗳️, Spatie billion downloads ⬇️

The latest update brings a suite of enhancements. Key features include introducing a `throttle` method for `LazyCollection` and adding enum support in the `mapInto` collection method. Additionally, a new `required_if_declined` validation rule is added. The update also introduces an `afterQuery` hook to run post-query operations and a comprehensive `Exceptions` facade to streamline exception testing.

21st of April, 2024

#1 - Laravel 11.3.1 released 🚀, New textarea function added to Laravel Prompts 🗒️, Differences between the trim() and the Str::trim() 🎥

The Laravel update introduces several significant enhancements. The `session()->hasAny()` method makes it easier to check for the presence of any session keys. The Context class now includes `pull` methods, akin to those in Session and Collections. Additionally, the HTTP Factory is equipped with `Http::createPendingRequest()`, enabling the creation of PendingRequest instances for customized API interactions. Another improvement includes the ability to sort the route:list by multiple columns/factors.

14th of April, 2024