Read the full changelog of the upcoming Laravel 5.5 LTS release
The next version of Laravel, which is a LTS release, will be released during and shortly after Laracon EU 2017. Laravel News has published some great articles of changes and new features in the framework. These are some of my personal favourites:
- Auto-registering of new console commands
- Carbon is now Macroable
- Collection dd() and dump() methods
- Custom validator rules
- Database dropAllTables() method
- Improved error and logging handling
- Package auto-discovery
- Render Mailables to the browser
- Support for email themes in Mailables
Besides the Laravel News articles you can also read the full changelog at GitHub!