Software Update: Laravel 9.0

Laravel is an open source PHP framework for developing web applications. Behind Laravel is an extensive community and extensive documentation. It is not for nothing that it is one of the most popular PHP frameworks of the moment, next to Symfony and Yii. Version 9.0 of Laravel has just been released and extensive release notes can be found here this page are being found. Below you will find a brief overview of the most important changes.

Laravel 9 is Now Released!

Laravel 9 is the next long-term support version (LTS) and will receive bug fixes until February 2024 and security fixes until February 2025. Here are some of the major features that we’ve covered in detail in our A look at what is coming to Laravel 9 post:

• PHP 8 is the minimum version in Laravel 9
• New Design for routes:list
• New test –coverage option displays coverage directly in the terminal
• Anonymous Stub Migrations are now the default
• New Query Builder Interface
• PHP 8 String Functions
• Moved mailer functionality from SwiftMailer to Symfony Mailer
• Flysystem 3.x
• Improved Eloquent Accessors/Mutators
• Implicit Route Bindings With Enums (PHP 8.1)
• Controller Route Groups
• Enum Eloquent Attribute Casting
• Forced Scoped Bindings
• Laravel Breeze API & Next.js
• Laravel Scout Database Engine
• Full Text Indexes / Where Clauses
• Rendering Inline Blade Templates
• Soketi Echo Server
• Optional Bootstrap 5 Pagination Views
• Improved Ignition Exception Page
• New str() and to_route() helper functions