What's New in Laravel: 8.58 - 8.68

Are you like me and find it impossible to find the time to keep up with the changes in Laravel on a weekly basis? In this series I'll try to roll them up periodically into one post.

I'm only going to include features and not patches or fixes, for a full list visit the Laravel release log.

#Eloquent

#updateOrFail uses saveOrFail to update or throw an exception instead of just returning a bool. - PR

1$user->update(); // return bool
2 
3try {
4    $user->updateOrFail();
5} catch (Exception $e) {
6    // Exception thrown
7}

#deleteOrFail makes it more convenient to handle delete errors in destroy actions, as it is less verbose than checking the return value of delete(). - PR

1$user->delete(); // return bool
2 
3try {
4    $user->deleteOrFail();
5} catch (Exception $e) {
6    // Exception thrown
7}

#valueOrFail() method, which gets a single column's value from the first result of a query or throws an exception: - PR

1// Before:
2$votes = User::where('name', 'John')->firstOrFail('votes')->votes;
3 
4// Now:
5$votes = User::where('name', 'John')->valueOrFail('votes');

#whereMorphedTo and orWhereMorphedTo are a shortcut for adding a where condition looking for models that are morphed to a specific related model, without the overhead of a whereHas subquery.- PR

1$feedback = Feedback::query()
2    ->where('subject_type', $model->getMorphClass())
3    ->where('subject_id', $model->getKey())
4    ->get();
5 
6// turns into
7$feedback = Feedback::whereMorphedTo('subject', $model)->get();

#Added whereBelongsTo() Eloquent builder method: - PR

1$query->where('author_id', $author->id)
2 
3// turns into
4$query->whereBelongsTo($author)

#Validation

#prohibits: Allows you to prohibit a field from being passed if another is also passed. - PR

1Validator::validate([
2    'email' => '[email protected]',
3    'emails' => ['[email protected]', '[email protected]']
4], [
5    'email' => 'prohibits:emails'
6]);

#merge() method to merge items to validated inputs: - PR

1$validator = Validator::make(['name' => 'Taylor'], ['name' => 'required']);
2 
3$validator->safe()->merge(['role' => 'Admin']);
4 
5User::create($validator->safe()->all());

#Multiple Date Formats - PR

1public function rules()
2{
3    return [
4        'date' => 'date_format:Y-m-d,m-d',
5    ];
6}

#Requests

#Using the collect method, you may retrieve all of the incoming request's input data as a collection: - Docs

1$input = $request->collect();

#Blade

#Anonymous Index Blade Component Templates - Docs

Caleb Porzio contributed the ability to use index.blade.php for the default view for an anonymous component pointing to a folder:

1{{-- components/accordion/index.blade.php --}}
2<x-accordion>
3    {{-- components/accordion/item.blade.php --}}
4    <x-accordion.item>
5        {{-- ... --}}
6    </x-accordion.item>
7</x-accordion>

#The @aware Blade Directive -Docs

The new @aware directive allows child components to easily access parent component data when needed:

 1<!-- Example usage -->
 2<x-menu color="purple">
 3    <x-menu.item>...</x-menu.item>
 4    <x-menu.item>...</x-menu.item>
 5</x-menu>
 6 
 7<!--
 8Implementation
 9/resources/views/components/menu/index.blade.php
10-->
11 
12@aware(['color' => 'gray'])
13 
14<li {{ $attributes->merge(['class' => 'text-'.$color.'-800']) }}>
15    {{ $slot }}
16</li>

#Events

#Maintenance Mode Events - PR

1use Illuminate\Foundation\Events\MaintenanceModeEnabled;
2use Illuminate\Foundation\Events\MaintenanceModeDisabled;
3 
4Event::dispatch(MaintenanceModeEnabled::class);
5Event::dispatch(MaintenanceModeDisabled::class);

#Testing

#assertNotSoftDeleted which asserts that a given record has not been soft deleted: - PR

1$this->assertNotSoftDeleted($model);
2$this->assertNotSoftDeleted('posts', ['id' => 1]);

#Other

• stripTags() string method - PR
• lang_path() helper that will look for the lang directory in both the resources path and a top-level lang folder in the root of a Laravel project - PR
• Collections "has any" Method - PR
• createOneQuietly and createManyQuietly methods for model factories that can create one or many models and persist them to the database without model events.
• String headline method - PR
• restrictOnUpdate migration method- PR