Laravel Framework version 8.29.0 have just been released with few new features and bugfixes. With this edition developers can speed test database with the new setUpTestDatabase support to parallel testing. The creator of the framework Taylor Otwell also contributed with closure support in factory sequences, where the closure will be invoked each time the sequence needs a new value. Also the HTTP client response now include a collect() method, which retrieve HTTP Json responses as a collection.
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Laravel 8.29 new features
- Support username parameter for predis (#36299)
- Adds “setUpTestDatabase” support to Parallel Testing (#36301)
- Added support closures in sequences (3c66f6c)
- Added gate evaluation event (0c6f5f7)
- Added a
collectmethod to the HTTP Client response (#36331) - Allow Blade’s service injection to inject services typed using class name resolution (#36356)
Fixed
- Fixed: Using withoutMiddleware() and a closure-based middleware on PHP8 throws an exception (#36293)
- Fixed: The label for page number in pagination links should always be a string (#36292)
- Clean up custom Queue payload between tests (#36295)
- Fixed flushDb (cache:clear) for redis clusters (#36281)
- Fixed retry command for encrypted jobs (#36334, 2fb5e44)
- Make sure
trait_uses_recursivereturns an array (#36335)
Changed
- Make use of specified ownerKey in MorphTo::associate() (#36303)
- Update pusher deps and update broadcasting (3404185)
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