Laravel 2015 In Review

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#Changelog Podcast

Taylor was featured on the Changelog podcast talking about Laravel and it’s ideals.

#Blackfire with Homestead

Laravel Homestead added support for the SensioLabs Blackfire Profiler.

#Jack McDade

Interview with Jack about the new design for Laravel.com.

#Laravel Debugbar

A short review of everyone’s favorite debugging system.

Laracasts started a series on covering advanced Eloquent topics

#Envoyer Launched

Taylor launched Envoyer that offers simple zero down time deploys.

#Spanish Laravel Documentation

Fernando Montoya has started translating the Laravel documentation for the Spanish community.

#Laravel is number one, again

Laravel won Sitepoint’s framework survey for the second year in a row

#Mike Dugan

In March we lost a friend and great person.

The fast microframework Lumen launched.

#Laravel 5.1 hints started dropping

As with all new releases, Taylor started sharing new features early.

The first Laravel LTS was announced.

#Socialite Providers

The community created a massive list of 70+ socialite providers.

#Easy E-Commerce

I launched my first book on Laravel and Stripe.

#Laravel In South Korea

Spotlight on a user group in South Korea

NinjaGrl created a painting for Lumen.

#Laravel 5.1 Released

LTS, PSR-2, and easier unit testing!

#Packagist got a new skin

Packagist, the PHP Package repository, received a new design. I should have taken a screen shot of the before and after.

#PHP Turned 20

PHP as a language had a birthday

#Freek Van der Herten

I interviewed Freek who created a ton of stuff this year.

#Laravel Jobs

LaraJobs turned one

Povilas Korop started a new site sharing daily Laravel Tips that he discovers while using the framework.

#Elixir Version 3

Version 3 features true sequential tasks, more explicit logging, and easier configuration.

#Php Pandas

Dayle Rees launched a new intro PHP book.

Laracon was held in Louisville KY on August 11th.

#Laracon EU

Laracon EU was the week after the US conference.

#Laravel 5.1.11

Laravel 5.1.11 was released, featuring a brand new Authorization or ACL system to make restricting access easier than ever.

The alpha version of Laravel Spark was announced.

#Tutorial: Multilingual Support in Eloquent

A guest post by Freek Van der Herten

#Laravel Doctrine

A project to create a drop-in Doctrine2 implementation for Laravel 5+.

PHP 7 was official yet but Homestead added support.

#Elixir added Browsersync

Laravel Elixir 3.3 was released and included support for Browsersync

#Model Factories

Laravel News featured a tutorial on Model Factories

#Add Tagging to Laravel

A tutorial on how to add tagging to your Laravel app

#Elixir With Bootstrap

A tutorial to help you setup bootstrap with Laravel Elixir

#Laravel News Podcast

I started a new podcast here on Laravel News

A list of some new features to the next version of Laravel

#Homestead added MySQL 5.7 and Node 5

Support for the MySQL JSON column type.

#Laracon 2016 dates announced

Get ready for Laracon 2016 and mark your calendars.

#Laravel php[world] keynote

Taylor gave a keynote at php[world] and they recorded the talk.

PHP 7 was released to the world.

#PHP 7 Video

Zend made a video announcing PHP 7 with elePHPants.

#LaraVer Released

Mike Bronner created a new app to keep up with Laravel changes

#Koel Music Streaming

Phan An created a new music streaming app built with Laravel.

#Laravel 5.2 is released

The much anticapted Laravel 5.2 was released and includes multiple authentication driver support, implicit model binding, simplified Eloquent global scopes, opt-in authentication scaffolding, middleware groups, rate limiting middleware, array validation improvements, and more.