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News / July 15, 2020

Match Expression is Coming to PHP 8

The Match Expression v2 RFC has passed and targets the stable release of PHP v8.0 this year. Learn more about the match expression and what it brings to PHP 8!

Laravel Playground is a new free service from BeyondCode that allows you to try out Laravel code directly in your browser. You get full IDE auto-completion and can quickly try out all of Laravels features. It even includes popular Laravel packages, so you can quickly try out Laravel Debugbar, or get started writing your first Livewire component.

by Eric L. Barnes

News / July 13, 2020

The first Laravel Worldwide Meetup is this week

The first Laravel Worldwide Meetup is coming tomorrow July 14, at 18:00 UTC, and you’ll be able to watch it live on the YouTube Channel.

by Eric L. Barnes

Meetup

News / July 13, 2020

Monitoring Your Laravel App with Scout APM (sponsor)

Scout APM is excited to launch support for Laravel apps. They’ve been monitoring thousands of Ruby, Python and Elixir apps for years and are thrilled to be bringing their developer-centric tools into the PHP community. Here’s an overview of how to get up and running with Scout in just a few minutes.

by Eric L. Barnes

News / July 11, 2020

Microsoft Announces that it will drop official support of PHP on Windows

Dale Hirt, the project manager for PHP inside Microsoft, announced this week on the PHP mailing list that Microsoft is no longer going to offer official support of PHP on Windows starting at v8

by Eric L. Barnes

News / July 10, 2020

Postgres Range Type Support for Laravel 7

The PosgreSQL range types package by [@belamov](https://github.com/belamov) brings range type support to Laravel for the Postgres database.

by Paul Redmond

packages

News / July 09, 2020

Laravel 7.19 Released

The Laravel team released v7.19.0 with new scheduler frequency shortcuts, conditionally appending attributes to API resources and a new Stringable when() method, and the latest new features, fixes, and changes in the 7.x branch.

by Paul Redmond

Releases

News / July 08, 2020

Sequel Ace MySQL Client for MacOS

Sequel Ace is the sequel to longtime macOS app Sequel Pro, a popular go-to application for many developers to manage MySQL and MariaDB databases.

by Paul Redmond

News / July 07, 2020

Laravel 7.18 Released

The Laravel team released v7.18.0 with an HTTP client middleware method, view component attribute updates, along with the latest new features, fixes, and changes in the 7.x branch.

by Paul Redmond

Releases

News / July 06, 2020

An intuitive reporting package to add reporting capabilities to your projects! (sponsor)

Smart Report Engine is a robust reporting framework with a clear, intuitive, and easy to follow API that allows you to easily and quickly add reporting capabilities to your projects! It’s available as a native PHP engine and a Laravel package.