A New Minimal Default Exception Page With Dark Mode Support in Laravel 11.9

This week, the Laravel team released v11.9, which includes a new default exception page, a way to prevent destructive commands from running, a withoutDelay() queue method, and more.

#New Default Exception Page

Laravel now ships with a minimal default exception page when your application is in debug mode. The updated error page has light and dark mode support:

The Exception page will continue to render the default Symfony view (unless you've defined a custom renderer) when debug is false:

This update only affects new Laravel applications, so existing applications will still use Ignition if installed. If you would like to continue to use the Spatie Ignition exception page in new Laravel applications, you can install it with Composer:

composer require spatie/laravel-ignition

See Pull Request #51261 and #51587 for more details.

#Prevent Destructive Commands

Jason McCreary and Joel Clermont contributed a Prohibitable trait along with code that prevents destructive commands from running. You can also add these to your custom Artisan commands that might have destructive behavior you don't intend to run in some environments (usually production):

use Illuminate\Console\Command;
use Illuminate\Console\Prohibitable;
 
class SomeDestructiveCommand extends Command
{
    use Prohibitable;
}
 
// SomeDestructiveCommand::prohibit($this->app->isProduction());

The Laravel framework includes some database commands that include the Prohibitable trait, such as db:wipe, migrate:fresh, migrate:refresh, and migrate:reset. You can prohibit them individually or use the DB Facade to prohibit all of the aforementioned commands:

// Prohibits: db:wipe, migrate:fresh, migrate:refresh, and migrate:reset
DB::prohibitDestructiveCommands($this->app->isProduction());

#Add withoutDelay() to the Queueable trait

Kennedy Tedesco contributed a withoutDelay() method to the Queueable trait. If a job has a default delay time, you can use this in cases where you want to skip that delay instead of passing 0 to the delay() method:

dispatch((new MyJob($data))->delay(0));
 
dispatch((new MyJob($data))->withoutDelay());

#Release notes

You can see the complete list of new features and updates below and the diff between 11.8.0 and 11.9.0 on GitHub. The following release notes are directly from the changelog:

#v11.9.0

• [11.x] Optimize boostrap time by using hashtable to store providers by @sarven in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51343
• [11.x] Prevent destructive commands from running by @jasonmccreary in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51376
• [11.x] renamed left has to contains by @MrPunyapal in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51532
• [10.x] Fix typo by @Issei0804-ie in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51535
• [11.x] Fixes doc block in Timebox.php by @saMahmoudzadeh in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51537
• [11.x] Rename test function to match prohibit action by @faissaloux in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51534
• [11.x] Fix LazilyRefreshDatabase when using Laravel BrowserKit Testing by @MaxGiting in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51538
• [10.x] Fix SQL Server detection in database store by @staudenmeir in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51547
• [11.x] Display test creation messages by @nshiro in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51546
• [11.x] Detect Cockroach DB connection loss by @saschaglo in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51559
• [11.x] Fix type tests by @stayallive in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51558
• [11.x] Add withoutDelay() to the Queueable trait by @KennedyTedesco in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51555
• [11.x] Add an option to remove the original environment file after encrypting by @riasvdv in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51556
• [10.x] - Fix batch list loading in Horizon when serialization error by @jeffortegad in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51551
• [10.x] Fixes explicit route binding with BackedEnum by @CAAHS in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51586
• [11.x] Add Macroable to PendingCommand by @PerryvanderMeer in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51572
• [11.x] Improves errors by @nunomaduro in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51261
• [11.x] Add RELEASE.md to .gitattributes by @Jubeki in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51598
• [11.x] Fixes exception rendering by @nunomaduro in https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/51587