Laravel 5.5.29 Released

Laravel 5.5.29, released Monday, is the first release of Laravel 5.5 in 2018.

You can now qualify an column in a model with the Model::qualifyColumn() method, which works like this:

$article->qualifyColumn('title');
// -> articles.title

The new qualifyColumn() method was applied internally to clean up some receptive code. For example, in the BelongsTo relation:

// Previous code
$query->getModel()->getTable().'.'.$this->ownerKey
 
// New code
$query->qualifyColumn($this->ownerKey)

Support for new author fields in the Slack message attachment is available now: author_icon, author_link, and author_name.

This release has quite a few additions, changes, and fixes—here are the full release notes:

v5.5.29 (2018-01-15)

Added

• Added Model::qualifyColumn() method (#22577)
• Added support for the author_* fields to SlackAttachment (#22610)
• Added UrlGenerator::getDefaultParameters() method (#22572)
• Added option to double encode escaped strings (61f8477)
• Added BladeCompiler::doubleEncode() method (1cc96a1)
• Added support for nested keys to TestResponse::assertJsonCount() (#22740)
• Added s3:// to protocol to URL validation (#22752)
• Added option to disable wrapping migrations in transaction (#22757)

Changed

• Use Arr::get() in Collection::get() (#22554)
• Pass entire config to FtpAdapter (#22539)
• Support extending Eloquent relationships (#22617)
• Improved handling of VerifyCsrfToken::$except values (#22619, #22661)
• Support multiple levels in Collection::groupBy() (#22630)
• Clear user instance in RequestGuard::setRequest() (#22649)
• Allow StudlyCase and snake_case migration names (#22648)
• Set null as default value for optional() helper (#22699)
• Make sure getRememberToken() returns a string (#22724)
• Updated Vue preset version (#22732)
• Accept Arrayable items in Collection::find() (#22787)

Fixed

• Close database connection when using RefreshDatabase trait (#22569)
• Send status code 500 when using dd() (#22581)
• Fixed parameter usage in RedirectController (#22657)
• Added __set_state() method to Support/Carbon (#22689)
• Do not continue checking APP_ENV if environment file path being set successfully with --env option (#22753)
• Fixed missing table prefix in SQLiteGrammar::compileDropColumn() (#22745, c13322c)
• Fixed prefixing in SQLiteGrammar::compileColumnListing() (#22781)