News / updated: February 22, 2018

Laravel 5.6.4 Released

Laravel 5.6.4 was released yesterday, with highlights including support for callbacks as custom log drivers and a Blade method for include aliases.

As of 5.6, you can define a custom logger using __invoke() as follows:

'channels' => [
    'custom' => [
        'driver' => 'custom',
        'via' => App\Logging\CreateCustomLogger::class,
    ],
],

Now in Laravel 5.6.4, it’s possible to define a custom channel with a callable in the config/logging.php config file:

'channels' => [
    'custom' => [
        'driver' => 'custom',
        'via' => [App\Logging\MyCustomLogger::class, 'make'],
    ],
],

With a static function:

<?php

namespace App\Logging;

use Monolog\Logger;

class MyCustomLogger
{
    public static function make(array $config)
    {
        return new Logger(...);
    }
}

Also added is a Blade::include() for include aliases. Take the following template for example:

<input type="{{ $type ?? 'text' }}">

With the following include:

Blade::include('includes.input');

And finally, here’s how you can use it:

@input(['type' => 'email'])

Here are the full release notes from the Laravel 5.6 changelog:

v5.6.4 (2018-02-21)

Added

Added the ability to set message ID right hand side (#23181)
Support callbacks as custom log drivers (#23184)
Added Blade::include() method for include aliases (#23172)
Added broadcastType() method to notifications (#23236, 4227bd7)

Changed

Moved clone logic from FormRequestServiceProvider to Request (b0c2459)
Changed pagination arrow symbols (#23127)
Update React version in preset (#23134)
Added an empty error bag when rendering HTTP exception views (#23139)
Normalized actions when using route:list command (#23148)
Updated required Carbon version (201bbec)
Improved BadMethodCallException messages (#23232)
Support date validation rules when comparison has relative time (#23211)

Fixed

Returns same Logger instance from LogManager (#23118)
Register missing hash.driver DI (#23114)
Fixed an issue with starting two database transactions in tests (#23132)
Don’t replace tightenco/collect (#23147, #23153, #23160)
Catch InvalidFileException when loading invalid environment file (#23149, 5695079)
Fixed an issue with assertRedirect() (#23176)
Fixed dropdown accessibility (#23191)
Fixed --force flag on GeneratorCommand (#23230)