Laravel 8.15 Released

The Laravel team released 8.15 with DBAL 3.0 support, and the latest changes in the 8.x branch:

#MariaDB Dump Support

@verebelyicsaba contributed support for MariaDB in the schema dump command. Previously, the command was not working as expected with MariaDB.

#Parse Named Validation Rule Parameters

@ragulka contributed making the validator parseNamedParameters() public for use in custom validation rules:

Validator::extend('custom_rule', function($attribute, $value, $parameters, $validator) {
  // the parameters are something like ['country=US', 'level=pro'],
  // but we want ['country' => 'US', 'level' => 'pro'] instead
  $namedParams = $validator->parseNamedParameters($parameters));
});
 
Validator::make([
  'some_field' => 'custom_rule:country=US,level=pro'
], $data);

#Stringable classBasename Method

James Kingsley contributed a convenience method to the Stringable class in order to get a class base name:

// New classBasename()
Str::of(static::class)
    ->classBasename()
    ->kebab();
 
// Instead of
Str::of(static::class)
    ->afterLast('\\')
    ->kebab();

#Testing File Upload Content

Nuno Maduro contributed to the possibility of testing the file upload content while checking if a file exists:

// Before
Storage::disk('reports')->assertExists('foo.csv');
$this->assertSame('my;csv;content', Storage::disk('reports')->read('foo.csv'));
 
// After
Storage::disk('reports')->assertExists('foo.csv', 'my;csv;content');

#DBAL 3.0 Support

Dries Vints and Graham Campbell contributed support for doctrine/dbal 3.0.0, the next major release of the DBAL package. The Doctrine DBAL package brings PHP 8 support, focuses on API improvements, and removes deprecated APIs. Huge thanks to all those involved in supporting DBAL and integrating it with Laravel 8.

#Release Notes

You can see the full list of new features and updates in the diff between 8.14.0 and 8.15.0 on GitHub.

#v8.15.0

#Added

• Added lock support for file and null cache drivers (#35139, a345185)
• Added a doesntExpectOutput method for console command testing (#35160, c90fc5f)
• Added support of MorphTo relationship eager loading constraints (#35190)
• Added Illuminate\Http\ResponseTrait::withoutCookie() (e9483c4)
• Use dynamic app namespace in Eloquent Factory instead of App\ string (#35204, 4885bd2)
• Added read / unread scopes to database notifications (#35215)
• Added classBasename() method to Stringable (#35219)
• Added before resolving callbacks to container (#35228)
• Adds the possibility of testing file upload content (#35231)
• Added lost connection messages for MySQL persistent connections (#35224)
• Added Support DBAL v3.0 (#35236)

#Fixed

• Update MySqlSchemaState.php to support MariaDB dump (#35184)
• Fixed pivot and morphpivot fresh and refresh methods (#35193)
• Fixed pivot restoration (#35218)

#Changed

• Updated EmailVerificationRequest.php to check if user is not already verified (#35174)
• Make Validator::parseNamedParameters() public (#35183)
• Ignore max attempts if retryUntil is set in queue:work (#35214)
• Explode string channels on Illuminate/Log/LogManager::createStackDriver() (e5b86f2)