Laravel 8.30 Released

The Laravel team released 8.30 with the ability to stop a validator on the first failure, a new collection method, a new rate-limiting convenience method for minutes, and the latest changes in the 8.x branch:

Stop on First Failure in Validators

Taylor Otwell contributed the ability to stop on the first validator failure instead of continuing to validate all fields:

 1$data = ['foo' => 'bar', 'age' => 30];
 2$validator = Validator::make($data, [
 3    'foo' => 'required',
 4    'age' => 'required|min:31',
 5    'fizz' => 'required',
 6]);
 7
 8$validator->stopOnFirstFailure();
 9$validator->passes(); // false
10$validator->errors()->all();
11// returns ['age' => 'The age must be at least 31'].

New Contains One Item Collection Method

Joseph Silber contributed a new collection method for asserting if the collection contains one item. It's syntactic sugar for checking if the collection has one item:

1// Manually checking the count
2$collection->count() === 1;
3
4collect(['apple'])->containsOneItem(); // true
5collect([])->containsOneItem(); // false
6collect(['apple', 'orange'])->containsOneItem(); // false

Rate Limiting Per Minutes Helper

Craig Anderson contributed a new perMinutes() function to rate limiting. Rate limiting already contains a perMinute() method, but the new plural version is a convenience method to define to give more granular control:

1use Illuminate\Cache\RateLimiting\Limit;
2
3$decayMinutes = 5;
4$maxAttempts = 100;
5
6Limit::perMinutes($decayMinutes, $maxAttempts);

You can see the full list of new features and updates below and the diff between 8.29.0 and 8.30.0 on GitHub. The following release notes are directly from the changelog: