Cancel Pending Notifications Immediately in Laravel 8.50

The Laravel team released v8.50.0 this week with the ability to cancel pending notifications, "pruneable" models, commonmark v2 support, and the latest changes in the 8.x branch:

#Cancel Notifications

Graham Bradley contributed the ability to cancel notifications immediately before sending. To determine if a notification should be sent, you can now conveniently add custom logic around your notification class using the shouldSend method:

public function shouldSend($notifiable, $channel)
{
    // custom logic
    return true;
}

I'd encourage you to check out the pull request description for further details on what this accomplishes.

#Prunable Models

Nuno Maduro contributed a way to remove obsolete records by making Laravel models "prunable":

When making models prunable, Laravel will automatically remove obsolete model records from the database via a scheduled command.

Here's an example of a prunable model from the pull request's description:

namespace App\Models;
 
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Prunable; // or MassPrunable
 
class Post extends Model
{
    use Prunable; // or MassPrunable
 
    /**
     * Determines the prunable query.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Builder
     */
    public function prunable()
    {
        return $this->where('created_at', '<=', now()->subMonth());
    }
}

Coupled with a scheduled task of running artisan model:prune, Laravel will automatically detect prunable support and keep database records tidy. Pull Request #37889 has excellent details on how model pruning works.

#Commonmark V2 Support

Colin O'Dell contributed support for both Commonmark v1 and v2. With the upcoming commonmark release, users of Laravel 8.x can install either major version of the CommonMark library.

#Exclude Array Keys Not Included In Validation Rules

Mohamed Said contributed an opt-in method you can add to a service provider that will exclude array keys not included in validation rules:

// In a service provider
Validator::excludeUnvalidatedArrayKeys();
 
// Will not return keys without validation rules
// For example, users.*.email would not be returned (if "email" were a key)
request()->validate([
    'users' => 'required|array',
    'users.*.name' => 'required',
]);

Since this is potentially a breaking change, this feature is opt-in in Laravel 8.

#Release Notes

You can see the full list of new features and updates below and the diff between 8.49.0 and 8.50.0 on GitHub. The following release notes are directly from the changelog

#v8.50.0

#Added

• Added ability to cancel notifications immediately prior to sending (#37930)
• Added the possibility of having "Prunable" models (#37889)
• Added support for both CommonMark 1.x and 2.x (#37954)
• Added Illuminate/Validation/Factory::excludeUnvalidatedArrayKeys() (#37943)

#Fixed

• Fixed Illuminate/Bus/PendingBatch::add() (108385b)
• Cursor pagination fixes (#37915)

#Changed

• Mixed orders in cursor paginate (#37762)
• Clear config after dumping auto-loaded files (#37985)