Laravel v5.3.25 is released

Laravel has released v5.3.25 which includes two new validation rules, the ability to set the file permissions in the Filesystem, and a fluent builder for SlackMessageAttachmentField.

#New validation rules

The two new validation rules included in v5.3.25 is a before_or_equal and after_or_equal which allows you to verify a date against a known value. Here is an example of validating a birthday is for someone over the age of 21:

$this->validate($request, [
    'birthday' => 'required|date|before_or_equal:1995-11-30',
]);

Then the opposite if you want to verify someone is under eighteen:

$this->validate($request, [
    'birthday' => 'date|after_or_equal:1998-11-30',
]);

#Filesystem File Permissions

The Filesystem now includes the ability to get or set the permissions of a file:

$filesystem->chmod('file.txt'); // returns the chmod
$filesystem->chmod('file.txt', 0777); // chmod 777 file.txt

#SlackMessageAttachmentField Fluent Attachments

Slack supports longer form attachments and previously Laravel defaulted to the “short” style. With this new feature you can define all the fields that Slack allows:

return (new SlackMessage)
    ->content('Content')
    ->attachment(function ($attachment) {
        $attachment
            ->title('Laravel', 'https://laravel.com')
            ->content('Attachment Content')
 
            //build up an attachment field
            ->field(function($attachmentField) {
                $attachmentField
                    ->title('Special powers')
                    ->content('Zonda')
                    ->dontDisplaySideBySide();
            });
 
            //manually add one
            ->field('Project', 'Laravel')
    });

#Additional Changes and Bug Fixes

There are a few more changes and fixes included in this release and you can read the full change log from GitHub. To grab the latest version just run composer update