Laravel 5.5.5 Released With a New Route Fallback to Help Customize Your 404 Views

Laravel v5.5.5, was released September 19th and now includes a neat Route::fallback() method to help customize 404 views:

Laravel 5.5.5 is out with a nice Route::fallback() method to help customize your 404 views, you'll have access to sessions, cookies, auth… pic.twitter.com/56d7ntaA22

— Mohamed Said (@themsaid) September 19, 2017

Another standout feature added is the @includeFirst blade directive. Now the following logic:

@if(view()->exists('custom-template'))
    @include('custom-template')
@else
    @include('default-template')
@endif

Can be replaced with:

@includeFirst(['custom-template', 'default-template'])

v5.5.5 Changelog

Added

• Added :input placeholder in validation error messages (#21175)
• Added @includeFirst Blade directive (#21172)
• Allow setting column styles for tables in Artisan commands (#21169)
• Added ValidatesRequests::extractInputFromRules() method (#21192)
• Added -m shortcut to make:factory (#21219)
• Added ability to set a fallback (catch-all) route (#21234)

Changed

• Support null on Model::UPDATED_AT (#21178)
• Render views from config while building error views (#21145)
• Use multibyte functions in some Str methods (#21207)
• Perform stable sort in Collection::sortBy() (#21214)

Fixed

• Ignore SELECT bindings in prepareBindingsForUpdate() (#21173)
• Fixed remember check in AuthenticatesUsers::attemptLogin() (#21221)
• Added “hardware” as an uncountable word (#21236)