A look at whats coming to Laravel 5.2.23

Mohamed Said put together a new post outlining some new features coming to Laravel 5.2.23.

Some of the new features include:

• in_array validation rule
• Arr::first() & Arr::last() now have the callback optional
• New Blade directives @php, @endphp, and @unset
• Ability to escape blade directives
• New monthlyOn() method for scheduling commands
• New app()->isLocale() method
• seeElement() and dontSeeElement() test helpers

As well as a new fluent builder for MySQL JSON fields:

// Column data
{"en":"name","ar":"nom"}
// You may dive deep in the JSON string using the `->` operator.
User::where('name->en', 'name')->get();

Check out his post for code samples and to for more information.