New Laravel 5 Features

Published on August 29th, 2014 by Eric L. Barnes

Update – This list is now outdated. Checkout the Laravel 5 post which covers all the new features with links to resources and tutorials.

Here is a list of new Laravel 5 features that have been mentioned so far. Lots more has been done under the hood but these are the important ones that will affect you as a user of the framework.

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Eric L. Barnes

Eric is the creator of Laravel News and has been covering Laravel since 2012.

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