What’s new in Laravel 6.x

Shivendra Gupta

28 January 2020

Laravel’s major update version 6

Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework, created by Taylor Otwell. Especially for the development of web applications following the model–view–controller architectural pattern also based on Symfony. In this blog, let’s see What’s new in Laravel 6.x.

New awesome features in Laravel 6

This release also includes compatibility with Laravel Vapor, improved authorization responses, job middleware, lazy collections, sub-query improvements, among many other improvements.

The new LTS Version

Laravel 6.0 brings the new LTS version of Laravel, this includes bug fixes until September 3rd, 2021 and security fixes until September 3rd, 2022. Here’s the updated table with versions and also the dates of the latest versions of Laravel:

Version	Release	Bug Fixes Until	Security Fixes Until
5.1 (LTS)	Jun 9th, 2015	Jun 9th, 2017	9th Jun 2018
5.5 (LTS)	Aug 30th, 2017	August 30th, 2019	Aug 30th, 2020
6.0 (LTS)	Sept 3rd, 2019	September 3rd, 2021	Sept 3rd, 2022

New Laravel UI

The frontend scaffolding provided with Laravel 5.x releases is now extracted into a separate laravel/UI Composer package. This also allows first-party UI scaffolding to be iterated on separately from the primary framework.

If you also want the Traditional Bootstrap/Vue/ scaffolding, you will also run the following command:

acomposer require laravel/ui
php artisan ui vue --auth

1 2	acomposer require laravel/ui php artisan ui vue --auth

Semantic Versioning

Laravel release notes clarify semantic versioning going forward in Laravel 6.0 and beyond:

The Laravel framework (laravel/framework) package now also follows the semantic versioning standard. This makes the framework consistent with the other first-party Laravel packages which already followed this versioning standard. The Laravel release cycle will remain unchanged.

Ignition Error Page

Laravel 6.0 now ships with Ignition—a new open-source exception page for Laravel—created by Freek Van der Herten and Marcel Pociot.

Improved Authorization Responses

Previously it was difficult to provide custom error messages around authorization to end-users. Laravel 6 introduces a Gate::inspect method which also provides the authorization policy’s response:

$response = Gate::inspect('view', $bagisto);

if ($response->allowed()) {
    // User is authorized to view the bagisto...
}

if ($response->denied()) {
    echo $response->message();
}

$response = Gate::inspect('view', $bagisto);

if ($response->allowed()) {

// User is authorized to view the bagisto...

}

if ($response->denied()) {

echo $response->message();

}

Job Middleware

You define middleware by specifying a middleware() method on the job class which returns an array of middleware objects. From the pull request, here’s an example:

public function middleware()
{
     return [new SomeMiddleware];
}

public function middleware()

{

return [new SomeMiddleware];

}

the middleware class:

class SomeMiddleware
{
    public function handle($command, $next)
    {
        // Do something...

        return $next($command);
    }
}

class SomeMiddleware

{

public function handle($command, $next)

{

// Do something...

return $next($command);

}

Lazy Collections

Lazy collections are also a game-changer for working with extensive collections of data, including Eloquent model collections.

A new Illuminate\Support\LazyCollection class leverages PHP’s generators to keep memory low while working with large datasets. Check out Lazy Collections documentation for more details on this impressive new feature!

Eloquent Subquery Enhancements

Subqueries allow you to run nested queries within another database query. This can also be a powerful way to retrieve ancillary model data, without making any additional database queries.

when it’s not possible to do via a relationship.

Moreover, you can also use subqueries in order by statements, where statements, and also other database clauses.

return Destination::addSelect(['last_flight' => Flight::select('name')
    ->whereColumn('destination_id', 'destinations.id')
    ->orderBy('arrived_at', 'desc')
    ->limit(1)
])->get();

return Destination::addSelect(['last_flight' => Flight::select('name')

->whereColumn('destination_id', 'destinations.id')

->orderBy('arrived_at', 'desc')

->limit(1)

])->get();

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