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8 Oct 2025

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Here are some of the updates included in this week's edition of the New in Laravel newsletter! ↓ A new context Blade directive has been added, allowing you to check and fetch context values easily.

Calling the syncWithoutDetaching method on a Belongs To Many relationship now automatically handles empty values like an empty collection, empty array, or null.

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Here are some of the updates included in this week's edition of the New in Laravel newsletter! ↓ A new context Blade directive has been added, allowing you to check and fetch context values easily.

It’s now much easier to fetch config as a Collection.

New string methods, doesntStartWith and doesntEndWith offer a more readable way to check if strings don’t start or end with a substring.

Here are some of the updates included in this week's edition of the New in Laravel newsletter! ↓ A new context Blade directive has been added, allowing you to check and fetch context values easily.

Fluent objects are now iterable.

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11 June 2025

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In this week's edition of the newinlaravel.com newsletter! ↓ Cast database strings directly into URI objects with a brand new `AsUri` cast.

Finally, listening for model notifications just got easier with the new useEchoNotification hook for React and Vue.

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In this week's edition of the newinlaravel.com newsletter! ↓ Cast database strings directly into URI objects with a brand new `AsUri` cast.

Reordering queries in descending order is now simpler with the new reorderDesc method.

You can now call static methods on Collection items using higher order syntax.

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3 June 2025

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newinlaravel.comContext Contextual Attribute IntroducedContext sharing just got easier with a new Context contextual attribute for resolving context values.

Here’s what’s new in Laravel 12.15.0! First, you can now provide a default value when retrieving an enum from request data.

Finally, context sharing just got easier with a new Context contextual attribute for resolving values. newinlaravel.com/s/context-co...

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Here’s what’s new in Laravel 12.15.0! First, you can now provide a default value when retrieving an enum from request data.

Next, a new assertClientError method helps API response testing by checking if status codes fall in the 4xx range.

Another new test assertion. Test redirections to controller actions with the new assertRedirectToAction method.

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19 May 2025

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10 May 2025

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8 May 2025

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