Logging Improvements
The biggest feature in Laravel 5.6 release is the logging improvements. For starters,
Version 5.6 logging configuration moves from the config/app.php
file to the new config/logging.php
file.
You configure “stacks” that can send log messages to multiple handlers. For example, you might send all debug messages to a system log and send error logs to slack.
Dynamic Rate Limiting
Laravel 5.6 introduces
dynamic rate limiting that gives you more flexibility and makes it possible to easily rate limit on a per-user basis:
Route::middleware('auth:api', 'throttle:rate_limit,1')
->group(function () {
Route::get('/user', function () {
});
});
In the above example, the rate_limit
is an attribute of the App\User
model to determine the number of requests allowed in the given time limit.
Broadcast Channel Classes
You can now use channel classes in your routes/channels.php
file instead of using closures.
To generate a new channel class, Laravel 5.6 provides a new make:channel
command:
php artisan make:channel OrderChannel
You register your channel in the routes/channels.php
file like so:
use App\Broadcasting\OrderChannel;
Broadcast::channel('order.{order}', OrderChannel::class);
Collision
Single Server Task Scheduling
If you have a task scheduler running on multiple servers, the task will run on each server. You can indicate that a task should only run on one of those servers with the onOneServer()
method:
$schedule->command('report:generate')
->fridays()
->at('17:00')
->onOneServer();
Note: you must use the memcached
or redis
cache driver as the default application cache driver to take advantage of single server task scheduling in the Laravel 5.6 release.
API Controller Generation
You can now generate a resource controller for APIs that will exclude the unnecessary create
and edit
actions, which only apply to resource controllers returning HTML. To generate a resource controller, use the --api
flag:
php artisan make:controller API/PhotoController --api
UUID Methods
Two new methods are now available in the Illuminate\Support\Str
class for generating Universal Unique Identifiers (UUID):
return (string) Str::uuid();
return (string) Str::orderedUuid();
The orderedUuid()
method will generate a timestamp first UUID for easier and more efficient database indexing.
Bootstrap 4
All of the frontend scaffolding and example Vue component now use Bootstrap 4. We have covered Bootstrap 4 while in beta, and even created a Bootstrap 4 Laravel preset. It’s great to see Bootstrap 4 stable shipping with Laravel 5.6!
Eloquent Date Casting
You can individually customize the format of Eloquent date and datetime casting:
protected $casts = [
'birthday' => 'date:Y-m-d',
'joined_at' => 'datetime:Y-m-d H:00',
];
This format is used on model serialization to an array or JSON data.
Blade Component Aliases
You can now alias blade components for more convenient access. For example, if you store a component at resources/views/components/alert.blade.php
you can use the component()
method to alias it to a shorter name:
Blade::component('components.alert', 'alert');
You can then render it with the defined alias:
@component('alert')
<p>This is an alert component</p>
@endcomponent
Argon2 Password Hashing
Laravel 5.6 supports a new password hashing algorithm for PHP 7.2+. You can control which hashing driver is used by default in the new config/hashing.php
configuration file.