Laravel 9 Release

Today Laravel 9 was released. Here are the list of change at a glance.

1. 1. PHP 8.0: Laravel 9 requires at least PHP 8.0
   2. Symphony Mailer: Instead of Swift Mailer (no longer maintained), Symphony Mailer will be used.
   3. Flysystem 3.x: Flysystem 3.x support is added.
   4. Improved Eloquent Accessors / Mutators: Laravel 9.x offers a new way to define Eloquent accessors and mutators.
   5. Enum Eloquent Attribute Casting: Eloquent can now allows to cast attribute values to PHP enums. But this is only available for PHP 8.1+
   6. Implicit Route Bindings With Enums: This feature is added by Nuno Maduro. This feature will allowtypehint an Enum in route definition.
   7. Forced Scoping Of Route Bindings: This feature will allow user to add second model in  Route bindings such that it must be a child model of pervious model.
   8. Route Group for Controllers: Another amazing feature which will allow user to define a common  controller. Such as:

      use App\Http\Controllers\OrderController;
      
      Route::controller(OrderController::class)->group(function () {
          Route::get('/orders/{id}', 'show');
          Route::post('/orders', 'store');
      }); 

   9. Full Text Indexes / Where Clauses:  This feature will allow user to use fulltext with “where” clause. eg. ->whereFullText(‘something’, ‘another thing’).
   10. Laravel Scout Database Engine: User can now use Scout Search service in small to medium Database.
   11. Rendering inline blade templates: This will allow user to transform raw Blade template to valid HTML. eg.

       use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Blade;
       
       return Blade::render('Hello, {{ $name }}', ['name' => 'Julian Bashir']);

   12. Slot Name Shortcut:  User now specify slot’s name using a convenient with shorter syntax.
   13. .Checked / Selected Blade Directives: You can now use “@checked” directive to indicate given HTML checkbox is “checked”.

       <input type="checkbox"
               name="active"
               value="active"
               @checked(old('active', $user->active)) />

   14. Bootstratp 5 pagination views added: You can use both Tailwind or Bootstrap 5 pagination views. You just have to call “use BootstrapFive in boo methof of App\Providers\AppServiceProvider class.
   15. Improved Validation Of Nested Array Data: Improved Validation Of Nested Array Data.
   16. Laravel Breeze API & Next.js: Laravel Breeze API scaffolding and Next.js starter kit is added.
   17. Improved Ignition Exception Page: New version added with dark mode, open in editor and many more.
   18. Improved route:list CLI Output: This will now provide more data.
   19. Test Coverage Using Artisan test Command: User can explore the coverage area of text by add -coverage flag in artisan command.
   20. Soketi Echo Server: Soketi Echo Server support added.
   21. Improved Collections IDE Support: Added support for Laravel Collections IDE Support.
   22. Helpers: Some new helpers added.