Top 10 Key Features of Laravel 5.8

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New Features of Laravel 5.8
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List of laravel 5.8 Features

• Automatic Policy Resolution

• Update Cache TTL

• Support Carbon 2.0

• HasOneThrough Eloquent Relationship

• Token Guard Token Hashing

• Scheduler timezone Configuration

• Artisan Call Improvements

• Artisan Serve Improvements

• Mock Testing Helper Methods

• Higher Order orWhere Eloquent Method

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Features of laravel 5.8
Automatic Policy Resolution
First up on the agenda is automatic policy
discovery. In past versions of Laravel, each time
a policy class is generated, you'd need to visit
our AuthServiceProvider to manually wire it up
with the appropriate model. It's not the end of
the world, but still nonetheless a bit tedious.
Now in Laravel 5.8, as long as you follow the
standard naming convention, this policy discovery
happens automatically.
Update Cache TTL
A small, but important breaking change in Laravel
5.8 is the switch from minutes to seconds for all
cache TTLs. In your codebase, track down any
reference to cache()-gtput(), cache()-gtremember(),
or any other variants, and do the necessary math
to convert the expiration date from minutes to
seconds (multiply by 60).
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Features of laravel 5.8
Support Carbon 2.0
Carbon is a package that extends PHPs
own DateTime class and makes working with dates
and time very easy. Laravel 5.8 provides support
for the 2.0 release of Carbon. Among the new
features of Carbon 2.0 is the CarbonImmutable clas
s and a new Date facade.
HasOneThrough Eloquent Relationship
Previously to get a suppliers account history,
you will have to find the supplier then write
something like supplier-gtaccount-gtaccountHistory
. Now you may use a hasOneThrough relationship to
skip this step, accessing a suppliers account
history straight away like this history  suppl
ier-gtaccountHistory through the account model
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Features of laravel 5.8
Token Guard Token Hashing
There is a simpler token guard which provides
basic API authentication and in Laravel 5.8 it
now supports storing tokens as SHA-256 hashes.
This provides greater security over storing
plain-text tokens.
Scheduler timezone Configuration
In previous releases, you have to repeat this for
every scheduled task and this can quickly become
cumbersome if you have many of them. In Laravel
5.8 you can just define a method
called scheduledTimezone in your app/Console/kerne
l.php file and return your default timezone. 
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Features of laravel 5.8
Artisan Call Improvements
Laravel allows you to make Artisan commands from
your code using the Artisancall method.
Artisan Serve Improvements
A way to quickly serve your Laravel application
is by running the command php artisan serve. In
previous versions of Laravel this command will
run your application in a default port
of 8000 and if you attempt to serve another
application with the same command, this would
fail. Now in version 5.8 the servecommand will
scan for available ports up to port 8009 so you
can serve multiple applications at once.
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Features of laravel 5.8
Mock Testing Helper Methods
When preparing your tests, you'll need to mock a
class, set an expectation, and then update the
related instance in Laravel's service container
with your mocked version. Laravel 5.8 now ships
with two testing helpers to simplify this setup a
good bit this-gtmock() and this-gtspy().
Higher Order orWhere Eloquent Method
Laravel 5.8 introduces a higher
order orWhere method, so you dont need to write
the above closure anymore. 
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