Laravel 9 released!

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On February 8th, 2022, Laravel 9 was officially released.

Laravel 9 requires a minimum of PHP 8.0, with some new features, such as enum Eloquent attribute casting requiring PHP 8.1

As with any Laravel framework update it contains a host of new features, improvements and bug fixes. These include:

• Improved Eloquent Accessors / Mutators
• Enum Eloquent Attribute Casting
• Implicit Route Bindings With Enums
• Forced Scoping Of Route Bindings
• Controller Route Groups
• Full Text Indexes / Where Clauses
• Laravel Scout Database Engine
• Rendering Inline Blade Templates
• Slot Name Shortcut
• Checked / Selected Blade Directives
• Bootstrap 5 Pagination Views
• Improved Validation Of Nested Array Data
• Laravel Breeze API & Next.js
• Improved Ignition Exception Page
• Improved route:list CLI Output
• Test Coverage Using Artisan test Command
• Soketi Echo Server
• Improved Collections IDE Support
• New Helpers

For more information of how to use these Laravel 9 specific features, take a look at the Laravel 9 release notes.