Posted: 31-08-2020

Laravel Upgrading To 8.0 From 7.x

Laravel 8.x upgrade guide is avaliable on Laravel Master Documentation.

Estimated Upgrade Time: 15 Minutes.

Laravel 8 require PHP 7.3

High Impact Changes

• Model Factories
• Queue retryAfter
• Method Pagination Defaults

 

Most Notable new Features on Laravel 8

• Job Batching
• Model factories feature has been totally rewritten 
• The maintenance mode  has been improved
• New Model Directory app/Models
• Squashing Migrations
  a new artisan command added for schema dump php artisan schema:dump to "squash" your migrations into a single SQL file
• Route Caching - Improved
  now Laravel can cache your routes even you use closure in route definition.
• Laravel Jetstream

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• Laravel 8