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