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Laravel v5.8.3 released

Laravel v5.8.3 is released in 2019/03/05, here are the changes we`ve merged into this release.

Added

  • Added Collection::countBy() (#27770)
  • Added protected EloquentUserProvider::newModelQuery() (#27734, 9bb7685)
  • Added protected StartSession::saveSession() method (#27771, 76c7126)
  • Allow belongsToMany to take Model/Pivot class name as a second parameter (#27774)

Fixed

  • Fixed environment variable parsing (#27706)
  • Fixed guessed policy names when using Gate::forUser (#27708)
  • Fixed via as string in the Notification (#27710)
  • Fixed StartSession middleware (499e4fe)
  • Fixed stack channel's bug related to the level (#27726, bc884bb)
  • Fixed email validation for not string values (#27735)

Changed

  • Check if MessageBag is empty before checking keys exist in the MessageBag (#27719)

GitHub: https://github.com/laravel/framework/releases/tag/v5.8.3

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