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Laravel v5.8.5 released

Laravel v5.8.5 is released in 2019/03/19, here are the changes we`ve merged into this release.

Added

  • Added Illuminate\Database\DatabaseManager::setReconnector() (#27845)
  • Added Illuminate\Auth\Access\Gate::none() (#27859)
  • Added OtherDeviceLogout event (#27865, 5e87f2d)
  • Added even and odd flags to the Loop variable in the blade (#27883)

Changed

  • Add replacement for lower danish æ (#27886)
  • Show error message from exception, if message exist for 403.blade.php and 503.blade.php error (#27893, #27902)

Fixed

  • Fixed seeding logic in Arr::shuffle() (#27861)
  • Fixed Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder::updateOrInsert() with empty $values (#27906)
  • Fixed Application::getNamespace() method (#27915)
  • Fixed of store previous url (#27935, 791992e)

Security

  • Changed Validation\Rules\Unique.php (da4d4a4). You can read more here

GitHub: https://github.com/laravel/framework/releases/tag/v5.8.5

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