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Laravel v5.8.8 released

Laravel v5.8.8 is released in 2019/03/26, here are the changes we`ve merged into this release.

Added

  • Added Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder::forPageBeforeId() method (#28011)

Fixed

  • Fixed BelongsToMany::detach() with custom pivot class (#27997)
  • Fixed incorrect event namespace in generated listener by event:generate command (#28007)
  • Fixed unique validation without ignored column (#27987)

Changed

  • Added parameters argument to resolve helper (#28020)
  • Don't add the path only if path is empty in compiled view (#27976)

Refactoring

  • Refactoring of env() helper (#27965)

GitHub: https://github.com/laravel/framework/releases/tag/v5.8.8

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