Upgrade Guide
High Impact Changes
Medium Impact Changes
Upgrading To 5.8.0 From 5.7
Estimated Upgrade Time: 1 Hour
We attempt to document every possible breaking change. Since some of these breaking changes are in obscure parts of the framework only a portion of these changes may actually affect your application.
Updating Dependencies
Update your laravel/framework
dependency to 5.8.*
in your composer.json
file.
Next, examine any 3rd party packages consumed by your application and verify you are using the proper version for Laravel 5.8 support.
The Application
Contract
The environment
Method
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The environment
method signature of the Illuminate\Contracts\Foundation\Application
contract has changed. If you are implementing this contract in your application, you should update the method signature:
/** * Get or check the current application environment. * * @param string|array $environments * @return string|bool */public function environment(...$environments);
Added Methods
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The bootstrapPath
, configPath
, databasePath
, environmentPath
, resourcePath
, storagePath
, resolveProvider
, bootstrapWith
, configurationIsCached
, detectEnvironment
, environmentFile
, environmentFilePath
, getCachedConfigPath
, getCachedRoutesPath
, getLocale
, getNamespace
, getProviders
, hasBeenBootstrapped
, loadDeferredProviders
, loadEnvironmentFrom
, routesAreCached
, setLocale
, shouldSkipMiddleware
and terminate
methods were added to the Illuminate\Contracts\Foundation\Application
contract.
In the very unlikely event you are implementing this interface, you should add these methods to your implementation.
Authentication
Password Reset Notification Route Parameter
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
When a user requests a link to reset their password, Laravel generates the URL using the route
helper to create a URL to the password.reset
named route. When using Laravel 5.7, the token is passed to the route
helper without an explicit name, like so:
route('password.reset', $token);
When using Laravel 5.8, the token is passed to the route
helper as an explicit parameter:
route('password.reset', ['token' => $token]);
Therefore, if you are defining your own password.reset
route, you should ensure that it contains a {token}
parameter in its URI.
New Default Password Length
Likelihood Of Impact: High
The required password length when choosing or resetting a password was changed to eight characters. You should update any validation rules or logic within your application to match this new eight character default.
If you need to preserve the previous six character length or a different length, you may extend the Illuminate\Auth\Passwords\PasswordBroker
class and overwrite the validatePasswordWithDefaults
method with custom logic.
Cache
TTL in seconds
Likelihood Of Impact: Very High
In order to allow a more granular expiration time when storing items, the cache item time-to-live has changed from minutes to seconds. The put
, putMany
, add
, remember
and setDefaultCacheTime
methods of the Illuminate\Cache\Repository
class and its extended classes, as well as the put
method of each cache store were updated with this changed behavior. See the related PR for more info.
If you are passing an integer to any of these methods, you should update your code to ensure you are now passing the number of seconds you wish the item to remain in the cache. Alternatively, you may pass a DateTime
instance indicating when the item should expire:
// Laravel 5.7 - Store item for 30 minutes...Cache::put('foo', 'bar', 30); // Laravel 5.8 - Store item for 30 seconds...Cache::put('foo', 'bar', 30); // Laravel 5.7 / 5.8 - Store item for 30 seconds...Cache::put('foo', 'bar', now()->addSeconds(30));
This change makes the Laravel cache system fully compliant with the PSR-16 caching library standard.
PSR-16 Conformity
Likelihood Of Impact: Medium
In addition to the return value changes from below, the TTL argument of the put
, putMany
and add
method's of the Illuminate\Cache\Repository
class was updated to conform better with the PSR-16 spec. The new behavior provides a default of null
so a call without specifying a TTL will result in storing the cache item forever. Additionally, storing cache items with a TTL of 0 or lower will remove items from the cache. See the related PR for more info.
The KeyWritten
event was also updated with these changes.
Lock Safety Improvements
Likelihood Of Impact: High
In Laravel 5.7 and prior versions of Laravel, the "atomic lock" feature provided by some cache drivers could have unexpected behavior leading to the early release of locks.
For example: Client A acquires lock foo
with a 10 second expiration. Client A actually takes 20 seconds to finish its task. The lock is released automatically by the cache system 10 seconds into Client A's processing time. Client B acquires lock foo
. Client A finally finishes its task and releases lock foo
, inadvertently releasing Client B's hold on the lock. Client C is now able to acquire the lock.
In order to mitigate this scenario, locks are now generated with an embedded "scope token" which allows the framework to ensure that, under normal circumstances, only the proper owner of a lock can release a lock.
If you are using the Cache::lock()->get(Closure)
method of interacting with locks, no changes are required:
Cache::lock('foo', 10)->get(function () { // Lock will be released safely automatically...});
However, if you are manually calling Cache::lock()->release()
, you must update your code to maintain an instance of the lock. Then, after you are done performing your task, you may call the release
method on the same lock instance. For example:
if (($lock = Cache::lock('foo', 10))->get()) { // Perform task... $lock->release();}
Sometimes, you may wish to acquire a lock in one process and release it in another process. For example, you may acquire a lock during a web request and wish to release the lock at the end of a queued job that is triggered by that request. In this scenario, you should pass the lock's scoped "owner token" to the queued job so that the job can re-instantiate the lock using the given token:
// Within Controller...$podcast = Podcast::find(1); if (($lock = Cache::lock('foo', 120))->get()) { ProcessPodcast::dispatch($podcast, $lock->owner());} // Within ProcessPodcast Job...Cache::restoreLock('foo', $this->owner)->release();
If you would like to release a lock without respecting its current owner, you may use the forceRelease
method:
Cache::lock('foo')->forceRelease();
The Repository
and Store
Contracts
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
In order to be fully compliant with PSR-16
the return values of the put
and forever
methods of the Illuminate\Contracts\Cache\Repository
contract and the return values of the put
, putMany
and forever
methods of the Illuminate\Contracts\Cache\Store
contract have been changed from void
to bool
.
Carbon 2.0
Likelihood Of Impact: Medium
Laravel now supports both Carbon 1 and Carbon 2; therefore, Composer will try to upgrade to Carbon 2.0 if no other compatibility issues with any other packages are detected. Please review the migration guide for Carbon 2.0.
Collections
The add
Method
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The add
method has been moved from the Eloquent collection class to the base collection class. If you are extending Illuminate\Support\Collection
and your extended class has an add
method, make sure the method signature matches its parent:
public function add($item);
The firstWhere
Method
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The firstWhere
method signature has changed to match the where
method's signature. If you are overriding this method, you should update the method signature to match its parent:
/** * Get the first item by the given key value pair. * * @param string $key * @param mixed $operator * @param mixed $value * @return mixed */public function firstWhere($key, $operator = null, $value = null);
Console
The Kernel
Contract
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The terminate
method has been added to the Illuminate\Contracts\Console\Kernel
contract. If you are implementing this interface, you should add this method to your implementation.
Container
Generators & Tagged Services
Likelihood Of Impact: Medium
The container's tagged
method now utilizes PHP generators to lazy-instantiate the services with a given tag. This provides a performance improvement if you are not utilizing every tagged service.
Because of this change, the tagged
method now returns an iterable
instead of an array
. If you are type-hinting the return value of this method, you should ensure that your type-hint is changed to iterable
.
In addition, it is no longer possible to directly access a tagged service by its array offset value, such as $container->tagged('foo')[0]
.
The resolve
Method
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The resolve
method now accepts a new boolean parameter which indicates whether events (resolving callbacks) should be raised/executed during the instantiation of an object. If you are overriding this method, you should update the method signature to match its parent.
The addContextualBinding
Method
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The addContextualBinding
method was added to the Illuminate\Contracts\Container\Container
contract. If you are implementing this interface, you should add this method to your implementation.
The tagged
Method
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
The tagged
method signature has been changed and it now returns an iterable
instead of an array
. If you have type-hinted in your code some parameter which gets the return value of this method with array
, you should modify the type-hint to iterable
.
The flush
Method
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The flush
method was added to the Illuminate\Contracts\Container\Container
contract. If you are implementing this interface, you should add this method to your implementation.
Database
Unquoted MySQL JSON Values
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
The query builder will now return unquoted JSON values when using MySQL and MariaDB. This behavior is consistent with the other supported databases:
$value = DB::table('users')->value('options->language'); dump($value); // Laravel 5.7...'"en"' // Laravel 5.8...'en'
As a result, the ->>
operator is no longer supported or necessary.
SQLite
Likelihood Of Impact: Medium
As of Laravel 5.8 the oldest supported SQLite version is SQLite 3.7.11. If you are using an older SQLite version, you should update it (SQLite 3.8.8+ is recommended).
Migrations & bigIncrements
Likelihood Of Impact: None
As of Laravel 5.8, migration stubs use the bigIncrements
method on ID columns by default. Previously, ID columns were created using the increments
method.
This will not affect any existing code in your project; however, be aware that foreign key columns must be of the same type. Therefore, a column created using the increments
method can not reference a column created using the bigIncrements
method.
Eloquent
Model Names Ending With Irregular Plurals
Likelihood Of Impact: Medium
As of Laravel 5.8, multi-word model names ending in a word with an irregular plural are now correctly pluralized.
// Laravel 5.7...App\Feedback.php -> feedback (correctly pluralized)App\UserFeedback.php -> user_feedbacks (incorrectly pluralized) // Laravel 5.8App\Feedback.php -> feedback (correctly pluralized)App\UserFeedback.php -> user_feedback (correctly pluralized)
If you have a model that was incorrectly pluralized, you may continue using the old table name by defining a $table
property on your model:
/** * The table associated with the model. * * @var string */protected $table = 'user_feedbacks';
Custom Pivot Models With Incrementing IDs
If you have defined a many-to-many relationship that uses a custom pivot model, and that pivot model has an auto-incrementing primary key, you should ensure your custom pivot model class defines an incrementing
property that is set to true
:
/** * Indicates if the IDs are auto-incrementing. * * @var bool */public $incrementing = true;
The loadCount
Method
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
A loadCount
method has been added to the base Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model
class. If your application also defines a loadCount
method, it may conflict with Eloquent's definition.
The originalIsEquivalent
Method
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The originalIsEquivalent
method of the Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Concerns\HasAttributes
trait has been changed from protected
to public
.
Automatic Soft-Deleted Casting Of deleted_at
Property
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
The deleted_at
property will now be automatically casted to a Carbon
instance when your Eloquent model uses the Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\SoftDeletes
trait. You can override this behavior by writing your custom accessor for that property or by manually adding it to the casts
attribute:
protected $casts = ['deleted_at' => 'string'];
BelongsTo getForeignKey
& getOwnerKey
Methods
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
The getForeignKey
, getQualifiedForeignKey
, and getOwnerKey
methods of the BelongsTo
relationship have been renamed to getForeignKeyName
, getQualifiedForeignKeyName
, and getOwnerKeyName
respectively, making the method names consistent with the other relationships offered by Laravel.
Environment Variable Parsing
Likelihood Of Impact: High
The phpdotenv package that is used to parse .env
files has released a new major version, which may impact the results returned from the env
helper. Specifically, the #
character in an unquoted value will now be considered a comment instead of part of the value:
Previous behavior:
ENV_VALUE=foo#bar env('ENV_VALUE'); // foo#bar
New behavior:
ENV_VALUE=foo#barenv('ENV_VALUE'); // foo
To preserve the previous behavior, you may wrap the environment values in quotes:
ENV_VALUE="foo#bar" env('ENV_VALUE'); // foo#bar
For more information, please refer to the phpdotenv upgrade guide.
Events
The fire
Method
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
The fire
method (which was deprecated in Laravel 5.4) of the Illuminate\Events\Dispatcher
class has been removed.
You should use the dispatch
method instead.
Exception Handling
The ExceptionHandler
Contract
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
The shouldReport
method has been added to the Illuminate\Contracts\Debug\ExceptionHandler
contract. If you are implementing this interface, you should add this method to your implementation.
The renderHttpException
Method
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
The renderHttpException
method signature of the Illuminate\Foundation\Exceptions\Handler
class has changed. If you are overriding this method in your exception handler, you should update the method signature to match its parent:
/** * Render the given HttpException. * * @param \Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\HttpExceptionInterface $e * @return \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response */protected function renderHttpException(HttpExceptionInterface $e);
Markdown File Directory Change
Likelihood Of Impact: High
If you have published Laravel's Markdown mail components using the vendor:publish
command, you should rename the /resources/views/vendor/mail/markdown
directory to /resources/views/vendor/mail/text
.
In addition, the markdownComponentPaths
method has been renamed to textComponentPaths
. If you are overriding this method, you should update the method name to match its parent.
Method Signature Changes In The PendingMail
Class
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The send
, sendNow
, queue
, later
and fill
methods of the Illuminate\Mail\PendingMail
class have been changed to accept an Illuminate\Contracts\Mail\Mailable
instance instead of Illuminate\Mail\Mailable
. If you are overriding some of these methods, you should update their signature to match its parent.
Queue
Pheanstalk 4.0
Likelihood Of Impact: Medium
Laravel 5.8 provides support for the ~4.0
release of the Pheanstalk queue library. If you are using Pheanstalk library in your application, please upgrade your library to the ~4.0
release via Composer.
The Job
Contract
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The isReleased
, hasFailed
and markAsFailed
methods have been added to the Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\Job
contract. If you are implementing this interface, you should add these methods to your implementation.
The Job::failed
& FailingJob
Class
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
When a queued job failed in Laravel 5.7, the queue worker executed the FailingJob::handle
method. In Laravel 5.8, the logic contained in the FailingJob
class has been moved to a fail
method directly on the job class itself. Because of this, a fail
method has been added to the Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\Job
contract.
The base Illuminate\Queue\Jobs\Job
class contains the implementation of fail
and no code changes should be required by typical application code. However, if you are building custom queue driver which utilizes a job class that does not extend the base job class offered by Laravel, you should implement the fail
method manually in your custom job class. You may refer to Laravel's base job class as a reference implementation.
This change allows custom queue drivers to have more control over the job deletion process.
Redis Blocking Pop
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
Using the "blocking pop" feature of the Redis queue driver is now safe. Previously, there was a small chance that a queued job could be lost if the Redis server or worker crashed at the same time the job was retrieved. In order to make blocking pops safe, a new Redis list with suffix :notify
is created for each Laravel queue.
Requests
The TransformsRequest
Middleware
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
The transform
method of the Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\TransformsRequest
middleware now receives the "fully-qualified" request input key when the input is an array:
'employee' => [ 'name' => 'Taylor Otwell',], /** * Transform the given value. * * @param string $key * @param mixed $value * @return mixed */protected function transform($key, $value){ dump($key); // 'employee.name' (Laravel 5.8) dump($key); // 'name' (Laravel 5.7)}
Routing
The UrlGenerator
Contract
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The previous
method has been added to the Illuminate\Contracts\Routing\UrlGenerator
contract. If you are implementing this interface, you should add this method to your implementation.
The cachedSchema
Property Of Illuminate\Routing\UrlGenerator
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The $cachedSchema
property name (which has been deprecated in Laravel 5.7
) of Illuminate\Routing\UrlGenerator
has been changed to $cachedScheme
.
Sessions
The StartSession
Middleware
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The session persistence logic has been moved from the terminate()
method to the handle()
method. If you are overriding one or both of these methods, you should update them to reflect these changes.
Support
Prefer String And Array Classes Over Helpers
Likelihood Of Impact: Medium
All array_*
and str_*
global helpers have been deprecated. You should use the Illuminate\Support\Arr
and Illuminate\Support\Str
methods directly.
The impact of this change has been marked as medium
since the helpers have been moved to the new laravel/helpers package which offers a backwards compatibility layer for all of the global array and string functions.
If you choose to update your Laravel application's views to use the class based methods, you should clear your compiled views which may still be using the global helpers:
php artisan view:clear
Deferred Service Providers
Likelihood Of Impact: Medium
The defer
boolean property on the service provider which is/was used to indicate if a provider is deferred has been deprecated. In order to mark the service provider as deferred it should implement the Illuminate\Contracts\Support\DeferrableProvider
contract.
Read-Only env
Helper
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
Previously, the env
helper could retrieve values from environment variables which were changed at runtime. In Laravel 5.8, the env
helper treats environment variables as immutable. If you would like to change an environment variable at runtime, consider using a configuration value that can be retrieved using the config
helper:
Previous behavior:
dump(env('APP_ENV')); // local putenv('APP_ENV=staging'); dump(env('APP_ENV')); // staging
New behavior:
dump(env('APP_ENV')); // local putenv('APP_ENV=staging'); dump(env('APP_ENV')); // local
Testing
The setUp
& tearDown
Methods
The setUp
and tearDown
methods now require a void return type:
protected function setUp(): voidprotected function tearDown(): void
PHPUnit 8
Likelihood Of Impact: Optional
By default, Laravel 5.8 uses PHPUnit 7. However, you may optionally upgrade to PHPUnit 8, which requires PHP >= 7.2. In addition, please read through the entire list of changes in the PHPUnit 8 release announcement.
Validation
The Validator
Contract
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The validated
method was added to the Illuminate\Contracts\Validation\Validator
contract:
/** * Get the attributes and values that were validated. * * @return array */public function validated();
If you are implementing this interface, you should add this method to your implementation.
The ValidatesAttributes
Trait
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The parseTable
, getQueryColumn
and requireParameterCount
methods of the Illuminate\Validation\Concerns\ValidatesAttributes
trait have been changed from protected
to public
.
The DatabasePresenceVerifier
Class
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The table
method of the Illuminate\Validation\DatabasePresenceVerifier
class has been changed from protected
to public
.
The Validator
Class
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The getPresenceVerifierFor
method of the Illuminate\Validation\Validator
class has been changed from protected
to public
.
Email Validation
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The email validation rule now checks if the email is RFC6530 compliant, making the validation logic consistent with the logic used by SwiftMailer. In Laravel 5.7
, the email
rule only verified that the email was RFC822 compliant.
Therefore, when using Laravel 5.8, emails that were previously incorrectly considered invalid will now be considered valid (e.g hej@bär.se
). Generally, this should be considered a bug fix; however, it is listed as a breaking change out of caution. Please let us know if you encounter any issues surrounding this change.
View
The getData
Method
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The getData
method was added to the Illuminate\Contracts\View\View
contract. If you are implementing this interface, you should add this method to your implementation.
Notifications
Nexmo / Slack Notification Channels
Likelihood Of Impact: High
The Nexmo and Slack Notification channels have been extracted into first-party packages. To use these channels in your application, require the following packages:
composer require laravel/nexmo-notification-channelcomposer require laravel/slack-notification-channel
Miscellaneous
We also encourage you to view the changes in the laravel/laravel
GitHub repository. While many of these changes are not required, you may wish to keep these files in sync with your application. Some of these changes will be covered in this upgrade guide, but others, such as changes to configuration files or comments, will not be. You can easily view the changes with the GitHub comparison tool and choose which updates are important to you.