Laravel 11 - A better party guest than Laravel 10 and his plus 1

Hello LinkedIn Community!??

As those of you who are familiar with my previous posts might know, I'm always on the lookout for what is cooking in the Laravel world, and today, I'm thrilled to dive into the (almost) fresh release of Laravel 11 (https://laravel.com/docs/11.x/releases). After using it for several months now, and after reading the documentation, I can provide you with my (and the documentation’s) top 11 functionalities that will make your Laravel journey even more seamless:

1.?Improved Routing Performance: Makes your applications faster and more efficient when handling requests

2. Enhanced Testing Features: Makes it easier to thoroughly test applications with less time being spent on the setup

3. New Eloquent Capabilities: Includes more intuitive ways to handle relations and model serialization, ultimately providing more flexibility and power

4. Better Exception Handling: Includes more robust methods for managing exceptions, which helps in building more reliable and maintainable applications

5. Support for Latest PHP Versions: Ensures compatibility and performance enhancements from the latest features of PHP

6. Queue Improvements: Offers better performance and reliability for background job processing, making it easier to manage asynchronous tasks

7.?Improved Mailer Library: Provides more robust options for sending and formatting emails, including better integration with third-party services

8. Artisan Command Enhancements: Includes new commands and features that make it more powerful for handling various tasks during development

9. API Authentication Updates: The built-in solution, Sanctum, provides more secure and flexible options for managing API authentication and authorization

10.?New Package Discoveries: Introduces new ways to discover and integrate third-party packages, enhancing the ecosystem and making it simpler to add functionality to your applications

11.?Advanced Logging Capabilities: Introduces advanced logging features, such as improved log formatting, more powerful filtering options, and integration with modern logging services

On a day-to-day basis, working with Laravel has become much smoother and code, even shorter. For anyone whose job or project demands the newest version, or for those of you who are always in the mood for some new aesthetically-pleasing features of Laravel, you will find the transition very easy because the codebase is still very clean, short and legible.

Enjoy working with Laravel??