welcm take a quick look at some new features or important changes that you should be aware of whether creating a new project from scratch or updating an existing one.

laravel 5.8's new features

Laravel 5.8 will be released on Feb 26.

Updates

Here’s a few important updates coming to Laravel 5.8:

Email validation

dotenv 3.0

Mailables directory name change

New error page templates

Array and String helper functions are deprecated

Caching — ttl now in seconds instead of minutes

JSON values in MySQL

Carbon version 2 support

Nexmo and Slack Notification channels

Full article

https://welcm.uk/blog/whats-new-in-laravel-5-8