Laravel 9.8 Released | Laravel News

The Laravel team released 9.8 with accessing default form data from an Eloquent model, custom log levels per exception type, discovering anonymous components in additional paths, and more:

Laravel 9.8.0 is available today and includes several cool new features! 🔥

First, a quality of life boost for the “old” helper. You can now pass a model as the second, “default” argument. The function will assume the attribute name based on the first argument. ✅ pic.twitter.com/1Mee6Tv20j

— Taylor Otwell 🪐 (@taylorotwell) April 12, 2022

The “old” Form Helper Accepts a Model

Andrew Arscott contributed an update to the old() helper that allows a model as the second default argument:

1<input type="text" name="name" value="{{ old('name', $user->name) }}">
2 
3{{-- 🔥 --}}
4<input type="text" name="name" value="{{ old('name', $user) }}">

Allow a Custom Log Level in Exception Handling

Tom Witkowski contributed the ability to customize the log level for reported exceptions in the exception handler:

 1use PDOException;
 2use Psr\Log\LogLevel;
 3 
 4/**
 5 * A list of exception types with their corresponding custom log levels.
 6 *
 7 * @var array<class-string<\Throwable>, \Psr\Log\LogLevel::*>
 8 */
 9protected $levels = [
10    PDOException::class => LogLevel::CRITICAL
11];

See Pull Request #41925 for implementation details.

Discover Anonymous Blade Components in Additional Paths

Ralph J. Smit contributed the ability to discover anonymous Blade components in additional paths:

1public function boot()
2{
3    Blade::anonymousComponentNamespace('flights.bookings', 'flights');
4}

Here’s an example of anonymous component usage:

1<x-flights::panel :flight="$flight" />

Set Factory Method

Ralph J. Smit contributed a model factory set() method to set a single model attribute:

 1// Before
 2EloquentModel::factory()
 3    ->create(['name' => 'foo']);
 4 
 5// After
 6EloquentModel::factory()
 7    ->set('name', 'foo')
 8    ->create();
 9 
10// Before
11EloquentModel::factory()
12    ->someMethod()
13    ->create(['country' => 'NL']);
14 
15// After
16EloquentModel::factory()
17    ->someMethod()
18    ->set('country', 'NL')
19    ->create();

Release Notes

You can see the complete list of new features and updates below and the diff between 9.7.0 and 9.8.0 on GitHub.