What’s New in Laravel 8.64? Explore the @aware Blade Directive and Fresh Helpers

Laravel 8.64 has been released, bringing several new features and improvements to the framework.

@aware Blade Directive

The new @aware directive allows child components to easily access data from their parent components when needed.

<!-- Example usage -->
<x-menu color="purple">
    <x-menu.item>...</x-menu.item>
    <x-menu.item>...</x-menu.item>
</x-menu>

<!-- Implementation in resources/views/components/menu/index.blade.php -->
@props(['color' => 'gray'])
<ul {{ $attributes->merge(['class' => 'bg-'.$color.'-200']) }}>
    {{ $slot }}
</ul>

StripTags Stringable Method

Craig Anderson contributed a stripTags() method for the Stringable class, which utilizes PHP’s strip_tags() as part of string chain handling.

Str::of('<strong>before<strong><br />after')->stripTags();

lang_path Helper Function

Rodolfo Ruiz added a lang_path() helper that locates the lang directory in a Laravel project, checking both the project root and the resources folder.

// PROJECT_DIR/resources/lang or PROJECT_DIR/lang
$langPath = lang_path();

// PROJECT_DIR/resources/lang/es or PROJECT_DIR/lang/es
$langPath = lang_path('es');

// PROJECT_DIR/resources/lang/en or PROJECT_DIR/lang/en
$langPath = lang_path('en');

"throwIf" HTTP Client Method

Ahmad Mayahi contributed a throwIf() method for the HTTP client that throws an exception when a given boolean condition is true.

$response
    ->json()
    ->throwIf(App::isProduction);

hasAny Collection Method

Craig Anderson also added a hasAny() method to collections, returning true if the collection contains any of the supplied values.

// returns `true`
collect(['first' => 'Hello', 'second' => 'World'])
    ->hasAny(['first', 'fourth']);

// returns `false`
collect(['first' => 'Hello', 'second' => 'World'])
    ->hasAny(['third', 'fourth']);

Laravel v8.64.0 Release Features

Added reduceMany to collections (#39078)

Added Illuminate\Support\Stringable::stripTags() (#39098)

Added Illuminate\Console\OutputStyle::getOutput() (#39099)

Added lang_path helper (#39103)

Added @aware Blade directive (#39100)

Dispatched new JobRetrying event (#39097)

Added throwIf method to client responses (#39148)

Added Illuminate\Collections\Collection::hasAny() (#39155)

Fixed unprefixed route groups on PHP 8.1 (#39115)

Fixed token handling code in InteractsWithInput (#39150)

Refactored Illuminate\Log\LogManager::prepareHandler() (#39093)

Refreshed component state after view rendering (04fc7c2)

Ignored tablespace in dumps (#39126)

Updated SchemaState process to remove timeouts (#39139)