Weekly updates #09/2022

Hey everyone. This is our weekly thread with news from the Laravel world, our weekly code tips, and other updates.

Ecosystem News

• ✨ Laravel 9.3.0 got released with a bunch of quality of life improvements
• 🎥 The Laravel documentary is out!
• 🛡️ Why you should never trust your users: an article about Laravel security
• 🤖 Laragraph — a package for working with Telegram bots — got released!
• 🎧 Taylor is the first guest of the season 5 of The Laravel Podcast
• 🌐 The @spatie_be team has released Global Ray

Code tips

• ⚠️ Be careful about setting timezones with Carbon
• 💻 Use the stream() method to send a file to the browser without triggering a download
• 📆 Carbon's setTimezone() and shiftTimezone() methods
• 💿 Use the updateExistingPivot() method to make changes to pivot columns on existing records
• 💅 Use :: to use Alpine property binding inside Blade templates