Weekly updates #24/2022

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

Ecosystem News

• 🐙 We’re working on Tenancy v4 and SaaS boilerplate 2.0
• 🆕 Spark Stripe just shipped payment retries
• ✈️ GitHub integration landed in Vapor
• ✨ Laravel released Nova v4.8.0
• ⌚ You can now watch your Forge deployments happen live in real-time
• 📗 Laracasts published a 2022-edition of @laravelphp Forge series
• 🧭 New Spatie package: laravel-navigation. It lets you easily build menus, breadcrumbs, and other types of navigation

Code tips

• 📎 Uploaded files can be attached to emails directly from the request
• 📀 You can use Eloquent whereColumn() to compare columns to each other
• 🔁 You can add a URI fragment when redirecting to a route
• 📥 You can import entire namespaces in PHP
• ⚠️ Method parameters can be marked as "sensitive”
• 💅 You can namespace your helper functions
• 🖥️ Databases can generate random UUID keys
• ✂️ Long classes can be split into small single-use traits
• 🔑 You can customize default validation rules for passwords