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Laravel 5.1 with LTS is released

by ericbarnes on 6/9/15, 1:14 PM with 55 comments

• by jbrooksuk on 6/9/15, 3:30 PM

  I'm super excited about Laravel 5.1

  We've been using it with Cachet (https://github.com/cachethq/cachet) for a couple of weeks. Mainly it was to make testing our API easier, the new PHPUnit extensions are so freaking amazing - it makes unit testing a dream.

  Other than that, other cool features I like are the LTS, dropping of the mcrypt extension requirement and also the broadcasting feature (which is worth checking out btw)

  Also this release contains some code that I've committed too, which is always a nice feeling :)

• by sarciszewski on 6/9/15, 2:50 PM

  http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/releases#laravel-5.1

      In previous versions of Laravel, encryption was handled by the
      mcrypt PHP extension. However, beginning in Laravel 5.1, encryption is
      handled by the openssl extension, which is more actively maintained.
  

  This is easily my favorite aspect of the new release. Please, everyone else, follow their example and stop using mcrypt in your projects.

• by noir_lord on 6/9/15, 2:50 PM

  Just upgraded a large 5 to 5.1 codebase in under 5 minutes (4 of that was composer ;) ) and everything passed functional testing.

  Outstanding work and the new docs are an excellent improvement.

• by colinramsay on 6/9/15, 2:53 PM

  This is a great idea. My main gripe (on a very short evaluation) with Laravel is that the default application that artisan gives you comes with a lot of files dotted around the directory structure. With something like Rails these tend to be locked away in a gem and so when using CTRL+T (or similar) you get a lot of cruft popping up.

  That said I do like the things that Laravel gives you out of the box like auth and the command pattern.

• by mtbcoder on 6/9/15, 2:52 PM

  By extension, would Lumen (Laravel's micro framework sibling) also now have LTS releases?

• by Olap84 on 6/9/15, 2:46 PM

  How many other Frameworks offer LTS releases?

  Plenty are mature enough to offer this, but commercial backing must be hard to come by.

• by ericbarnes on 6/9/15, 1:28 PM

  Being the first release offering LTS is fantastic news for the community.

• by sirstompsalot on 6/9/15, 3:14 PM

  Too bad it is still slow as a glacier.

• by darkhorn on 6/9/15, 3:22 PM

  Why space? Why not tabs? Why do I need to press 10 times space instead of 2 times the tab?

• by fweespeech on 6/9/15, 2:37 PM

  As interesting as LTS support is, 2 years is frankly very short.

  I'm used to thinking of LTS support in terms of 4-5 years. I suspect everyone else is too and Laravel is going to piss off everyone who doesn't read the fine print.