According to this new post on the Laravel News site the latest major version of the Laravel framework has been released - Laravel 5.

Several new features come in this release including:

• A new, more granular directory structure
• Changes to the Blade templating library
• The introduction of Contracts for core services
• Commands & Events
• Routing updates
• Controller method injection

...and plenty more. You can find out about all of these new features (along with some code examples) in this release announcement on the Laravel News site.