The Laravel Daily site has a quick post on the heels of the latest minor release of the Laravel framework, v5.2.2, that includes some of the new features that came along with it.

Two days ago Taylor Otwell released a new minor version of Laravel framework – 5.2.22. Along with some small fixes, there are a few new functions, let’s look into them.

The three features they talk about aren't major changes to the framework but they are helpful to those needing these little tweaks:

• Validate array distinct (a new rule to validate if array has only different values)
• fullUrlWithQuery (automatically adding query parameters to a url() kind of call)
• Blade: continue and break (more flow control in Blade templates)

Examples are included showing how to use the new functionality as well.