Matt Stauffer has a new post to his site sharing some of the new features and updates to Laravel that were announced at Laracon US 2017. This is the second post in his series covering what's new in Laravel 5.5.

He was updating the post as the items were announced (live-blogging) and now the post has the complete list:

• Frontend presets
• New routing options
• Blade::if
• Renderable mailable
• Renderable Exceptions
• Responsable interface
• One-off Notifications
• Validation improvements
• TrustedProxy package brought internally
• Migrate:fresh
• New database migration trait
• WithoutExceptionHandling middleware
• Dusk improvements
• Package auto-discovery
• Vendor:publish menu
• Auto-registered console commands
• Job chaining
• Better missing model handling in jobs

As you can see the list is quite long and filled with both updates to current functionality and with new features. Check out the full post for information on each - some come with descriptions and other with commands/code to show them in action.

Chance Garcia has posted more of his great "live blogging" posts from the various sessions he's been attending at the TEKX conference happening in Chicago. The new posts covered the sessions on:

• continuous integration in PHP applications (Sebastian Bergmann)
• code release and management (Eli White)
• Date and Time functionality (Derick Rethans)
• Zend_Form (Rob Allen)
• memcache and apc (Ben Ramsey)
• Scalability & MySQL (Ligaya Turmelle)
• Streams, Sockets & Filters (Elizabeth Smith)
• New SPL Features in PHP 5.3
• XDebug (Derick Rethans)
• Corss-Platform PHP (Elizabeth Smith)
• Marco Tabini's closing remarks

I'm sure more posts can be expected from today's sessions, so keep an eye on his blog if you weren't able to attend this year's conference.