The plan is for Laravel 8 to be released on September 8th, and in anticipation, Taylor has been hinting at some of the new features that will be coming to the framework. Let’s take a look at some of these.
php artisan serve enhancements
You will no longer have to manually restart php artisan serve if you update your “.env” file. The changes will be read in, and you can just continue working.
app/Models directory
This feature came to life after a Twitter poll a few months back where Taylor asked where people like to put their “Models” Either in app/ or app/Models. The latter won out, and the Laravel 8 skeleton will include an app/Models directory by default.
Generator commands are updated for new directories
To make life easier with that directory change, all generator commands in 8.x will detect if you have a Models directory. If you don’t, it will assume models go in “app”.
Even more…
At Laracon Online, Taylor plans to talk about model factories, squashing migrations, job batching, job backoffs, rate limiting, exception reporting, event listening, route caching, maintenance mode, Jetstream, and much more! He is scheduled for the 12:15 PM time slot, and it’s one you wouldn’t want to miss.
Source: https://laravel-news.com/new-features-coming-to-laravel-8