laravel-5

Release Notes 12
Database Queue
A database queue driver is now included in Laravel, providing a simple, local queue driver that
requires no extra package installation beyond your database software.
Laravel Scheduler
In the past, developers have generated a Cron entry for each console command they wished to
schedule. However, this is a headache. Your console schedule is no longer in source control, and
you must SSH into your server to add the Cron entries. Let’s make our lives easier. The Laravel
command scheduler allows you to fluently and expressively define your command schedule within
Laravel itself, and only a single Cron entry is needed on your server.
It looks like this:
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1 $schedule->command('artisan:command')->dailyAt('15:00');
Of course, check out the full documentation to learn all about the scheduler!
Tinker / Psysh
The php artisan tinker command now utilizes Psysh⁴ by Justin Hileman, a more robust REPL for
PHP. If you liked Boris in Laravel 4, you’re going to love Psysh. Even better, it works on Windows!
To get started, just try:
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1 php artisan tinker
DotEnv
Instead of a variety of confusing, nested environment configuration directories, Laravel 5 now
utilizes DotEnv⁵ by Vance Lucas. This library provides a super simple way to manage your
environment configuration, and makes environment detection in Laravel 5 a breeze. For more details,
check out the full configuration documentation.
⁴https://github.com/bobthecow/psysh
⁵https://github.com/vlucas/phpdotenv