Laravel 9 is Now Released!
Laravel 9 is now released and includes many new features, including a minimum PHP v8.0 version, controller route groups, a refreshed default Ignition error page, Laravel Scout database engine, Symfony mailer integration, Flysystem 3.x, Improved Eloquent accessors/mutators, and many more features.

The major features in Laravel 9:
• PHP 8 is the minimum version in Laravel 9
• New Design for routes:list
• New test --coverage option displays coverage directly in the terminal
• Anonymous Stub Migrations are now the default
• New Query Builder Interface
• PHP 8 String Functions
• Moved mailer functionality from SwiftMailer to Symfony Mailer
• Flysystem 3.x
• Improved Eloquent Accessors/Mutators
• Implicit Route Bindings With Enums (PHP 8.1)
• Controller Route Groups
• Enum Eloquent Attribute Casting
• Forced Scoped Bindings
• Laravel Breeze API & Next.js
• Laravel Scout Database Engine
• Full-Text Indexes / Where Clauses
• Rendering Inline Blade Templates
• Soketi Echo Server
• Optional Bootstrap 5 Pagination Views
• Improved Ignition Exception Page
• New str() and to_route() helper functions