Today Taylor Otwell, creator of popular PHP framework Laravel, announced the release of it’s next major release (which is 5). This really made my day since I enjoy the framework so much.

If you also want to learn the framework and thus be awesome in PHP, please watch free screencast series Laravel 5 Fundamentals, prepared by Jeffrey Way ((Subscription to his site Laracasts is considered a must for every Laravel developer, since you do not learn only about Laravel, but also about PHP overall and modern developing workflow.)). If you only want to learn what’s new in Laravel 5 than reading this post is what you should do. It lists 22 most notable changes from previous release (my favorite changes are those related to middleware and request/form validation).