Release Notes for 5.3.x

v5.3.6 (2016-09-01)

Added

Added required attributes to auth scaffold (#15087)
Support custom recipient(s) in MailMessage notifications (#15100)
Support custom greeting in SimpleMessage notifications (#15108)
Added prependLocation() method to FileViewFinder (#15103)
Added fluent email priority setter (#15178)
Added send() and sendNow() to notification factory contract (0066b5d)

Changed

Defer resolving of PDO connection until needed (#15031)
Send plain text email along with HTML email notifications (#15016, #15092, #15115)
Stop further validation if a required rule fails (#15089)
Swaps drop() for dropIfExists() in migration stub (#15113)
The resource_path() helper now relies on Application::resourcePath() (#15095)
Optimized performance of Str::random() (#15112)
Show app.name in auth stub (#15138)
Switched from htmlentities() to htmlspecialchars() in e() helper (#15159)
Improved handling of failed file uploads during validation (#15166)
Hide empty paginators (#15125)

Fixed

Fixed migrate:rollback with FETCH_ASSOC enabled (#15088)
Fixes query builder not considering raw expressions in whereIn() (#15078)
Fixed notifications serialization mistake in ChannelManager (#15106)
Fixed session id collisions (#15206)
Fixed extending cache expiration time issue in file cache (#15164)

Removed

Removed data transformation in Response::json() (#15137)

v5.3.4 (2016-08-26)

Added

Added ability to set from address for email notifications (#15055)

Changed

Support implicit keys in MessageBag::get() (#15063)
Allow passing of closures to assertViewHas() (#15074)
Strip protocol from Route group domains parameters (#15070)
Support dot notation as callback in Arr::sort() (#15050)
Use Redis database interface instead of implementation (#15041)
Allow closure middleware to be registered from the controller constructor (#15080, abd85c9)

Fixed

Fixed plural form of Emoji (#15068)

v5.3.3 (2016-08-26)

Fixed

Fixed testing of Eloquent model events (#15052)

v5.3.2 (2016-08-24)

Fixed

Revert changes to Eloquent Builder that breaks firstOr* methods (#15018)

v5.3.1 (2016-08-24)

Changed

Support unversioned assets in elixir() function (#14987)
Changed visibility of BladeCompiler::stripParentheses() to public (#14986)
Use getter instead of accessing the properties directly in JoinClause::__construct() (#14984)
Replaced manual comparator with asort in Collection::sort() (#14980)
Use query() instead of input() for key lookup in TokenGuard::getTokenForRequest() (#14985)

Fixed

Check if exact key exists before assuming the dot notation represents segments in Arr::has() (#14976)
Revert aggregate changes in #14793 (#14994)
Prevent infinite recursion with closure based console commands (26eaa35)
Fixed transaction() method for SqlServer (f4588f8)