Laravel 5.1 is a past version of the open-source PHP web framework. It has been released on 9th June 2015. Use it in addition to the laravel-5 tag if your question is specific to Laravel 5.1. Use the laravel tag for general laravel related questions.
Laravel 5.1 is a past version of Laravel 5. It has been released on 9th June 2015.
What is new:
- LTS (Long Term Support)
- PSR-2 compliance
- Event broadcasting
- Middleware parameters
- Model factories
- Overhauled testing with new helper traits and a new expressive fluent interface for integration tests
- Blade service injection
- Artisan improvements for simplified command signatures and advanced output forms
- CSRF whitelisting
- Laravel Envoy allows you to run local scripts without SSH
- Laravel Elixir compiles ECMAScript 6 by default
- Backwards-compatible folder structure changes
- Completely overhauled documentation
- 5.1.4: Authentication throttling
- 5.1.11: ACL (Access Control List) authorization
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