Laravel 5.8 continues the improvements made in Laravel 5.7 by introducing has-one-through Eloquent relationships, improved email validation, convention based automatic registration of authorization policies, DynamoDB cache and session drivers, improved scheduler timezone configuration, support for assigning multiple authentication guards to broadcast channels, PSR-16 cache driver compliance, improvements to the artisan serve command, PHPUnit 8.0 support, Carbon 2.0 support, Pheanstalk 4.0 support, and a variety of other bug fixes and usability improvements.

The PHP development team announces two new versions, 7.2.20 and 7.3.7. Both versions has been released at July 4 and available immediately at their download page. For every releases, there are many improvements and bug fixes. All PHP users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.