Laravel 8.55

The Laravel team released 8.55 with conditional validation rule support, trashed routes to include soft-deleted records, and more.

Conditional Validation Rule

Conditional validation rule support is a new feature that will only validate rules when a condition evaluates to true:

In the above, the `min:5` and `confirmed` validation rules only apply when the first argument of `Rule::when()` is true. Read our full post with all the other new features of this release. 

Laracon Online
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Statamic 3 is now released
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Laravel Blade Once Component
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