The plan is for Laravel 8 to be released on September 8th, and in anticipation, Taylor has been hinting at some of the new features that will be coming to the framework. Let’s take a look at some of these.

php artisan serve enhancements

Small quality of life improvement in Laravel 8.x… you no longer have to manually restart “php artisan serve” if you update your “.env” file… pic.twitter.com/wnYhNS0Si0 — Taylor Otwell (@taylorotwell) July 14, 2020

You will no longer have to manually restart php artisan serve if you update your “.env” file. The changes will be read in, and you can just continue working.

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