Laravel 4 Beta Change Log

Beta 2

• Migrated to ircmaxell's password-compat library for PHP 5.5 forward compatibility on hashes. No backward compatibility breaks.
• Inflector migrated to L4. Eloquent models now assume their table names if one is not specified. New helpers str_plural and str_singular.
• Improved Route::controller so that URL::action may be used with RESTful controllers.
• Added model binding to routing engine via Route::model and Route::bind.
• Added missingMethod to base Controller, can be used to handle catch-all routes into the controller.
• Fixed bug with Redis data retrieval that caused server to hang.
• Implemented ArrayableInterface and JsonableInterface on MessageBag.
• Fixed bug where hasFile returned true when file returned null.
• Changed default PDO case constant to CASE_NATURAL.
• DB::table('foo')->truncate() now available on all supported databases.
• Fixed Twitter Bootstrap compatibility in Paginator.
• Allow multiple views to be passed to View::composer.
• Added Request::segment method.
• No need to prefix Translator methods with colons anymore.
• Allow inline error messages for an entire rule on the Validator.
• Can now automatically auto-load a relation for every query by setting the with attribute on models.
• Fix fallback locale handling in Translator.
• Added constructor arguments and merge method to MessageBag.
• IoC container will now resolve default parameters if no binding is available.
• Fix auto environment detection on Artisan.
• Fix BrowserKit request processing.
• Added Config::hasGroup method.
• Added DB::unprepared method for running raw, unprepared queries against PDO.
• Allow :key place-holder in MessageBag messages.
• Added Auth::validate method for validating credentials without logging in.
• Added Auth::stateless method for logging in for a single request without sessions or cookies.
• Added DB::extend method for adding custom connection resolvers.
• Added each and filter methods to Eloquent collections.
• Swapped method order on Route::controller to make it more consistent with other similar methods.
• Added route names to resource routes.
• Added support for nested resources.
• Changed resource route parameter names to match resource name, allowing for use with Route::model.
• Added extendImplicit method to Validator.
• Added Password::remind and Password::reset methods.
• Added unified queue API component, with drivers for sync and beanstalkd (Amazon SQS to come).
• Ported Model->touch method from L3 Eloquent.
• Added isEmpty method to the Paginator.
• Added ability to specify prefix on a route group.
• Added setBaseUrl method to pagination environment.
• Eloquent Model and Collections objects now include JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK by default on toJson method.