v9.26.0

Added

• Adding support for non-backed enums in Models (#43728)
• Added vite asset url helpers (#43702)
• Added Authentication keyword for SqlServerConnector.php (#43757)
• Added support for additional where* methods to route groups (#43731)
• Added min_digits and max_digits validation (#43797)
• Added closure support to dispatch conditionals in bus (#43784)
• Added configurable paths to Vite (#43620)

Fixed

• Fix unique lock release for broadcast events (#43738)
• Fix empty collection class serialization (#43758)
• Fixes creation of deprecations channel (#43812)

Changed

• Improve display of failures for assertDatabaseHas (#43736)
• Always use the write PDO connection to read the just stored pending batch in bus (#43737)
• Move unique lock release to method (#43740)
• Remove timeoutAt fallback from Job base class (#43749)
• Convert closures to arrow functions (#43778)
• Use except also in Illuminate/Routing/Middleware/ValidateSignature::handle() (e554d47)
• Adjust forever time for cookies (#43806)
• Make string padding UTF-8 safe (f1762ed)