Laravel 11.5 Released With New Features And Improvements

This week, the Laravel team released v11.5, with anonymous event broadcasting, Blade performance improvements, generating URLs with query parameters, and more.
#Anonymous Event Broadcasting
Joe Dixon contributed anonymous broadcasts in Laravel for real-time applications using Laravel Echo:
Sometimes you may wish to broadcast an ad-hoc event.
An ad-hoc event is one where you don't need to hook into it anywhere else in your application. You just want to notify the frontend of something.
For this, you don't want to go to the trouble of creating a brand new event, you just want to fire off a messa...