The biggest change is laravel will start following semantic versioning. It's about time. Breaking changes in every minor was really bugging and you would not ha

The biggest change is laravel will start following semantic versioning. It's about time. Breaking changes in every minor was really bugging and you would not have been able to skip a release, so to switch from 5.5 to 5.8 you had to migrate 5.5 -> 5.6, 5.6 -> 5.7, 5.7 -> 5.8.