August release - 2021

Updated packages

Several packages are now stable and are no longer marked as @next

Updated packages:

@adonisjs/core 5.1.8 -> 5.3.2

@adonisjs/ally 4.0.2 -> 4.1.1

@adonisjs/view 6.0.3 -> 6.1.0

@adonisjs/repl 3.1.2 -> 3.1.6

@adonisjs/lucid 15.0.1 -> 16.0.0 (Breaking change)

@adonisjs/auth 8.0.5 -> 8.0.9

Ludic breaking change

Lucid models handle $extras object slightly different. Before additional fields were in $extras, but now when you define same field in model it will no longer be moved to $extras and you can access it directly

For it to work you need to enable useDefineForClassFields in tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "useDefineForClassFields": true
  }
}

Full notes about breaking change

Full Lucid documentation

Drive

Biggest addition is new @adonisjs/drive which is fully usable now. New version of Core (5.3) uses Drive under the hood, but if you are using older version of V5 you can install and use Drive manually

Drive has built-in support for AWS S3 (and alternatives), Google Cloud Storage and local filesystem. Now there’s unified API for all those storages. In case you want to to add new storage provider it’s relatively easily extendable

To get started with Drive install required driver and configure it (Installation is not required for local filesystem)

npm i @adonisjs/drive-gcs
node ace configure @adonisjs/drive-gcs

npm i @adonisjs/drive-s3
node ace configure @adonisjs/drive-s3

Full Drive documentation

Ally

Ally Spotify driver is stable and usable

Fully Ally documentation

Lazy loading relationship aggregates

Lucid now allows you to lazy load relationship aggregates using the loadCount and loadAggregate methods.

The loadAggregate method allows you to define a custom aggregate method. For example:

Full relationship aggregates documentation

Edge

With Edge version update env and config helpers are included (/post/edge-env-config/)

Full Edge documentation

Full release notes

Read full release notes at docs.adonisjs.com