Laravel v6.17.0 is released in 2020/02/25, here are the changes we`ve merged into this release.

Added

Allowed private-encrypted pusher channels (#31559, ceabaef, 8215e0d)

Added file permission config option for the File cache store (#31579)

config option for the File cache store (#31579) Added Connection refused and running with the --read-only option so it cannot execute this statement to DetectsLostConnections (#31539)

Reverted

Fixed

Fixed issue Content Type not specified (#31533)

Changed

Allowed cache helper to have an optional expiration parameter (#31554)

helper to have an optional parameter (#31554) Allowed passing of strings to TestResponse::dumpSession() method (#31583)

method (#31583) Consider mailto: and tel: links in the subcopy actionUrl label in emails (#31523, 641a7cd)

Exclude mariaDB from database queue support for new SKIP LOCKED (fff96e7)

GitHub: https://github.com/laravel/framework/releases/tag/v6.17.0