Laravel v5.8.5 is released in 2019/03/19, here are the changes we`ve merged into this release.

Added

Added Illuminate\Database\DatabaseManager::setReconnector() (#27845)

(#27845) Added Illuminate\Auth\Access\Gate::none() (#27859)

(#27859) Added OtherDeviceLogout event (#27865, 5e87f2d)

event (#27865, 5e87f2d) Added even and odd flags to the Loop variable in the blade (#27883)

Changed

Add replacement for lower danish æ (#27886)

(#27886) Show error message from exception, if message exist for 403.blade.php and 503.blade.php error (#27893, #27902)

Fixed

Fixed seeding logic in Arr::shuffle() (#27861)

(#27861) Fixed Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder::updateOrInsert() with empty $values (#27906)

with empty (#27906) Fixed Application::getNamespace() method (#27915)

method (#27915) Fixed of store previous url (#27935, 791992e)

Security

Changed Validation\Rules\Unique.php (da4d4a4). You can read more here

GitHub: https://github.com/laravel/framework/releases/tag/v5.8.5