New whereLike to query builder in Laravel 11.17

The Laravel team released v11.16 this week, which includes a new whereLike method to query builder, improve readability of SQLite schema dumps and more.

Here are some highlights:

• Support setting etag cache header
• Improve accuracy of isEmpty and isNotEmpty Collection assertions
• Improve readability of SQLite schema dumps
• Add HasCollection trait for models
• Add whereLike to query builder
• Implement HasVersion7Uuids to use with MariaDB native uuid data type
• Allow microsecond time travel
• Add QueryExecuted::toRawSql()

Release notes

You can see the complete list of new features and updates below and the diff between 11.16.0 and 11.17.0 on GitHub. The following release notes are directly from the changelog