Hey guys, welcome to Laratips. In this video I’m walking you through 7 new things added in Laravel v9.49.0, and I’m showing them one by one with quick examples so you can actually use them in real projects. The biggest one for me is the new support for casting arrays that contain enums. If you have a JSON column like `types` where a user can have multiple roles/types, you can now cast it as an `enum_collection:YourEnum` directly in the model. When you save, Laravel stores the enum values to the DB, and when you access it, you get a collection of enums back—super powerful because now you can use enum methods/properties instead of working with raw strings. After that I show the new CLI prompts feature. Previously, if you ran an Artisan command without required arguments, you’d just get a “missing argument” error. Now, if you implement the `PromptsForMissingInput` interface, Laravel will ask you interactively for the missing argument. I also cover two new testing assertions—`assertJsonIsArray()` and `assertJsonIsObject()`—so you can properly test the JSON shape (array vs object in the JavaScript sense). Finally, I quickly go over a few smaller additions: `forceDeleteQuietly()` for soft deletes, `Arr::sortDesc()`, new HTTP client throw helpers like `throwIfStatus()` / `throwOnly()`, and the migration helper `noActionOnDelete()`.