In this video I’m covering three small but really useful changes that landed in Laravel v9.46.0. It’s been a long time since I uploaded because I was involved in some projects, but now that I’ve completed them, I’m back with a “New in Laravel” update. The first two changes are all about JSON Resources and making your API responses cleaner without writing extra if statements everywhere. First, I show the new whenHas() method on JsonResource. The key difference vs whenNotNull() is important: whenHas() only includes the key if the attribute is actually present on the model, even if the value is null. I demo it with a user where email_verified_at is null and explain why one method removes the key while the other still keeps it in the response. Second, Laravel added unless() to JsonResource, which is basically the opposite of when(). I use it to show a field only when a condition is not met (like when email_verified_at is not present). Finally, I cover a fix to the decimal validation rule: it now supports signed numbers, so +12.34 and -12.34 validate correctly with decimal:2—something that didn’t work in earlier versions.