Added support for passing an Eloquent Collection to sync() when inserting on a many-to-many relationship instead of just an array of IDs
check for page name in addQuery
fix tests
Pagination Presenter add rel="prev" rel="next", update tests and docs.
Add 'except' and 'only' methods to Eloquent Collection class.
added orHaving(), works similar to orHavingRaw()
Updated Model dirty checks to ignore numerically equivalent fields
fix count when the key is an attribute written in dot notation
Minor clarity and type-enforcement fixes

Fix Cache\TagSet::__construct() arg for prop used with array-only operations

Add phpdoc @method hints for \Cache\Manager->__call to StoreInterface driver

Remove unused assignment in SqlServerGrammar->compileAnsiOffset()

Remove unused param from Query\Builder->orWhereBetween()

Remove unused closure parameter in Connection->unprepared()

Fix Database\Capsule\Manager method arg types

Add explicit member var definition in Database\Capsule\Manager

Fix Database\Connectors\ConnectionFactory method property type

Clean up tabs and erroneous magic reference in Cache\CacheManager

Change visibility of  in Cookie\Queue

Mark formerly implicit members as protected per #3414
Added support for non-numeric IDs used with Postgres
Update MySqlConnector.php to support Sphinx

Sphinx is one of the 4 main search engines PHP has documented and provides classes for.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/refs.search.php

Sphinx uses the mysql protocol as an interface.  The problem is when passing collate the connection to sphinx fails.  The patch will not include collate in the connection if in the config file its set to null.

Thank you

(Original Ticket #3519)
Moves common macro functionality in MacroTrait.
Also unifies macro tests and space correction
Removed tests for macro functionality.
It's taken care of in SupportMacroTraitTest
Orders namespaces after vendor
Changes spaces to tabs and orders class uses.
Orders class uses by vendor then length.
Return an array with attached, detached and changed relationship IDs on sync
Modify tests to also test the new behaviour
Updated docblock as per bencorlett's & franzliedke's suggestions
Smarter before/after rules with date_format
refactor - add getRule