This week we do updates on string helpers, some other PRs, a little Ziggy talk, and we dig into the concept of "State Machines"

Links:

- [[5.5] Use Support Carbon by lucasmichot · Pull Request #20568 · laravel/framework](https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/20568 "[5.5] Use Support Carbon by lucasmichot · Pull Request #20568 · laravel/framework")

- [pluginaweek/state\_machine: Adds support for creating state machines for attributes on any Ruby class](https://github.com/pluginaweek/state_machine "pluginaweek/state\_machine: Adds support for creating state machines for attributes on any Ruby class")

- [[5.5] API Responses by themsaid · Pull Request #19449 · laravel/framework](https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/19449 "[5.5] API Responses by themsaid · Pull Request #19449 · laravel/framework")

- [Add Str::start() and str\_start helper function by calebporzio · Pull Request #20569 · laravel/framework](https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/20569 "Add Str::start() and str\_start helper function by calebporzio · Pull Request #20569 · laravel/framework")