Laravel Argonaut Dto Laravel Package

What's Changed

• Refactor ArgonautDTO internals into reusable traits (HasCasting, HasSerialization, HasValidation)
• Adds ArgonautImmutableDTO base class with readonly property support via reflection
• Adds BackedEnum casting support for single properties, arrays, and collections
• Adds only(), except(), and merge() serialization helpers
• Adds PHP 8.5 to CI matrix and PHPStan (level 5) to the pipeline
• Bumps actions/checkout from v2 to v4

Full Changelog: https://github.com/YorCreative/Laravel-Argonaut-DTO/compare/v1.3.0...v1.4.0

What's Changed

• Add ArgonautImmutableDTO and Refactor to Trait-based Architecture by @yordadev in https://github.com/YorCreative/Laravel-Argonaut-DTO/pull/6

• ArgonautImmutableDTO - New base class for creating readonly DTOs that cannot be modified after construction
• Trait-based architecture - Extracted HasCasting, HasValidation, and HasSerialization traits for code reuse
• PHPStan static analysis - Added level 5 static analysis with CI integration
• PHP 8.5 support - Added PHP 8.5 to composer requirements and CI test matrix

Bug Fixes

• getAttributesToUpdate() now properly excludes nestedAssemblers property (previously only excluded casts and prioritizedAttributes)

Improvements

• Test coverage improved from 99.10% to 100%
• Added test for from<ClassName> assembler method pattern
• Updated actions/checkout to v4 in CI workflow
• Fixed documentation typos in README

Full Changelog: https://github.com/YorCreative/Laravel-Argonaut-DTO/compare/v1.2.0...v1.3.0

What's Changed

• Deeply Nested Assemblers in DTOs by @yordadev in https://github.com/YorCreative/Laravel-Argonaut-DTO/pull/5

Full Changelog: https://github.com/YorCreative/Laravel-Argonaut-DTO/compare/v1.1.0...v1.2.0

What's Changed

• 🚀 New Assembler Features (DI and from<ClassName>) and Documentation by @yordadev in https://github.com/YorCreative/Laravel-Argonaut-DTO/pull/2

New Contributors

• @yordadev made their first contribution in https://github.com/YorCreative/Laravel-Argonaut-DTO/pull/2

Full Changelog: https://github.com/YorCreative/Laravel-Argonaut-DTO/compare/v1.0.0...v1.1.0

Initial Release Notes

Laravel Argonaut DTO is a lightweight, highly composable package for transforming arrays, objects, or collections into structured DTOs (Data Transfer Objects), with built-in support for:

🧱 Deep nested transformation and casting 🔁 Type-safe data conversion ✅ Validation using Laravel’s validator 🧠 Explicit attribute prioritization 📦 Clean serialization (toArray, toJson) ♻️ Consistent data shape enforcement across boundaries