mail-tracker | Package for Laravel to inject tracking code into outgoing emails

In 4.x and previous, there was a recipient column in the sent_emails table that stored the RFC standard email format <Name> email@example.com. 5.x has updated to store the name and email separately. The recipient and sender columns have been removed from the sent_emails table migration, but no migration was added to drop those columns. Accessors have been added to retain the model's recipient and sender attributes, so no updates should need to be made to any code that currently uses those unless you are specifically querying the sender or recipient columns. To retain your existing data afer upgrading, run the artisan command mail-tracker:migrate-recipients. This will convert the existing recipient and sender data into the new format. At this point you may drop the recipient and sender columns. There is also a new pair of attributes in the sent_emails table: opened_at and clicked_at. Those store the first time the user opened and clicked, respectively. This has been added to the default tracker index page. You are welcome to add it into yours, or use those values as you see fit.
There are no breaking changes from 3.x to 4.x with the exception that 4.x is for Laravel 7+ only.
There was a breaking change with the update to version 3.0, specifically regarding the events that are fired. If you are listening for the PermanentBouncedMessageEvent to catch all undeliverables, there are now two separate events: PermanentBouncedMessageEvent will be fired only on permanent bounces, and a new event ComplaintMessageEvent will be fired on complaints. There is also an new event EmailDeliveredEvent that is fired for each successful delivery event. For information about setting up the SES/SNS environment to receive notifications regarding these events, see the documentation below.
First, upgrade to version 2.2 by running:. If you are updating from an earlier version, you will need to update the config file and run the new migrations. For best results, make a backup copy of config/mail-tracker.php and the views in resources/views/vendor/emailTrackingViews (if they exists) to restore any values you have customized, then delete that file and run. Also note that the migration for the sent_emails_url_clicked table changed with version 2.1.13. The change is that the URL column is now a TEXT field to allow for longer URLs. If you have an old system you may want to manually change that column; there is no migration included to perform that update.
Publish the config file and migration. Note: If you would like to use a different connection to store your models, you should update the mail-tracker.php config entry connection before running the migrations.