After upgrade, roles no longer seem to be working

[elb98rm]

I've upgraded to Laravel 11 and permissions seem to have broken - at least the middleware part of it has.

In composer:

{
    "require": {
        "spatie/laravel-permission": "^6",
    }
}

In middleware classes I've used:

protected $middlewareAliases = [
// ...
        'role' => RoleMiddleware::class,
        'permission' => PermissionMiddleware::class,
        'role_or_permission' => RoleOrPermissionMiddleware::class,
];

And finally, my web routing is as follows:

Route::prefix('dashboard')
    ->middleware(
        [
            'web',
            'auth',
            'verified',
            'can:read_dashboard' // a valid permission the user has
        ]
    )->group(function () { 
        // ...
    });

This fails with 'can:read_dashboard' giving a 403, and passes without it.

There were a few other classes changed but they should be unrelated (for example, I've removed Sanctum).
This was not the case in L10.
Has anyone seen this or got a workaround?

[elb98rm]

I've found the answer: as this is an upgrade, some parts of the cache were "old" - I assume config etc. Running the following will resolve this:

• php artisan optimize:clear