Laravel 5.1 Database session keeps regenerating every request

So the issue is that on every request a new session is created and stored in the database so Sessions are storing themselves in the sessions table but its like Laravel just ignores them and creates a new one every request.

I have removed whitespace like some people suggested. This all happened when I upgraded to Laravel 5.1

FYI: the file session driver works fine

Anyone encounter this and how did they resolve it.

Cheers

via Chebli Mohamed