I want to upgrade my application from 5.4 to 5.5, at first I was totaly fine with working 5.4 but now it seems like I can really make use of the new errors page. I've seen some other changes going on too and I wonder if I upgrade it from 5.4 to 5.5 and if something goes wrong, what options do I have. The project is saved in a private repository, I know I probably have a chance to go back to previous versions easly, but after doing development in 5.5, am I gonna be in a deadend for solutions?
I suppose you are using GIT for SVN. Then just create a separate branch from master and upgrade and test it for a few days and if everything works fine then pull on production. Also, maintain a 5.4 branch for few days if you want to revert back. But it's very rare you will face any problem on 5.5 if you migrate correctly with through testing.
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I have scoured the web for hours but I can not seem to wrap my head around this. I am developing a Laravel project where I am using the dependency UniSharp/laravel-settings. However, I have noticed that after upgrading my Laravel version to 6.0, the package breaks. I have figured out what I need to do to make the package work with Laravel 6.0 and now I wish to make the required changes and then use the modified package.
So far, I have cloned the original repository into my own (i.e realnsleo/laravel-settings) and I have cloned it onto my development machine. The trouble is, I don't know how to test whether my changes work. Do I need to setup a fresh Laravel installation to test the package? I noticed the package has it's own composer.json file, should I install those dependencies separate from the installed Laravel project? I am highly confused.
Can someone assist me with a step by step on what I need to do to achieve this? I will highly appreciate it. Thank you.
I have a Laravel 5.4 project (web application), it's a huge product. I want to add some well known packages like error logging and debugging. Is there any simple way to update the Laravel from 5.4 to 5.5 or 5.6 without affecting the things what was already done? How can I do this?
You should never upgrade your production environment directly without testing. It would be better to set up a staging environment and test the upgrade there. If you don't have any problems there, consider upgrading the production environment.
If you want to know all changes from older versions to newer versions, check the upgrade guides in order:
https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/upgrade
https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/upgrade
https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/upgrade
I have a large project running on Laravel 4.2 and now I would like to upgrade it to the latest release (5.4)
On the upgrading guide I can see the steps to upgrade from each release to the next one, but the 4.2 to 5.0 requires a fresh install. Hence the question: should I install 5.4 (and fix problems) or 5.0 (running each upgrade)?
I'm possibily using any Laravel functionality, and have organized repositories for my own custom methods; I also need to maintain the database. I need to upgrade because I would like to use event bradcasting with Laravel Echo.
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To those looking for an answer: update directly to latest version, then fix changes along the way.
Explanation:
At first I tried to upgrade version by version; it was a pain. Every single vendor had different packages for each version and that caused issues even before correcting the code. I couldn't start fixing my code because the installation requirements of the vendors were failing at a certain point of the upgrade process.
Upgrading directly to latest version requires the correction of many things, but at least those are only related to your code. In my case I had to remove Sentry (authentication), Laravel OAuth, and some others I don't remember in favor of some native packages which I hope will be maintained properly. The upside of this approach is that once you have all the packages you need installed you can work directly on your code... which is what you have to do anyway.
I have a site built in Laravel 5.0 and would like to upgrade to Laravel 5.2
Do I have to first upgrade to 5.1 and then upgrade to 5.2 or is it possible to upgrade directly from 5.0 to 5.2
The only guides I can find at the moment don't seem to offer the option from 5.0 to 5.2 so I was wondering if there are too many changes to jump from 5.0 directly to 5.2.
Since the migrations between releases is a manual migration, you may follow the instruction for every single migration in chronological order and then run the composer update only once.
Nevertheless, I think the optimal approach is to migrate to the next version, verify everything works, and repeat until you get to the last release.
I am new to Laravel Framework and I wanted to know what is the difference between the Master and 5.0 (can be found at the documentation page).
Thank you.
The 5.0 branch is the current stable release all bugfixes and patches go to this branch and that's the one you should use. (it is also the one composer will use when you create a new project).
The master branch contains the upcoming release. In this case 5.1. However it could be unstable or suddenly break features because things will change in the new release.