Re:Laravel 7
by micael_dias on Sunday March 08, 2020 @10:23AM
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You can also use https://laravelshift.com/. I always manually updated using the documentation upgrade guide and never had a problem which will apply to most people who don't use internal undocumented functions.
They provide LTS releases (similar to Ubuntu). I'd definitely recommend sticking to them for projects that are / will be in maintenance mode. The breaking changes are usually minor, so for actively developed projects, using the regular versions is fine.