Upgrade from 7.x to 8.x

IMPORTANT

Boilerplate 8.x requires at least PHP 8.2 and Laravel 11.x

What's new in 8.x

• PHP >= 8.2
• Laravel >= 11.x (opens new window)
• Intervention Image >= 3.x (opens new window) now with Laravel Integration 1.x (opens new window)
• Nesbot Carbon >= 3.x (opens new window)
• Laratrust >= 8.x (opens new window)
• Laravel Datatables >= 11.x (opens new window)
• PHPUnit >= 11.x (opens new window)
• Laravel Orchestra Testbench >= 9.x (opens new window)
• Replaced Arcanedev Log Viewer (which seems to be no longer maintained) with a custom solution.

Upgrade steps

In order to upgrade from Boilerplate 7.x to 8.x you have to follow these steps:

1. Change your composer.json to require the 8.x version of Boilerplate:

"sebastienheyd/boilerplate":"^8.0"

2. Run composer update to update the source code.

3. Run php artisan config:clear, php artisan cache:clear and php artisan view:clear.

Intervention Image

Intervention Image v2.x is end of life and no longer maintained. The service provider for Laravel has been removed and the package has been replaced by the Intervention Laravel Integration 1.x (opens new window) package.

Intervention Image has been updated to version 3.x. You can find the upgrade guide here (opens new window).