Upgrading Laravel 5.4 to latest version (5.7)

Question

I am working on Laravel 5.4 with PHP version 5.6.4. My goal is to upgrade my project to Laravel 5.7 with PHP 7.1.

Now my question is: Do I have to upgrade to 5.5 > 5.6 >

Answer 1

Better to upgrade 5.5 first an then go with 5.6 and 5.7 because if you see in 5.5 and 5.6 upgrade guide there are some packages also need to upgrade so you better go with the step by step.

• 5.4 to 5.5
• 5.5 to 5.6
• 5.6 to 5.7

For older versions, you can look at

• 5.3 to 5.4
• 4.2 to 5.3