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

Just update your laravel/framework dependency to 5.7.* in your composer.json file:

"require": {
    "php": "^7.1.3",
    "fideloper/proxy": "^4.0",
    "laravel/framework": "5.7.*",
    "laravel/tinker": "^1.0"
},

After, run this command on your command prompt: composer update

You will achieve success and your Larvael will change to version 5.7, more details are available on upgrade guide