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

You can just update your laravel/framework dependency to 5.7.* in your composer.json file.

1. change in composer.json:

From:

"require": {
        "php": ">=7.0.0",
        "fideloper/proxy": "~3.3",
        "laravel/framework": "5.4.*",
        "laravel/tinker": "~1.0"
    },

To:

"require": {
        "php": ">=7.1.3",
        "fideloper/proxy": "~4.0",
        "laravel/framework": "5.6.*",
        "laravel/tinker": "~1.0"
    },

2. Replace app\Http\Middleware\TrustedProxies.php file with contents below:

3. composer update

composer update