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

For updating Laravel 6.x (Which means any subversions to V6)
Just run this command

cd [laravel installation directory]
composer update

You must have composer installed on your VM or PC.

For Linux users only:

Composer directory must be owned by current user

//Check ownership
ls -la ~/ | grep ".composer"

//If you don't own the directory
chown -R [user]/[user] ~/.composer

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