laravel new command with older version

Question

When I try to create new Laravel project using below commands:

laravel new --5.2 blog

laravel new blog --5.2

Gives me following error:

Answer 1

Looks like a bug at Laravel's side:

https://github.com/laravel/installer/blob/master/src/NewCommand.php#L125

Trying to download in the browser:

http://cabinet.laravel.com/latest-52.zip

results in a 404.