Update version from 5.3 to 5.5?

[haakym]

This repo is currently using version 5.3 of Laravel. How would one go about updating to the latest version of Laravel? Should I literally be copying the contents of https://github.com/laravel/laravel then submit this as a PR?

Thanks!

[danhunsaker]

Laravel has upgrade guides that I would follow for making the required changes. Remember, too, that there are some changes in several files to preconfigure the app for Nanobox use, so you'll need to ensure those are intact, too.

[haakym]

@danhunsaker thanks for your reply.

Before upgrading this repo, is it worth preserving the repo's current state by tagging it for example, so if someone wanted to use Laravel 5.3 they could do so?

[danhunsaker]

It might not hurt. Of course, I'd personally update the current repo to the latest 5.3, first, then start the upgrade. Also, at that point, the option for 5.4 would be useful for the same reason. So it almost serves us better to have branches for each version, rather than simple tags. Master would be the most recent release, while v5.4 and v5.3 would track upstream, more or less, for their respective versions.