This usually happens because the globally installed Laravel installer version is outdated.

You can upgrade it with:

composer global update laravel/installer

Or reinstall it completely:

composer global remove laravel/installer composer global require laravel/installer

After updating, verify the version:

laravel --version

Also make sure your Composer global bin directory is added to your system PATH.

For newer Laravel versions, you can alternatively create projects directly using Composer:

composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app

That method always pulls the latest Laravel release and avoids installer version mismatch issues.