Change from 4.3 to 5

The changes that are being introduced in laravel are more complex than what it was intended, also there are some breaking changes, so it made sense to Taylor to bump it to 5 instead of 4.3.

The videos should still work, when creating the project just run

$ composer create-project laravel/laravel my-project dev-develop

Since I'm using "dev-develop" and not a version number, nothing really changes, except your knowledge that instead of 4.3 is 5.

EDIT: Sorry, I meant "dev-develop", updated

Or use the dev-develop branch.

@JeffreyWay haha yeah, that's what I meant

The composer.json in the dev-develop branch currently still requires laravel/framework 4.3.*. Just edit the composer.json file and change that to 5.0.* and run a composer update in order to complete creating a new project.

Thanks @nwitthaus, didn't know it wasn't updated, I assumed it was, that happens when I don't try before posting :P

That was what I had meant to mention in my initial post. It is still wanting framework 4.3.

Got it, yeah, I think you'll have to do it manually for the time being. Run the composer create-project --no-install so the installation doesn't run right away, update the composer.json to use dev-master instead (yup, this time I mean master :P there doesn't seem to be a develop branch in the laravel/framework repo so dev-master is the latest) and manually run composer install, that should do it.

Taylor just tweeted that he upgraded a fresh 4.2 install to 5.0 in 2 minutes. So it seems to be getting easier to upgrade. I know that an actual app and not barebones is going to take longer to upgrade though.

Excited for 5.0.

"Taylor just tweeted that he upgraded a fresh 4.2 install to 5.0 in 2 minutes." Today... Until November if he keeps making changes so fast and and with the help of a "major release" that gives all the freedom to make changes that are not backwards compatible, you might need 2 days...