Kryptonit3's avatar

Laravel 4 EOL ?

While I am quite new to Laravel and am currently learning it with version 4, I know 5 is still in development, but has there been any mention anywhere of an "End of Life" or support date/timeline for Laravel 4? I know it is still widely used and people still develop plugins/etc for it. Just curious.

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ELD's avatar

No that I'm aware of. What typically happens is that support for previous versions is dropped in favor of the newer version. Historically, however, security issues are backported to previous releases of Laravel.

This has been discussed quite a bit about the lack of an LTS release for Laravel and how off-putting it can be for business building with Laravel (and why Symfony tends to be preferred because of its LTS releases).

Someone else might be more knowledgeable than me on this, but there's my answer. You likely won't get anything more than critical security fixes in all versions of Laravel 4 once Laravel 5 is released.

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jekinney's avatar

I still maintain l3 apps for clients pretty regularly. So even if support ends doesn't mean it can't be used.

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