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Issues upgrading Laravel 8 to 9

I have an old project that I'm trying to upgrade from Laravel 8, starting with going up to 9. I've updated dependencies in composer.json as per Laravel's upgrade guide however when I run composer update I get this:

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - illuminate/support[v6.0.0, ..., v6.19.1] require php ^7.2 -> your php version (8.2.0-dev) does not satisfy that requirement.
    - illuminate/support[v7.0.0, ..., v7.28.4] require php ^7.2.5 -> your php version (8.2.0-dev) does not satisfy that requirement.
    - illuminate/support[v8.0.0, ..., v8.11.2] require php ^7.3 -> your php version (8.2.0-dev) does not satisfy that requirement.
    - Root composer.json requires algolia/scout-extended ^1.50 -> satisfiable by algolia/scout-extended[v1.x-dev].
    - Conclusion: dont install laravel/framework v9.0.0 (conflict analysis result)
       ...
    - algolia/scout-extended v1.x-dev requires illuminate/support ^6.0|^7.0|^8.0 -> satisfiable by illuminate/support[v6.0.0, ..., 6.x-dev, v7.0.0, ..., 7.x-dev, v8.0.0, ..., 8.x-dev].
    - Only one of these can be installed: illuminate/support[v6.0.0, ..., 6.x-dev, v7.0.0, ..., 7.x-dev, v8.0.0, ..., 8.x-dev, v9.0.0-beta.1, ..., 9.x-dev, v10.0.0, ..., 10.x-dev, v11.0.0, ..., 11.x-dev], laravel/framework[v9.0.0-beta.1, ..., 9.x-dev]. laravel/framework replaces illuminate/support and thus cannot coexist with it.
    - Root composer.json requires laravel/framework ^9.0 -> satisfiable by laravel/framework[v9.0.0-beta.1, ..., 9.x-dev].

My composer.json file looks like this:

Thanks

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