I have successfully launch my first commercial Laravel project and have some questions regarding maintenance of it. Basically it has been worked on for about a year now during that period i was just pushing out features and not really paying attention to keeping everything up-to-date. Now project is up and running for about 3 months and everything is working fine, users are rolling in and there are no functionality issues.
However I can see that Laravel has since moved to version 7 (I'm running 5.8) I am getting warnings like Package X is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use Y instead. I feel like I am asking for trouble if I just keep on working on new features but core of my app stay stagnant.
Now I have build up a bit of fear to just update everything in case it might break something.
Are my worries unreasonable and should I just go ahead with it? Or if it isn't broken don't fix it philosophy is acceptable approach?
PS: I was looking around the web but didn't find many resources on this subject, laracasts and docs did a great job of getting me up and running with Laravel ecosystem and allowed me do build something I wouldn't even dream of 2 years ago, but didn't really give me clear picture how to take care of it, could anyone recommend something on that subject?
