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This is probably just a case of me not knowing what I'm doing and missing something simple, but when trying to update Spark, I'm only able to update to the latest version of Spark 7.
I added Spark via the installer, and I'm trying to update Spark as part of updating to Laravel 5.8.
I've run php artisan spark:update and see "You are already running the latest release of Spark."
I see "laravel/spark-aurelius": "*@dev" in my composer.json and the local repository added. Within that directory, the composer json includes "dev-master": "7.0-dev" which I assume is related (or proof) of my issue but I assume I don't want to be changing anything in that directory. Can someone advise on what I should have read and didn't, or didn't understand?
Ok -- solved.
There's a necessary flag that I guess most of ya'll just know about.
php artisan spark:update --major
Found that flag in the Upgrade to Spark 4 documentation (before my time) but it was omitted for whatever reason in the Spark 7 to 8 stub of a document. Spark has saved me a lot of time but the documentation is a real let down.
Note to self: the Spark documentation is on Github so I can always just contribute, no need for the 'tude. But you don't know what you don't know!
Contributed! Hope I saved someone a few minutes.
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