Laravel 5 release date??

My best guess is late November to early January.

Update: It'll be in January.

that would be a good x-mas gift

Update: Uch, no xmas gift.

Thanks jeff

Thanks for the estimate. Google brought me here :)

Just updated another thread with this too.. Taylor just posted on the Laravel Blog. It's definately going to be January http://blog.laravel.com/laravel-5-release-dates/

How stable laravel 5 is now?

I am starting a new project and i am in a dilemma to use 4 or 5.

Thanks.

It seems more stable than it was a few weeks ago, but that could change. I also want to start a new project but can wait, it's just a personal project to begin with while I learn.

Can't wait to get stuck in though.

@sitesense is right. It seems to be a lot more stable. It used to be that parts of composer update would fail occasionally, but I haven't noticed anymore of it lately. I've been using it on a couple projects. I'm prepared to keep pace with breaking changes if any appear because neither of these projects are all too pressing at the moment.

You can experiment with a personal project, but I wouldn't recommend playing around with Laravel 5 on things that you need to get done quickly.

I have a commercial project and people are asking to port it to laravel 5 but we know how customers react when something breaks even when its not our fault :(

so I am very cautious and taking opinions

Do not port to laravel 5 until it is released, otherwise you're asking for trouble.

@lorvent if your project won't go live until say late February, then you should have time to fix anything so long as the release doesn't slip.

However, if you want to use third party extensions, you'll probably find that you have to fork them and make them compatible with L5 - sometimes just a simple update to their composer.json like this:

"require": {
        "illuminate/support": "4.*|5.0.*",

Then you need to add your own repository entry to laravel's composer.json like this:

"repositories": [
    {
      "type": "vcs",
      "url": "https://github.com/yourgithubname/Laravel-4-breadcrumb"
    },
    {
      "type": "vcs",
      "url": "https://github.com/yourgithubname/laravel-4-geoip"
    }
 ],

This way, composer will pull in your version of the extension.

So in summary, if you're not using many extensions and your release schedule isn't imminent, go for L5. Otherwise go L4.2.

My application is a new one and i am constantly adding features

so if i move to l5, then i have to release in 15days i think its better i stick to l4 for now and add more features to this version and when l5 comes out, i can port app to l5

@lorvent If you have to release in 15 days, stick to l4. You can always port to l5 later. Might be a bit of work but it will save you a ton of headache in the next 15 days.

Is January still the expected date?

@maytham Yes, Taylor confirmed it on twitter.

@RachidLaasri thx dude

It'll be the end of Jan, one of Taylor's clips on laracast posted on the 1st of Jan, he said "due for release in just about a month".

On the DFW meetup cast, he mentioned that it was pretty much stable. Looks like that site update and docs are being "worked on" and the repo hasn't had much action the last few days.

I'd proceed but with caution ... yellow light so to say :)

I spoke with Taylor yesterday on Larachat and he's very much upbeat that it will be ready in he coming weeks, as well as updating the documentation, so fingers crossed it will be pretty soon and I'm sure we will all know about it (twitter) for example.

I am preparing a release party ;)

Can't wait :)

@vvinhas less than 10days, excitement.

Queue the breath holding!

Anyone have any idea when L5 will be in beta and when it will be publicly released?

I have an products for which i need to give update as soon as L5 is released but i have some vacation plans

so if anyone can give any idea....I can make my own plans. :)

As far as I know, it is not sure that a beta version will be released (officially). I think that there will be just a public release, and probably this or next week.

If you are wanting to develop against it, you can grab the dev build as-is from github. I'm not sure how much would change between now and public release, but I wouldn't think it would be anything that would lead you to rewrite everything from scratch.

Well... It's almost February, I guess there will be no candy this month

@vvinhas it'll be out the next week. https://twitter.com/laravelphp/status/560112591868276736

Cool! I wasn't following @Laravel, now I am :) Thanks @RachidLaasri