Laravel 5.2 and 5.4 differences

Hi, I just want to ask if there's a huge difference between these two versions. Will it be hard to transition from 5.2 to 5.4? My server(5.6.3 php version) only meets the requirements for the 5.2 version so learning 5.4 will be useless if I can't deploy it in my server for now. So for the meantime I'll be learning the 5.2 version and use 5.4 when server upgrades to newer version of php.

mdecooman

9 years ago

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Level 19

Hi @ninjstin

It would not be hard I believe but you may miss some very interesting features about the notifications and other goodies these 2 versions are bringing.

Check the release notes to figure out if you need one of these. https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/releases

Updating from 5.2 to 5.3 was more disruptive for me than going from 5.3 to 5.4 (according to my own experience and needs of course)

What provider do you use for your server? Since it uses a 5.6 branch I do not think that upgrading to php >= 5.6.4 would be an issue (unless working in finance...)

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