Laravel Upgrading To 6.0 From 5.8 documentation is availiable on the new Laravel website.
The new Laravel 6.0 will be a LTS release and continues the improvements made in Laravel 5.8 by introducing semantic versioning, compatibility with Laravel Vapor, improved authorization responses, job middleware, lazy collections, sub-query improvements, the extraction of frontend scaffolding to the laravel/ui Composer package, and a variety of other bug fixes and usability improvements.
For simple/medium application the Estimated Upgrade Time is about One Hour.
Some new features in the incoming 6.0 version are:
PHP 7.1 will no longer be actively maintained as of December 2019. Therefore, Laravel 6.0 requires PHP 7.2 or greater.
Input
FacadeThe Input
facade, which was primarily a duplicate of the Request
facade, has been removed. If you are using the Input::get
method, you should now call the Request::input
method. All other calls to the Input
facade may simply be updated to use the Request
facade.
Update your laravel/framework
dependency to ^6.0
in your composer.json
file.
Next, check 3rd party packages consumed by your application and verify you are using the proper version for Laravel 6 support.
viewAny
Authorization policies attached to controllers using the authorizeResource
method should now define a viewAny
method, which will be called when a user accesses the controller's index
method. Otherwise, calls to the index
method of the controller will be rejected as unauthorized.
All str_
and array_
helpers have been moved to the new laravel/helpers
Composer package and removed from the framework.
To replace these helpers to must use the Illuminate\Support\Str
and Illuminate\Support\Arr
classes
Carbon 1.x No Longer Supported in favour of Carbon 2.0
For more details please check the Laravel 6 Realease Note