Sunday, March 5, 2017

Upgrading Laravel Apps

The next Laravel release is 5.5 which arrives this July. Now let's say I make a policy where I'll upgrade my web app every year in July/August to the latest version.

During that year of running the web app what should I do to keep it up to date with security fixes and bug fixes?

For example let's say I deploy on version 5.5.2 and by December there's a 5.5.8 what's the best way to keep the minor changes stay up to date without jeopardising the web apps availability?

I asusume you would need something to run commands like composer update Every so often etc. But what would the exact commands be and can they be run using Laravels scheduled so it is cross platform - if so, how?

Thanks!



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