Upgrade Guide

Upgrading to 3.8.0 From 3.7

Estimated Upgrade Time: 5 - 10 Minutes

We attempt to document every possible change. Since some of these changes are in obscure parts of the API only a portion of these changes may actually affect your application.{.notice}

Before continuing please refer to the release notes to see more information on what has been changed.

Updating Dependencies

Update your composer.json file to match the 3.8 branch core addons and dependencies: https://github.com/pyrocms/pyrocms/blob/3.8/composer.json#L24-L86

Of course, don't forget to examine any additional addons and packages consumed by your application and verify you are using the proper version for PyroCMS 3.8 support.

Laravel Review

PyroCMS 3.8 updates Laravel from version 6 to 8. Please review the upgrade guides for both versions.

• https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/upgrade
• https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/upgrade

Composer Update

Now that the composer.json file has been brought up to speed we can let composer update our dependencies:

composer update

Clean Up

It's a good idea to freshen up the entire system's caching and performance utilities:

php artisan refresh