laravel-5

Upgrade Guide 26
Deprecations
The following Laravel features have been deprecated and will be removed entirely with the release
of Laravel 5.2 in December 2015:
Upgrading To 5.0.16 {#upgrade-upgrade-5.0.16}
In your bootstrap/autoload.php file, update the $compiledPath variable to:
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1 $compiledPath = __DIR__.'/../vendor/compiled.php';
Upgrading To 5.0 From 4.2 {#upgrade-upgrade-5.0}
Fresh Install, Then Migrate
The recommended method of upgrading is to create a new Laravel 5.0 install and then to copy your
4.2 site’s unique application files into the new application. This would include controllers, routes,
Eloquent models, Artisan commands, assets, and other code specific to your application.
To start, install a new Laravel 5.0 application into a fresh directory in your local environment. Do
not install any versions newer than 5.0 yet, since we need to complete the migration steps for 5.0
first. We’ll discuss each piece of the migration process in further detail below.
Composer Dependencies & Packages
Don’t forget to copy any additional Composer dependencies into your 5.0 application. This includes
third-party code such as SDKs.
Some Laravel-specific packages may not be compatible with Laravel 5 on initial release. Check with
your package’s maintainer to determine the proper version of the package for Laravel 5. Once you
have added any additional Composer dependencies your application needs, run composer update.
Namespacing
By default, Laravel 4 applications did not utilize namespacing within your application code. So, for
example, all Eloquent models and controllers simply lived in the “global” namespace. For a quicker
migration, you can simply leave these classes in the global namespace in Laravel 5 as well.