Upgrade Guide
High Impact Changes
Medium Impact Changes
Low Impact Changes
Upgrading To 11.0 From 10.x
Estimated Upgrade Time: 15 Minutes
We attempt to document every possible breaking change. Since some of these breaking changes are in obscure parts of the framework only a portion of these changes may actually affect your application. Want to save time? You can use Laravel Shift to help automate your application upgrades.
Updating Dependencies
Likelihood Of Impact: High
PHP 8.2.0 Required
Laravel now requires PHP 8.2.0 or greater.
curl 7.34.0 Required
Laravel's HTTP client now requires curl 7.34.0 or greater.
Composer Dependencies
You should update the following dependencies in your application's composer.json
file:
-
laravel/framework
to^11.0
-
nunomaduro/collision
to^8.1
-
laravel/breeze
to^2.0
(If installed) -
laravel/cashier
to^15.0
(If installed) -
laravel/dusk
to^8.0
(If installed) -
laravel/jetstream
to^5.0
(If installed) -
laravel/octane
to^2.3
(If installed) -
laravel/passport
to^12.0
(If installed) -
laravel/sanctum
to^4.0
(If installed) -
laravel/scout
to^10.0
(If installed) -
laravel/spark-stripe
to^5.0
(If installed) -
laravel/telescope
to^5.0
(If installed) -
livewire/livewire
to^3.4
(If installed) -
inertiajs/inertia-laravel
to^1.0
(If installed)
If your application is using Laravel Cashier Stripe, Passport, Sanctum, Spark Stripe, or Telescope, you will need to publish their migrations to your application. Cashier Stripe, Passport, Sanctum, Spark Stripe, and Telescope no longer automatically load migrations from their own migrations directory. Therefore, you should run the following command to publish their migrations to your application:
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=cashier-migrationsphp artisan vendor:publish --tag=passport-migrationsphp artisan vendor:publish --tag=sanctum-migrationsphp artisan vendor:publish --tag=spark-migrationsphp artisan vendor:publish --tag=telescope-migrations
In addition, you should review the upgrade guides for each of these packages to ensure you are aware of any additional breaking changes:
If you have manually installed the Laravel installer, you should update the installer via Composer:
composer global require laravel/installer:^5.6
Finally, you may remove the doctrine/dbal
Composer dependency if you have previously added it to your application, as Laravel is no longer dependent on this package.
Application Structure
Laravel 11 introduces a new default application structure with fewer default files. Namely, new Laravel applications contain fewer service providers, middleware, and configuration files.
However, we do not recommend that Laravel 10 applications upgrading to Laravel 11 attempt to migrate their application structure, as Laravel 11 has been carefully tuned to also support the Laravel 10 application structure.
Authentication
Password Rehashing
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
Laravel 11 will automatically rehash your user's passwords during authentication if your hashing algorithm's "work factor" has been updated since the password was last hashed.
Typically, this should not disrupt your application; however, if your User
model's "password" field has a name other than password
, you should specify the field's name via the model's authPasswordName
property:
protected $authPasswordName = 'custom_password_field';
Alternatively, you may disable password rehashing by adding the rehash_on_login
option to your application's config/hashing.php
configuration file:
'rehash_on_login' => false,
The UserProvider
Contract
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
The Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\UserProvider
contract has received a new rehashPasswordIfRequired
method. This method is responsible for re-hashing and storing the user's password in storage when the application's hashing algorithm work factor has changed.
If your application or package defines a class that implements this interface, you should add the new rehashPasswordIfRequired
method to your implementation. A reference implementation can be found within the Illuminate\Auth\EloquentUserProvider
class:
public function rehashPasswordIfRequired(Authenticatable $user, array $credentials, bool $force = false);
The Authenticatable
Contract
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
The Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable
contract has received a new getAuthPasswordName
method. This method is responsible for returning the name of your authenticatable entity's password column.
If your application or package defines a class that implements this interface, you should add the new getAuthPasswordName
method to your implementation:
public function getAuthPasswordName(){ return 'password';}
The default User
model included with Laravel receives this method automatically since the method is included within the Illuminate\Auth\Authenticatable
trait.
The AuthenticationException
Class
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The redirectTo
method of the Illuminate\Auth\AuthenticationException
class now requires an Illuminate\Http\Request
instance as its first argument. If you are manually catching this exception and calling the redirectTo
method, you should update your code accordingly:
if ($e instanceof AuthenticationException) { $path = $e->redirectTo($request);}
Cache
Cache Key Prefixes
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
Previously, if a cache key prefix was defined for the DynamoDB, Memcached, or Redis cache stores, Laravel would append a :
to the prefix. In Laravel 11, the cache key prefix does not receive the :
suffix. If you would like to maintain the previous prefixing behavior, you can manually add the :
suffix to your cache key prefix.
Collections
The Enumerable
Contract
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
The dump
method of the Illuminate\Support\Enumerable
contract has been updated to accept a variadic ...$args
argument. If you are implementing this interface you should update your implementation accordingly:
public function dump(...$args);
Database
SQLite 3.26.0+
Likelihood Of Impact: High
If your application is utilizing an SQLite database, SQLite 3.26.0 or greater is required.
Eloquent Model casts
Method
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
The base Eloquent model class now defines a casts
method in order to support the definition of attribute casts. If one of your application's models is defining a casts
relationship, it may conflict with the casts
method now present on the base Eloquent model class.
Modifying Columns
Likelihood Of Impact: High
When modifying a column, you must now explicitly include all the modifiers you want to keep on the column definition after it is changed. Any missing attributes will be dropped. For example, to retain the unsigned
, default
, and comment
attributes, you must call each modifier explicitly when changing the column, even if those attributes have been assigned to the column by a previous migration.
For example, imagine you have a migration that creates a votes
column with the unsigned
, default
, and comment
attributes:
Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) { $table->integer('votes')->unsigned()->default(1)->comment('The vote count');});
Later, you write a migration that changes the column to be nullable
as well:
Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) { $table->integer('votes')->nullable()->change();});
In Laravel 10, this migration would retain the unsigned
, default
, and comment
attributes on the column. However, in Laravel 11, the migration must now also include all of the attributes that were previously defined on the column. Otherwise, they will be dropped:
Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) { $table->integer('votes') ->unsigned() ->default(1) ->comment('The vote count') ->nullable() ->change();});
The change
method does not change the indexes of the column. Therefore, you may use index modifiers to explicitly add or drop an index when modifying the column:
// Add an index...$table->bigIncrements('id')->primary()->change(); // Drop an index...$table->char('postal_code', 10)->unique(false)->change();
If you do not want to update all of the existing "change" migrations in your application to retain the column's existing attributes, you may simply squash your migrations:
php artisan schema:dump
Once your migrations have been squashed, Laravel will "migrate" the database using your application's schema file before running any pending migrations.
Floating-Point Types
Likelihood Of Impact: High
The double
and float
migration column types have been rewritten to be consistent across all databases.
The double
column type now creates a DOUBLE
equivalent column without total digits and places (digits after decimal point), which is the standard SQL syntax. Therefore, you may remove the arguments for $total
and $places
:
$table->double('amount');
The float
column type now creates a FLOAT
equivalent column without total digits and places (digits after decimal point), but with an optional $precision
specification to determine storage size as a 4-byte single-precision column or an 8-byte double-precision column. Therefore, you may remove the arguments for $total
and $places
and specify the optional $precision
to your desired value and according to your database's documentation:
$table->float('amount', precision: 53);
The unsignedDecimal
, unsignedDouble
, and unsignedFloat
methods have been removed, as the unsigned modifier for these column types has been deprecated by MySQL, and was never standardized on other database systems. However, if you wish to continue using the deprecated unsigned attribute for these column types, you may chain the unsigned
method onto the column's definition:
$table->decimal('amount', total: 8, places: 2)->unsigned();$table->double('amount')->unsigned();$table->float('amount', precision: 53)->unsigned();
Dedicated MariaDB Driver
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
Instead of always utilizing the MySQL driver when connecting to MariaDB databases, Laravel 11 adds a dedicated database driver for MariaDB.
If your application connects to a MariaDB database, you may update the connection configuration to the new mariadb
driver to benefit from MariaDB specific features in the future:
'driver' => 'mariadb','url' => env('DB_URL'),'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),// ...
Currently, the new MariaDB driver behaves like the current MySQL driver with one exception: the uuid
schema builder method creates native UUID columns instead of char(36)
columns.
If your existing migrations utilize the uuid
schema builder method and you choose to use the new mariadb
database driver, you should update your migration's invocations of the uuid
method to char
to avoid breaking changes or unexpected behavior:
Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) { $table->char('uuid', 36); // ...});
Spatial Types
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
The spatial column types of database migrations have been rewritten to be consistent across all databases. Therefore, you may remove point
, lineString
, polygon
, geometryCollection
, multiPoint
, multiLineString
, multiPolygon
, and multiPolygonZ
methods from your migrations and use geometry
or geography
methods instead:
$table->geometry('shapes');$table->geography('coordinates');
To explicitly restrict the type or the spatial reference system identifier for values stored in the column on MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL, you may pass the subtype
and srid
to the method:
$table->geometry('dimension', subtype: 'polygon', srid: 0);$table->geography('latitude', subtype: 'point', srid: 4326);
The isGeometry
and projection
column modifiers of the PostgreSQL grammar have been removed accordingly.
Doctrine DBAL Removal
Likelihood Of Impact: Low
The following list of Doctrine DBAL related classes and methods have been removed. Laravel is no longer dependent on this package and registering custom Doctrines types is no longer necessary for the proper creation and alteration of various column types that previously required custom types:
-
Illuminate\Database\Schema\Builder::$alwaysUsesNativeSchemaOperationsIfPossible
class property -
Illuminate\Database\Schema\Builder::useNativeSchemaOperationsIfPossible()
method -
Illuminate\Database\Connection::usingNativeSchemaOperations()
method -
Illuminate\Database\Connection::isDoctrineAvailable()
method -
Illuminate\Database\Connection::getDoctrineConnection()
method -
Illuminate\Database\Connection::getDoctrineSchemaManager()
method -
Illuminate\Database\Connection::getDoctrineColumn()
method -
Illuminate\Database\Connection::registerDoctrineType()
method -
Illuminate\Database\DatabaseManager::registerDoctrineType()
method -
Illuminate\Database\PDO
directory -
Illuminate\Database\DBAL\TimestampType
class -
Illuminate\Database\Schema\Grammars\ChangeColumn
class -
Illuminate\Database\Schema\Grammars\RenameColumn
class -
Illuminate\Database\Schema\Grammars\Grammar::getDoctrineTableDiff()
method
In addition, registering custom Doctrine types via dbal.types
in your application's database
configuration file is no longer required.
If you were previously using Doctrine DBAL to inspect your database and its associated tables, you may use Laravel's new native schema methods (Schema::getTables()
, Schema::getColumns()
, Schema::getIndexes()
, Schema::getForeignKeys()
, etc.) instead.
Deprecated Schema Methods
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The deprecated, Doctrine based Schema::getAllTables()
, Schema::getAllViews()
, and Schema::getAllTypes()
methods have been removed in favor of new Laravel native Schema::getTables()
, Schema::getViews()
, and Schema::getTypes()
methods.
When using PostgreSQL and SQL Server, none of the new schema methods will accept a three-part reference (e.g. database.schema.table
). Therefore, you should use connection()
to declare the database instead:
Schema::connection('database')->hasTable('schema.table');
Schema Builder getColumnType()
Method
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The Schema::getColumnType()
method now always returns actual type of the given column, not the Doctrine DBAL equivalent type.
Database Connection Interface
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The Illuminate\Database\ConnectionInterface
interface has received a new scalar
method. If you are defining your own implementation of this interface, you should add the scalar
method to your implementation:
public function scalar($query, $bindings = [], $useReadPdo = true);
Dates
Carbon 3
Likelihood Of Impact: Medium
Laravel 11 supports both Carbon 2 and Carbon 3. Carbon is a date manipulation library utilized extensively by Laravel and packages throughout the ecosystem. If you upgrade to Carbon 3, be aware that diffIn*
methods now return floating-point numbers and may return negative values to indicate time direction, which is a significant change from Carbon 2. Review Carbon's change log and documentation for detailed information on how to handle these and other changes.
The Mailer
Contract
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The Illuminate\Contracts\Mail\Mailer
contract has received a new sendNow
method. If your application or package is manually implementing this contract, you should add the new sendNow
method to your implementation:
public function sendNow($mailable, array $data = [], $callback = null);
Packages
Publishing Service Providers to the Application
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
If you have written a Laravel package that manually publishes a service provider to the application's app/Providers
directory and manually modifies the application's config/app.php
configuration file to register the service provider, you should update your package to utilize the new ServiceProvider::addProviderToBootstrapFile
method.
The addProviderToBootstrapFile
method will automatically add the service provider you have published to the application's bootstrap/providers.php
file, since the providers
array does not exist within the config/app.php
configuration file in new Laravel 11 applications.
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider; ServiceProvider::addProviderToBootstrapFile(Provider::class);
Queues
The BatchRepository
Interface
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
The Illuminate\Bus\BatchRepository
interface has received a new rollBack
method. If you are implementing this interface within your own package or application, you should add this method to your implementation:
public function rollBack();
Synchronous Jobs in Database Transactions
Likelihood Of Impact: Very Low
Previously, synchronous jobs (jobs using the sync
queue driver) would execute immediately, regardless of whether the after_commit
configuration option of the queue connection was set to true
or the afterCommit
method was invoked on the job.
In Laravel 11, synchronous queue jobs will now respect the "after commit" configuration of the queue connection or job.
Rate Limiting
Per-Second Rate Limiting
Likelihood Of Impact: Medium
Laravel 11 supports per-second rate limiting instead of being limited to per-minute granularity. There are a variety of potential breaking changes you should be aware of related to this change.
The GlobalLimit
class constructor now accepts seconds instead of minutes. This class is not documented and would not typically be used by your application:
new GlobalLimit($attempts, 2 * 60);
The Limit
class constructor now accepts seconds instead of minutes. All documented usages of this class are limited to static constructors such as Limit::perMinute
and Limit::perSecond
. However, if you are instantiating this class manually, you should update your application to provide seconds to the class's constructor:
new Limit($key, $attempts, 2 * 60);
The Limit
class's decayMinutes
property has been renamed to decaySeconds
and now contains seconds instead of minutes.
The Illuminate\Queue\Middleware\ThrottlesExceptions
and Illuminate\Queue\Middleware\ThrottlesExceptionsWithRedis
class constructors now accept seconds instead of minutes:
new ThrottlesExceptions($attempts, 2 * 60);new ThrottlesExceptionsWithRedis($attempts, 2 * 60);
Cashier Stripe
Updating Cashier Stripe
Likelihood Of Impact: High
Laravel 11 no longer supports Cashier Stripe 14.x. Therefore, you should update your application's Laravel Cashier Stripe dependency to ^15.0
in your composer.json
file.
Cashier Stripe 15.0 no longer automatically loads migrations from its own migrations directory. Instead, you should run the following command to publish Cashier Stripe's migrations to your application:
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=cashier-migrations
Please review the complete Cashier Stripe upgrade guide for additional breaking changes.
Spark (Stripe)
Updating Spark Stripe
Likelihood Of Impact: High
Laravel 11 no longer supports Laravel Spark Stripe 4.x. Therefore, you should update your application's Laravel Spark Stripe dependency to ^5.0
in your composer.json
file.
Spark Stripe 5.0 no longer automatically loads migrations from its own migrations directory. Instead, you should run the following command to publish Spark Stripe's migrations to your application:
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=spark-migrations
Please review the complete Spark Stripe upgrade guide for additional breaking changes.
Passport
Updating Passport
Likelihood Of Impact: High
Laravel 11 no longer supports Laravel Passport 11.x. Therefore, you should update your application's Laravel Passport dependency to ^12.0
in your composer.json
file.
Passport 12.0 no longer automatically loads migrations from its own migrations directory. Instead, you should run the following command to publish Passport's migrations to your application:
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=passport-migrations
In addition, the password grant type is disabled by default. You may enable it by invoking the enablePasswordGrant
method in the boot
method of your application's AppServiceProvider
:
public function boot(): void{ Passport::enablePasswordGrant();}
Sanctum
Updating Sanctum
Likelihood Of Impact: High
Laravel 11 no longer supports Laravel Sanctum 3.x. Therefore, you should update your application's Laravel Sanctum dependency to ^4.0
in your composer.json
file.
Sanctum 4.0 no longer automatically loads migrations from its own migrations directory. Instead, you should run the following command to publish Sanctum's migrations to your application:
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=sanctum-migrations
Then, in your application's config/sanctum.php
configuration file, you should update the references to the authenticate_session
, encrypt_cookies
, and validate_csrf_token
middleware to the following:
'middleware' => [ 'authenticate_session' => Laravel\Sanctum\Http\Middleware\AuthenticateSession::class, 'encrypt_cookies' => Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class, 'validate_csrf_token' => Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\ValidateCsrfToken::class,],
Telescope
Updating Telescope
Likelihood Of Impact: High
Laravel 11 no longer supports Laravel Telescope 4.x. Therefore, you should update your application's Laravel Telescope dependency to ^5.0
in your composer.json
file.
Telescope 5.0 no longer automatically loads migrations from its own migrations directory. Instead, you should run the following command to publish Telescope's migrations to your application:
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=telescope-migrations
Spatie Once Package
Likelihood Of Impact: Medium
Laravel 11 now provides its own once
function to ensure that a given closure is only executed once. Therefore, if your application has a dependency on the spatie/once
package, you should remove it from your application's composer.json
file to avoid conflicts.
Miscellaneous
We also encourage you to view the changes in the laravel/laravel
GitHub repository. While many of these changes are not required, you may wish to keep these files in sync with your application. Some of these changes will be covered in this upgrade guide, but others, such as changes to configuration files or comments, will not be. You can easily view the changes with the GitHub comparison tool and choose which updates are important to you.