Upgrade Laravel 5.6 to Laravel 5.7

The Laravel 5.7 Shift automates the upgrade of your Laravel application from Laravel 5.6 to Laravel 5.7. Using the Laravel 5.7 Shift to automatically upgrade your Laravel application has an estimated time savings of 45 minutes.

Laravel 5.7 has reached end of life. It no longer receives bug fixes or security updates. Shift strongly recommends continuing your upgrade to the latest LTS release or latest stable release of Laravel. Watch upgrading old Laravel applications for tips on running multiple Shifts effectively.

Screenshot of a pull request with atomic commits for each change of the Laravel 5.7 Shift

Requirements

A Laravel application running Laravel 5.6.x.
A server running PHP 7.1.3 or higher.

Core Upgrades

The Laravel 5.7 Shift automates many of the upgrades listed in the Laravel Upgrade Guide, including:

Upgrading core Middleware to their Laravel 5.7 versions.
Moving assets to their new folder structure.
Detecting backward incompatibilities within your application code.
Converting removed Blade syntax.
Updating composer.json for Laravel 5.7.

Additional Upgrades

In addition to the Core Upgrades, the Laravel 5.7 Shift performs additional upgrades beyond those listed in the Laravel Upgrade Guide, including:

Adopting the Laravel code style.
Modernizing PHP syntax, such as the short array syntax.
Converting string based class references to ::class references.
Updating core config files to their Laravel 5.7 versions.

Manual Upgrades

There are some upgrades the Laravel 5.7 Shift can not perform automatically. When Shift detects these it adds a detailed comment on the Pull Request to help guide any additional upgrade steps.