Laravel 11 is out and you can auto upgrade with Laravel Shift

Who says PHP is dead? Always exciting to see how Laravel progresses the PHP landscape by providing a lightening fast product and an amazing ecosystem to support it. Laravel 11 is out and also unleashes Laravel Reverb for working with websockets.

Ive only been building with Laravel since v10 and seeing they also have Laravel Shift for automated upgrades from v10 to v11 is amazing. Its a paid service but its peanuts compared to the time you'd spend upgrading it manually. Cheers Taylor Otwell and team!!

https://blog.laravel.com/laravel-11-now-available

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