Laravel's version history given below.
Version | Release Date | Features |
Laravel 1 | June 2011 | Initial release |
Laravel 2 | September 2011 | Improved templating system and authentication |
Laravel 3 | February 2012 | Migrations, bundles, RESTful controllers |
Laravel 4 | May 2013 | Composer integration, Laravel Elixir, Laravel Forge |
Laravel 5 | February 2015 | LTS release, Laravel Homestead, Method injection, Middleware Groups |
Laravel 5.1 | June 2015 | Form Requests, Event Broadcasting, LTS |
Laravel 5.2 | December 2015 | Authentication scaffolding, Implicit model binding, LTS |
Laravel 5.3 | August 2016 | Mailables, Laravel Scout, Laravel Passport, LTS |
Laravel 5.4 | January 2017 | Laravel Dusk, Laravel Mix, Blade components, LTS |
Laravel 5.5 | August 2017 | Laravel Cashier updates, Frontend presets, LTS |
Laravel 5.6 | February 2018 | Laravel Dusk improvements, Collision package, LTS |
Laravel 5.7 | September 2018 | Laravel Nova, Laravel Eloquent Lazy Collections, LTS |
Laravel 5.8 | February 2019 | Laravel Telescope, Laravel Eloquent hasOneThrough, LTS |
Laravel 6 | September 2019 | Semantic versioning, Laravel Vapor support, Laravel UI |
Laravel 7 | March 2020 | Laravel Airlock, Custom Eloquent Casts, HTTP client |
Laravel 8 | September 2020 | Laravel Jetstream, Model factory classes, Laravel Sanctum, LTS |
Laravel 9 | Expected in 2022 | Expected features include PHP 8 support, Tailwind CSS integration |