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PHP 7+ Support
Upgrades the base version to Laravel 5.1, which supports PHP 7+ and will support most modern hosting platforms that are phasing out older versions of PHP.
This will be the last major release before the overhaul to modern Laravel (5.8+)
This release fixes #101, #105, and probably fixes most of the issues that prompted the writing of #92
Upgrading to v1.3
- Download a backup of your current installation.
- Make note especially of your
.htaccess
file and any customizations made to it
- Make note especially of your
- Delete the
application/vendor
folder in your existing installation. - Extract the upgrade file, overwriting any files that already exist. This will create a new
vendor
folder with all the updated dependencies. - Double check the
.htaccess
file and restore any customization you made to theRewriteBase
directive and any other changes.
If you have questions or concerns with this release, please submit an issue. And look forward to the upcoming version 2.0 with new features, and performance improvements!
If the upgrade fails and you want to revert to your backup
- Delete the
application/vendor
folder in the upgraded site folder. - Extract your original backup files into your installation directory, overwriting any files that exist. This will restore the original
application/vendor
folder and the old dependency versions. - Restore your original
.htaccess
file