[dvko]

I once came back to a Laravel project after just one year of working on other projects and had to go through several upgrade guides just to stay up to date. Most changes were quite trivial (yet annoying to make), like namespace changes and other things that should probably have been weeded out before ever making it into a release... It’s why I prefer Symfony if I absolutely had to work with PHP nowadays.

[tpetry]

Laravel did release major versions every 6 months in the past. The changes have not been much and https://laravelshift.com is able to it automatically. They‘ve now changed to yearly major releases because not everyone is able to upgrade every 6 months.