Laravel 11.x Shift

[cazzerson]

This pull request includes the changes for upgrading to Laravel 11.x. Feel free to commit any additional changes to the shift-119923 branch.

Before merging, you need to:

• Checkout the shift-119923 branch
• Review all pull request comments for additional changes
• Run composer update (if the scripts fail, try with --no-scripts)
• Clear any config, route, or view cache
• Thoroughly test your application (no tests?, no CI?)

If you need help with your upgrade, check out the Human Shifts.

[cazzerson]

ℹ️ To slim down the Laravel installation, Laravel 11 no longer has most of the core files previously included in the default Laravel application. While you are welcome to publish and customize these files, they are no longer required.

Shift takes an iterative approach to removing core files which are not customized or where its customizations may be done elsewhere in a modern Laravel 11 application. As such, you may see some commits removing files and others re-registering your customizations.

[cazzerson]

⚠️ Shift detected a custom namespace. Laravel now recommends keeping the default App namespace. Unfortunately the app:name command was removed in Laravel 6.0. However, for the most part you may do a simple search and replace to change the namespace.

Shift recommends changing this to align with the latest Laravel conventions and improve Shift's automation. After doing so, you may request a rerun of this Shift.

[cazzerson]

ℹ️ Starting with Laravel 10, the lang folder is no longer included in a default Laravel application. Laravel now recursively merges any customizations with framework defaults.

Shift streamlined your language files by removing them since they did not contain any customizations. If you wish to keep the full set of language, Shift recommends running artisan lang:publish --force to get the latest configuration files from Laravel, then reapplying the customizations Shift streamlined.

[cazzerson]

ℹ️ Laravel 11 no longer requires you to maintain the default configuration files. Your configuration now merges with framework defaults.

Shift streamlined your configuration files by removing options that matched the Laravel defaults and preserving your true customizations. These are values which are not changeable through ENV variables.

If you wish to keep the full set of configuration files, Shift recommends running artisan config:publish --all --force to get the latest configuration files from Laravel 11, then reapplying the customizations Shift streamlined.

[cazzerson]

ℹ️ Shift detected customized options within your configuration files which may be set with an ENV variable. To help keep your configuration files streamlined, you may set the following variables. Be sure adjust any values per environment.

APP_NAME=Jitterbug
BCRYPT_ROUNDS=10
BEANSTALKD_QUEUE_RETRY_AFTER=60
CACHE_STORE=file
DB_CHARSET=utf8
DB_COLLATION=utf8_unicode_ci
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_QUEUE_RETRY_AFTER=60
LOG_DAILY_DAYS=7
LOG_STACK=daily
MAIL_MAILER=smtp
QUEUE_CONNECTION=sync
REDIS_CACHE_CONNECTION=default
REDIS_QUEUE_RETRY_AFTER=60
SESSION_DRIVER=file

Note: some of these may simply be values which changed between Laravel versions. You may ignore any ENV variables you do not need to customize.

[cazzerson]

⚠️ The BROADCAST_DRIVER, CACHE_DRIVER, and DATABASE_URL environment variables were renamed in Laravel 11 to BROADCAST_CONNECTION, CACHE_STORE, and DB_URL, respectively.

Shift automated this change for your committed files, but you should review any additional locations where your environment is configured and update to the new variable names.

[cazzerson]

❌ The bootstrap/app.php file has been completely rewritten in Laravel 11 to allow configuring your Laravel application in a single location. Shift overwrote your file, but detected it may have contained customizations. You should review the diff to see if any of your customizations are still needed.

[cazzerson]

⚠️ Laravel 11 automatically discovers events by scanning your application's Listeners directory.

Shift detected event listeners registered with the listen property of your EventServiceProvider. If any of these listeners can not be automatically discovered, you may register them manually using Event::listen() in your AppServiceProvider.

[cazzerson]

⚠️ Shift was unable to re-register your exception handler. You may review the documentation to do so manually, or register your original exception handler by adding the following binding to the register method of your AppServiceProvider:

$this->app->bind(\Illuminate\Contracts\Debug\ExceptionHandler::class, \App\Exceptions\Handler::class);

[cazzerson]

❌ The app/Console/Kernel.php file has been removed in Laravel 11. Shift removed your file, but detected it may have contained customizations.

You should review the diff to see if any of your customizations are still needed. If so, you may re-apply them to the routes/console.php file or the new bootstrap/app.php file. Review the documentation for additional details.

[cazzerson]

ℹ️ Laravel 11 now includes guzzlehttp/guzzle as a framework dependency. Since Shift did not detect any references to the GuzzleHttp namespace within your application it removed your direct dependency.

[cazzerson]

ℹ️ Shift updated your dependencies for Laravel 11. While many of the popular packages are reviewed, you may have to update additional packages in order for your application to be compatible with Laravel 11. Watch dealing with dependencies for tips on handling any Composer issues.

The following dependencies were updated by a major version and may have their own changes. You may check their changelog for any additional upgrade steps.

• laravel/dusk
• laravel/homestead

The following dependencies were not updated by Shift and may be incompatible. If Composer lists one of these packages as a problem, you should check for a newer version.

• jimmiw/php-time-ago

[cazzerson]

ℹ️ Starting with Laravel 10, PHP type hints were added within classes included in a Laravel application. In an effort to modernize your code, Shift automated this change where Laravel strictly specifies a type. If you prefer not to type hint your code you may revert this commit by running: git revert a323dbf9

[cazzerson]

⚠️ In Laravel 11, changing a column now requires you to include all the modifiers you want to keep on the column definition after it is changed. Any missing attributes will be dropped. This change may cause unexpected behavior if you were to run pending or old migrations.

Shift detected potential uses of the change method within your migrations. While you may go back and update these migrations, you may wish to simply squash your old migrations. This will not only avoid rework, but may also improve the performance of your test suite.

[cazzerson]

⚠️ Laravel 11 has removed its dependency on doctrine/dbal. Shift detected your project contains this dependency. If you are not using this package directly or were only using it for change migrations, you may remove it by running: composer remove doctrine/dbal

[cazzerson]

ℹ️ Laravel 11 now updates the timestamp when publishing vendor migrations. This may cause problems in existing applications when these migrations were previously published and ran with their default timestamp.

To preserve the original behavior, Shift disabled this feature in your database.php configuration file. If you do not have any vendor migrations or have squashed all of your existing migrations, you may re-enable the update_date_on_publish option. If this is the only customization within database.php, you may remove this configuration file.

[cazzerson]

ℹ️ The following files previously included in a Laravel application appeared to be customized and were not removed. Shift encourages you to review your customizations to see if they are still needed or may be done elsewhere in a modern Laravel application. Removing these files will keep your application modern and make future maintenance easier.

• app/Http/Middleware/Authenticate.php
• app/Http/Middleware/RedirectIfAuthenticated.php
• app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php

[cazzerson]

⚠️ Previously, Laravel would append a colon (:) to any cache key prefix for DynamoDB, Memcache, or Redis. Laravel 11 no longer appends a colon to your cache key prefix. If you are using one of these stores, you should append a colon to your prefix to avoid invalidating your cache.

[cazzerson]

⚠️ Many of the default drivers changed in Laravel 11. For example, the default database driver is sqlite and the default cache store is database. If you experience errors setting up your environment, be sure you have properly set your ENV variables for these drivers. If you wish to adopt the new defaults, you may follow the documentation to set them up for your application.

[cazzerson]

ℹ️ All of the underlying Symfony components used by Laravel have been upgraded to Symfony 7.0. Shift detected references to Symfony classes within your application. These are most likely type hints and can safely be ignored. If you are using Symfony classes directly or experience issues relating to Symfony, you should review the Symfony change log for any additional changes.

[cazzerson]

⚠️ Laravel 11 requires PHP 8.2 or higher. You should verify the PHP version in your environments to ensure it meets this new requirement.

[cazzerson]

⚠️ Laravel 11 now includes a database driver for MariaDB. Previously the MySQL driver offered parity with MariaDB. However, with MariaDB 10.1, there are more database specific features available. If you are using MariaDB, you may want to evaluate this new mariadb driver after completing your upgrade to Laravel 11.