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.

⚠️ The application bootstrapping has changed in Laravel 11. As a result, files like artisan and public/index.php were rewritten. Shift overwrote these files but detected yours may have contained customizations. You should review the diff to see if any of your customizations are still needed.

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.

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.

AUTH_MODEL=\App\Models\User
AUTH_PASSWORD_RESET_TOKEN_TABLE=password_resets
BCRYPT_ROUNDS=10
CACHE_STORE=file
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
LOG_STACK=single,flare
MAIL_MAILER=smtp
QUEUE_CONNECTION=sync
SESSION_DRIVER=file

Note: some of these may simply be values which changed between Laravel 10 and Laravel 11. You may ignore any ENV variables you do not need to customize.

⚠️ 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.

❌ 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.

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.

• livewire/livewire

ℹ️ The base Controller class has been marked as abstract in Laravel 11, with its traits and inheritance removed. This is to prevent using this base controller directly and to use facades instead of the trait methods.

Shift detected your base controller did not have any public methods, so it was safe to mark as abstract. However, since you may be using trait methods within your controllers, Shift did not remove them. If you know you are not using any trait methods or want to refactor to facades, you may remove them manually.

⚠️ The CreatesApplication testing trait has been removed in Laravel 11. Its createApplication method is now defined in the TestCase class. To avoid a conflict, Shift removed this method from your CreatesApplication trait. You should review this change to see if you need any code from the original method.

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.

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/Providers/RouteServiceProvider.php

⚠️ 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.

⚠️ 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.

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.

⚠️ 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.

🎉 Congratulations, you're now running the latest version of Laravel!

Next, you may optionally run the following Shifts to ensure your application is fully upgraded, adopts the latest Laravel conventions, and easier to maintain in the future:

• Laravel Fixer automatically updates your code to the latest Laravel conventions.
• Tests Generator intelligently generates model factories, HTTP Tests, and configuration for your application.
• CI Generator intelligently generates CI jobs to lint PHP, check code style, and run tests, including Dusk.

You may also use the Shift Workbench to automate common tasks for maintaining your Laravel application.

Hey @driesvints ,
is there anyway I can help to get this PR ready to merge?

If there are any blockers/pointers - let me know, I have few hours this week which I can spend.

Yes definitely. I just haven't found time at all to look at this shift yet. Right now I don't have time in the forseeable future. I don't know any pointers yet except that if any PR is sent I need to be aware of any env variables I need to update on production.