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Today, we're thrilled to announce the release of Laravel 11 and Laravel Reverb.

Today we're thrilled to announce that we have tagged the Laravel 10.0 release! Laravel 10 continues the improvements made in Laravel 9 by introducing argument and return types to all application skeleton methods, as well as all stub files used to generate classes throughout the framework. In addition, a new, developer-friendly abstraction layer has been introduced for starting and interacting with external processes. Further, Laravel Pennant has been introduced to provide a wonderful approach to managing your application's "feature flags". To get all of the juicy details about this release, check out our official [release notes](https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/releases#laravel-10) and [upgrade guide](https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/upgrade). We'll cover some of the highlights below. ### Method Signature + Return Types On its initial release, Laravel utilized all of the type-hinting features available in PHP at the time. However, many new features have been added to PHP in the subsequent years, including additional primitive type-hints, return types, and union types. Laravel 10.x thoroughly updates the application skeleton and all stubs utilized by the framework to introduce argument and return types to all method signatures. In addition, extraneous "doc block" type-hint information has been deleted: ```php

As you may know, this year we updated the Laravel release cycle to include one major release per year. Previously, we released two major versions per year. These release changes would typically indicate that a Laravel 9 release is due in September of this year. However, as you may know, Laravel uses a variety of community-driven packages as well as nine Symfony components for a number of features within the framework. Symfony 6.0 is due for release in November. For that reason, we are choosing to delay the Laravel 9.0 release until January 2022. By delaying the release, we can upgrade our underlying Symfony components to Symfony 6.0 without being forced to wait until September 2022 to perform this upgrade. In addition, this better positions us for future releases as our yearly releases will always take place two months after Symfony's releases. This means that the upcoming Laravel release schedule will look as follows: - Laravel 9.0: January 2022 - Laravel 10.0: January 2023 - Laravel 11.0: January 2024 We are continuing to deliver exciting new improvements to the Laravel 8.x release series. In fact, we have been able to ship a variety of amazing new features without needing a major release, including parallel testing, model broadcasting improvements, and more. We look forward to shipping even more wonderful improvements to you soon!

For the last 4 years, Laravel has released a new "major" version every 6 months. Before adopting the "semantic versioning" standard - the second number in the Laravel version number changed every 6 months. With the adoption of semantic versioning, the first number in the Laravel version number changed every 6 months. However, the release cycle speed stayed the same throughout that transition - even though many users felt that Laravel versions were being released more frequently. Over the same 4 years, Laravel has matured and solidified its position as the development framework of choice for most PHP developers. As the number of businesses and individuals using Laravel has grown substantially, I feel like now is a good time to update our release schedule to help ease the maintenance burden on our community. So, beginning immediately, Laravel is moving from a 6 month major release cycle to a 12 month release cycle. Therefore, since Laravel 8.0 was released in September of 2020, Laravel 9.0 (LTS) will not be released until September of 2021. Laravel 10.0 will be released in September of 2022, etc. Due to this decision, we decided to backport parallel testing (a major feature of the 9.0 release) to Laravel 8.0 so that our users could take advantage of it immediately. That feature was released today. This new release cycle will not only ease the the maintenance burden on our community and relieve the stress of feeling like you are being "left behind", it will challenge us as Laravel developers to implement high-value, amazing features without breaking backwards compatibility so that we can deliver them to you as quickly as possible. These changes have been reflected in [our support policy documentation](https://laravel.com/docs/releases#support-policy). Matt Stauffer, a long time Laravel community member, has created a very helpful website to assist you in visualizing the current and upcoming releases of Laravel as well as their support / maintenance periods: [https://laravelversions.com/](https://laravelversions.com/) If you are running an older version of Laravel and would like to take advantage of all the latest features in Laravel 8, you may automate the process of upgrading with Shift: [https://laravelshift.com](https://laravelshift.com).