Laravel 5.1 with LTS is released

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Post by ericbarnes » Tue, Jun 09, 2015, 1:14 PM UTC

Laravel 5.1 with LTS is released
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Re: Laravel 5.1 with LTS is released

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Post by ericbarnes » Tue, Jun 09, 2015, 1:28 PM UTC

Being the first release offering LTS is fantastic news for the community.

Re: Laravel 5.1 with LTS is released

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Post by fweespeech » Tue, Jun 09, 2015, 2:37 PM UTC

As interesting as LTS support is, 2 years is frankly very short.

I'm used to thinking of LTS support in terms of 4-5 years. I suspect everyone else is too and Laravel is going to piss off everyone who doesn't read the fine print.

Re: Laravel 5.1 with LTS is released

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Post by sarciszewski » Tue, Jun 09, 2015, 2:42 PM UTC

fweespeech wrote: post #3

As interesting as LTS support is, 2 years is frankly very short. I'm used to thinking of LTS support in terms of 4-5 years. I suspect everyone else is too and Laravel is going to piss off everyone who doesn't read the fine print.

It's actually 2 years of updates + 3 years of security updates.

Re: Laravel 5.1 with LTS is released

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Post by romanovcode » Tue, Jun 09, 2015, 2:43 PM UTC

fweespeech wrote: post #3

As interesting as LTS support is, 2 years is frankly very short. I'm used to thinking of LTS support in terms of 4-5 years. I suspect everyone else is too and Laravel is going to piss off everyone who doesn't read the fine print.

2 years for bug fixes, 3 years for security fixes

Re: Laravel 5.1 with LTS is released

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 09, 2015, 2:43 PM UTC

fweespeech wrote: post #3

As interesting as LTS support is, 2 years is frankly very short. I'm used to thinking of LTS support in terms of 4-5 years. I suspect everyone else is too and Laravel is going to piss off everyone who doesn't read the fine print.

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Re: Laravel 5.1 with LTS is released

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Post by Olap84 » Tue, Jun 09, 2015, 2:46 PM UTC

How many other Frameworks offer LTS releases?

Plenty are mature enough to offer this, but commercial backing must be hard to come by.

Re: Laravel 5.1 with LTS is released

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Post by gondo » Tue, Jun 09, 2015, 2:46 PM UTC

Olap84 wrote: post #7

How many other Frameworks offer LTS releases? Plenty are mature enough to offer this, but commercial backing must be hard to come by.

staying in PHP world, Symfony2 does http://symfony.com/doc/current/contributing/community/releas...

Re: Laravel 5.1 with LTS is released

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Post by speg » Tue, Jun 09, 2015, 2:49 PM UTC

Olap84 wrote: post #7

How many other Frameworks offer LTS releases? Plenty are mature enough to offer this, but commercial backing must be hard to come by.

Leaving the PHP world, Django does: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/internals/release-proc...

Re: Laravel 5.1 with LTS is released

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Post by noir_lord » Tue, Jun 09, 2015, 2:49 PM UTC

fweespeech wrote: post #3

As interesting as LTS support is, 2 years is frankly very short. I'm used to thinking of LTS support in terms of 4-5 years. I suspect everyone else is too and Laravel is going to piss off everyone who doesn't read the fine print.

> I suspect everyone else is too and Laravel is going to piss off everyone who doesn't read the fine print.

If I'm on a project where LTS matters I'd not be doing my job if I didn't read the small print.