How to check the Laravel version using CLI / command prompt and files on Windows or Linux

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]There are two ways to find the version of your Laravel application . You can either find it by running a command via CLI/ Command Prompt or you can check Laravel version in source files of your Laravel installation.[/vc_column_text][vc_tabs][vc_tab title="Using Command" tab_id="1572406098-1-97"][vc_column_text title="Using command line CLI / Command prompt to find Laravel version" css=".vc_custom_1572400844663{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"]Open the terminal / cmd on your system. Now change directory to the web root directory of the Laravel installation and then run the following command to check the Laravel version.[/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size="20"][vc_single_image image="8915" img_size="full" onclick="link_image"][mk_fancy_title size="20" margin_top="20" margin_bottom="0" font_family="none"]On Linux[/mk_fancy_title][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1572406835275{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"]

$php artisan --version

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c:\xampp\htdocs\laravel_application>php artisan --version

[/vc_column_text][mk_fancy_title size="20" margin_top="20" margin_bottom="0" font_family="none"]How to check laravel version of a project[/mk_fancy_title][vc_column_text title="Using command line CLI / Command prompt to find Laravel version" css=".vc_custom_1576079694183{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"]You could use either of two methods described above, using terminal/CMD or by inpecting the source files. Please comment if you face any problems following the instructions. We will try to help as fast as we can.[/vc_column_text][/vc_tab][vc_tab title="Using Source Files" tab_id="1572406098-2-75"][vc_single_image image="8922" img_size="full" onclick="link_image"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1572406696655{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}"]

Open below file in your laravel system using your favourit text editor.

/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php

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History of Laravel Releases

Version	Release	Bug Fixes Until	Security Fixes Until
V1	June 2011	–	–
V2	September 2011	–	–
v3	February 2012	–	–
v4	May 2013	–	–
5.0	Feb 4th, 2015	Aug 4th, 2015	Feb 4th, 2016
5.1 (LTS)	Jun 9th, 2015	Jun 9th, 2017	Jun 9th, 2018
5.2	Dec 21st, 2015	Jun 21st, 2016	Dec 21st, 2016
5.3	Aug 23rd, 2016	Feb 23rd, 2017	Aug 23rd, 2017
5.4	Jan 24th, 2017	Jul 24th, 2017	Jan 24th, 2018
5.5 (LTS)	Aug 30th, 2017	Aug 30th, 2019	Aug 30th, 2020
5.6	Feb 7th, 2018	Aug 7th, 2018	Feb 7th, 2019
5.7	Sep 4, 2018	Feb 4th, 2019	Sep 4th, 2019
5.8	Feb 26th, 2019	Aug 26th, 2019	Feb 26th, 2020
6.0 (LTS)	Sept 3rd, 2019	Sept 3rd, 2021	Sept 3rd, 2022

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