Laravel 9—the next major version of Laravel—is now released, including a minimum PHP v8.0 version, controller route groups, a new Ignition error page, and many more features.

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Laravel 9 is the next long-term support version (LTS) and will receive bug fixes until February 2024. The Laravel website got a fresh new design for the launch of Laravel 9. Flysystem 3.x, Improved Eloquent accessors/mutators, and many more features.

Laravel 9 is Now Released!

The new landing page is awesome. I thought it should now ship with PEST instead of PHPUnit.
Let’s go crazy and build some awesome stuff.

Not LTS though as initially stated.

the major version’s are more like minor version’s and vise versa :D
and i kinda like that.