#80: Updated Laravel to 5.5 LTS

app/Console/Kernel.php

@@ -36,5 +36,6 @@ class Kernel extends ConsoleKernel
     protected function commands()
     {
         require base_path('routes/console.php');
+        $this->load(__DIR__.'/Commands');
     }
 }

app/Http/Controllers/InstallController.php

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ class InstallController extends Controller
         }
 
         $canContinue = true;
-        $runtimeMinimum = '5.6.4'; // this minimum is imposed by Laravel 5.3
+        $runtimeMinimum = '7.0.0'; // this minimum is imposed by Laravel 5.5
         $runtimeVersion = phpversion();
         $phpIsValid = version_compare($runtimeVersion, $runtimeMinimum) >= 0;
 

composer.json

@@ -5,16 +5,17 @@
     "license": "MIT",
     "type": "project",
     "require": {
-        "php": ">=5.6.4",
+        "php": ">=7.0.0",
-        "laravel/framework": "5.4.*",
+        "laravel/framework": "5.5.*",
         "rackspace/php-opencloud": "^1.16",
         "doctrine/dbal": "^2.5",
         "aws/aws-sdk-php": "^3.19"
     },
     "require-dev": {
+        "filp/whoops": "~2.0",
         "fzaninotto/faker": "~1.4",
         "mockery/mockery": "0.9.*",
-        "phpunit/phpunit": "~5.0",
+        "phpunit/phpunit": "~6.0",
         "symfony/css-selector": "3.1.*",
         "symfony/dom-crawler": "3.1.*"
     },
@@ -44,6 +45,10 @@
         "post-update-cmd": [
             "Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postUpdate",
             "php artisan optimize"
+        ],
+        "post-autoload-dump": [
+            "Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump",
+            "@php artisan package:discover"
         ]
     },
     "config": {

config/app.php

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 return [
     // Version number of Blue Twilight
-    'version' => '2.1.1',
+    'version' => '2.2.0-alpha.1',
 
     /*
     |--------------------------------------------------------------------------