How to Test Laravel's Development Branch Before a Release
So, I often set the laravel/framework version in composer to 13.x-dev (13.x being the current branch). This means I can quickly test the latest and greatest features without waiting for the official release! You’ll have to run a composer update after making the change, but it’s really useful to check commits that’ve been merged in that you want to verify, or there’s new features you want to play around with before they land in a tagged release. ...