Laravel create 5.2 version project issue

Question

I'm starting a new project and i want to start it with a new version of laravel. I don't want to upgrade and old version.

How can I create a Laravel 5.2 project?

Where is my problem and what did I do:

I installed laravel 5.1 with

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel projectname

also laravel new projectname has the same problem.

This is the composer file after installing a fresh project

{
    "name": "laravel/laravel",
    "description": "The Laravel Framework.",
    "keywords": ["framework", "laravel"],
    "license": "MIT",
    "type": "project",
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.5.9",
        "laravel/framework": "5.1.*"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "fzaninotto/faker": "~1.4",
        "mockery/mockery": "0.9.*",
        "phpunit/phpunit": "~4.0",
        "phpspec/phpspec": "~2.1"
    },
...

I also tried with

composer create-project laravel/laravel=5.2.0 projectname

but i got this error

could not find package laravel/laravel with version 5.2.0.

I tried with composer self-update same problem I read laravel 5.2 documentation. It is officially out

Answer 1

If you look at https://stackoverflow.com/a/25949281/3593996 the same question was asked when Laravel 5 was in develop version.

Now if you want to create 5.2 project you need to use dev-develop as version in composer create project:

composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name dev-develop

But if you want to install 5.1 version you can use

composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name 5.1.*

or simple:

composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name

Similar is for older versions, for example:

composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name 5.0.*

or

composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name 4.2.*

When Laravel 5.2 will be released as stable, you will be able to install it using

composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name 5.2.*

or simple

composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name

and using

composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name dev-develop

you will probably install development version of Laravel 5.3

Answer 2

The Laravel 5.2 docs have the correct solution here:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog "5.2.*"

Answer 3

Note that Laravel 5.2.0 is still a beta version, not a stable version. So, for the fresh install:

composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name dev-develop