Laravel installer keeps installing 5.5 instead of 5.6

Question

I installed php 7.2.2 / apache 2.4 and mysql-5.7 on windows 10.

I want to install laravel 5.6

first:

1.  composer clear-cache
2.  composer update
3.  composer global require "laravel/installer"

php -v:

PHP 7.2.2 (cli) (built: Jan 31 2018 19:31:17) ( ZTS MSVC15 (Visual C++ 2017) x64 )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies

and Laravel Installer 2.0.1

I try this (according to the laravel doc 5.6):

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

But it install laravel 5.5.28

Why does composer keep installing laravel 5.5?

Answer 1

Laravel 5.6 was not officially released until today (2018-02-07).

Now that it has been officially released, the Laravel installer and the composer create-project will use 5.6, instead of 5.5.

If you'd like to install a version that is not the current version, you need to specify the version to install as the last parameter to composer create-project.

For example, now that 5.6 has been released and is the current version, if you wanted to create a 5.5 project, you would add "5.5" to the composer statement:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog "5.5.*"

Answer 2

I had same problem.

1- Your server php version must be ^7.1.3

2- You must Reinstall composer and select php ^7.1.3 in installation steps. then use command below to install version 5.6 of Laravel

 composer create-project laravel/laravel="5.6.*" Your-Project-Name

Or use command below to install latest version of Laravel

composer create-project laravel/laravel Your-Project-Name --prefer-dist