what is the difference between laravel master and 5.0?

Question

I am new to Laravel Framework and I wanted to know what is the difference between the Master and 5.0 (can be found at the documentation page).

Thank you.

Answer 1

The 5.0 branch is the current stable release all bugfixes and patches go to this branch and that's the one you should use. (it is also the one composer will use when you create a new project).

The master branch contains the upcoming release. In this case 5.1. However it could be unstable or suddenly break features because things will change in the new release.