In a new post to his site Freek Van der Herten covers how some of the changes that happened in Laravel's v5.5 release would impact the packages Spatie shares, some of the more popular PHP packages with a wide range of functionality.

At Spatie we’ve released a auto-discovery facades functionality, LTS releases and how some new functionality replaces (retires) packages Spatie had already released.

Laravel 5.5 is probably the best release yet. But, in all honesty, I think that of every Laravel release. My recommendation is to get your apps upgraded to this version as soon as possible. The reward is that you can make use of all L5.5’s new features and the latest major versions of our packages.