The Laravel team is planning to release Laravel 8 on September 8th. The expected upgrade time to be about 10-15 minutes from Laravel 7.x. According to Laravel News, “Laravel 8 is going to feature some nice new additions including an improved maintenance mode, no longer having to manually restart PHP artisan serve if you update your .env file, a new Bus::dispatch, a big refactor to factories and seeders, and a few bigger features that haven’t been announced yet.”