Upgrade Guide

Upgrading To 5.0 From 4.x

Minimum PHP Version

PHP 7.3 is now the minimum required version.

Minimum Laravel Version

Laravel 8.0 is now the minimum required version.

Chronos Replaced By Carbon

PR: #826

The internal usage of Chronos has been replaced by Carbon to be consistent with the rest of the Laravel ecosystem.

`timeoutAt` & `delay` Flags Deprecated

PR: https://github.com/laravel/horizon/commit/6d00eb9b80a599d3ac403108b7a8d65629af2c59

timeoutAt has been deprecated in favor of retryUntil, while delay has been deprecated in favor of backoff. See the related Laravel PR for more information: laravel/framework#32728

Upgrading To 4.0 From 3.x

Minimum Laravel Version

PR: #710

Laravel 7.0 is now the minimum required version of the framework.

Predis No Longer Required

PR: #531

Because Predis is no longer maintained, it's no longer a required dependency. If you want to continue to use Predis, you should explicitly require it in your composer.json file.

Default Predis Prefix

PR: #643

The default Predis prefix now starts with the app name. If you would like to continue using the old prefix, you should add HORIZON_PREFIX="horizon:" to your .env file.

Horizon Assets Command

PR: #696

The horizon:assets command has been renamed to horizon:publish to be similar to other first party packages.

Upgrading To 3.0 From 2.x

Minimum Laravel version

Laravel 5.7 is now the minimum required version of the framework and you should upgrade to continue using Horizon.