# Upgrade from 6.x to 7.x

In order to upgrade from Laratrust 6.x to 7.x you have to follow these steps:

1. Change your composer.json to require the 7.x version of Laratrust:

"santigarcor/laratrust": "^7.0"

2. Run composer update to update the source code.

3. Run php artisan config:clear and php artisan cache:clear.

4. Update your config/laratrust.php:

   4.1. Backup your config/laratrust.php configuration values.

   4.2. Delete the config/laratrust.php file.

   4.3. Run php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laratrust.

   4.4. Update the config/laratrust.php file with your old values.

Now you can use the 7.x version without any problem.