Updating to Craft 4.5 beta

If you want to play with and learn the new fea­tures and func­tion­al­i­ty in Craft 4.5, it only takes a few min­utes to update a project to the 4.5 beta.

But please don’t update a project you have in pro­duc­tion! I like using a sam­ple or fresh project when work­ing with Craft betas.

Here are the steps I use to update to Craft betas:

1. Update to the lat­est ver­sion of Craft 4.4.
2. Change the composer.json file so the craftcms/cms line looks like this:

   "craftcms/cms": "^4.5.0-beta.1",	
   

3. Run composer update (or ddev composer update if you’re using DDEV to run Craft CMS locally).
4. Run craft migrate/all (or ddev craft migrate/all) and accept all the out­stand­ing migra­tions (there should be at least 3).

Now you’re run­ning Craft 4.5 beta!