Laravel 8 is to be released on September 8, 2020. Along with the framework upgrade is the change in Laravel Installer.

Up until Laravel Installer version 3.2.0, when you do laravel new <project-name>, the installer downloads the build from a build server. The build server will be shutdown couple months after Laravel 8 released.

Therefore, it’s important to run the composer update on the Laravel Installer.

Steps

1. Edit $HOME/.composer/composer.json
2. Update laravel/installer to ^4.0
3. Run composer global update laravel/installer
4. Verify by execute laravel --version