Best practices for upgrading frameworks?

[modir]

I often come to projects where they use an outdated framework. At the moment it is often a lot of manual work because there is no command to upgrade all the a newest version as discussed in this feature request.

How do you handle such situations? Do you have some rules you always follow?

[Seldaek]

There is composer bump which can help with that, but it won't allow major upgrades. For minor versions though you could do composer update framework/* && composer bump framework/*.

For major versions I usually just edit it manually in composer.json, selecting all packages I want to edit with multi-cursor edit then replacing all constraints by ^2 or whatever the next major is.