How important is it to use the latest version of laravel?

Question

Laravel

I don’t know php well and I’m trying to learn laravel, it’s just my hobby, I like to learn something for myself, and not for the sake of money, so I ask you not to throw slippers :)

so here are all sorts of articles, lessons and video lessons, especially in Russian usually they lag far behind the latest versions, although there is nothing particularly fundamental and does not change, but still,

therefore, the question is, if I learn, say, version 7, with the current version 9, how wrong is this?
How do sites work on earlier versions, there is no auto-update like WordPress, but I don’t think that there are any security holes there?

Answer 1

Do practical work in the learning process on the latest version.
You can also read old lessons (from version 7).
The discrepancies in the lessons and reality will be very small and you will check them in the documentation. She is always fresh.