Is it important to make every new site on Laravel on the latest version?

Question

Laravel

Please tell me, is it important to make every new site on Laravel on the latest version? Are there for example significant differences between 5.2 and 5.5? Or is it something like with windows, for 90% of cases version 7 is also suitable, although there is already version 10? And another question, if the site is made on a certain version, is there a need to constantly update the version?

Answer 1

Updating a version means removing old bugs from previous versions. You understand, if you remove some kind of bug, then the application will become more secure (do not take the curvature of the hands and inexperience).
Of course, there is a difference between versions, even if you do not take various bug fixes. For example, this is the addition of new features, and also the same support for extensions from other developers.
I advise you to read the Laravel documentation of different versions and update news. You can learn a lot.