Laravel installation and how to find out the version?

Question

Laravel

Good afternoon!

I'm taking my first steps in learning Laravel. I work under windows 10 using Openserver.

I install (as I think the latest version) like this:
> composer create-project laravel/laravel lara8.loc I

open this folder (lara8.loc) in PHPStorm and see the open readme.md and I see it at the top right under the
stable v.8.47.0 logo

But if I google how to see the version of Laravel, it gives out this way:
>php artisan --version --no-ansi

This command gives me:
Laravel Framework 5.5.50

Question:
1) How to view the Laravel version in a folder correctly?
2) How to correctly install the old version of Laravel I need, how to see what versions are available?
3) When installed in the console, it appears on a yellow background (see below), does this need to be fixed somehow? :

Package jakub-onderka/php-console-color is abandoned, you should avoid using it.
Use php-parallel-lint/php-console-color instead.
Package jakub-onderka/php-console-highlighter is abandoned, you should avoid usi
ng it. Use php-parallel-lint/php-console-highlighter instead.
Package mtdowling/cron-expression is abandoned, you should avoid using it. Use d ragonmantank/cron-expression instead.
Package fzaninotto/faker is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No replacement
was suggested.
Package phpunit/php-token-stream is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No rep
lacement was suggested.
Package phpunit/phpunit-mock-objects is abandoned, you should avoid using it. No replacement was suggested.

Answer 1

1) In the composer file
2) In the composer file
3) In most cases,
Composer can be killed for the smallest ones
. For the company, you can immediately read about NPM.