Which version of laravel to choose for a long term project?

Question

Laravel

Which version of laravel to choose for a long term project?

Answer 1

The freshest!

Answer 2

4.2 obviously

Answer 3

laravel has LTS releases with long-term support https://laravel.com/docs/master/releases
Ideally, it's best to build on those releases.
But in addition to the framework itself, you will also use third-party packages, where dependencies are not always correctly written and tested.
You can always upgrade, there are guides https://laravel.com/docs/master/upgrade and there are usually no serious compatibility problems.