polish at v7 launch

tabacitu · tabacitu · commit ba2ff254a42c · 2025-11-24T18:19:47.000+02:00
diff --git a/3.5/introduction.md b/3.5/introduction.md
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Backpack has never had a critical vulnerability/hack. But there _have_ been impo
 <a name="maintenance"></a>
 ### Maintenance
 
-Backpack 3.5 is the current version, and is being actively maintained by Backpack's creator, [Cristian Tabacitu](https://tabacitu.ro), with the help of a wonderful community of Backpack veterans. [See all contributors](https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/graphs/contributors).
+Backpack v3.5 is no longer the current version. Please upgrade to continue receiving updates.
 
 <a name="license"></a>
 ### License
diff --git a/3.6/introduction.md b/3.6/introduction.md
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Backpack has never had a critical vulnerability/hack. But there _have_ been impo
 <a name="maintenance"></a>
 ### Maintenance
 
-Backpack 3.5 is the current version, and is being actively maintained by Backpack's creator, [Cristian Tabacitu](http://tabacitu.ro), with the help of a wonderful community of Backpack veterans. [See all contributors](https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/graphs/contributors).
+Backpack v3.6 is no longer the current version. Please upgrade to continue receiving updates.
 
 <a name="license"></a>
 ### License
diff --git a/4.0/introduction.md b/4.0/introduction.md
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Backpack has never had a critical vulnerability/hack. But there _have_ been impo
 <a name="maintenance"></a>
 ### Maintenance
 
-Backpack 4.0 is the current version, and is being actively maintained by Backpack's creator, [Cristian Tabacitu](https://tabacitu.ro), with the help of a wonderful community of Backpack veterans. [See all contributors](https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/graphs/contributors).
+Backpack v4.0 is no longer the current version. Please upgrade to continue receiving updates.
 
 <a name="license"></a>
 ### License
diff --git a/4.1/introduction.md b/4.1/introduction.md
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Backpack has never had a critical vulnerability/hack. But there _have_ been impo
 <a name="maintenance"></a>
 ### Maintenance
 
-Backpack 4.1 is the current version, and is being actively maintained by the Backpack team, with the help of a wonderful community of Backpack veterans. [See all contributors](https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/graphs/contributors).
+Backpack v4.1 is no longer the current version. Please upgrade to continue receiving updates.
 
 <a name="license"></a>
 ### License
diff --git a/5.x/introduction.md b/5.x/introduction.md
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Backpack has never had a critical vulnerability/hack. But there _have_ been impo
 <a name="maintenance"></a>
 ### Maintenance
 
-Backpack v5 is the current version, and is being actively maintained by the Backpack team, with the help of a wonderful community of Backpack veterans. [See all contributors](https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/graphs/contributors).
+Backpack v6 is no longer the current version. Please upgrade to continue receiving updates.
 
 <a name="license"></a>
 ### License
diff --git a/6.x/introduction.md b/6.x/introduction.md
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Backpack has never had a critical vulnerability/hack. But there _have_ been impo
 <a name="maintenance"></a>
 ### Maintenance
 
-Backpack v6 is the current version and is actively maintained by the Backpack team, with the help of a wonderful community of Backpack veterans. [See all contributors](https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/graphs/contributors).
+Backpack v6 is no longer the current version. Please upgrade to continue receiving updates.
 
 <a name="license"></a>
 ### License
diff --git a/7.x/base-themes.md b/7.x/base-themes.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 <a name="about"></a>
 ## About
 
-Backpack v6 provides three new themes:
+Backpack provides three themes:
 - `backpack/theme-tabler` - includes Tabler, the excellent Bootstrap 5 HTML template;
 - `backpack/theme-coreuiv2` - includes Backstrap, which is a CoreUI v2 fork we used in Backpack v5;
 - `backpack/theme-coreuiv4` - includes CoreUI v4;
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Replace `{themeName}` and `{language}` with the theme name and language you want
 - 3 alternative authentication views (default, cover, image);
 - 9 alternative layouts (horizontal, horizontal overlap, horizontal dark, vertical, vertical dark, vertical transparent, right vertical, right vertical dark, right vertical transparent);
 
-We believe Tabler is the best HTML template on the market right now, with many _many_ HTML components to choose from, which is why we've chosen Tabler as the default theme for Backpack v6.
+We believe Tabler is the best HTML template on the market right now, with many _many_ HTML components to choose from, which is why we've chosen Tabler as the default theme for Backpack.
 
 For more information and installation steps, see [`backpack/theme-tabler`](https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/theme-tabler) on Github.
 
@@ -103,10 +103,10 @@ To get more information on Backpack specific built-in components for tabler, ple
 
 ![](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1032474/240272550-456499a0-ef31-48a1-a985-1de3ff6107e5.png)
 
-[`backpack/theme-coreuiv2`](https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/theme-coreuiv2) is a legacy theme. It provides the views from Backpack v5... to Backpack v6 users. It serves three purposes:
-- allows Backpack developers who need Internet Explorer support to upgrade to Backpack v6;
-- allows Backpack developers who have _heavily_ customized their blade files to upgrade to Backpack v6;
-- allows Backpack developers to easily upgrade from v5 to v6, by using this theme with few breaking changes, before moving to one with a lot more breaking changes;
+[`backpack/theme-coreuiv2`](https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/theme-coreuiv2) is a legacy theme. It provides the views from Backpack v5... to Backpack v6 and v7 users. It serves three purposes:
+- allows Backpack developers who need Internet Explorer support to upgrade to Backpack v6 & v7;
+- allows Backpack developers who have _heavily_ customized their blade files to upgrade to Backpack v6 & v7;
+- allows Backpack developers to easily upgrade from v5 to v6 and v7, by using this theme with few breaking changes, before moving to one with a lot more breaking changes;
 
 We do not recommend using this theme in production, long-term. We recommend using `theme-coreuiv4` or ideally `theme-tabler`, which use Bootstrap 5. But we do understand some projects are too difficult to upgrade or migrate, and for those projects we've spent the time to create this theme.
 
@@ -124,7 +124,9 @@ For more information and installation steps, see [`backpack/theme-coreuiv4`](htt
 <a name="what-theme-should-i-use"></a>
 ## What Theme Should I Use
 
-Backpack v6 has launched with 3 themes from day one, to cater for the most scenarios possible:
+**Short answer:** Tabler.
+
+**Long answer:** Backpack has 3 themes, to cater for the most scenarios possible:
 - **if you're starting a new project, use `backpack/theme-tabler`**; it's the newest theme, with the most features: dark mode, vertical layouts, alternative auth views and many more HTML components to choose from, in your custom pages;
 - **if you're upgrading an old project**, depending on how many files there are in your `resources/views/vendor/backpack/`, under the `base` or `ui` directories:
     - if you don't have many files (1-5), use `backpack/theme-tabler`;
diff --git a/7.x/crud-operations.md b/7.x/crud-operations.md
@@ -1264,4 +1264,4 @@ public function setupCommentOperation(): void
 That's it. This all you needed to do to achieve a working operation with a Backpack form, that looks a lot like this:
 
 
-![Custom form operation in Backpack v6](https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/assets/1032474/0bc88660-70d5-41c8-a298-b8a971fd9539)
+![Custom form operation in Backpack](https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/assets/1032474/0bc88660-70d5-41c8-a298-b8a971fd9539)
diff --git a/7.x/demo.md b/7.x/demo.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ We've put together a working Laravel app (backend-only). This should make it eas
 - change stuff in code, to see how easy it is to customize Backpack;
 
 In this [Demo repository](https://github.com/laravel-backpack/demo), we've:
-- installed Laravel 11;
+- installed Laravel 12;
 - installed Backpack\CRUD; <span class="badge badge-pill badge-success">FREE</span>
 - installed Backpack\PRO; <span class="badge badge-pill badge-info">PRO</span>
 - installed Backpack\Editable-Columns; <span class="badge badge-pill badge-warning">PREMIUM</span>
diff --git a/7.x/faq.md b/7.x/faq.md
@@ -25,21 +25,21 @@ No:
 <a name="backpack-license-for-open-source-projects"></a>
 ### Can I use Backpack to create an open-source project?
 
-Yes you can! Use [Backpack CRUD v6](https://github.com/laravel-backpack/crud), which is free and open-source, released under the MIT License.
+Yes you can! Use [Backpack CRUD](https://github.com/laravel-backpack/crud), which is free and open-source, released under the MIT License.
 
 
 <a name="backpack-pro-for-open-source-projects"></a>
 ### Can I use Backpack PRO in an open-source project?
 
-In short - no, you cannot. Please use [Backpack CRUD v6](https://github.com/laravel-backpack/crud) instead, which is free and open-source, released under the MIT License.
+In short - no, you cannot. Please use [Backpack CRUD](https://github.com/laravel-backpack/crud) instead, which is free and open-source, released under the MIT License.
 
 Backpack PRO is a closed-source add-on, which requires payment in order to receive an access token. If you did include `backpack/pro` as a dependency in your open-source software, then your software would no longer be open-source. Everybody who installed your project/package would need to pay for Backpack PRO to get access to it.
 
 
 <a name="backpack-pro-for-non-commercial-projects"></a>
 ### Can I get Backpack PRO for free to use in a non-commercial project?
 
-No - we're no longer giving away free licenses. But we _have_ released Backpack CRUD v5 and v6 under the MIT License, which means it's free and open-source. It has fewer features, but you can do absolutely do anything you want with it.
+No - we're no longer giving away free licenses. But we _have_ released Backpack CRUD under the MIT License, which means it's free and open-source. It has fewer features, but you can do absolutely do anything you want with it.
 
 <a name="Installation"></a>
 ## Installation
diff --git a/7.x/installation.md b/7.x/installation.md
@@ -24,14 +24,10 @@ For the following process, we assume:
 Go to your Laravel project's directory, then in your terminal, run:
 
 ``` bash
-# during beta, configure your Composer.json to accept unstable version, by running:
-composer config minimum-stability dev
-composer config prefer-stable true
+# first, require Backpack:
+composer require backpack/crud:"^7.0"
 
-# then require the v7-beta:
-composer require backpack/crud:"^7.0@dev"
-
-# and finally, install Backpack:
+# then, run the installation command:
 php artisan backpack:install
 ```
 
diff --git a/7.x/introduction.md b/7.x/introduction.md
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ We heavily recommend you spend a little time to understand Backpack, and only af
 <a name="requirements"></a>
 ### Requirements
 
-  - Laravel 10.x or 11.x or 12.x
+  - Laravel 12.x
   - MySQL / PostgreSQL / SQLite / SQL Server
 
 <a name="how-does-it-look"></a>
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Backpack has never had a critical vulnerability/hack. But there _have_ been impo
 <a name="maintenance"></a>
 ### Maintenance
 
-Backpack v6 is the current version and is actively maintained by the Backpack team, with the help of a wonderful community of Backpack veterans. [See all contributors](https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/graphs/contributors).
+Backpack v7 is the current version and is actively maintained by the Backpack team, with the help of a wonderful community of Backpack veterans. [See all contributors](https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/graphs/contributors).
 
 <a name="license"></a>
 ### License
diff --git a/7.x/upgrade-guide.md b/7.x/upgrade-guide.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Please make sure your project respects the requirements below, before you start
 - Backpack\CRUD 6.x
 - 5-10 minutes (for most projects)
 
-**If you're running Backpack version 3.x-5.x, please follow ALL other upgrade guides first, to incrementally get to use Backpack v6**. Test that your app works well with each version, after each upgrade. Only _afterwards_ can you follow this guide, to upgrade from v5 to v6. Previous upgrade guides:
+**If you're running Backpack version 3.x-5.x, please follow ALL other upgrade guides first, to incrementally get to use Backpack v6**. Test that your app works well with each version, after each upgrade. Only _afterwards_ can you follow this guide, to upgrade from v6 to v7. Previous upgrade guides:
 - [upgrade from 5.x to 6.x](https://backpackforlaravel.com/docs/6.x/upgrade-guide);
 - [upgrade from 4.1 to 5.x](https://backpackforlaravel.com/docs/5.x/upgrade-guide);
 - [upgrade from 4.0 to 4.1](https://backpackforlaravel.com/docs/4.1/upgrade-guide);
@@ -53,16 +53,16 @@ Now you should be running Backpack v7, with a lot of the steps below already fin
 <a name="step-2" href="#step-2" class="badge badge-danger text-white" style="text-decoration: none;">Step 2.</a> Your `composer.json` should require the new version of Backpack CRUD:
 
 ```
-        "backpack/crud": "^7.0.0-beta",
+        "backpack/crud": "^7.0",
 ```
 
 <a name="step-3" href="#step-3" class="badge badge-danger text-white" style="text-decoration: none;">Step 3.</a> Bump the version of any first-party Backpack add-ons you have installed (eg. `backpack/pro`, `backpack/editable-columns` etc.) to the versions that support Backpack v6. For 3rd-party add-ons, please check each add-on's Github page. Here's a quick list of 1st party packages and versions:
 
 ```js
-    'backpack/crud' => '^7.0.0-beta',
-    'backpack/theme-coreuiv2' => 'dev-next',
+    'backpack/crud' => '^7.0',
+    'backpack/theme-coreuiv2' => '^2.0',
     'backpack/theme-coreuiv4' => '^1.2',
-    'backpack/theme-tabler' => 'dev-next',
+    'backpack/theme-tabler' => '^2.0',
     'backpack/logmanager' => '^5.1',
     'backpack/settings' => '^3.2',
     'backpack/newscrud' => '^5.2',
@@ -85,9 +85,6 @@ Now you should be running Backpack v7, with a lot of the steps below already fin
     'backpack/tinymce-field' => '^1.0',
 ```
 
-> **Note:** To install Backpack v7 beta and its add-ons, set `"minimum-stability": "beta"` in your `composer.json`.
-
-
 <a name="models"></a>
 ### Models
 

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`@@ -1264,4 +1264,4 @@ public function setupCommentOperation(): void`
`1264`	`1264`	`That's it. This all you needed to do to achieve a working operation with a Backpack form, that looks a lot like this:`
`1265`	`1265`
`1266`	`1266`
`1267`		`-![Custom form operation in Backpack v6](https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/assets/1032474/0bc88660-70d5-41c8-a298-b8a971fd9539)`
	`1267`	`+![Custom form operation in Backpack](https://github.com/Laravel-Backpack/CRUD/assets/1032474/0bc88660-70d5-41c8-a298-b8a971fd9539)`