In Laravel10 Not a major upgrade as like 9. But Laravel 10 still has many changes like

• Laravel Pennant: feature flags with ease
• Handle external processes with ease
• Identify slow-running tests
• Laravel v10 uses invokable validation rules by default
• The Laravel 10 skeleton uses native types instead of docblocks
• Customize the path of config files
• doctrine/dbal is not needed anymore to modify columns in migrations

Note- Laravel 10 requires at least Composer 2.2

I will give you two condition should you upgrade or not.

Upgrade

• Is now a days project in development phase
• Your project required the package which is in laravel10.

Not required for Upgrade

• Your project have all done, not required any code as of date

Now coming to how we will upgrade

Minimum requirements-

• PHP 8.1+ with the following extensions:
  • Ctype
  • cURL
  • DOM
  • Fileinfo
  • Filter
  • Hash
  • Mbstring
  • OpenSSL
  • PCRE
  • PDO
  • Session
  • Tokenizer
  • XML
• Nginx or Apache

See the official link for upgrade

Change the line in composer.json

"laravel/framework": "^9.XX", to "laravel/framework": "^10.0",

"spatie/laravel-ignition": "^x.x" to "spatie/laravel-ignition": "^2.0"

"nunomaduro/collision": "^6.1", to "nunomaduro/collision": "^7.0",

"phpunit/phpunit": "^9.5.10", to "phpunit/phpunit": "^10.0",

"minimum-stability": "dev", to "minimum-stability": "stable",

if all done run the below command,

sudo composer update

result

Hope all good, Happy coding

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