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Product Decisions This Supports

• Framework upgrade planning. 2.0.0 targeting Laravel 7 means this package tracks Laravel's supported majors. That directly feeds the "when do we schedule our Laravel 7 upgrade" decision — a dependency that hasn't declared support is a hard blocker in the upgrade critical path.
• Build vs buy. A shipped major release is evidence of active maintenance. That lowers the risk side of the ledger when comparing "adopt this package" against "build and own a small internal equivalent."
• Roadmap sequencing. Adopting a major version pins us to a framework major. Upgrade work should be budgeted inside the framework-upgrade epic, not discovered as an unplanned interrupt mid-sprint.
• Dependency risk register. The release communicates a support policy: one release branch per Laravel major, no visible backport. That's a standing constraint worth recording, because it means every future Laravel major forces a package upgrade on roughly the same timeline.
• Use cases. Any feature area that depends on this package inherits its version constraint; those features are unblocked on Laravel 7 only once this bump is adopted.

When to Consider This Package

Consider it when:

• You are on Laravel 7, or actively planning that move.
• You want a dependency that is maintained against current framework majors rather than frozen.
• Your own upgrade cadence can absorb a package major version each time Laravel ships one.

Look elsewhere or defer when:

• You are staying on Laravel 6 for a meaningful period — 2.0.0 appears to be Laravel 7 only, so you would be stranded on 1.x with no forward path.
• The package is a small utility: a forced upgrade cycle every framework major can cost more than owning a few hundred lines of in-house code.
• You need long support windows or LTS-style guarantees; single-major targeting is a policy mismatch.
• The release notes remain this thin. "Updates package for Laravel 7" tells us the constraint changed but not whether behavior changed. Ask for the full changelog and diff before committing to the upgrade.

How to Pitch It (Stakeholders)

Executives: The package is actively maintained and has added support for the current Laravel major. Dependency risk is low and there is no new licensing or cost implication. It is a routine version bump, but it gates part of our framework upgrade, so it needs a small, scheduled slice of engineering time rather than being treated as free.

Engineering: This is a major release, so treat it as potentially breaking until verified — review the changelog and diff rather than assuming a constraint-only change. The framework requirement moves to Laravel 7; do not attempt to run it on Laravel 6. Sequence it with the Laravel 7 upgrade, run the full test suite, and check transitive dependency conflicts before merging. If we must stay on Laravel 6 for now, we stay on 1.x and accept that we have no upgrade path until we move.