Installing specific laravel 5 version with composer create-project

Question

Today I try to install specific laravel version with composer create-project laravel/laravel=5.1.8 your-project-name --prefer-dist, because some of the plugins have

Answer 1

A simple answer i can think of is

composer create-project laravel/laravel  "5.1.*"

Just replace < app name > with your application name and you'll install laravel's 5.1 distribution.