Laravel installer keeps installing 5.5 instead of 5.6

Question

I installed php 7.2.2 / apache 2.4 and mysql-5.7 on windows 10.

I want to install laravel 5.6

first:

1.  composer clear-cache
2.  composer u         


        

Answer 1

You have to do:

composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name-here dev-develop