How to update Angular 7 to Angular 8 by ng update

Question

I try update Angular project from version 7.2.5 to 8 of the core framework and CLI by running ng update @angular/cli @angular/core in terminal.

Response from terminal was 'We analyzed your package.json and everything seems to be in order. Good work!'

My version list:

$ ng version

     _                      _                 ____ _     ___
    / \   _ __   __ _ _   _| | __ _ _ __     / ___| |   |_ _|
   / △ \ | '_ \ / _` | | | | |/ _` | '__|   | |   | |    | |
  / ___ \| | | | (_| | |_| | | (_| | |      | |___| |___ | |
 /_/   \_\_| |_|\__, |\__,_|_|\__,_|_|       \____|_____|___|
                |___/


Angular CLI: 7.3.9
Node: 11.14.0
OS: darwin x64
Angular: 7.2.15
... animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... http, language-service, platform-browser
... platform-browser-dynamic, router

Package                            Version
------------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect          0.13.9
@angular-devkit/build-angular      0.13.9
@angular-devkit/build-ng-packagr   0.13.9
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer    0.13.9
@angular-devkit/build-webpack      0.13.9
@angular-devkit/core               7.3.9
@angular-devkit/schematics         7.3.9
@angular/cdk                       7.3.7
@angular/cli                       7.3.9
@angular/material                  7.3.7
@ngtools/json-schema               1.1.0
@ngtools/webpack                   7.3.9
@schematics/angular                7.3.9 (cli-only)
@schematics/update                 0.13.9
ng-packagr                         5.2.0
rxjs                               6.5.2
typescript                         3.2.4
webpack                            4.29.0

Answer 1

As of today it is alread stable 8.0.0 :)

You might want to try to run ng update --all to update all packages in your package.json file. That might, however, not proceed if it discovers that some inter-dependencies are not met among other packages. In such a case you might want to also add --force option.

Alternatively, you can choose a more tailored approach and hand-pick packages to update (as suggested in answer by Veeraragavan), but you no longer need to add @next version, since all Angular package 8.0.0 versions are stable as of now.