[Tutorial] Updating Drupal 8.2.x to 8.3+ with Drush

No matter what you do you can’t get Drupal to upgrade from 8.2.x to 8.3+? I was in the same situation while using Drush to update this site. Inside is a quick guide to fix the problem!

How to resolve the issue with updating Drupal 8.2.x to 8.3+ with Drush

1.) SSH into your server, if you’re updating on a remote webhost, and proceed to the root of your Drupal directory.  This will normally be your public_html directory on a webhost.

2.) Use the following command to remove the vendor directory:

rm -rf vendor

3.) Then use the following command to remove the composer.lock file:

rm composer.lock

4.) Then run the following command to update Drupal:

composer update drupal/core --with-dependencies

Easy as that!  You should be on 8.3+ now.