Undocumented breaking change in minor release

[Luke-Shepp]

After a dependabot update from 13.2 to 13.12 to receive new security updates, our test suite began failing with no messages, just an exit code 2.

Investigation led to a method signature update in #59455, shipped as part of 13.3.

Laravel explicitly states that minor and patch releases “should never contain breaking changes.” Changing make($items = []) to make($items = [], ...$args) breaks existing subclasses that override the public method with the old signature. PHP validates inheritance strictly and throws a fatal error.

The change was intended as a compatibility fix for collections with extended constructors, but it overlooked the inverse compatibility problem: existing make() overrides.

It should have been one of:

• Included in Laravel 14.
• Implemented without changing the overridable method signature.
• Clearly documented with upgrade guidance if considered unavoidable (there are no mentions of a breaking change in the release notes for this version)