Merge pull request #8884 from the-benchmarker/renovate/laravel-framework-12.x

Update dependency laravel/framework to ~12.40.0

Author: waghanza

php/laravel/composer.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "require": {
-    "laravel/framework": "~12.39.0"
+    "laravel/framework": "~12.40.0"
   },
   "autoload": {
     "psr-4": {