diff --git a/src/Illuminate/Database/composer.json b/src/Illuminate/Database/composer.json
index bcbb837c0818..ace45ba91b77 100644
--- a/src/Illuminate/Database/composer.json
+++ b/src/Illuminate/Database/composer.json
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
         "illuminate/events": "Required to use the observers with Eloquent (^11.0).",
         "illuminate/filesystem": "Required to use the migrations (^11.0).",
         "illuminate/pagination": "Required to paginate the result set (^11.0).",
+        "laravel/serializable-closure": "Required to handle circular references in model serialization (^1.3).",
         "symfony/finder": "Required to use Eloquent model factories (^7.0)."
     },
     "config": {