Cleanup exclude files not working

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What were you trying to do?

I am building my app for production but the files listed in the cleanup_exclude_files config are not getting removed.

What happened?

The files are not removed when the app is built for production

How to reproduce the bug

Create a new app, make sure there is a laravel.log file in storage/logs. If not create one.
Build the application and install / run it. If on Mac, check in the application support folder and the laravel.log file will still be present.

Package Versions

{
    "installed": [
        {
            "name": "nativephp/electron",
            "direct-dependency": true,
            "homepage": "https://github.com/nativephp/electron",
            "source": "https://github.com/NativePHP/electron/tree/0.9.0",
            "version": "0.9.0",
            "description": "Electron wrapper for the NativePHP framework.",
            "abandoned": false
        },
        {
            "name": "nativephp/laravel",
            "direct-dependency": false,
            "homepage": "https://github.com/nativephp/laravel",
            "source": "https://github.com/NativePHP/laravel/tree/0.7.0",
            "version": "0.7.0",
            "description": "Laravel wrapper for the NativePHP framework.",
            "abandoned": false
        },
        {
            "name": "nativephp/php-bin",
            "direct-dependency": false,
            "homepage": "https://nativephp.com",
            "source": "https://github.com/NativePHP/php-bin/tree/0.5.6",
            "version": "0.5.6",
            "description": "PHP binaries used by the NativePHP framework",
            "abandoned": false
        }
    ]
}

PHP Version

8.4

Laravel Version

11

Node Version

23.5

Which operating systems have you seen this occur on?

No response

OS version

Macos 15.1

Notes

I am using the log file as an example as its in the cleanup array by default however my specific issue is that I have an auth-token.txt file that gets generated when a user logs in and it stores the auth token. This file is not getting removed when I build the application and on investigation I have noticed none of the files specified are getting removed.