Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecations for PHP 8.6

From:	Matteo Beccati	Date:	Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:07:41 +0000
Subject:	Re: [RFC] [VOTE] Deprecations for PHP 8.6
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Hi,

On 2026-07-27 12:31, Gina P. Banyard wrote:
As announced last week I've opened the vote for the 8.6 mass deprecation RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_6 At the time I'm the only one who voted "no" on https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_6#deprecate_dechunk_filter

As things currently stand, projects that rely on this functionality (notably symfony/http-client and php-http/message) will start triggering deprecation notices in PHP 8.6. There are no plans to expose the underlying behaviour in an alternative way, despite this concern being raised during the discussion period. I believe we should provide such an alternative together with the deprecation, rather than expecting projects with 200M+ installations to "find an alternative, such as decoding it using code written in PHP". My 2c. Cheers -- Matteo Beccati