I am starting the vote on this RFC next Friday, 5 June 2026. The RFC suggests limiting the maximum number of filters in php://filter URLs, for security reasons. The latest change is that the maximum number of filters can be configured through a stream context option.
RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/limit-maximum-number-of-filter-chains Discussion thread: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/130813 Pull request: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/22110 Regards, Sjoerd Langkemper
