I think this is something that didn't get fixed with the last release that fixed PHP 8.5 deprecations.
ErrorException: chr(): Providing a value not in-between 0 and 255 is deprecated, this is because a byte value must be in the [0, 255] interval. The value used will be constrained using % 256
vendor/phpseclib/phpseclib/phpseclib/Math/BigInteger/Engines/BCMath.php:157
SFTP connections fail for that reason for me. The setup I have is that warnings like these will throw an error.