I know that in general NEWS is a very punchy "this is what happened" log, but
Chris e-mailed me off-list to ask if it could be added to avoid any FUD — this
merely brings the NEWS post into line with UPGRADING, the migration guide, and
every other piece of advice we're giving out.
I also forgot to add the RFC URL last night, so added that.
- MySQL
. This extension is now deprecated, and deprecation warnings will be generated
when connections are established to databases via mysql_connect(),
- mysql_pconnect(), or through implicit connection. (Adam)
+ mysql_pconnect(), or through implicit connection: use MySQLi or PDO_MySQL
+ instead (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mysql_deprecation). (Adam)
- MySQLi
. Dropped support for LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE handlers when using libmysql.