Source of: /manual/en/migration53.new-extensions.php
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<div id="migration53.new-extensions" class="section">
<h2 class="title">New Extensions</h2>
<p class="simpara">
The following new extensions are added (by default) as of PHP 5.3.0:
</p>
<ul class="itemizedlist">
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.enchant.php" class="link">Enchant</a>
- An abstraction layer above various spelling libraries
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.fileinfo.php" class="link">Fileinfo</a>
- An improved and more solid replacement, featuring full BC, for the
<a href="book.mime-magic.php" class="link">Mimetype</a> extension, which has been
removed.
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.intl.php" class="link">INTL</a>
- Internationalization extension. INTL is a wrapper around the
<a href="http://www.icu-project.org/" class="link external">» ICU</a> library.
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.phar.php" class="link">Phar</a>
- Implementation of PHP-Archive files.
</span>
</li>
<li class="listitem">
<span class="simpara">
<a href="book.sqlite3.php" class="link">SQLite3</a>
- Support for SQLite version 3 databases.
</span>
</li>
</ul>
<p class="simpara">
mysqlnd is a new core library shipped with PHP. It is a PHP-specific
replacement for libmysql. mysqlnd will be used to build the
<a href="book.mysql.php" class="link">mysql</a>,
<a href="book.mysqli.php" class="link">mysqli</a>
and <a href="ref.pdo-mysql.php" class="link">PDO_MySQL</a> extensions if libmysql
isnt found on the system. It may also be used instead of libmysql even when
libmysql is present. mysqlnd is recommended for all PHP installations for
performance reasons.
</p>
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