This driver, which uses PHP drivers removed in PHP version 5.1, will be removed. The oci8 driver will be renamed to 'oracle' in order to provide an appropiately named data provider, and 'oci8' will become a wrapper for that driver.

Any other driver directly based on this driver will also be removed.

These drivers, which uses the non-improved mysql PHP drivers removed in PHP 5.4, will be removed. The driver 'mysqli' will be renamed to 'mysql' in order to provide an appropriately named data provider.

The 'mysqlt' and 'mysqlpo' drivers will also be removed.

These drivers, which support early versions of Informix, will be removed. A new version, based on the pdo_ibm driver, is planned.

These drivers, which support Windows only connections to Access databases via COM objects as well as an obsolete SQL Server connection will be removed. Connections to Access databases can be achieved via ODBC drivers

The obsolete session management functions in adodb-session.inc.php will be removed.