The new major PHP 5.3 release is finally available in the [extra] repository. This update will require manual adjustments: update your php.ini; see php.ini.pacnew as reference module path is now /usr/lib/php/modules session, mbstring and zlib are now built in the fileinfo module is now built in and no longer a separate package mysqlnd is anabled; so libmysqlclient is no longer needed Setting default-character-set in my.cnf may cause encoding problems Set date.timezone in php.ini third party extensions need to be updated * There are also new versions of the suhosin and apc extension make sure to review their configuration as well
PHP was split into the following packages: php php-apache php-cgi php-curl php-enchant php-gd php-gmp php-intl php-ldap php-mcrypt php-odbc php-pear php-pgsql php-pspell php-snmp php-sqlite php-tidy php-xsl
If you are using php on a webserver you either need the cgi or apache sapi. The sqlite package includes the sqlite3 drivers; the legacy sqlite2 drive is included in the php package itself.