In case you've missed it, the PHP community has been buzzing about a new set of mysql drivers created especially for PHP - the mysqlnd driver set.

The MySQL native driver for PHP is an additional, alternative way to connect from PHP 6 to the MySQL Server 4.1 or newer. It is a replacement for the libmysql, the MySQL Client Library. From now on you can use ext/mysqli either together with libmysql as you did in the past or with mysqlnd.

Several bloggers have been talking about it, including:

• Lukas Smith
• Several posts from the Internet Super Hero blog

You can get complete information and download the software from the package's page over on the MySQL.com website (including some simple install instructions).