SQLite Database Integration 3.0

A new major version of the WordPress plugin that lets WordPress run on SQLite instead of MySQL, with a new database driver built from the ground up.

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The new driver has a MySQL lexer and parser written in pure PHP, and a MySQL emulation layer on top of SQLite. The release took nearly two years of work: 160 pull requests and 1,075 commits from 15 contributors.

Made by: WordPress github.com/WordPress
Source: github.com/WordPress/sqlite-database-integration
Docs: wordpress.github.io/sqlite-database-integration
Licence: GPL-2.0-or-later
Topics: Databases
Shipped: 13/08/2026
Date from: release
Added: 26/10/2026
Checked: 25/10/2026

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