diff --git a/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html b/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html
index f90e1e84f3..ded991fa32 100644
--- a/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html
+++ b/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@
 		<li>[Change] Forum feed no longer includes posts of subforums.</li>
 		<li>[Change] Show login attempt CAPTCHA option in the captcha plugin module.</li>
 		<li>[Change] It is no longer possible to persist a solution for the login CAPTCHA.</li>
+		<li>[Change] SQLite is no longer autoloaded by the installer. (Bug #56105)</li>
 	</ul>
 
 	<a name="v305"></a><h3>1.ii. Changes since 3.0.5</h3>
diff --git a/phpBB/includes/functions_install.php b/phpBB/includes/functions_install.php
index a5889224a1..1b9c66fc84 100644
--- a/phpBB/includes/functions_install.php
+++ b/phpBB/includes/functions_install.php
@@ -23,7 +23,14 @@ function can_load_dll($dll)
 {
 	// SQLite2 is a tricky thing, from 5.0.0 it requires PDO; if PDO is not loaded we must state that SQLite is unavailable
 	// as the installer doesn't understand that the extension has a prerequisite.
-	if ($dll == 'sqlite' && version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.0.0', '>=') && !extension_loaded('pdo'))
+	//
+	// On top of this sometimes the SQLite extension is compiled for a different version of PDO
+	// by some Linux distributions which causes phpBB to bomb out with a blank page.
+	//
+	// Net result we'll disable automatic inclusion of SQLite support
+	//
+	// See: r9618 and #56105
+	if ($dll == 'sqlite')
 	{
 		return false;
 	}