CodeIgniter for PHP 6

[eluser]FinalFrag[/eluser]
I just finished reading this article about PHP 6. The thing that interested me most was that it will drop support for the mysql_connect(), mysql_query(), etc functions.

Although, when I look at the MySQL database driver in CI 1.6.2 I see it still uses these functions. Are there any plans on making the change in CI 1.6.3? Or am I missing something really important in the whole story? :p