diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 49d6fd5bab2..bd526de4d5e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ PHP                                                                        NEWS
 - Added RFC2397 (data: stream) support. (Marcus)
 - Fixed memory leaks in openssl streams context options (Pierre)
 - Fixed handling of extremely long paths inside tempnam() function. (Ilia)
+- Fixed bug #37671 (MySQLi extension fails to recognize BIT column). (Ilia)
 - Fixed bug #37635 (parameter of pcntl signal handler is trashed). (Mike)
 - Fixed bug #37632 (Protected method access problem). (Marcus)
 - Fixed bug #37630 (MySQL extensions should link against thread safe client
diff --git a/ext/mysqli/mysqli_api.c b/ext/mysqli/mysqli_api.c
index b409e56b515..51d219a3236 100644
--- a/ext/mysqli/mysqli_api.c
+++ b/ext/mysqli/mysqli_api.c
@@ -294,6 +294,9 @@ PHP_FUNCTION(mysqli_stmt_bind_result)
 			case MYSQL_TYPE_LONG:
 			case MYSQL_TYPE_INT24:
 			case MYSQL_TYPE_YEAR:
+#if MYSQL_VERSION_ID > 50002
+			case MYSQL_TYPE_BIT:
+#endif
 				convert_to_long_ex(args[i]);
 				stmt->result.buf[ofs].type = IS_LONG;
 				/* don't set stmt->result.buf[ofs].buflen to 0, we used ecalloc */