diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 420b2c383..fd13c6740 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ CHANGELOG Roundcube Webmail
 - Fix bug where message parts with no Content-Disposition header and no name were not listed on attachments list (#7117)
 - Fix display issues with mail subject that contains line-breaks (#7191)
 - Fix invalid Content-Transfer-Encoding on multipart messages - Mail_Mime fix (#7170)
+- Fix regression where using an absolute path to SQLite database file on Windows didn't work (#7196)
 
 RELEASE 1.4.2
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diff --git a/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_db.php b/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_db.php
index 4bd7fe70f..5d6986c1d 100644
--- a/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_db.php
+++ b/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_db.php
@@ -1264,6 +1264,7 @@ class rcube_db
             if (!empty($parsed['phptype']) && !empty($parsed['database'])
                 && stripos($parsed['phptype'], 'sqlite') === 0
                 && $parsed['database'][0] != '/'
+                && strpos($parsed['database'], ':') === false
             ) {
                 $parsed['database'] = INSTALL_PATH . $parsed['database'];
             }