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Kunena roadmap 2012
Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:33
The following table oulines the roadmap for the Kunena project for 2012.
The timings given in the following table are appoximate and subject to change depending on availability of people who have given their time voluntarily to make Kunena the best web forum component for Joomla.
| JOOMLA | KUNENA | |
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| March 2012 | K 2.0 beta public release | |
| April 2012 | Joomla 1.5 reaches end-of-life | |
| May 2012 | K 2.0 public stable release. This will also be the last version that offers compatibility with J! 1.5 and J! 2.5 | |
| July 2012 | K 1.7 reaches end-of-life and support will cease for that series | |
| September 2012 | Joomla 3.0 released | K 3.0 beta public releas |
| November 2012 | K 3.0 public stable release. It is likely that K 2.0 will not work with J! 3.0 | |
| January 2013 | K 2.0 reaches end-of-life and support will cease for that series. |
Importantly, following the release of K 1.7.0 last year, no support will be offered for installations running K 1.6.x or any add-ons (including third-party templates) written for K 1.6. Over the coming months, topics that discussed these older, outdated versions will be systematically archived from the forum and locked. We understand that, for some people, the task of upgrading software will be difficult but these decisions have been taken in the interests of the vast majority of users who want to move forward and keep up-to-date as Kunena moves forward in line with ongoing activities occurring within the Joomla community as a whole.
Equally importantly, people are encouraged to read the technical requirements article in the Wiki and to begin the process now of upgrading to J! 1.5.25 (including the removal of any J! 1.0 extensions that require the use of "legacy mode") or to migrate to J! 2.5 before support for older versions of Joomla disappears.
I am one of these Users who definetly prefers to be up-to-date. Not only because of security reasons.
In this case i can life with it that you open source developers need often some more time to finish your projects, especially when it comes to such a huge and outstanding one like Kunena is.
For my taste the overal development from Joomla itself is running a bit too fast but lately the whole (internet) world is running faster and faster
(analogy: the day before yesterday i used Firefox 7, the day after FF 9, today FF10 and tomorrow it'll be 11+ ...sometimes i feel like my grandma
)Keep it up Kunena devs and testers.
And don't forget: Don't stress yourself!
greets!
M.
Kunena 1.7.2 released
Thursday, 26 January 2012 21:23
Introduction
The Kunena team has now released Kunena 1.7.2 as a native Joomla extension for J! 1.5, J! 1.7 and J! 2.5. This is an important maintenance release and replacement for all previous versions of Kunena and it is recommended that all users upgrade to Kunena 1.7.2 at the earliest opportunity.
In order to achieve interoperability with all of J! 1.5, J! 1.7 and J! 2.5, several important matters in Kunena have been attended to before the next major release of Kunena 2.0 later this year. Some users of third-party templates written for older versions of Kunena will find that their templates may not work with this latest release because changes were necessary in order to fit with the new J! 2.5 CMS. In particular, most of the third-party templates written for K 1.6 in its early stages will cause problems. If in doubt, please contact the authors(s) responsible for those things to find out if updates are available. Priority support is given to issues affecting Kunena installations suing the Blue Eagle template. Other templates may cause problems; if in doubt, please contact the author of the template you are using for their support.
Note: Joomla 1.6 is not supported; J! 1.7 will not be supported after 24 February 2012.
Add-ons written for Kunena need to be separately installed. At this time previously-released add-on extensions for Kunena have not been updated. Until otherwise advised, users should use Kunena add-ons for K 1.7.2 with the version number 1.7.1. As with all other releases, K 1.7.2 is available for download on the download page.
Read more: Kunena 1.7.2 released
Kunena 2.0 "show and tell"
Monday, 12 December 2011 01:27
Kunena 2.0 has been under construction for a long time - over 2 years, actually - and very soon the first test release will be made available to the public. This article is intended to generate interest in what Kunena 2.0 (we call it K 2.0) is about, why it was designed and why we think it will revolutionise the way that people think about Kunena.
Earlier this year I wrote an article called Kunena 2.0 a new communications platform for Joomla in which I attempted to provide some background information about the future of Kunena. As many of you will know, K 2.0 is already being used in a number of websites. Very soon we hope to use K 2.0 to run the forum here at www.kunena.org. This is for two reasons: firstly, because K 2.0 is actually better and easier for us to use and (b) as a way of finding out if there are defects that need to be fixed before we move to the later stage of releasing K 2.0 as a stable version. We're still a little way from that stage.
Read more: Kunena 2.0 "show and tell"
Sounds excellent.
So the message really is to stick within the existing Kunena template options for the current version, upgrade seamlessly though Joomla Admin, and then modify the style/template?
Ii have looked at kunena in considerable depth and have zero concerns about its capability as a forum - to the conrary, it is excellent - but a crucial aspect of Joomla as a whole is that everything withiin the site follows the same style instead of looking as if it has been "bolted on" retrospectively.
I am going to go with and support Kunena, and hope that version 2 will allow for more complete site style integration
My concern/question is this:
If I go with the current version of Kunena, will there a seamless upgrade route to version 2, e.g. within Joomla Admin, or will this be a manual upgrade, having to migrate the mySQL databases etc?
Thanks.
About the template i guess i will not have serious problems. I will wait for the final version i use and will tweak it a little bit for my needs. But generally i have been always very satisfied with the default one.
And the info about "in a few months..." is exactly what i wanted to know - doesn't matter if 4, 6 or 8 months. I prefer it that you take all the time you need.
Sadly i have not the time to participate (i would have already ask for tester group).
It took me more time i thought to get JS running on the new J2.5 in combination with JReviews and i lost already 2 months of my licenses. I can feel with you about the open source development, i know what you mean.
Looking forward to more news, articles and the roadmap.
Keep it up folks and thanks again!
M.
In the open source development world it's not easy to make plans and, sometimes, even the best plans are wrecked because of circumstances beyond our control. While we would all like to have some certainty in our lives - to be able to make plans around a timetable that we can rely upon - the best I can do is offer people a rough guide as to our current thinking.
3 years of Kunena
Friday, 09 December 2011 14:50
The Kunena community and Kunena project team may be interested in an analysis of the download activity from the project's inception to the present time.
Version by version, the number of downloads for each major release of Kunena is shown in the four charts below and summarised in the table at the end of this article.
Kunena 1.7.1 released!
Wednesday, 16 November 2011 22:41
Introduction
The Kunena team has now released Kunena 1.7.1 as a native Joomla extension for J! 1.5 and J! 1.7. This is a security release and replacement for all previous versions of Kunena and it is recommended that all users upgrade to Kunena 1.7.1 at the earliest opportunity.
In order to achieve interoperability with both of J! 1.5 and J! 1.7, several important matters in Kunena have been attended to before the next major release of Kunena 2.0 later this year. Some users of third-party templates written for older versions of Kunena will find that their templates may not work with this latest release because changes were necessary in order to fit with the new J! 1.7 CMS. In particular, many of the third-party templates written for K 1.6 in its early stages will cause problems. If in doubt, please contact the authors(s) responsible for those things.
Note: Joomla 1.6 is no longer officially supported.
At this time all previously-released add-on extensions for Kunena have been updated and will need to be separately installed. As with all other releases, K 1.7.1 is available for download on the download page.
Read more: Kunena 1.7.1 released!
Thanks,
Ted
I am integrated with CB also. Will that be affected?
Thanks in advance, for your reply.
Warning: Spoiler!Kunena 1.7.0 released!
Monday, 29 August 2011 00:00
Introduction
The Kunena team has now released Kunena 1.7.0 as a native Joomla extension for J! 1.5.23, J! 1.6.6 and J! 1.7.0. This is a security release and replacement† for Kunena 1.5 and 1.6 and all users are recommended to upgrade to Kunena 1.7.0. Backup and testing are strongly recommended! K 1.7.0 makes all previous releases of Kunena obsolete and all users of prior Kunena releases are urged to upgrade as soon as possible.
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Kunena 1.7.0 announces the end of support for Kunena 1.5. |
Support for K 1.5 will cease one month after the release of K 1.7.
In order to achieve interoperability with all of J! 1.5, J! 1.6 and J! 1.7, several important matters in Kunena have been attended to before the next major release of Kunena 2.0 later this year. Some users of third-party templates written for older versions of Kunena will find that their templates may not work with this latest release because changes were necessary in order to fit with the new J! 1.6/1.7 CMS. In particular, many of the third-party templates written for K 1.6 in its early stages will cause problems. If in doubt, please contact the authors(s) responsible for those things.
At this time all previously-released add-on extensions for Kunena have been updated and will need to be separately installed. As with all other releases, K 1.7.0 is available for download on the download page.
Plans for Kunena 1.7
Written by sozzled Wednesday, 17 August 2011 15:29
Summary
It has been decided to release a new minor version to be known as Kunena 1.7. The purpose of this article is to inform all members of the community of this decision. This article discusses why a new minor version release is considered the most appropriate way to introduce these changes at this time and what this means for the Kunena project roadmap.
K 1.7 does not mean that you need to have J! 1.7 installed in order to run it. It is important to understand that K 1.7 will operate on all supported versions of Joomla, namely, J! 1.5.23, J! 1.6.6 and J! 1.7.0 and beyond (but not beyond J! 2.5). K 1.7 will make obsolete all previous versions of Kunena. Support for K 1.5 and K 1.6 will cease one month after the release of this new version. It is planned to introduce K 1.7 soon (towards the end of August 2011).
K 1.7 will implement four new features and a number of fixes for K 1.6.5.
For all intents and purposes, K 1.7 will not be significantly different to K 1.6 in terms of how it's installed or how it functions. For the most part, K 1.7 will be backward compatible with K 1.6 but not in all respects. The differences between K 1.7 and K 1.6 are summarised in a table at the end of this article.
2½ years of Kunena
Written by sozzled Saturday, 30 July 2011 18:30
The Kunena community and Kunena project team may be interested in an analysis of the download activity from the project's inception to the present time.
Version by version, the number of downloads for each major release of Kunena is shown in the three charts below and summarised in the table at the end of this article.
I want to migrate my forum to Kunena ...
Written by sozzled Sunday, 03 July 2011 15:39
"I want to migrate my forum to Kunena because Kunena has a future and, for me, it's the way to go." Whether we're discussing Kunena or any other web-based forum application, this is probably a question that every website owner has encountered and wants to know the answer to. It's not simply a case of how to convert from "brand-X" forum - and you can substitute anything for "brand-X" - to Kunena but it's also a matter of how do you preserve the cultural history of you web community, something that you and your users have invested their heart, their time (and possibly their money) into as well. How do you capture and preserve the essence of the community to keep it alive and to prosper and thrive with the reassurance that Kunena is a product with a future and that it will also support your community as it continues to grow?
Read more: I want to migrate my forum to Kunena ...
PS. Just remember to install latest version for both Kunena and JUpgrade first.
If the method you're describing can be used with other forum formats why couldn't it be used with other installations of Kunena?
So we are actually doing just what you are saying: Kunena Importer takes data as pre-formatted arrays. So we have already solved most of the problem and the only thing you need to do is to take our example exporter and fill all the custom data into it.
Kunena 2.0 a new communications platform for Joomla
Written by sozzled Monday, 27 June 2011 14:13
I am not a developer, I'm just a user, but I take a keen interest in helping the Kunena project and the community that supports it. This is my first "'blog" about Kunena and I thought you might be interested to know some of the exciting news in tandem with the hard work put into the project by the team of hard-working developers.
Joomla and Beyond 2011
I did not have the pleasure of being able to attend this very important event that took place in Amsterdam between 5-7 May 2011. The benefit of internet technology has delivered a way for all of us to share some of that experience courtesy of the efforts of the Joomla and Beyond team, captured on video, edited and published for all of us to see.
Like most people, I have always looked at Kunena as a text-oriented, web-based discussion forum - a product that has the same kinds of features that you would normally expect in many other web-based discussion forums and bulletin boards that have existed on the 'net for the last 15 years or more. Indeed, Kunena did not just appear on the scene as "Kunena" - the project was itself a fork of earlier generations of forum software that have existed for several years even before Joomla was first conceived. The major difference, however, between Kunena and other forum software is that it integrates seamlessly with Joomla and that has always been its main appeal. But, unlike other forum software, the project is not content to leave things like that. There is an ongoing need in the world of web apps to have a robust and scalable communications platform that can adapted to emerging technologies (e.g. mobile apps) and the needs of games, 'blogging, e-commerce, etc.
The most telling part of this tale, for me, was summarised by what Oliver Ratzesberger had to say at JAB11:
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“The idea was to build a platform that can become a communications engine that you install into Joomla and deal with any sort of commenting and discussing – any user input of text that is not necessarily an article or is not done through an HTML expert (and a form-driven interface is just one way of dealing with that, right?) “We use it for our own internal discussions – for the Kunena project, I mean – for localised conversations (about an article for example), for localised forums of groups of people, for example – whenever we need people to talk and discuss something.” |
I was recently asked, by the members of my local Joomla Users Group, to give a presentation; I chose as my subject, Web-based discussion forums: using an old idea to energise and grow your Joomla website. To address that subject, it irrelevant about what you choose as your forum. It's also not a question of whether Kunena should be a strategic choice: the strategic goal is to achieve a high-yield return on your investment of time to increase user participation in your site. In that sense, Joomla and Kunena together make an ideal tactical solution to address those needs.
Read more: Kunena 2.0 a new communications platform for Joomla
I'm not interested in release date, because k1.6 is work as well with j1.5
But i'm interested in function, performance.
Can K2.0 Dev. summarize it?
BR,
Thank you please answer this question whatever your answer yes or no after asking to your team & your team leader.
& i want to ask one more thing I am also a developer does your team work with another developer team to integrate kunena effeciently in other system through joomla to integrate into other system effeciently
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