Kunena 6.2.5 & module Kunena Latest 6.0.7 released

The Kunena team has announce the arrival of Kunena 6.2.5 [K 6.2.5] which is now available for download as a native Joomla extension for J! 4.3.x/4.4.x/5.0.x. This version addresses most of the issues that were discovered in K 6.1 / K 6.2 and issues discovered during the last development stages of K 6.2

Question Kunena 2.0.4 Security Release

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11 years 2 months ago #1 by sozzled

The Kunena team has now released Kunena 2.0.4 for J! 1.5 and J! 2.5. K 2.0.4 is a security and maintenance release for Kunena that addresses over 30 issues that were reported since the last version release. The Kunena team recommends this updated version as a replacement for any earlier version of Kunena.

Details about K 2.0.4 are contained in the Kunena 2.0.4 release notes. Although K 2.0.4 is only a minor/dot-point release, there are changes in behaviour between this version and the previous release (K 2.0.3); it essential that people read the release notes before upgrading to better prepare for changes to the way that Kunena now works.

As a security response against possible XSS attacks, K 2.0.4 makes all previous versions of Kunena obsolete and no longer supported by the team. We encourage all users to upgrade to this new version as soon as possible to avoid the possibility that your forum's operations may be compromised as a result of this issue. Questions regarding older versions of Kunena will not be answered on the forum.

With the release of K 2.0.4 out of the way, the Kunena team will now be able to focus attention on the development of K 3.0. The essential differences between K 3.0 and K 2.0 are

  1. K 3.0 will not support J! 1.5
  2. K 3.0 will support J! 2.5 and J! 3.0

K 2.0.4 Highlights

  • Two potential XSS vulnerabilities have been detected and changes have been made to address these.
  • Changes that affect forum announcements
  • General improvements to forum administration (backend) features
  • Fixes to many reported problems with Kunena menu types that failed to work since the introduction of K 2.0
  • Resolution of problems using the Trash Manager
  • Changed behaviour: Changed behaviour: Guests are able to view results of polls (although they are not permitted to vote); logged-in users (who have not yet voted) will not be able to see the results of the poll until after they have voted. The team is aware that this changed behaviour may influence voting patterns; the changed behaviour is an unfortunate side-effect of correcting other poll-related problems.
  • Remediation of "message preview" issues
  • Remediation of K 2.0.3 known issues

Kunena 2.0.4 is available for download at http://www.kunena.org/download.

The future of K 2.0

With the release of K 2.0.4 completed, and with the team now focusing on K 3.0, we would expect that this version will be the last in the K 2.0 series. This means that K 2.0.4 will be the only version supported (by the team) as far as J! 1.5 is concerned, but only to the extent of providing essential hotfixes. It is unlikely that a new version of K 2.0 will be released after this time.

What this means for those who have J! 1.5 websites is that they will be stuck with K 2.0 and people will not be able to take advantage of enhancements, features or bugfixes that may occur in future. What this means for those who have J! 1.5 is that, at some stage after the release of K 3.0, K 2.0 will no longer be supported by the team. This should signal J! 1.5 site operators to consider their strategic position as to how they will proceed from now. While there is no urgency at this time for people to upgrade from a website that they currently have no problems with, this does not mean that people should necessarily become complacent either. These are matters for each J! 1.5 site owner to consider for themselves.

The future of Kunena is tied to the future of Joomla. With J! 3.0 soon to be used more widely, the team is making efforts to respond to the ongoing challenges of ensuring that Kunena meets the growing demand for the "latest and greatest".

The following user(s) said Thank You: Shimei
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11 years 2 months ago - 11 years 2 months ago #2 by Shimei
Thanks a bunch Kunena team!

Upgraded from 2.03 to 2.04 without a hiccup. Applied some little hacks (mainly SEO) and changed some things in the default blue eagle template. After making these changes I made my way to the trash manager and... hooray! It works flawlessly!

Sorry to see this site go, that is, with my Joomla! 1.5.26 site and Kunena 2.04 -- my site is finally complete. This combination will now allow me to concentrate on data entry. I write this because more than likely this will be my departing post. I have no foreseeable reason to upgrade Joomla! to version 2, or 3, and therefore will not be keeping up with the Joneses (my Joomla! neighbors).

With no errors/bugs to report -- I hope that this is my last post here!

Thanks Team!
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11 years 2 months ago #3 by sozzled
Thanks, too, Shimei for all your help. K 2.0.4 will remain a supported version for a couple of months longer but there will not be any changes or enhancements made to this last release in the K 2.0 series ... unless there are important changes required from a security point-of-view. :)
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11 years 2 months ago #4 by roland76
Hello together,

just installed 2.0.4 - everythink runs smooth.

Great work!

Greetings, Roland
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11 years 2 months ago #5 by nsprime
Thanks for a job well done.

Smooth upgrade.
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11 years 2 months ago #6 by carsten888
Currently 19-1-2013 Kunena's liveupdate still says I got the latest version with 2.0.3.
Please update the Akeeba update.ini file.
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11 years 2 months ago #7 by b00ker
autoupdate works?
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11 years 2 months ago #8 by sozzled
As with all new releases of Kunena, the auto update is not enabled for the first 24-48 hours after the release. This is to encourage early adoption by members of the community who require urgent fixes for various issues/problems that they may be having. In good time, the "autoupdate" information will be propagated throughout the internet.

In the meantime, upgrading to Kunena using the usual Joomla method is easy and will take most people around 30 seconds to do the job. Even if people rely on the "autoupdate" method, people should still read carefully the release notes before committing the update.

For those of you who continue to ask "when will the autoupdate become available?" our standard response to this question is "Usually within 24-48 hours after a new version released is announced."

I hope this helps. :)
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11 years 2 months ago #9 by hkymre
I'm still seeing 2.0.3 as the latest version so updated my sites the joomla way
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11 years 2 months ago #10 by sozzled
We are having some administration issues with the "automatic update" system. We're working on fixing this problem; it may be fixed in a few hours, days or weeks. I do not have any information about when the automatic release system information will be changed.

In the meantime I would leave people with the following words of wisdom: "There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen, those who let things happen and those who wonder what happened."

It takes very little time to read the release notes for K 2.0.4 and to update to K 2.0.4. If people continue to wait for the automatic update to occur, that's their choice. It's also our decision not to respond to questions where people continue to use outdated versions of Kunena that are no longer being looked after by anyone.
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