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Published: 05 August 2026

Introduction:

The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the eighth maintenance release of Kunena 7.0, a native Joomla extension for Joomla! 5.4, Joomla 6.x and Joomla! 6.1. Kunena 7.0 works on Joomla! 6.0 natively without the needs of compat plugin.

For people which wants help for translations, Kunena 7.0 files can be translated on crowdin : crowdin kunena

Kunena 7.0 has been designed to work on Joomla! 5.4, 6.0 and 6.1, the minimal requirements are the followings :

• Php 8.2.0
• MariaDb 10.4 or MySQL 8.0.13
• Bootstrap 5.x

The work done in Kunena 7.0 is mostly to update the code base:

• Refactor all the code of plugin integration to be in Joomla! 6.0 by working with events and to drop the parts which was planned to be removed in this Joomla! version (thanks to ruud)
• New: scheduled task purge trashbin (thanks to ruud)
• Changes on the installer script to be able to work on Joomla! 6.0
• Make user type on whoisonline widget as links to open the userlist filtered
• Remove most of the deprecated code
• Refactor captcha handling conform with Joomla! 5.x and 6.0

New features:

The Kunena system plugin check on registration and on login if the user is in stopforumspam database and prevent them to make these actions

The Kunena configuraion has been converted to be the same that others configurations page in the Joomla! way

Download:

Download K7.0.8 stable here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/7.0.8

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Any donations are needed for future support.

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Published: 01 August 2026

Introduction:

The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the first public beta release of Kunena 7.1, a native Joomla extension for Joomla! 5.4 and Joomla 6.x. This is a development release and should be only be used for testing; this version is not recommended for live websites at this stage. Kunena 7.0 works on Joomla! 6.0 natively without the needs of compat plugin.

The purpose of this release is to encourage testing by downloading, installing and identifying any problems or shortcomings that people may discover. K 7.1.0 B1 is in testing phase and we are aware that people will discover defects. We encourage you to use the forum to report defects, as soon as they are discovered, so that the development team can work through the problems before the release of K 7.1 as a stable product. Reporting defects does not mean that the problems can or will be fixed. The Kunena team is looking forward to hearing your feedback on how well we have achieved our design goals.

Kunena 7.1 has been designed to work on Joomla! 5.4 and 6.0, the requirements are the followings :

• Php 8.3.0
• MariaDb 10.4 or MySQL 8.0.13
• Bootstrap 5.x

The work done in Kunena 7.1 is mostly to update the code base:

• Remove deprecated code which are planned to be removed in Joomla! 7.0 (replace triggerEvent)
• Add a way to store the notifications to be send later with the Kunena task plugin (still on work in progress)
• Some improvements on the code to optimise a bit the speed
• Refactor the queries to use Joomla! database query way
• Allow with a plugin (will be availaible later in subcription page) to add new social in user profile
• Some improvements on SCeditor : add undo plugin and allow to handle some others parameters on inserting an image (thanks to joomod)

Download:

Download K7.1.0 Beta1 here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/7.1-Beta1

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Any donations are needed for future support.

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Published: 20 July 2026

Introduction:

The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the thirteenth release (security release) of Kunena 6.4, a native Joomla extension for Joomla! 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 and 6.1. It needs the compatbility plugin to be enabled to be installed on Joomla! 6.0.x, this release (K6.4.13) is offered for people already on Joomla! 6.0 to be able to update to K7.0.x. For people still on K6.3.x, the update to K6.4.x version isn't proposed because some users has still Joomla! 4.4.x.

We are changed translation platform, we are now moved to crowdin for this release and the next releases : crowdin kunena. The translators are still needed to update the languages on crowdin because some aren't enough translated.

The support for Joomla! 6.1 has been added in this release with plugin compatibility mode to allow upgrade to Kunena 7.0.

Kunena 6.4 has been designed to work on Joomla! 5.0 and later, the requirements are the followings :

• Php 8.1.0 to Php 8.4.x
• MySQL 8.0.13 to MySQL 9.2.0
• Bootstrap 5.1

The work done in Kunena 6.4 is the following:

• Some security issues fixed - thanks to ruud to have reported them
• Some security issues fixed - thanks to pbugbounty to have reported them
• Removing CMSObject extends to some Kunena classes to comply with removed things planned for Joomla! 6.0 (thanks to svanschu)
• Allow to be used on php 8.4 if you are on Joomla! 5.2.x, it will give some deprecated errors messages
• Replace some deprecated usage of methods Joomla! of getError(), getDBO() and Toolbar::getInstance()
• Allow avif and webp to be added in attachment

Download:

Download K6.4.13 security release here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/6.4.13

This means that the Kunena 6.3 series is approching the end of life and will be discountinued, with the future release of K6.4 in stable there won't be new versions of K6.3 after that.

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Published: 16 July 2026

Since couple of days, we have set up into github actions a workflow which automatically create a new build every day at 23:00 UTC and upload in FTP of kunena.org. It create only a new build on the K7.0 branch (which is the default branch) not others branches. The new build is directly available in https://www.kunena.org/download under Nightly Builds. For people which wnats make pull requests, the K6.4 branch is only for security fix, the K7.0 branch is for bug and security fixes and the branch K7.1 is for new features. This will change after teh stable release of K7.1 because the K7.0 won't get anything.