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Published: 31 January 2026

Introduction:

The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the ninth maintenance release of Kunena 6.4, a native Joomla extension for Joomla! 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 6.0. It needs the compatbility plugin to be enabled to be installed on Joomla! 6.0.x, this release (K6.4.9) is offered for people already on Joomla! 6.0 to be able to update to K7.0.x. For people on K6.3.x and K6.4.x it will proposed by Joomla! updater to update to K6.4.9 then in a month or two, Joomla! updater will propose to K6.4.x users to update to K7.0.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.

• 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:

• 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 K6.4.9 stable here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/6.4.9

Donations

Any donations are needed for future support.

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Published: 30 January 2026

Introduction:

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

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

• 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 K7.0.1 stable here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/7.0.1

Donations

Any donations are needed for future support.

Posts in discussion: Kunena 7.0.1 stable released for Joomla! 5.4 and 6.0

xillibit replied the topic:

#234508

2 days 13 hours ago

simsonCH wrote:

Hello
We have 7.0.1 / 2026-01-30 and get following log MSG/error
"Exception throw at line 489 in file \/home\/sammler\/public_html\/libraries\/vendor\/joomla\/database\/src\/Pdo\/PdoDriver.php with message 42S22, 1054, Unknown column 'socials' in 'SET'"

We get this MSG on all 5.4.2 Joomla installations.



 

Hello,

it seems the upgrade process will do things with socials not work correctly, i will add a fonction under tools to be able to make the import of socials when it has failed during upgrade

Denitz wrote:

Code:

( ! ) Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property Kunena\Forum\Libraries\User\KunenaUser::$karma_time is deprecated in \libraries\kunena\src\User\KunenaUser.php on line 700

I have looked in the code so it should be handled in upgrade process when you are coming from before Kunena 6.4.0 . I have forgot the params karma_time so it remains in config, it explains why you get this error

Gindi replied the topic:

#234507

2 days 14 hours ago

Just a note:
In Kunena 7, you can find “karma_time” in:
/administrator/components/com_kunena/install/kunena.install.upgrade.xml
/administrator/components/com_kunena/install/sql/updates/php/6.4.5-2025-07-30_remove_columns_users_table.php
/components/com_kunena/src/Controllers/UserController.php 
 

ruud replied the topic:

#234506

2 days 16 hours ago

@denitz, thanks for reporting this. Can you tell me how to reproduce this? on what page and what action are you doing?

Denitz replied the topic:

#234505

2 days 16 hours ago

Code:

( ! ) Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property Kunena\Forum\Libraries\User\KunenaUser::$karma_time is deprecated in \libraries\kunena\src\User\KunenaUser.php on line 700

simsonCH replied the topic:

#234488

4 days 13 hours ago

Hello
We have 7.0.1 / 2026-01-30 and get following log MSG/error
"Exception throw at line 489 in file \/home\/sammler\/public_html\/libraries\/vendor\/joomla\/database\/src\/Pdo\/PdoDriver.php with message 42S22, 1054, Unknown column 'socials' in 'SET'"

We get this MSG on all 5.4.2 Joomla installations.
 

xillibit replied the topic:

#234471

6 days 7 hours ago

Good to know your feedback but you had already posted the same message just couple of messages above : www.kunena.org/forum/76-Official-Announc...d-6-0?start=6#234459

Slacker replied the topic:

#234468

6 days 8 hours ago

I got the Unknown column 'socials' in 'SET' error after upgrade to 7, but also strangely language changed for Joomla superuser. However I did not want to restore from backup, so I compared the kunena_users table with a backup site and at the bottom was `socialshare` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 1 but the backup site had: `socials` text DEFAULT NULL When I changed live site to: `socials` text DEFAULT NULL the problem was solved. No error message.
Joomla 5.4.2
PHP 8.4

xillibit replied the topic:

#234463

6 days 12 hours ago

Dilan wrote:

Merci pour votre réponse.
Pour le point 1, j'ai ouvert le dashboard de kunena et tout est rentré dans l'ordre ?? Je n'ai pas eu besoin de lancer la requete SQL de modification. Est-ce normal ?

Dilan wrote:

J'ai tenté de lancer la requete 
Code:
ALTER TABLE `#__kunena_users` ADD `language` TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NULL AFTER `ip`
phpadmin SQL me dit qu'il y a une erreur de syntaxe,

 

Pas besoin de lancer la requête vu que vous dites plus haut que la mise à jour s'est faite en allant sur le dashboard de Kunena. Je n’étais pas sur que vous aviez ouvert le dashboard de Kunena, ne tenez pas compte de la requête que je vous avais donné.

Pinkeltje replied the topic:

#234462

6 days 12 hours ago

Your error message says that 'language' field is already in your table. Did you check table structure before running query?

ruud replied the topic:

#234461

6 days 12 hours ago

you need to replace #__kunena_users with your table name.
#__ is replace when used in Joomla code, but when used in phpmyadmin there is not table starting with #__. You need to tye your own prefix (this is for every joomla install different so this cannot be provided here)

Dilan replied the topic:

#234460

6 days 12 hours ago

J'ai tenté de lancer la requete 
Code:
ALTER TABLE `#__kunena_users` ADD `language` TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NULL AFTER `ip`
phpadmin SQL me dit qu'il y a une erreur de syntaxe,

 

Slacker replied the topic:

#234459

6 days 13 hours ago

I got the Unknown column 'socials' in 'SET' error after upgrade, but also strangely language changed for Joomla superuesr. However I did not want to restore from backup, so I compared the kunena_users table with a backup site and at thee bottom was `socialshare` tinyint(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 1 but the backup site had:  `socials` text DEFAULT NULL When I changed live site to: `socials` text DEFAULT NULL the problem was solved. No error message.
 

Dilan replied the topic:

#234446

6 days 19 hours ago

Merci pour votre réponse.
Pour le point 1, j'ai ouvert le dashboard de kunena et tout est rentré dans l'ordre ?? Je n'ai pas eu besoin de lancer la requete SQL de modification. Est-ce normal ?
Pour le point 2, je ne trouve pas le fichier incriminé ?

 

Cela se reproduit même en tentant de restaurer des sauvegardes anciennes, lesquelles passaient très bien avant
 

xillibit replied the topic:

#234441

1 week 10 hours ago

Dilan wrote:

En fait, en y regardant de plus pres, j'ai 2 soucis :
1. L'installation s'est passée correctement mais lorsque je me connecte (ou me déconnecte du forum), je reçois le message suivant 

 

Bonjour,

Avez-vous ouvert le dashboard de Kunena après la mise à jour ? Il faut appliquer cette requête via Phpmyadmin après avoir sauvegardé la table #__kunena_users :

Code:

ALTER TABLE `#__kunena_users` ADD `language` TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NULL AFTER `ip`

Dilan wrote:

2. lorsque je veux récupérer une sauvegarde sous akeeba, je reçois le message suivant :

 

Vérifiez les droits dans le dossier indiqué

Dilan replied the topic:

#234440

1 week 11 hours ago

En fait, en y regardant de plus pres, j'ai 2 soucis :
1. L'installation s'est passée correctement mais lorsque je me connecte (ou me déconnecte du forum), je reçois le message suivant 

 

2. lorsque je veux récupérer une sauvegarde sous akeeba, je reçois le message suivant :

 

Je suis coincé, un peu d'aide SVP

Dilan replied the topic:

#234431

1 week 20 hours ago

Bonjour,
Je viens de tenter le passage de 6.4.7 vers 7.0.1 sous Joomla 6.0.2.
Cela semble passer correctement 
merci 
 

xillibit replied the topic:

#234426

1 week 1 day ago

We haven't released the K6.4.9, i will do it later today. Then Joomla! updater will suggest you the K6.4.9. I let a bit of time a month or two, then for people on K6.4. it will be proposed the K7.0.x

So if you want update to K7.0.1 now, you need to download the packages and install manually.

Petley replied the topic:

#234423

1 week 1 day ago

So for the most of us running 6.4.8 on Joomla 5.4 what do we do? As currently no updates are showing on the backend?
Thanks
Terry

xillibit replied the topic:

#234419

1 week 2 days ago

Kunena.org is running on K7.0.1, for people which are on K6.4.8 and which have upgraded to Joomla! 6.0.x there will be a K6.4.9 which is allowed to be installed on Joomla! 6.0.x to make the path to update to Kunena 7.0.x

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Published: 25 January 2026

Introduction:

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

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

• 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 K7.0.0 stable here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/7.0

Donations

Any donations are needed for future support.

Posts in discussion: Kunena 7.0 stable released for Joomla! 5.4 and 6.0

Gindi replied the topic:

#234398

1 week 4 days ago

You can find the answer in the category: Installation issues and the topic Kunena 7.0 stable released for Joomla ! 5.4 and 6.0  

Sokrates replied the topic:

#234392

1 week 4 days ago

Kunena 7.0 add new files and new directories you can have leftover of the items of Kunena 7.0

It souds like I should delete the files and directories meanwhile Kunena 6.4.8 is uninstalled. Which directories should delete?

Sokrates replied the topic:

#234386

1 week 4 days ago

Kunena 7.0 add new files and new directories you can have leftover of the items of Kunena 7.0

It souds like I should delete the files and directories meanwhile Kunena 6.4.8 is uninstalled. Which directories should I delete?

xillibit replied the topic:

#234380

1 week 4 days ago

Sokrates wrote:

I've written comments about the issues after upgrading to Kunena 7.0 earlier elsewhere on this site.

I've moved your differents messges into a seprate topic : www.kunena.org/forum/installation-issues...r-joomla-5-4-and-6-0 to let this topic here clear.

Kunena 7.0 add new files and new directories you can have leftover of the items of Kunena 7.0

Sokrates replied the topic:

#234379

1 week 4 days ago

I've written comments about the issues after upgrading to Kunena 7.0 earlier elsewhere on this site.

The upgrade of Kunena to 7.0 crashed the site and I had to disable Kunena in the database to be able to get access to backened again. 

I installed a backup from before the upgrade to Kunena 7.0. Still the the site crashed. Once again I  had to disable Kunena in the database to be able to get access to backened again. I uninstalled Kunena 6.4.8 and then installed Kunena 6.4.8 again. When everything worked fine I run a full backup useing Akeeba backup. Then the site crashed again with the same errors as before. Once again I had to disable Kunena in the database to be able to get access to backened again. After this I uninstalled Kunena 6.4.8. 

The reason why the site continute to crash after resoring to a back up using Kunena 6.4.8 must be that there are still som changes in place which was created by the upgrade to Kunena 7.0. I belive there is something in the database that has changed that creates all this trouble.

Slacker replied the topic:

#234378

1 week 4 days ago

Joomla 5.4.2 PHP 8.4.15 10.6.24-MariaDB Updated to 7.0 directly I noticed that language in admin area shifted to english. Afterwards my article headers vanished, but reappeared when I changed to another layout. I also had problems with changed settings i JComments.

xillibit replied the topic:

#234376

1 week 5 days ago

CB is Community Builder component

[email protected] replied the topic:

#234375

1 week 5 days ago

I also can't install stable and I'm on RC3 but what is CB?

"FYI : for Kunena 7.0 you will need to update CB to version 2.11.0 else the plugin integration into Kunena can't work"

xillibit replied the topic:

#234374

1 week 5 days ago

Hello,

We are working on finding a way to fix the issue and there will be a new release after it.

FYI : for Kunena 7.0 you will need to update CB to version 2.11.0 else the plugin integration into Kunena can't work

jojo12 replied the topic:

#234373

1 week 5 days ago

I downloaded Kunena 7.0 stable from github tags. But it's not possible to updater from Kunena RC3 and even not on a fresh joomla 6:
Warnung
Installationspfad existiert nicht.
Paket Installieren: Bei der Installation der Erweiterung trat ein Fehler auf: lib_kunena_v@[email protected]
danger
Fehler bei der Paket-Installation.
Kunena Forum Package.

ssnobben replied the topic:

#234367

1 week 5 days ago

xillibit wrote:

Hello,

For now there is an issue when upgradring from K6.4.8 to K7.0.0 which reset all parameters of all components. So for now you need to stay on K6.4.8 untill we publish a new release of K7.0.0.

Sorry for the inconvenience for people which updated from K6.4.8 to K7.0.0 and needed to toubleshoot the issue or restore a backup to go back to K6.4.8.
 

Ok just saw this and hope to get some news about when its possible to dl and make an update..
Cheers!

ssnobben replied the topic:

#234366

1 week 5 days ago

So dl this from Github and it doesn work there:Install path does not exist.Package Update: There was an error installing an extension: lib_kunena_v@[email protected] installing package

xillibit replied the topic:

#234346

1 week 6 days ago

Hello,

For now there is an issue when upgradring from K6.4.8 to K7.0.0 which reset all parameters of all components. So for now you need to stay on K6.4.8 untill we publish a new release of K7.0.0.

Sorry for the inconvenience for people which updated from K6.4.8 to K7.0.0 and needed to toubleshoot the issue or restore a backup to go back to K6.4.8.

jein replied the topic:

#234344

1 week 6 days ago

Bonjour Xillibit,

unfortunately this is what I already did - downloading version 6.4.8 and then manually trying to update. This is not possible.

xillibit replied the topic:

#234322

1 week 6 days ago

Hello,

Make a backup of your site first. Try to update manually to Kunena 6.4.8 by downloading the package from here : github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/6.4.8 , if it's ok make a new backup of your site at this point and make the update to Kunena 7.0.0 like it will be showed in Joomla! updater

jein replied the topic:

#234321

1 week 6 days ago

Amazing news, thanks for keeping up the good work.
It is sad for me that in my current situation I cannot update Kunena.
We are using Joomla V6.0.2, and I cannot update to Kunena 6.4.8 as it is deemed invalid.
Manual update to version 7.0 is not possible either as this is not supported for the current version 6.3.10 that we are currently on.
I need some advice, please, on how to update our existing version.

xillibit replied the topic:

#234310

2 weeks 7 hours ago

Hello,

The description is incorrect and thanks for pointing it out. I have just updated the news and removed the sentence about developpement release.

cheshirealan replied the topic:

#234309

2 weeks 7 hours ago

I am confused.
If this is being touted as a development release and not for use on live sites then why is it being offered as an update on my Joomla site?
Is the description incorrect?
Alan

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Published: 16 January 2026

Introduction:

The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the third public release candidate of Kunena 7.0, 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 natvely without the needs of compat plugin.

Little remember for translators, the project for the translations for Kunena 7.0 on crowdin is availaible here : https://crowdin.com/project/kunena-forum-70. Thanks for the translators since the RC2 release which have already updated their language on crowdin.

The purpose of this release is to encourage testing by downloading, installing and identifying any problems or shortcomings that people may discover. K 7.0.0 RC3 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 7.0 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.

• 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 K7.0.0 RC3 here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/7.0-RC3

Donations

Any donations are needed for future support.

Posts in discussion: Kunena 7.0 RC3 Released for Joomla! 5.4 and 6.0 : translators needed to update translations

xillibit replied the topic:

#234292

3 weeks 2 days ago

I had forgot to update the files before for Joomla! updater to retrieve the updates on K7.0, i have just updated it for RC3. So people on previous releases, the Joomla! updater should announce now that there is the K7.0 in RC3 available.

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