Kunena To Drop Support For Joomla 2.5 End of Q4 2014
- Details
Hello World!
The end of Joomla 2.5's life-cycle is approaching. At the end of 2014 Joomla will offically be dropping support for Joomla 2.5 as conveyed here: http://developer.joomla.org/development-status.html. Here are some details web administrators should take into consideration concerning Kunena future versions and Joomla 2.5 support and security.
Discuss this article
In relatively "simple" English, this is the situation (as best as I understand it):
Joomla does not support J! 2.5 (as from 1 January 2015).
Unless there is something of a major security alert, there are no intentions by the Joomla development team to support or fix any problems with J! 2.5 or release any versions after J! 2.5.28.
Basically means—just like it means if people were using J! 1.0 or J! 1.5—if you are using J! 2.5 then, if it works, good luck and, if it doesn't work, it's a case of "you're on your own". The best advice that anyone can give to people who are using old, outdated and unsupported software is to upgrade to software that is supported.
As far as Kunena is concerned, it is reasonable to say that K 3.0 (and K 3.1—if this ever sees the light of day) will continue to operate on J! 2.5 systems but, as 810 and coder4life have stated, if you have problems then the Kunena developers have no real intention to address them—for the general connunity—as far as J! 2.5 websites are concerned.
Quoting from the article,
In summary, if you are using J! 2.5 then you may use Kunena (for as long as the J! 2.5 codebase is included in the installation) but if you have problems then whatever assistance or help will be minimal or, in all probability, non-existent.
Joomla does not support J! 2.5 (as from 1 January 2015).
Unless there is something of a major security alert, there are no intentions by the Joomla development team to support or fix any problems with J! 2.5 or release any versions after J! 2.5.28.
Basically means—just like it means if people were using J! 1.0 or J! 1.5—if you are using J! 2.5 then, if it works, good luck and, if it doesn't work, it's a case of "you're on your own". The best advice that anyone can give to people who are using old, outdated and unsupported software is to upgrade to software that is supported.
As far as Kunena is concerned, it is reasonable to say that K 3.0 (and K 3.1—if this ever sees the light of day) will continue to operate on J! 2.5 systems but, as 810 and coder4life have stated, if you have problems then the Kunena developers have no real intention to address them—for the general connunity—as far as J! 2.5 websites are concerned.
Quoting from the article,
this is a little misleading. There have been no changes to K 3.0 (or K 3.1 for that matter) that impose this restriction. It is unlikely that this restriction will be enforced in future versions of the K 3.0 series.The next (major) OR (minor) OR (revision) release will refuse to install on the latest Joomla 2.5.x series.
In summary, if you are using J! 2.5 then you may use Kunena (for as long as the J! 2.5 codebase is included in the installation) but if you have problems then whatever assistance or help will be minimal or, in all probability, non-existent.
@810 is correct. We plan to support J2.5 minimally in regards to updating to the latest Joomla version in the 3.x series. However any specific bugs that are a result of being J2.5 specific (other then migration bugs) will not be fixed.
You are correct we plan to drop J2.5 specific code, but even 3.1 will be built and work on J2.5 for some time after with the same intention of support.
The goal is to allow a transition period.
You are correct we plan to drop J2.5 specific code, but even 3.1 will be built and work on J2.5 for some time after with the same intention of support.
The goal is to allow a transition period.