Introduction:

The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the maintenance release of Kunena 6.3.3, a native Joomla extension for Joomla! 4.4, 5.0 and 5.1.

We've implemented native support for Joomla 5. This means you don't have to enable the new compatibility plugin "Behaviour - Backward Compatibility " on Joomla! 5.0 for it to work with Kunena.

Kunena 6.3 has been designed to work on Joomla! 4.4 and later, the requirements are the followings :
  • Php 7.4.1 to Php 8.3.x
  • MySQL 5.7.23 to MySQL 8.3.0
  • Bootstrap 5.1

The work done in Kunena 6.3 is the following:

  • Refactor the backend views to be compatible with Joomla! 5.0 (thanks to ruud)
  • Some bugfixes and refactor of code
  • Replace Twitter by X in all places where it was used and add bluesky social network
  • Replace some deprecated usage of methods Joomla! from in the code
  • Implementation of handle of mentions in a message when using CKeditor
  • Get list of users for autocomplete in search form

Download:

Download K6.3.3 stable here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/6.3.3

This means that the Kunena 6.2 series is approching the end of life and will be discountinued, with the future release of K6.3 in stable there won't be new versions of K6.2 after that.

Donations

Any donations are needed for future support.

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Gindi replied the topic:
1 year 4 months ago
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I have created two test versions of my Lifesite locally. In both versions, the X button is displayed in the CKEditor menu.
In one test version I have made the three changes as described and the X button can be switched on and off.
In the second test version I have updated to Kunena 6.3.4-DEV and nothing has changed. The X button is displayed and when I switch the x-social on and off in Aurelia/BBCode, only the x button changes position in the block of four.
If I then change "x_social" to "x" in plugin.js, delete the x_social.png in "icons", delete the twitter directory in plugins and make the changes in config.xml and TemplateController.php, everything works as it should.

gindi
 
rich replied the topic:
1 year 4 months ago
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I have now found a way to switch the X logo in the CKEditor menu bar in Kunena 6.3.3 on and off without major changes.

Is it still not working for you with the dev version? Switching X off and on has been working for me since this fix: www.kunena.org/forum/76-Official-Announc...0-5-1?start=0#231875
Gindi replied the topic:
1 year 4 months ago
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I have now found a way to switch the X logo in the CKEditor menu bar in Kunena 6.3.3 on and off without major changes.
In /media/kunena/core/js/plugins/x/plugin.js I changed the two twitter entries to X. At the moment it also works with twitter, the only question is: How much longer?
In /components/com_kunena/template/aurelia/config/config.xml I changed the entry x_social to x in line 285.
In /administrator/components/com_kunena/src/Controller/TemplateController.php I have changed the entries x_social to x in lines 259/260 and 423/424.
After deleting the browser cache and kunenacache it works perfectly.
Maybe the setting of x-social has to be saved again in aurelia/BBCode.

gindi
 
xillibit replied the topic:
1 year 4 months ago
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Hello,

I have made more changes in the developpement version of Kunena 6.3.4 to renamme others things from twitter to X : update.kunena.org/nightlybuilds/pkg_kune...4-DEV_2024-08-03.zip and update.kunena.org/nightlybuilds/pkg_kune...4-DEV_2024-08-03.zip
Gindi replied the topic:
1 year 4 months ago
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I have unpacked the installation file pkg_kunena_v6.3.3_2024-07-16.zip and changed all twitter entries to x in the packages directory in the files com_kunena_v6.3.3.zip, kunena_media_v6.3.3.zip and lib_kunena_v6.3.3.zip.
Then I created a new test server with Joomla 5.1.1 and Kunena 6.3.2. I then updated the test server to Joomla 5.1.2 and copied the unzipped and modified pkg_kunena_v6.3.3_2024-07-16 into the tmp directory, adjusted the permissions and updated Kunena in the admin directory/system/install/extensions/install directory.
The result was that all relevant entries in /administrator, /libraries and /media were changed from twitter to x.
Unfortunately, the twitter entries were still present in all /components files.
Is there a way to change/update these /components files via the installation file or do I have to change everything manually?
For me this would be a matter of 30 minutes but it would be nice if it were easier.

gindi
 
xillibit replied the topic:
1 year 4 months ago
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Hello,

I have an another change to renamme the config variables which had the word twitter in it : github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/commit/b4...f0c581b5cdbfbdc4f031

There are couple of others part which have twitter in it, need some work to rename the remaining

Some others hasd been done in developpement version of Kunena 6.4 with that : github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/commit/84...07550d1fc70059b48fa4
Gindi replied the topic:
1 year 4 months ago
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Sorry, when I saw that I had to smile. The changes from emoticons to smiley are OK and have made a difference.
Regarding the changes in the plugin.js, there is no x_social and no twitter for me, everything is x, even x_social.png is x.png for me.
Btw. in the config.xml I have also changed x-social to x in the content, in the text I have left X_SOCIAL.
My test installation is 98% twitter free and works without problems. There are only two files, twitter.svg and twitter.png in email. In the content there is only "x" and in the text passage "X_SOCIAL".
This morning I created a new test version with a bare Joomla 5.1.2 and a bare Kunena 6.3.3. Only the admin, a user and AkeebaBackup was created.
The Kunena has 33 files in which the term "twitter" is still present.
If I can help to change this, please tell me how.

gindi
 
rich replied the topic:
1 year 4 months ago
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The X button works correctly with this change.
xillibit replied the topic:
1 year 4 months ago
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I don't understand exactly why you have made this change. For the issue with the icon X which can't be disabled in ckeditor toolbar, you can try with this change : github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/commit/84...68a63bc06fa3f6d8551a
Gindi replied the topic:
1 year 4 months ago
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@xillibit: After this answer, I consistently changed everything that is not text from x_social to x on my test server and changed everything that is text to X_SOCIAL.
Then I did a lot of testing and realised that in the file administrator/component/com_kunena /src/Controller/TemplateController.php in lines 259/260 and 423/424 you have to change the expression X_Social to X so that you can switch the X button in the CKEditor menu bar on and off.

gindi
 
xillibit replied the topic:
1 year 4 months ago
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Hello,

In the key string of language i was set X_SOCIAL but in the content it just displays X
Gindi replied the topic:
1 year 4 months ago
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The work done in Kunena 6.3 is as follows:
  • Replacing Twitter with X in all places where it was used and adding bluesky social network
I have a question: Was Twitter replaced by X everywhere or are there also combinations of X and X_SOCIAL?gindi