Introduction:

The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the first public beta release of Kunena 6.4, a native Joomla extension for Joomla! 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2. This is a development release and should be only be used for testing; this version is not recommended for live websites at this stage.

The purpose of this release is to encourage testing by downloading, installing and identifying any problems or shortcomings that people may discover. K 6.4.0 B1 is stable 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 6.4 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 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 9.1.0
  • 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 K6.4.0 Beta1 here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/6.4-Beta1

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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xillibit replied the topic:
1 month 1 week ago
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Thanks for the report, it has been alreayd reported on github : github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/issues/9755

The config values should be updated on update from K6.3 to K6.4, i need to add this part
Leen replied the topic:
1 month 1 week ago
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Thank you.

I don't know if I was allowed to report it here?
But if I update a live site kunena version with the beta it works fine.
If I do the same on my pc locally with Wamp server then I get a white screen.
However if I set debug to true in joomla configuration.php it works again.
only then I get this message on the screen
Code:
 [b]Deprecated[/b]: Creation of dynamic property Kunena\Forum\Libraries\Config\KunenaConfig::$social is deprecated in [b]C:\wamp64\www\joomla52\libraries\kunena\src\Config\KunenaConfig.php[/b] on line [b]1832[/b] 
xillibit replied the topic:
1 month 1 week ago
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There was a typo in the link, just fixed it now
Leen replied the topic:
1 month 1 week ago
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the link redirects wrongly it should be like this I think?
github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/