Introduction:

The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the third 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 B3 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 Beta3 here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/6.4-Beta3

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.

Donations

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Petley replied the topic:
3 months 2 weeks ago
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I think it may be a case of waiting until my host Nativespace catches up. 
Just a little bit frustrating as Joomla 4 isn’t at its end of life yet. 
 
xillibit replied the topic:
3 months 2 weeks ago
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You hosting provider is hostgator ? Maybe others here know hosting provider which have MySQL 8.0
Petley replied the topic:
3 months 2 weeks ago
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sadly only 5.7.44
xillibit replied the topic:
3 months 2 weeks ago
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Hello,

Kunena 6.4 won't support Joomla! 4.x but it can be installed from Joomla! 5.0.3, the minimal requirements are we are following the ones from Joomla! 5.x :
  • Php 8.1.x
  • Mysql 8.0.13 or MariaDB 10.4

I don't know if there are still hosts proposing only MySQL 5.7.x but this version isn't supported since October 2023, MySQL has set the 8.4.0 as LTS version. You won't be able neither to install Joomla! 5.x
Petley replied the topic:
3 months 2 weeks ago
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Hello
Does this mean that Joomla 4 won't be supported anymore?
The problem being and I am sure I am not the only one but hosts are not keeping pace with the updates on the database.
Currently we cannot update to Joomla 5?

Thanks
Terry
Pinkeltje replied the topic:
3 months 2 weeks ago
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