Kunena 7.0 stable released for Joomla! 5.4 and 6.0

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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

Kunena 7.0 has been designed to work on Joomla! 5.4 and 6.0, the minimal requirements are the followings :
  • 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

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Posts in discussion: Kunena 7.0 stable released for Joomla! 5.4 and 6.0
Gindi replied the topic:
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1 month 1 week ago
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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:
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1 month 1 week ago
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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:
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1 month 1 week ago
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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:
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1 month 2 weeks ago
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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:
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1 month 2 weeks ago
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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:
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1 month 2 weeks ago
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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 month 2 weeks ago
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CB is Community Builder component
[email protected] replied the topic:
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1 month 2 weeks ago
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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:
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1 month 2 weeks ago
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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:
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1 month 2 weeks ago
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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:
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1 month 2 weeks ago
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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:
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1 month 2 weeks ago
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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:
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1 month 2 weeks ago
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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:
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1 month 2 weeks ago
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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:
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1 month 2 weeks ago
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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:
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1 month 2 weeks ago
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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:
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1 month 2 weeks ago
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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:
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1 month 2 weeks ago
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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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