Kunena Roadmap 2012
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The following table oulines the roadmap for the Kunena Project for 2012.
The timings given in the following table are appoximate and subject to change depending on availability of people who have given their time voluntarily to make Kunena the best web forum component for Joomla.
JOOMLA | KUNENA | |
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March 2012 | K 2.0 beta public release | |
April 2012 | Joomla 1.5 reaches end-of-life | |
May 2012 | K 2.0 public stable release. This will also be the last version that offers compatibility with J! 1.5 and J! 2.5 | |
August 2012 | K 1.7 reaches end-of-life and support will cease for that series | |
September 2012 | Joomla 3.0 released | K 3.0 beta public releas |
November 2012 | K 3.0 public stable release. It is likely that K 2.0 will not work with J! 3.0 | |
January 2013 | K 2.0 reaches end-of-life and support will cease for that series. |
Importantly, following the release of K 1.7.0 last year, no support will be offered for installations running K 1.6.x or any add-ons (including third-party templates) written for K 1.6. Over the coming months, topics that discussed these older, outdated versions will be systematically archived from the forum and locked. We understand that, for some people, the task of upgrading software will be difficult but these decisions have been taken in the interests of the vast majority of users who want to move forward and keep up-to-date as Kunena moves forward in line with ongoing activities occurring within the Joomla community as a whole.
Equally importantly, people are encouraged to read the technical requirements article in the Wiki and to begin the process now of upgrading to J! 1.5.25 (including the removal of any J! 1.0 extensions that require the use of "legacy mode") or to migrate to J! 2.5 before support for older versions of Joomla disappears.
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sozzled wrote: I hate to say this but this last message reminds me of driving the family car with the kids in the back whining every five minutes, "Are we there yet?"
I would ask those who are curious about the K 2.0 "journey", to relax - sit back and enjoy the view - and we'll let you know when we're coming to the next milestone along the way.
:laugh: that sounds so familiar! I think Kunena isn't only succesful because of the great work by the coders but also because daddy Sozzled keeps the kids quiet
I hate to say this but this last message reminds me of driving the family car with the kids in the back whining every five minutes, "Are we there yet?"
I would ask those who are curious about the K 2.0 "journey", to relax - sit back and enjoy the view - and we'll let you know when we're coming to the next milestone along the way.
I am one of these Users who definetly prefers to be up-to-date. Not only because of security reasons.
In this case i can life with it that you open source developers need often some more time to finish your projects, especially when it comes to such a huge and outstanding one like Kunena is.
For my taste the overal development from Joomla itself is running a bit too fast but lately the whole (internet) world is running faster and faster
(analogy: the day before yesterday i used Firefox 7, the day after FF 9, today FF10 and tomorrow it'll be 11+ ...sometimes i feel like my grandma :silly: )
Keep it up Kunena devs and testers.
And don't forget: Don't stress yourself!
greets!
M.
Kunena 1.7.2 Released
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Introduction
The Kunena team has now released Kunena 1.7.2 as a native Joomla extension for J! 1.5, J! 1.7 and J! 2.5. This is an important maintenance release and replacement for all previous versions of Kunena and it is recommended that all users upgrade to Kunena 1.7.2 at the earliest opportunity.
In order to achieve interoperability with all of J! 1.5, J! 1.7 and J! 2.5, several important matters in Kunena have been attended to before the next major release of Kunena 2.0 later this year. Some users of third-party templates written for older versions of Kunena will find that their templates may not work with this latest release because changes were necessary in order to fit with the new J! 2.5 CMS. In particular, most of the third-party templates written for K 1.6 in its early stages will cause problems. If in doubt, please contact the authors(s) responsible for those things to find out if updates are available. Priority support is given to issues affecting Kunena installations suing the Blue Eagle template. Other templates may cause problems; if in doubt, please contact the author of the template you are using for their support.
Note: Joomla 1.6 is not supported; J! 1.7 will not be supported after 24 February 2012.
Add-ons written for Kunena need to be separately installed. At this time previously-released add-on extensions for Kunena have not been updated. Until otherwise advised, users should use Kunena add-ons for K 1.7.2 with the version number 1.7.1. As with all other releases, K 1.7.2 is available for download on the download page.
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Kunena 2.0 "show and tell"
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Kunena 2.0 has been under construction for a long time - over 2 years, actually - and very soon the first test release will be made available to the public. This article is intended to generate interest in what Kunena 2.0 (we call it K 2.0) is about, why it was designed and why we think it will revolutionise the way that people think about Kunena.
Earlier this year I wrote an article called Kunena 2.0 a new communications platform for Joomla in which I attempted to provide some background information about the future of Kunena. As many of you will know, K 2.0 is already being used in a number of websites. Very soon we hope to use K 2.0 to run the forum here at www.kunena.org. This is for two reasons: firstly, because K 2.0 is actually better and easier for us to use and (b) as a way of finding out if there are defects that need to be fixed before we move to the later stage of releasing K 2.0 as a stable version. We're still a little way from that stage.
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3 years of Kunena
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The Kunena community and Kunena project team may be interested in an analysis of the download activity from the project's inception to the present time.
Version by version, the number of downloads for each major release of Kunena is shown in the four charts below and summarised in the table at the end of this article.