Kunena 1.6.2 Released!
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Introduction
The Kunena Team is excited to announce the release of Kunena 1.6.2. This is a maintenance release for Kunena 1.6 and all users are recommended to upgrade to Kunena 1.6.2 (backup and testing are strongly recommended!).
Since the stable release of Kunena 1.6, the Kunena team has been focused on fixing over 100 bugs; including fixing issues with CSS, router, API, HTML validation, and usability. Official Kunena modules and plug-ins have been updated as well as language translations.
Kunena 1.6 marks a major milestone for the Kunena Project. A long list of open source contributors have committed over 3,000 changes helping make Kunena the leading forum solution for both Joomla 1.5 and 1.6. A long list of new features, various optimizations, and code restructuring have resulted in the most advanced version of Kunena to date.
We continue to put a big emphasis on usability and ease of installation. The installer has been further enhanced to allow for multiple installation and upgrade options. It performs incremental steps to avoid timeouts on slower hosts. It automatically performs actions such as taking the forum offline during the installation or upgrade and re-enables it after completing the install.
Kunena now supports Joomla 1.6 style languages files that are backward compatible with Joomla 1.5. Multiple languages are included in the base install packages and more will be available soon. They can also be installed separately. Kunena 1.6 support multiple languages installed on a single system and, together with Joomla, allows users to select their preferred language.
Templates have now been separated from the underlying code, which allows for version-independent template development. Templates can embed various options that can be set via the included template manager (e.g. avatar position on left, right, top, or bottom in the new default template, Blue Eagle).
The Kunena Team is fully committed to Joomla 1.6 and beyond and a number of modules have been developed to lay the groundwork for future releases of Joomla.
Read more: Kunena 1.6.2 Released!
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I still have problemm with kunena and joomla 1.6. I can't have a french frontend even if all the FR-fr files are installed
watercharm wrote: which forum would the discuss posts go to?
Hi,
Please refrain from posting support requests in an article discussion. There is a dedicated forum to help with questions around the discuss plugin:
www.kunena.org/forum/178-kunena-discuss-p
If your problem concerns K 1.5.9 there is no support for that version. K 1.5.9 was released over 12 months ago and has long been superseded.
If you have a problem with K 1.6.2 then please search the forum for the error message that you are getting to see if there is any advice about such things. If your problem is a new problem then please start a new discussion topic in one of the support categories. Please look at the sticky topics in the support categories for guidance on how you should go about asking your questions and what information you should provide when you do so.
Thank you for your co-operation. On behalf of the team, welcome to Kunena.
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in
\wamp\www\joomla\components\com_kunena\kunena.php on line 698Other than this - it seems to be working OK.
On my earlier post: I imagine v1.6.2 is for Joomla 1.6??? (since it did not install into Joomla 1.5.21). If so, it would be helpful if this were clearer on the download page. And if not - the Kunena people have a bug. 1.6.2 will not install into Joomla 1.5.21
- Any advice? I'm running Joomla 1.5.21.
Read the first post again:hanandeebes wrote: I have Joomla 1.5.2 Can I upgrade to Kunena 1.6.2. without problems.
I am very new to Joomla, a simple yes or no would do.
Thanks
Be sure your setup meets or exceeds the minimum Technical Requirements or the install/upgrade process will fail. If it fails, your data will be left untouched.
You will found System Requirements also in here: docs.kunena.org/index.php/Kunena_1.6.2_R...#System_Requirements
Because you said that you are very new to Joomla! I think you wrote wrong Joomla! version number (maybe right is 1.5.20 or 1.5.22)?
first install component Joomla! Update Manager .
let that tool do the work to update to J! 1.5.22.
it's free and you'll be on the safe side.
Then update to Kunena 1.6.2. but take care abt special, and/or modified template settings etc in your 'old' version.
Follow the threads on this forum.
dirko
I am very new to Joomla, a simple yes or no would do.
Thanks
Really goods news.
Thanks...!
However, it leaves 1 question: will template-mod's, icons and smileys be overwritten, updating that way ?
readyman wrote: Yep, I am definetly going to stick with Kunena for a ling time too. It is fast, reliable, the support is top notch, and it is very easy to use, while still being complex enough to run a professional forum.
Thanks again Kunena!
Suppor kunena by reviewing in on the JED!
Kunena 1.6.1 Released
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Introduction
The Kunena Team is excited to announce the release of Kunena 1.6.1. This is a maintenance release for Kunena 1.6 and all users are recommended to upgrade (backing-up and testing are strongly recommended).
New in Kunena 1.6.1 Hightlights: Advanced ACL and an auto-blending default template (code name: skinner), various languages have been added for over 30 included languages, new module positions called kunena_topic_nnn and kunena_section_nnn, ability to limit the JomSocial activity stream entries in length.
Since the stable release of Kunena 1.6, the Kunena team has been focused on fixing over 100 bugs and issues including CSS fixes, router issues, usability issues, API issues, HTML validation issues, modules and plug-ins, and also updating language translations.
Kunena 1.6 marks a major milestone for the Kunena Project. A long list of open source contributors have committed over 3000 changes and have helped make Kunena the leading forum solution for both Joomla 1.5 and 1.6. A long list of new features in addition to various optimizations and code restructuring have resulted in the most advanced version of Kunena to date.
We continue to put a big emphasis on usability and ease of installation. Therefore, the installer has been further enhanced to allow for multiple installation and upgrade options. It performs incremental steps to avoid timeouts on slower hosts. It automatically performs actions such as taking the forum offline during the installation or upgrade and re-enables it after completing the install.
Kunena now supports Joomla 1.6 style languages files that are backwards compatible with Joomla 1.5. Multiple languages are included in the base install packages and more will be available soon. They can also be installed separately. Kunena 1.6 also supports multiple languages installed on a single system and, together with Joomla, allows users to select their preferred language.
Templates have now been separated from the underlying code, which allows for version-independent template development. Templates can embed various options that can be set via the included template manager (e.g. avatar position on left, right, top, or bottom in the new default template, Blue Eagle).
The Kunena Team is fully committed to Joomla 1.6 and beyond and a number of modules have been developed to lay the groundwork for future releases of Joomla.
Read more: Kunena 1.6.1 Released
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When I invite friends to the forum from the "invite friends" menu, no emails are sent. What am I missing.
thanks,
You can found documentation here : docs.kunena.org/index.php/Main_Pagejamesadrian wrote: Where are the help categories?
Jim Adrian
K1.6.2 has not a lot of improvements, it's mainly a maintenance release which fix plenty of issues. K2.0 is still in working in progress, so we need to release something with k1.6.x untill k2.0 isn't ready.freedomcoach wrote: What are the planned changes, improvements in K1.6.2? I thought you guys were going to jump directly to K2.0.
Howard
Howard
This problemen is a known issue for 1.6.1, but upgrading to 1.6.2 should solve it.
I will look for the help categories. I thought this was it.
Thank you for your helpful comments.
Jim Adrian
By default, users cannot delete their own messages. You can change that behaviour by changing the third Kunena Forum Configuration » Security setting. Have you tried this feature?
I know nothing about www.globalfreeenterprise.com or who they are or what they do. www.globalfreeenterprise.com is not endorsed as an approved source of Kunena.
www.globalfreeenterprise.com
I have, through the administrator site, allowed registered users to delete their own posts.
I have version 1.6.0 and it does not allow registered users to delete their own posts. I was told by the organization that installed joomla and Kunena for me that an older version does in fact work on this dimension and that if I had the older version installed, this feature would work, but my template would need to be changed.
I was also told that version 1.6.2 is about to be released. Is this true? Does anybody know if the bug preventing this feature (the ability to delete one's own posts) is fixed in version 1.6.2?
Thank you for your help.
Jim Adrian
Fast
Efficient
and the Module for latest post...
I cannot say enough about your awesome script.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU..
You all are great.. this is so awesome!!!
Should I get version 1.6.1?
How would I do that?
Jim Adrian
The only reliable source to obtain kunena is joomlacode.org/gf/project/kunena/frs/
What version do you have installed K1.6.0 or K1.6.1 or an another one ?
I have set permission for each visitor to delete his or her own posts to "always."
Whenever I try to delete my own posts, I get an error message saying that it has already been done, but the messages never goes away.
What am I doing wrong?
Thank you for your help.
Jim Adrian
[email protected]
The email token thing doesnt seem to work...keeps saying token is invalid.
hkymre wrote: It just looks a bit strange - 41.41k is that 41041 views? And if it is why not just display it as 41041?
Nope - 41.41k is 41,410 views.
Why are we shortening the numbers? Because they can get way too long to fit into the template - that would break the page layout.
Many small forums never reach numbers that high and will never see that feature. But some of our forums have Millions of posts and 10s of millions of views.
With this logic (which is part of the template - we just provide the function underneath) designers can leverage the space on the screen much better. 10,000 becomes 10.00k, 100,000 becomes 100.0k, 10,000,000 becomes 10.00M and so on. It is always using 4 significant digits to display the number.
In the end we are talking about topic views - not a number that anybody really needs to see all of it, as it changes from second to second.
Hope this helps!
Kunena 1.5.13 Released!
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The Kunena Team announces the immediate availability of Kunena 1.5.13. This is a security release and all users are recommended to upgrade.
Kunena 1.5.13 fixes various security issues found recently and minors bugs reported by users and moderators recent months as well.
For additional information see our documentation wiki: Click Here
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Kunena 1.6/1.7 Reflections
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We did it! As of tonight - the closing night of Joomla Day West 2010 - the biggest one ever, hosted in the US - we have released Kunena 1.6.0 stable.
What a ride! We have been working hard for the last 9 months to bring you the best Kunena ever. The changelog file is more than 3500 (!) lines long.
A HUGE thanks goes to Matias who has delivered large portions of the new architecture, closely followed by xillibit who has become the second most active committer in 2010. If you have not seen the latest JoomlaCode.org stats (click here) - both are within the top 10 committers in all of Joomla in 2010. Matias is #3 and xillibit is in #7 overall position for 2010 - again this is for all of JoomlaCode.org!
Our lead committers are closely followed by myself, severdia, dragan (@quila), 810 and additional support came from the allmighty eddieajau, the infamous louis, sam and our team members sozzled, LittleJohn, LDA, TDP2, Mortti, Alakentu and rich.
Kunena has become a real community, 9 quarters of sustained development work has made Kunena the 3rd most active component of all of Joomla code and the top component for 2010. Kunena is not a one day wonder, its not commercial in any way and we are modeling our community more and more after Joomla itself.
And it is far from over. We will be contributing parts of Kunena into other Joomla projects - like our advanced build and install system, to allow ALL joomla developers, to leverage these complex subcomponents in there own work. In a session with Andrew Eddie and Azrul this weekend, we decided to start work on extension skeletons that contain all the proper basics including build scripts that will make extensions better.
Read more: Kunena 1.6/1.7 Reflections
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looking forward to further development
I'm not sure if anyone has token that phrase the "K-Team" yet but I think it's suiting.
I'm just wondering who would be Murdock out of the bunch...? LOL All jokes aside, the Kunena team has out done itself and has come a very long way!!!! GREAT COMMUNITY GUYS AND GALS!
As a blind Joomla! site owner and maintainer I am always looking to keep everything on my site accessible and the Kunena team has done it's self proud with Kunena 1.6.0.
Not only is the front-end totally accessible but so is the administration area.
I am now awaiting (with baited breath! )the release of Kunena 1.6.1 and the new Kunena Skinner template (aka (to me anyway) - The Chameleon).
Again, my most heart felt thanks to all the developers and moderators for there help, and a special thanks goes out to "M" (you know who you are) for all your time, effort and hours spent on skype helping me get things working properly as well as your recommendations, suggestions and art work.
THANK YOU
As soon as we can spare a couple hours away from helping the community get over the initial hurdles, we will focus on that. We did not ever have a discuss bot before, we shared the pre-release so to collect feedback and find issue. We see a lot of demand, but not always contributions that help.
Remember we don't own this as a product, we don't sell any portions of it, we are here to help each other and we will do so with as much time as we can afford away from our day jobs and families.
We said we will look into it once 1.6.0 gets stable enough to stand on its own and we stay to that.
Feel free to join in and help out in any way you can, but please don't remind us every day what else we should be doing.
Have a great day!
You also mentioned that this behavior should be fixed by the time that 1.6.0 goes stable:
www.kunena.com/forum/178-kunena-discuss-...it=10&start=10#62113
Thanks!
Performance is a very important factor for all of us...However, I would like to mention here that although it is very good that you guys always move fast forward, you shouldn't forget to fix the behavior of a very important plugin for kunena users, the discussbot:
www.kunena.com/forum/178-kunena-discuss-...it=10&start=20#65877
Thanks again!
Joomla 1.6 support for both Kunena 1.6 and 1.7 is almost complete and we are just waiting for the Joomla 1.6 RC to fix the last remaining bugs.
It has been busy around here and many more things are in the making.
Perhaps, of ALL the features that may go little noticed by most users of Kunena, this is by far the most significant achievement in my mind. I have said it before on several occasions, and I'll say it again, that the Kunena installation procedure is a new standard for installing Joomla extensions - it's a feature that many other big name developers are lacking and that is needed to make it not only easier, but make it worthwhile, for Joomla users to upgrade their extensions.
Overall, this was an amazing achievement by everyone who was involved and I feel honoured that I was able to make a small contribution to the project. Thank you.
In a session with Andrew Eddie and Azrul this weekend, we decided to start work on extension skeletons that contain all the proper basics including build scripts that will make extensions better.
this sounds great!!