Kunena 1.6.0 Stable Released!
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The Kunena Team is excited to announce the release of Kunena 1.6.0 stable. This is the final release for Kunena 1.6 and is stable enough to be used on live production websites. We encourage all users of prior Kunena releases to upgrade to 1.6 (backup and testing are strongly recommended!).
Since the third release candidate of Kunena 1.6, the Kunena team has been focused on fixing over 100 bugs and issues including CSS fixes, IE7 and IE8 compatibility, usability issues, API issues, html validation issues, new modules and plug-ins and updating languages translations.
Kunena 1.6 marks a major milestone for the Kunena Project. A long list of open source contributors have committed over 2500 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 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 also support multiple languages to be 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.
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MooTools and Kunena 1.6
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There has been a lot of talk why Kunena switched to MooTools for our Javascript framework needs and why, in particular, with version 1.2.x that comes default with Joomla 1.5.19+ and 1.6.0.
I'd like to shine some light on the background of the ins and outs, clear up some confusion, and maybe provide some insight into why we believe this is one of the better decisions we have made since the start of Kunena.
When Kunena 1.0 started from the ashes of Fireboard, Joomlaboard, Simpleboard and the like, it came with Javascript based on the very popular jQuery framework. We enhanced and developed more and more features using jQuery, upgraded the libraries and kept moving forward with that direction.
More and more often we would get reports about broken Javascript and loss of the bbcode editor, quickreply and minimizer functionality on various sites. For almost a year, we tried to develop solutions to prevent our jQuery libraries from crashing with other jQuery libraries from various templates and third-party components. As it turns out jQuery (as all other frameworks would probably do) crash when on a given page two different versions of the same library are included.
So we wrote code with that between components like JomSocial and Kunena would result in the load of only a single copy of the libraries.
After dealing with these issues for many months and countless forum threads that last to this very day and after talking to various Joomla core developers and architects we came to the conclusion that we have been at this totally wrong for the longest time.
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So anyway I have been out of the loop for a little while, so am I correct in that Mootools is now the 'must use' or 'recommended' js language to now use over jQuery for Joomla as a whole with (or without) Kunena?
If so I better get started on converting my site over to Mootools.
Is there a way for me to find out what plug-ins/extensions I have that depend on jQuery?
Thanks
GW
Kunena Site Updates
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It was time to overhaul our site a little bit. With all the work that we recently put into Kunena 1.6, the site layout started to get a little stale. There are only so many hours in a day .
Anyway here is what we did:
- Updated main menu: We resorted the main menu to bring more emportant entries closer to the front. We renamed KED to Extensions to have one acronym less out there. Community became People - similar to how Joomla itself is setup.
- Updated Kunena Extension Directory: (www.kunena.com/ked) sporting a new introduction and links to the new Terms ofService article we have created.
- Updated Kunena Extension Directory content: To differentiate various listings and their compatibility better, we have added a short K1.5 and K1.6 prefix to the listings. This should make it easier to find what you are looking for.
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Kunena 1.6 RC3 Released!
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The Kunena Team is excited to announce the release of Kunena 1.6, Release Candidate 3. This is the third and final RC release for Kunena 1.6 and is stable enough to be used on live production websites in limited usage (primarily for testing) as long as minor issues are tolerated during the time before it becomes a final release.
Since the second release candidate of Kunena 1.6, the Kunena team has been focused on fixing over 100 bugs and issues including CSS fixes, IE7 and IE8 compatibility, usability issues, API issues, html validation issues, new modules and plug-ins and updating languages translations.
Kunena 1.6 marks a major milestone for the Kunena Project. A long list of open source contributors have committed over 2500 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 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 also support multiple languages to be 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 RC3 Released!
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PrometheusX wrote:
RedtopX wrote: is it possible to upgrade 1.5.x to 1.6 RC3 without uninstalling the old version?
need to know that too before i can arrange any kind of switching from my recent 1.5 stable version.
are there tutorials for migration or upgrading from later versions?
couldnt find specific stuff in the wiki or elsewhere.
Yes the Kunena installer will automatically migrate all past versions of Kunena directly to Kunena 1.6 without the need to uninstall anything. As always we recommend to take a backup and test any major version upgrade on a test site (even if locally on your own computer).
Hope this helps!
RedtopX wrote: is it possible to upgrade 1.5.x to 1.6 RC3 without uninstalling the old version?
need to know that too before i can arrange any kind of switching from my recent 1.5 stable version.
are there tutorials for migration or upgrading from later versions?
couldnt find specific stuff in the wiki or elsewhere.
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) and they are integrating alpha user points to reward participation with entertainment services and products. I recommend it to anyone daring to develop any kind of complex community functionality.
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) is committed to raising the standards by which their community rewards forum participation. They've chosen kunena for their integration with cbSubs and what I hope is a seamless integration with alpha user poincts. I'm not sure whether cbSubs itself will integrate user points for kunena forum posts or if another plugin/module will be needed. But I've used kunena before and recommend it to all my clients.
There are people I would want to specify acknowledgments but I want to wait a stable version before that.
This was not an easy journey, even tester and translator point of view nor...
There will always be corrected, but I think the biggest has been corrected already (for Kunena and J! 1.5.20 "at the moment")
Thanks for all,
Sami/Mortti
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Thank you!