Plans for Kunena 1.7
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Summary
It has been decided to release a new minor version to be known as Kunena 1.7. The purpose of this article is to inform all members of the community of this decision. This article discusses why a new minor version release is considered the most appropriate way to introduce these changes at this time and what this means for the Kunena project roadmap.
K 1.7 does not mean that you need to have J! 1.7 installed in order to run it. It is important to understand that K 1.7 will operate on all supported versions of Joomla, namely, J! 1.5.23, J! 1.6.6 and J! 1.7.0 and beyond (but not beyond J! 2.5). K 1.7 will make obsolete all previous versions of Kunena. Support for K 1.5 and K 1.6 will cease one month after the release of this new version. It is planned to introduce K 1.7 soon (towards the end of August 2011).
K 1.7 will implement four new features and a number of fixes for K 1.6.5.
For all intents and purposes, K 1.7 will not be significantly different to K 1.6 in terms of how it's installed or how it functions. For the most part, K 1.7 will be backward compatible with K 1.6 but not in all respects. The differences between K 1.7 and K 1.6 are summarised in a table at the end of this article.
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2½ 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 three charts below and summarised in the table at the end of this article.
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Kunena 1.6.5 Released!
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Introduction
The Kunena Team has now released Kunena 1.6.5 as a native Joomla extension for J! 1.5.23, J! 1.6.6 and J! 1.7.0. This is a maintenance release for Kunena 1.6 and all users are recommended to upgrade to Kunena 1.6.5. Backup and testing are strongly recommended!
K 1.6.5 makes all previous releases of Kunena obsolete and all users of prior Kunena releases are urged to upgrade as soon as possible.
In order to achieve interoperability with all of J! 1.5, J! 1.6 and J! 1.7, much of the recent work has focused on fixing several important matters in Kunena 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! 1.6/1.7 CMS.
There are still a few outstanding matters that have prevented K 1.6 meeting all our expectations to take full advantage of all the features of J! 1.6 or J! 1.7. As with other Joomla extensions, the Kunena project is not alone in this situation. During our extensive testing of K 1.6.5 the project team has discovered several issues with the Joomla 1.6 core and these were reported to the Joomla development team; several other changes were requested, too, but these did not make it into the release of J! 1.7. Rather than wait for the Joomla development team address these outstanding concerns it was decided that it was better to release a version of Kunena that handles most of what Joomla 1.6/1.7 were capable of providing. There is still further work needed to complete this task and we're continuing to work with Joomla developers to resolve those outstanding matters. If you are in any doubt about whether J! 1.6 or J! 1.7 are right for you, you should test K 1.6.5 on J! 1.6.6 or J! 1.7.0. to form your own opinion of what is best for your needs or whether you should use something else.
At this time there are no new releases of add-on extensions for Kunena. As with all other releases, K 1.6.5 is available for download on the download page.
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They're all listed as versions (shudder) 1.6.4 - anyone encounter any errors yet?... no? What?
If you have a problem, please use a different category. This topic is not for solving problems. Thank you.DiploDicto wrote: It seems the user profile is only working when you have JomSocial installed at the same time. (From an upgrade 1.6.4 to 1.6.5)
I don't think that's necessarily true. It's true if you set Kunena configuration integration options to use JomSocial. Please start a new discussion topic if you want more information or help with this. Thanks.DiploDicto wrote: It seems the user profile is only working when you have JomSocial installed at the same time. (From an upgrade 1.6.4 to 1.6.5)
Thanks for all your hard work getting it ready so fast.
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I want to migrate my forum to Kunena ...
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"I want to migrate my forum to Kunena because Kunena has a future and, for me, it's the way to go." Whether we're discussing Kunena or any other web-based forum application, this is probably a question that every website owner has encountered and wants to know the answer to. It's not simply a case of how to convert from "brand-X" forum - and you can substitute anything for "brand-X" - to Kunena but it's also a matter of how do you preserve the cultural history of you web community, something that you and your users have invested their heart, their time (and possibly their money) into as well. How do you capture and preserve the essence of the community to keep it alive and to prosper and thrive with the reassurance that Kunena is a product with a future and that it will also support your community as it continues to grow?
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If the method you're describing can be used with other forum formats why couldn't it be used with other installations of Kunena?
So we are actually doing just what you are saying: Kunena Importer takes data as pre-formatted arrays. So we have already solved most of the problem and the only thing you need to do is to take our example exporter and fill all the custom data into it.
It seems with an existing "forum importer", even if not perfected, the "get it into Kunena" half of the problem is thought out. It's the "how to interpret the original data" part that needs a solution. I would be very happy if I could simply export my existing forum data into a CSV, format it and manipulate it in Open Office then import it into my new forum.
Hopefully, I explained that well enough for it to make sense.....
Also, Agora is a very good forum but the developer ran into some problems so people are looking to make a change. There are probably some very good forums that will be migrating to ninjaboard because there isn't a proper converter. If Kunena wants to boast about how many downloads they have that's fine but the total downloads doesn't equate to how many people have active forums. IMO, active forums are the ones who make forum components popular in the long run, not downloads.