Kunena 6.4 RC1 Released for Joomla! 5.0/5.1/5.2
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Introduction:
The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the first public release candidate of Kunena 6.4, a native Joomla extension for Joomla! 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2. This is a development release and should be only be used for testing; this version is not recommended for live websites at this stage.
The purpose of this release is to encourage testing by downloading, installing and identifying any problems or shortcomings that people may discover. K 6.4.0 RC1 is stable and we are aware that people will discover defects. We encourage you to use the forum to report defects, as soon as they are discovered, so that the development team can work through the problems before the release of K 6.4 as a stable product. Reporting defects does not mean that the problems can or will be fixed. The Kunena team is looking forward to hearing your feedback on how well we have achieved our design goals.
Kunena 6.4 has been designed to work on Joomla! 5.0 and later, the requirements are the followings :- Php 8.1.0 to Php 8.4.x
- MySQL 8.0.13 to MySQL 9.1.0
- Bootstrap 5.1
The work done in Kunena 6.4 is the following:
- Removing CMSObject extends to some Kunena classes to comply with removed things planned for Joomla! 6.0 (thanks to svanschu)
- Allow to be used on php 8.4 if you are on Joomla! 5.2.x, it will give some deprecated errors messages
- Replace some deprecated usage of methods Joomla! of getError(), getDBO() and Toolbar::getInstance()
- Allow avif and webp to be added in attachment
Download:
Download K6.4.0 RC1 here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/6.4-rc1
This means that the Kunena 6.3 series is approching the end of life and will be discountinued, with the future release of K6.4 in stable there won't be new versions of K6.3 after that.Donations
Any donations are needed for future support.
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Kunena 6.3.7 maintenance Release for Joomla! 4.4/5.0/5.1
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Introduction:
The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the security release of Kunena 6.3.7, a native Joomla extension for Joomla! 4.4, 5.0 and 5.1.
We've implemented native support for Joomla 5. This means you don't have to enable the new compatibility plugin "Behaviour - Backward Compatibility " on Joomla! 5.0 for it to work with Kunena.
Kunena 6.3 has been designed to work on Joomla! 4.4 and later, the requirements are the followings :- Php 7.4.1 to Php 8.3.x
- MySQL 5.7.23 to MySQL 8.3.0
- Bootstrap 5.1
The work done in Kunena 6.3 is the following:
- Refactor the backend views to be compatible with Joomla! 5.0 (thanks to ruud)
- Some bugfixes and refactor of code
- Replace Twitter by X in all places where it was used and add bluesky social network
- Replace some deprecated usage of methods Joomla! from in the code
- Implementation of handle of mentions in a message when using CKeditor
- Get list of users for autocomplete in search form
Download:
Download K6.3.7 stable here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/6.3.7
This means that the Kunena 6.2 series is approching the end of life and will be discountinued, with the future release of K6.3 in stable there won't be new versions of K6.2 after that.Donations
Any donations are needed for future support.
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Kunena 6.4 Beta 3 Released for Joomla! 5.0/5.1/5.2
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Introduction:
The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the third public beta release of Kunena 6.4, a native Joomla extension for Joomla! 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2. This is a development release and should be only be used for testing; this version is not recommended for live websites at this stage.
The purpose of this release is to encourage testing by downloading, installing and identifying any problems or shortcomings that people may discover. K 6.4.0 B3 is stable and we are aware that people will discover defects. We encourage you to use the forum to report defects, as soon as they are discovered, so that the development team can work through the problems before the release of K 6.4 as a stable product. Reporting defects does not mean that the problems can or will be fixed. The Kunena team is looking forward to hearing your feedback on how well we have achieved our design goals.
Kunena 6.4 has been designed to work on Joomla! 5.0 and later, the requirements are the followings :- Php 8.1.0 to Php 8.4.x
- MySQL 8.0.13 to MySQL 9.1.0
- Bootstrap 5.1
The work done in Kunena 6.4 is the following:
- Removing CMSObject extends to some Kunena classes to comply with removed things planned for Joomla! 6.0 (thanks to svanschu)
- Allow to be used on php 8.4 if you are on Joomla! 5.2.x, it will give some deprecated errors messages
- Replace some deprecated usage of methods Joomla! of getError(), getDBO() and Toolbar::getInstance()
- Allow avif and webp to be added in attachment
Download:
Download K6.4.0 Beta3 here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/6.4-Beta3
This means that the Kunena 6.3 series is approching the end of life and will be discountinued, with the future release of K6.4 in stable there won't be new versions of K6.3 after that.Donations
Any donations are needed for future support.
Discuss this article
Kunena 6.4 won't support Joomla! 4.x but it can be installed from Joomla! 5.0.3, the minimal requirements are we are following the ones from Joomla! 5.x :
- Php 8.1.x
- Mysql 8.0.13 or MariaDB 10.4
I don't know if there are still hosts proposing only MySQL 5.7.x but this version isn't supported since October 2023, MySQL has set the 8.4.0 as LTS version. You won't be able neither to install Joomla! 5.x
Kunena 6.3.6 security Release for Joomla! 4.4/5.0/5.1
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Introduction:
The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the security release of Kunena 6.3.6, a native Joomla extension for Joomla! 4.4, 5.0 and 5.1.
We've implemented native support for Joomla 5. This means you don't have to enable the new compatibility plugin "Behaviour - Backward Compatibility " on Joomla! 5.0 for it to work with Kunena.
Kunena 6.3 has been designed to work on Joomla! 4.4 and later, the requirements are the followings :- Php 7.4.1 to Php 8.3.x
- MySQL 5.7.23 to MySQL 8.3.0
- Bootstrap 5.1
The work done in Kunena 6.3 is the following:
- Refactor the backend views to be compatible with Joomla! 5.0 (thanks to ruud)
- Some bugfixes and refactor of code
- Replace Twitter by X in all places where it was used and add bluesky social network
- Replace some deprecated usage of methods Joomla! from in the code
- Implementation of handle of mentions in a message when using CKeditor
- Get list of users for autocomplete in search form
Download:
Download K6.3.6 stable here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/6.3.6
This means that the Kunena 6.2 series is approching the end of life and will be discountinued, with the future release of K6.3 in stable there won't be new versions of K6.2 after that.Donations
Any donations are needed for future support.
