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Published: 06 January 2026

Introduction:

The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the first public release candidate of Kunena-Addons in version 6.2.0.

The purpose of this release is to encourage testing by downloading, installing and identifying any problems or shortcomings that people may discover. Kunena addons 6.2.0 RC1 is in testing phase 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 Kunena addons 6.2.0 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-Addons 6.2.0 have the following the requirements :

• Kunena 6.4

Download:

Download Kunena addons in 6.2.0 RC1 here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Addons/releases/tag/6.2.0-RC1

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Any donations are needed for future support.

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Published: 02 January 2026

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The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the second public release candidate of Kunena 7.0, a native Joomla extension for Joomla! 5.4 and Joomla 6.x. This is a development release and should be only be used for testing; this version is not recommended for live websites at this stage. Kunena 7.0 works on Joomla! 6.0 natvely without the needs of compat plugin.

The purpose of this release is to encourage testing by downloading, installing and identifying any problems or shortcomings that people may discover. K 7.0.0 RC1 is in testing phase 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 7.0 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 7.0 has been designed to work on Joomla! 5.4 and 6.0, the requirements are the followings :

• Php 8.1.0
• MariaDb 10.4 or MySQL 8.0.13
• Bootstrap 5.x

The work done in Kunena 7.0 is mostly to update the code base:

• Refactor all the code of plugin integration to be in Joomla! 6.0 by working with events and to drop the parts which was planned to be removed in this Joomla! version (thanks to ruud)
• New: scheduled task purge trashbin (thanks to ruud)
• Changes on the installer script to be able to work on Joomla! 6.0
• Make user type on whoisonline widget as links to open the userlist filtered
• Remove most of the deprecated code
• Refactor captcha handling conform with Joomla! 5.x and 6.0

New features:

The Kunena system plugin check on registration and on login if the user is in stopforumspam database and prevent them to make these actions

The Kunena configuraion has been converted to be the same that others configurations page in the Joomla! way

Download:

Download K7.0.0 RC2 here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/7.0-RC2

Donations

Any donations are needed for future support.

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Published: 08 December 2025

Introduction:

The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the first public release candidate of Kunena 7.0, a native Joomla extension for Joomla! 5.4 and Joomla 6.x. This is a development release and should be only be used for testing; this version is not recommended for live websites at this stage. Kunena 7.0 works on Joomla! 6.0 natvely without the needs of compat plugin.

The purpose of this release is to encourage testing by downloading, installing and identifying any problems or shortcomings that people may discover. K 7.0.0 RC1 is in testing phase 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 7.0 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 7.0 has been designed to work on Joomla! 5.4 and 6.0, the requirements are the followings :

• Php 8.1.0
• MariaDb 10.4 or MySQL 8.0.13
• Bootstrap 5.x

The work done in Kunena 7.0 is mostly to update the code base:

• Refactor all the code of plugin integration to be in Joomla! 6.0 by working with events and to drop the parts which was planned to be removed in this Joomla! version (thanks to ruud)
• New: scheduled task purge trashbin (thanks to ruud)
• Changes on the installer script to be able to work on Joomla! 6.0
• Make user type on whoisonline widget as links to open the userlist filtered
• Remove most of the deprecated code
• Refactor captcha handling conform with Joomla! 5.x and 6.0

New features:

The Kunena system plugin check on registration and on login if the user is in stopforumspam database and prevent them to make these actions

The Kunena configuraion has been converted to be the same that others configurations page in the Joomla! way

Download:

Download K7.0.0 RC1 here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/7.0-RC1

Donations

Any donations are needed for future support.

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Published: 06 December 2025

Introduction:

The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the fourth maintenance release of Kunena 6.4, a native Joomla extension for Joomla! 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4.

We are changed translation platform, we are now moved to crowdin for this release and the next releases : crowdin kunena. The translators are still needed to update the languages on crowdin because some aren't enough translated.

The support for Joomla! 5.3 has been added in this release.

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 9.2.0
• 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 K6.4.8 stable here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/6.4.8

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.