Question K 1.5.11 - Known issues

Kunena 1.5.11 updates and replaces all previous versions of Kunena. All questions asked in the support or installation/upgrade categories concerning previous versions of Kunena have been locked or will be locked. Users who have problems with older versions of Kunena have two choices: to resolve their problems themselves or to upgrade to K 1.5.11 in an effort to resolve those problems.

Here is the list of issues and/or problems that we have discovered with K 1.5.11. This list is not 100% complete and it's not an official list, either:

1. Upgrading from K 1.5.7 (or earlier) with K 1.5.11 does not uninstall the old Fireboard-style templates. Users are reminded that There is only one endorsed and supported Kunena template ... default_ex .
2. Search queries containing + - ' or " will fail to return the correct results.
3. Quote button to reply to a post truncates the subject if the subject contains quotation marks

• See discussion K 1.5.8: Using Quote"button" truncates Subject
• This matter has been addressed in K 1.6.

If a user attempts to change their username to one that already exists, the warning dialog is superimposed over an unformatted webpage:

• See discussion K 1.5.11: 'change username' javascript popup issue

.TAR and .TAR.GZ installation packages are unreliable. Use .ZIP package to install Kunena.

• See discussion How do you save the configuration?
• .TAR and .TAR.GZ installation kits removed from download area.

K 1.5.11 - Jomsocial profile links to wrong page

Here are two more issues with K 1.5.11 that will be fixed with K 1.5.12 - when it is released.

• Moderators assigned to different categories receive all email notifications from all categories:
  • See discussion: Different categories, different category moderators: all moderators receive mail
• Administrators receive email notifications even though Kunena settings explicitly say otherwise:
  • See discussion: Send all topics to Moderators and Admin

Compatibility with user-customised or third-party-developed Kunena templates

As a general rule, many templates designed for previous versions of Kunena should work with the latest stable public release but this is only true to a limited extent. In general, many older templates fail to work with Kunena in unpredictable ways and these account for the major source of problems reported by users. Because of the way that Kunena 1.5 is designed, many bugfixes and improvements made to the Kunena component affect the way that templates interact and, more importantly, older templates may have code that is incompatible with the latest version. You should upgrade your template whenever new versions are released and - third-party developers should take special note - to apply bugfixes incorporated with latest default_ex theme.

Please make sure your template works in a test environment before upgrading your live site!

If you feel the features of the template that you currently using outweigh the need to upgrade to the latest stable release of Kunena, that is also your prerogative to remain at the version of Kunena that your template was designed for or until the developer of that template makes the necessary changes to it. However, if you encounter problems with the function of the outdated version of Kunena we are unable to assist you beyond advising you to upgrade. The decision is yours.