Question Kunena 1.6.5 Released!

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.