Kunena 6.2.5 & module Kunena Latest 6.0.7 released

The Kunena team has announce the arrival of Kunena 6.2.5 [K 6.2.5] which is now available for download as a native Joomla extension for J! 4.3.x/4.4.x/5.0.x. This version addresses most of the issues that were discovered in K 6.1 / K 6.2 and issues discovered during the last development stages of K 6.2

Question Revving up for Kunena 2.0

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11 years 11 months ago #1 by sozzled

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Kunena 2.0 is a project that has been over two years in the making. The design objectives for Kunena 2.0 are, primarily, to implement changes that "remove the last of the remaining Fireboard legacy". In the course of this project, a number of improvements were backported to Kunena 1.5 resulting in the transitional software known as Kunena 1.6 (now Kunena 1.7). With the end of Joomla 1.5 in sight and with Joomla 2.5 growing in popularity, that transitional version is less likely to fulfil the demands of users around the world who want reliability and scalability to meet their growing needs.

There's nothing seriously wrong with Kunena 1.7. Kunena 1.7, like it's predecessors, was based on the legacy of Fireboard and, in that sense, it is limited in meeting the emerging and current web technology trends that we witness today — issues like CSS3, mobile web apps, among others. Further, the design of Kunena in the versions available up to Kunena 1.7 is not optimised for large websites involving millions of messages or hundreds of thousands of users. Change is inevitable under these conditions in order to make Kunena the most reliable, scalable, durable and robust forum component for Joomla that we can make it and to give people the best solution to meeting their forum needs.

The main design objectives for Kunena 2.0 are, among others:

  1. Database schema optimisation for improved performance and scalability to large forums up to millions of posts.
  2. Creating a Kunena framework that can be easily used in other Joomla extensions.
  3. Joomla! MVC compliance, making it easy for designers to customise Kunena.
  4. Meeting the emerging and current web technology trends and giving users better experience.

As work continues to be done to develop a public release of Kunena 2.0, we will shortly be making visible changes to this website. The first of these changes will be to implement Kunena 2.0 here, at www.kunena.org, so that everyone will have the opportunity to trial the new software before a public beta release becomes available. This article describes some of those changes that people will see.

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11 years 9 months ago #2 by klp29
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So....... two months later and ...... you're still revving? :huh:
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11 years 9 months ago #3 by sozzled
Replied by sozzled on topic Revving up for Kunena 2.0
klp29: see my reply to you by PM
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11 years 9 months ago #4 by TheTub
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Is there any update to this roadmap - www.kunena.org/blog/19-developer-blog/92-kunena-roadmap-2012

I see the dates have slipped which is fairly normal and to be expected with free software.

But it would be useful to see a revised roadmap to help in planning what to use for future projects.
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11 years 9 months ago - 11 years 9 months ago #5 by sozzled
Replied by sozzled on topic Revving up for Kunena 2.0
I agree. It would be to some advantage to provide more frequent updates as to the timetable. Unfortunately, the dozen of us (or thereabouts) who are actively involved with designing, coding, testing, bug-fixing, moderating the forum, writing the user documentation, keeping track of all the requests that people ask us for, communicating within the team, dealing with the flood of emails and background messages ... and planning for the next version ...

... doesn't leave us much time to give to providing frequent progress reporting.

If anyone (with a background in public-relations/communication) would like to step forward and offer to assist us, we would greatly appreciate the help. People can contact any member of the Kunena team at any time with such offers of assistance.
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