Question Kunena 2 : new features and... release?

Hi all!

I hate to seem pesteferous and ask redundant questions but how long (I kmow how long is a piece of rope...depends if you start at the end or middle) till we have a version that takes advantage of Joomla 1.6's new ACL? From what I've read that is Kunena 2.0. Are we talking weeks, under 4 or months over 4 weeks.

Thanks in advance for both an answer and your hard work! I am truly appreciative!
Betty

G'day, Betty, and welcome to Kunena.

babray wrote: Are we talking weeks, under 4 or months over 4 weeks.

Over 4 weeks, under 4 months ...

K 2.0 is being presented at Joomla & Beyond 2011 in Amsterdam 6-8 May.

Great news.
I'm looking forward to this, I assume this will free up time for the migration tools to be completed.

I appreciate the reply and understand the timeline problemss,
B

Kunena 2.0 is already running on 2 large forums. One of them has 2,2 million posts in it, another one (my site) is smaller and having only 200k posts.

Kunena 2.0 is a major rewrite from Kunena 1.6. Most of the changes are under the hood moving almost all code into well defined objects and MVC. Everything is build on top of Kunena framework/library, which allows easy integration with Kunena API. New structure also allows us to have major performance improvements and data reuse between different views and modules. Also database has been optimized for speed -- Every page load is now 50-400% faster, depending on level of caching and many other variables.

In current state Kunena 2.0 is only fully usable with the old template from K1.6 and runs only in Joomla 1.5.22+. So what needs to be done, is to finish the new tableless template and to finish Joomla 1.6 support (many parts of the code was written before K1.6 got J1.6 support). This task shouldn't be too bad, though..

There are also a few new features, but we will reveal those later. But the main focus has been internal restructuring to allow us to have new cool features and performance.

Thank you for your work!
Can you give links to these forums? It is interesting to look at them.