Kunena 6.3.5 released

The Kunena team has announce the arrival of Kunena 6.3.5 [K 6.3.5] in stable which is now available for download as a native Joomla extension for J! 4.4.x/5.0.x/5.1.x. This version addresses most of the issues that were discovered in K 6.2 / K 6.3 and issues discovered during the last development stages of K 6.3
Note: Please go to the Kunena Dashboard after an upgrade so that the Kunena database tables are also updated.

Question Kunena 6.3.3 maintenance Release for Joomla! 4.4/5.0/5.1

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2 months 2 weeks ago #1 by xillibit
Introduction:
The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the maintenance release...

Introduction:

The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the maintenance release of Kunena 6.3.3, a native Joomla extension for Joomla! 4.4, 5.0 and 5.1.

We've implemented native support for Joomla 5. This means you don't have to enable the new compatibility plugin "Behaviour - Backward Compatibility " on Joomla! 5.0 for it to work with Kunena.

Kunena 6.3 has been designed to work on Joomla! 4.4 and later, the requirements are the followings :
  • Php 7.4.1 to Php 8.3.x
  • MySQL 5.7.23 to MySQL 8.3.0
  • Bootstrap 5.1

The work done in Kunena 6.3 is the following:

  • Refactor the backend views to be compatible with Joomla! 5.0 (thanks to ruud)
  • Some bugfixes and refactor of code
  • Replace Twitter by X in all places where it was used and add bluesky social network
  • Replace some deprecated usage of methods Joomla! from in the code
  • Implementation of handle of mentions in a message when using CKeditor
  • Get list of users for autocomplete in search form

Download:

Download K6.3.3 stable here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/6.3.3

This means that the Kunena 6.2 series is approching the end of life and will be discountinued, with the future release of K6.3 in stable there won't be new versions of K6.2 after that.

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2 months 2 weeks ago #2 by Gindi
The work done in Kunena 6.3 is as follows:
  • Replacing Twitter with X in all places where it was used and adding bluesky social network
I have a question: Was Twitter replaced by X everywhere or are there also combinations of X and X_SOCIAL?gindi
 

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2 months 2 weeks ago #3 by xillibit
Hello,

In the key string of language i was set X_SOCIAL but in the content it just displays X

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2 months 1 week ago #4 by Gindi
@xillibit: After this answer, I consistently changed everything that is not text from x_social to x on my test server and changed everything that is text to X_SOCIAL.
Then I did a lot of testing and realised that in the file administrator/component/com_kunena /src/Controller/TemplateController.php in lines 259/260 and 423/424 you have to change the expression X_Social to X so that you can switch the X button in the CKEditor menu bar on and off.

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2 months 5 days ago #5 by xillibit
I don't understand exactly why you have made this change. For the issue with the icon X which can't be disabled in ckeditor toolbar, you can try with this change : github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/commit/84...68a63bc06fa3f6d8551a

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2 months 5 days ago #6 by rich
The X button works correctly with this change.


Important! Always create a backup before you make any changes to your website!

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2 months 5 days ago #7 by Gindi
Sorry, when I saw that I had to smile. The changes from emoticons to smiley are OK and have made a difference.
Regarding the changes in the plugin.js, there is no x_social and no twitter for me, everything is x, even x_social.png is x.png for me.
Btw. in the config.xml I have also changed x-social to x in the content, in the text I have left X_SOCIAL.
My test installation is 98% twitter free and works without problems. There are only two files, twitter.svg and twitter.png in email. In the content there is only "x" and in the text passage "X_SOCIAL".
This morning I created a new test version with a bare Joomla 5.1.2 and a bare Kunena 6.3.3. Only the admin, a user and AkeebaBackup was created.
The Kunena has 33 files in which the term "twitter" is still present.
If I can help to change this, please tell me how.

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2 months 4 days ago #8 by xillibit
Hello,

I have an another change to renamme the config variables which had the word twitter in it : github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/commit/b4...f0c581b5cdbfbdc4f031

There are couple of others part which have twitter in it, need some work to rename the remaining

Some others hasd been done in developpement version of Kunena 6.4 with that : github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/commit/84...07550d1fc70059b48fa4

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2 months 4 days ago #9 by Gindi
I have unpacked the installation file pkg_kunena_v6.3.3_2024-07-16.zip and changed all twitter entries to x in the packages directory in the files com_kunena_v6.3.3.zip, kunena_media_v6.3.3.zip and lib_kunena_v6.3.3.zip.
Then I created a new test server with Joomla 5.1.1 and Kunena 6.3.2. I then updated the test server to Joomla 5.1.2 and copied the unzipped and modified pkg_kunena_v6.3.3_2024-07-16 into the tmp directory, adjusted the permissions and updated Kunena in the admin directory/system/install/extensions/install directory.
The result was that all relevant entries in /administrator, /libraries and /media were changed from twitter to x.
Unfortunately, the twitter entries were still present in all /components files.
Is there a way to change/update these /components files via the installation file or do I have to change everything manually?
For me this would be a matter of 30 minutes but it would be nice if it were easier.

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2 months 2 days ago #10 by xillibit
Hello,

I have made more changes in the developpement version of Kunena 6.3.4 to renamme others things from twitter to X : update.kunena.org/nightlybuilds/pkg_kune...4-DEV_2024-08-03.zip and update.kunena.org/nightlybuilds/pkg_kune...4-DEV_2024-08-03.zip

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