Question Kunena 7.0 Beta 1 Released for Joomla! 5.4 and 6.0

Introduction:

The Kunena team is thrilled to announce the first public beta release of Kunena 7.0, a native Joomla extension for Joomla! 5.4 and Joomla 6.x. This is a development release and should be only be used for testing; this version is not recommended for live websites at this stage. Kunena 7.0 works on Joomla! 6.0 natvely without the needs of compat plugin.

The purpose of this release is to encourage testing by downloading, installing and identifying any problems or shortcomings that people may discover. K 7.0.0 B1 is in testing phase and we are aware that people will discover defects. We encourage you to use the forum to report defects, as soon as they are discovered, so that the development team can work through the problems before the release of K 7.0 as a stable product. Reporting defects does not mean that the problems can or will be fixed. The Kunena team is looking forward to hearing your feedback on how well we have achieved our design goals.

• Php 8.1.0
• MariaDb 10.4 or MySQL 8.0.13
• Bootstrap 5.x

The work done in Kunena 7.0 is mostly to update the code base:

• Refactor all the code of plugin integration to be in Joomla! 6.0 by working with events and to drop the parts which was planned to be removed in this Joomla! version (thanks to ruud)
• Changes on the installer script to be able to work on Joomla! 6.0
• Make user type on whoisonline widget as links to open the userlist filtered
• Remove most of the deprecated code
• Refactor captcha handling conform with Joomla! 5.x and 6.0

New features:

The Kunena system plugin check on registration and on login if the user is in stopforumspam database and prevent them to make these actions

The Kunena configuraion has been converted to be the same that others configurations page in the Joomla! way

Download:

Download K7.0.0 Beta1 here: https://github.com/Kunena/Kunena-Forum/releases/tag/7.0-Beta1

Donations

Any donations are needed for future support.