Sticky Kunena 7.1 Beta 3 Released for Joomla! 5.4.x and 6.x

On the side of php the new collation added by Mariadb should be supported too by mysqlnd extensions. I have found some changes related to this in Php to fix since Php 8.4.0RC1 :  github.com/php/php-src/commit/e9c5f0504c...5ff65f59b1a99d64a7ae and something related :  jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-32975

It seems now that MariaDB doesn't like mix of collations on tables :  github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues/22536

I have now repeated both tests using 7.1 BETA4-DEV_2026-09-20, and the result was that the table was not created in the database in either test. 

Which php version are-you using ?

I'am thinking to add a requirement check in case of user is using php 8.3.0 and mariadb 11.5 or above it will advise to update to Php 8.4.0

After experiencing a problem yesterday morning where the ‘#__kunena_notifications_mailsqueue’ table wasn’t loading in B4, although it was working by the evening, I created four new test versions with Kunena 7.0.9 today.
 I then changed the collation in the database for all four versions from utf8mb4_uca1400_ai_ci to utf8mb4_unicode_ci.
 I then cleared the browser cache and restarted the computer.
 After that, I installed BETA versions 1 to 4 in the four test installations, and the “#__kunena_notifications_mailsqueue” table was installed in all four of them.
 However, the database error stating that the table was not installed persists in all four test installations.
 My PHP version is 8.4.24
  

Still unable to reproduce (PHP 8.4.1)
 

I’m not quite sure what you’re trying to say.
 As for the database error, I described it in post #235310 on the first page.
 System/Maintenance/Database/Extensions:Database/Kunena
 WarningThere are tables that are not up to date.
 I get this error in every BETA version.