Question User Groups, User Group Privileges, ACLs

I am fairly new to Joomla, Kunena, and JomSocial. When Joomla 1.6 comes out, will all my current components and plugins work with it? Or will I have to wait for those to be upgraded for 1.6 support. Also, if they are able to run on Joomla 1.6 right of the bat. Would it be safe to assume that Joomla's new ACL will flow through the components and we can in return basically create our own private forums by assigning them to different groups?

oh...nice...
...didn't know of that feature for the new joomla release

will be awaiting for it

I need an update for my forum. Please see: Portal Gestão

This is what I'm looking for:

I have a category "Autores" which is visible for users with author status only.

Now, I need to create sub categories under this one and allow the access individually. For example:

Category 1 is accessible to user 'whatever' only
Category 2 is accessible to user 'something' only

The idea is to have a forum for authors so they can communicate with me and within each other, share files, etc.

And each individual category is assigned to a specific author and the administrator only (me).

Is this possible?

Thanks!

I don't know you can achieve what you're looking for in Kunena using Joomla 1.5. We have a general guide, that includes a number of case studies, that you can use to define rules for how your users access your forums: Forum Setup, Permissions and Forums for special Groups .

When you write that you want certain categories "accessible" to individuals, in what way do you want these categories accessible. Do you want those categories readable on a category-by-category basis one for each member (but that moderators and administrators can read anything)?

Without wishing to hijack the thread I have a similar question.

How do I go about restricting access to a particular category/forum/topic to a subset of registered users?

Is this something that I can do with Kuena or is this done through Community Builder/ Joomla?

I'm using kunena from some months and i think is for now the best Forum in joomla.
I tried to use also Agora forum because it have the group access (write, open topic, view, open polls, use bbcode......) but i discarded it because kunena also if have few features (like the user repository) is more cool now, and have few bugs.
I now that is on developement K.1.6 but when were inserted these features?
- Group access (or forum rules)
- Personal files (limit user to have xxxxmb of files)

The forum rules are planned for K.1.6?