Kunena 1.6 RC2 Released!

The Kunena Team is excited to announce the release of Kunena 1.6, Release Candidate 2. This is the second RC release and is stable enough to be used on live production websites in limited usage (primarily for testing) as long as minor issues are tolerated during the time before it becomes a final release.

Since the first release candidate of Kunena 1.6, the Kunena team has been focused on fixing over 100 bugs and issues including CSS fixes, usability issues, IE7 compatibility issues, API issues, new modules and plug-ins and adding translations for more languages.

Kunena 1.6 marks a major milestone for the Kunena Project. A long list of open source contributors have committed over 2000 changes and have helped make Kunena the leading forum solution for both Joomla 1.5 and 1.6. A long list of new features in addition to various optimizations and code restructuring have resulted in the most advanced version of Kunena to date.

We continue to put a big emphasis on usability and ease of installation. Therefore, the installer has been further enhanced to allow for multiple installation and upgrade options. It performs incremental steps to avoid timeouts on slower hosts. It automatically performs actions such as taking the forum offline during the installation or upgrade and re-enables it after completing the install.

Kunena now supports Joomla 1.6 style languages files that are backward compatible with Joomla 1.5. Multiple languages are included in the base install packages and more will be available soon. They can also be installed separately. Kunena 1.6 also support multiple languages to be installed on a single system and, together with Joomla, allows users to select their preferred language.

Templates have now been separated from the underlying code, which allows for version-independent template development. Templates can embed various options that can be set via the included template manager (e.g. avatar position on left, right, top, or bottom in the new default template, Blue Eagle).

The Kunena Team is fully committed to Joomla 1.6 and beyond and a number of modules have been developed to lay the groundwork for future releases of Joomla.

Read more: Kunena 1.6 RC2 Released!

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Comments

1 day, 13 hours ago by dauf # 59414

great release by kunena dev team!! congrats for all the hard work!!

1 day, 13 hours ago by snilloconator # 59423

Downloading now!!!!

1 day, 12 hours ago by peetree21 # 59428

woohoo!!

great work team. very impressed!!!

1 day, 11 hours ago by Moonstone # 59429

Excellent! (Where's my 'like' button?)

1 day, 11 hours ago by adminthptngochoi # 59430

great!!!

1 day, 7 hours ago by rinuccio sp # 59440

Differences between version rc 1 and rc 2???

1 day, 6 hours ago by fxstein # 59442

Please see the detailed readme: docs.kunena.com/index.php/Kunena_1.6.0rc2_Read_Me

For a list of changes. In addition you can check the full CHANGELOG.php inside every distribution.

Hope this helps!

1 day, 6 hours ago by rinuccio sp # 59447

Thanks...

But...

User profile access for moderators even if integrated with JomSocial, Community Builder, or others

Hot to???
I have administrator privileges, if I visit a profile (jomsocial integrated) i can't find the controls for the banks and other functions...

1 day, 6 hours ago by fxstein # 59448

Please post support questions in the appropriate sections of our forums.

Thx!

1 day, 6 hours ago by rinuccio sp # 59449

Ok thanks

Kunena 1.6 Beta 1 Released!

Introduction

The Kunena Team is thrilled to announce Kunena 1.6.0 Beta 1. This is a development release and should be used for testing and should not be used on live websites. Since the second alpha release of Kunena 1.6, the Kunena team has been focused on fixing a great number of bugs, CSS fixes, and add some translations for others languages.

What is New?

The new features In the Kunena 1.6 beta release include:

• Update database poll structure when update from kunena 1.5 from any versions of the hack poll

• New bbcode [attachment]

• New languages or updated (Dutch, German, French, Serbian, Yugoslavian, Finnish, Spanish, Russian, Italian) and more to come

• Ordering categories in backend with number like joomla articles

In addition these features can be found from earlier Kunena 1.6 alpha2 release:

• Revamped administrator backend

• New, centralized template system

• Polls are now integrated

• New backend Trash Manager to collect all deleted topics or messages

• A new way to add attachments to posts (AJAX-based and no need to edit the message multiple times)

• New moderation tools (with functions move, merge, split, delete) with less buttons

• User IPs can be easily blocked or banned (directly in their profile or in the backend Kunena User Manager)

• New installer system with step by step details of the installation process (and Joomla 1.6 compatible)

• Anonymous Tipping allows users to post topics in a defined category completely anonymously (no IP, no tracking)

• Users can delete their own messages within a defined period of time

• Improved RSS features

• New BBcode editor, including post preview

• Color coded categories

• Category subscriptions

• Converted from jQuery to MooTools 1.2 for better compatibility

• New 'Thank you' system for thanking the poster from his message

• New template manager for the easy installation of templates

• Code highlighting with Geshi

• CSS and Javascript minification using the YUI compressor for faster loading

• Improved ban system

• Latest version checking

• Improved Joomla 1.6 support

Remember that you can use Kunena 1.6 with Joomla 1.6, this new beta offers better support for Joomla! 1.6 with has some fixes for issues like installation, admin menu that the users had encountered with the first alpha.

Kunena 1.6 RC 1 Released!

Introduction

The Kunena Team is excited to announce the release of Kunena 1.6, Release Candidate 1. This is the first RC release and is stable enough to be used on live production websites in limited usage (primarily for testing) as long as minor issues are tolerated during the time before it becomes a final release.

Since the first beta release of Kunena 1.6, the Kunena team has been focused on fixing a great number of bugs, CSS fixes, IE7 compatibility issues and adding translations for more languages.

Kunena 1.6 marks a major milestone for the Kunena project. A long list of open source contributors have committed over 2000 changes and have helped make Kunena the leading forum solution for Joomla 1.5 & 1.6. A long list of new features in addition with various optimizations and code restructuring have resulted in the most advanced Kunena version to date.

We continue to put a big emphasis on usability and easy of installation. As such the installer has been further enhanced to allow for multiple install and upgrade options. It performs its steps incrementally to avoid timeouts on slower hosts. It automatically performs actions as e.g. taking the forum offline during the install and re-enables it after completing the install.

Kunena now supports Joomla 1.6 style languages files that are backward compatible with Joomla 1.5. Multiple languages are included in the base install packages and more will be available and can be installed separately. Kunena 1.6 also support multiple languages to be installed on a single system and together with Joomla allows users to select their preferred language.

Templates have now been separated from underlying code and allow for version independent template development. Templates can embed various options that can be set via the included template manager (e.g. Avatar position left-right-top-bottom in the new default template - Blue Eagle).

The Kunena Team is fully committed to Joomla 1.6 and beyond and various modules have been developed to lay the ground work for future releases of Joomla.

Read more: Kunena 1.6 RC 1 Released!

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Comments

1 day, 18 hours ago by fxstein # 59322

Now with Kunena Comments. Going forward you will be able to comment and discuss all our articles at the very bottom of every article, as well as in our forums. We hope you like the new Kunena 1.6 features.

1 day, 17 hours ago by fxstein # 59364

We would appreciate if testing could occur on the showcase page and not on other articles.

Thank you!

1 day, 16 hours ago by dauf # 59384

#fxstein do u mean this is DISCUSS plugin? or Standalone Kunena Comments?? confuse..

1 day, 16 hours ago by dauf # 59386

owh ok i got it now..sorry i never use discuss plugin before.. great work btw!

1 day, 15 hours ago by fxstein # 59406

This is the Kunena discuss plugin we just released as part of the RC2. It allows our and your site visitors to comment on and discuss articles of a Joomla site.

Kunena 1.6 Alpha 2 Now Available

The Kunena Team is thrilled to announce Kunena 1.6 Alpha 2. This is a development release and should be used for testing and should not be used on live websites.

Coming closely on the heels of Kunena 1.6 Alpha 1, the development team has committed over 200 bug fixes and enhancements into version 2.

In the Kunena 1.6 Alpha 2 release, you will find many new features beyond Alpha 1, including:

• Template improvements
• Speed optimizations on queries, page/image loads
• Enhancements to polls and attachments
• Installer system improvements
• Improved RSS features
• BBcode improvements
• Updated MooTools 1.2 plug-in
• Joomla 1.6 compatibility improvements

These are just a few of the many new features and changes in Kunena 1.6. A lot of outdated code has been either removed or rewritten as well.

Kunena 1.6 also works with Joomla 1.6. The new ACL system hasn't been leveraged yet, but the Kunena Team is committed to making Kunena run on Joomla 1.6 once it becomes final.

For more information about this release, see the release notes. Download it here.