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Kunena Goes Joomla 1.5 Native
Over the last few months, the Kunena team has been hard at work on both fixing many legacy issues and concurrently developing a Joomla 1.5 native version of Kunena. Having gone through multiple test versions in recent months, we're proud to announce that today we're declaring Kunena 1.5.3 the final version.
Kunena 1.5.3 incorporates several new features including an improved installation process, better SEO for Google, and improved SEF by using the built-in Joomla URL router. It also address a number of minor bugs with avatar uploading, a profile memory issue, and IE-specific fixes. A complete list of improvements can be found below.
Over 35,000 copies of the Kunena 1.5.x test versions have been downloaded since April 2009 (the Kunena 1.0.x series has been downloaded over 82,000 times), which clearly demonstrates a strong interest in a powerful forum solution that integrates natively within Joomla.
Working closing with the Community Builder development and testing teams, even more compatibility improvements and fail-safe procedures have been made. We've also added JoomFish support for multilingual sites (in addition to built-in add-on support for 10 world languages) and improved compatibility with JomSocial. And the Kunena team is committed to the Joomla Project for the future, always striving to be the best and most integrated forum solution for Joomla.
We're sure that you'll agree that Kunena 1.5.3 is our best release yet. Go native and download your free copy now.
Security Fixes
In addition to many bug fixes, Kunena 1.5.3 contains only one small security-related fix.
In previous Kunena releases, you could see message topics from forums where you didn't have permissions by looking at user's profile. This has now been fixed.
If your topics contain sensitive information, you should upgrade.
Known issues
While many issues have been resolved, a number of items remain:
1) Moderator tools are still incomplete. We disabled the option to split because it might break threads.
2) New topics in subforum child forums are not shown on the categories page.
Small fix needed for: default_red, default_green, default_gray
Go to components/com_kunena/template/default_XXX directory and edit both header.html and footer.html
Change name in the first line from "jb-header" to "kunena-header"
Change name in the first line from "fb_footer" to "kunena-footer"
Call to undefined method CKunenaTools::isjoomla15() in some servers
Add following to components/com_kunena/class.kunena.php line 341:
function isJoomla15() { return true; }
Blank page or error message in Kunena Administration
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/vamnado/public_html/administrator/components/com_kunena/toolbar.kunena.php on line 92
There seems to be a bug in Joomla installer which may cause some files to be truncated. You should try to install Kunena again, but using different archive format (tar.gz vs zip etc). If it does not help, you need to copy toolbar.kunena.php manually to your server (to administrator/components/com_kunena directory).
Errors with the announcements function
This problem and his fix is described here : Announcements_Errors
Downloading Kunena
We leverage JoomlaCode as our single public repository for the public SVN.
You can find the SVN source code repository here: SVN
You can find the latest release tarballs here: Packages
Compability with Third-party Kunena Templates
None of the old templates made for Kunena 1.0 will work in Kunena 1.5.3! You should not try to use any template that has been made for any previous Kunena version.
Default (Red, Green and Gray) and all templates based on those are now officially deprecated and will be removed in Kunena 1.6.
Compability with Third-party Kunena Modules
Kunena modules may or may not work after upgrading to Kunena 1.5.3. If you rely on specific ones, please test their compatibility before installing Kunena 1.5.3 on a production site.
Installing or Upgrading Kunena
Be sure your setup matches the minimum Technical Requirements or the install/upgrade process will fail. If it fails, your data will be left untouched.
To install Kunena, make sure you read our Installation Instructions before beginning. To upgrade Kunena from previous versions (including FireBoard), make sure you read the Upgrade Instructions.
The Kunena installer has evolved, been tested, and handles both installs as well as upgrades of existing installs without the need for user intervention or manual SQL execution. It keeps a detailed version log of all versions that have ever been installed on your site in order to be able to perform incremental upgrades as necessary.
We would like to underscore the importance of backups before and after any upgrade process. Never perform an install or upgrade without a full backup.
Incompatibilities with other Joomla! extensions
JoomSuiteDefender: Corrupts some files during installation. If Kunena administration does not work, please disable JoomSuiteDefender and install Kunena again.
Credits
In alphabetical order:
- @quila Kunena moderator
- fxstein Kunena developer and admin of the world largest Yamaha Star VMax community at www.starVmax.com
- johnnydement Kunena moderator
- lda Kunena moderator
- Lintzy Kunena moderator
- Matias Kunena developer
- Noel Hunter Kunena developer and admin of House Calls Q&A Forum
- Roland76 Kunena developer
- severdia Kunena developer, Joomla Team Member, and admin of PlayShakespeare.com
- whouse Kunena developer
- xillibit Kunena moderator
Special thanks go to Beat and the CB Testing team, Ida and JoniJnm for significant contributions to Kunena. In addition many members of www.Kunena.com have contributed and helped make this a more stable and bugfree version. Our Thanks go out to all contributors of Kunena! Greetings from the global Kunena forum team!
Short Change Log
Legend:
# -> Bug Fix
+ -> Addition
^ -> Change
- -> Removed
! -> Note
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Kunena 1.5.3:
Changes after Kunena 1.5.1b and Kunena 1.0.10:
Usability/UI changes:
+ [#16696] SEF: use Joomla! 1.5 Router
+ [#16723] Add support for JoomFish
+ [#16633] Allow many attachments in one message (no GUI yet, use edit instead)
# [#16670] Category / Subcategory layout is slightly broken in IE
# [#16662] Editor: Opening Boardcode link to the same window causes written message to disappear
# [#16690] My Profile: Use redirect with message instead of extra page with timeout
# [#16678] Announcements: Read more if there is nothing to be read
# [#16590] If imageprocessor=none, large avatar can break layout
# [#16745] Collection of small bugs/typos
# [#16635] Administrator: Hide index.php in Uploaded Files/Images Browser
# [#16637] Administrator: Defaut_red/green/gray should not be shown in Image Set list as they contain no images
# [#16340] Kunena 1.5.1b: Category list is missing in bottom of viewcat (default_ex)
# [#16811] Kunena 1.5.1b: Broken URL in emails (subscriptions, moderators, report message)
# [#16815] Kunena 1.5.2RC: Sub categories title floats on the right side (IE8)
# [#16814] Kunena 1.5.2RC: Editor: Multiple attachments not working
# [#16812] Kunena 1.5.2RC: SEF: Broken anchor links when viewing messages
Broken features fixed:
# [#16724] Fatal database error in default_ex/listcat.php:269
# [#16677] BBCode parser bug crashes Kunena
# [#16645] Broken BBCode editor in My Profile (use simple version of Rolands editor instead)
# [#16775] Use better URL detection in BBCode parser
# [#16671] Board Categories have   ; showing in them (PHP <5.2.3 issue?)
# [#16667] Administrator: Editing CSS does not work in Windows
# [#16666] Search doesn't work reliably for registered only+ forums
# [#16526] Search: mb_substr() Unknown encoding warning, message bodies missing from results
# [#16642] Forum jump does not work if you go to Board Categories
# [#16689] My Profile: Fix urls for avatar upload
# [#16356] Showcat: Moving and deleting threads fails
# [#16591] Configuration options for allowing avatars and upload do not work
# [#16632] Administrator: Replacing image with dummy image never worked in Uploaded Images Browser
# [#16668] Small fixes for CB integration
# [#16663] Fix broken kunenaforum.min.js (used in CB integration)
# [#16641] The User List Is Limited To 10 (out of #) Registered Users
# [#16755] Kunena 1.5.1b: No images are shown in Windows server (backslashes in URL)
# [#16672] Kunena 1.5.1b: RSS Feed was broken: JDocumentRAW::addCustomTag() missing
# [#16106] Kunena 1.5.1b: Cannot reorder forums/subforums/categories in backend
Other fixes / Code changes:
^ [#16326] Change minumum PHP requirement to 5.0.3 and MySQL requirement to 4.1.20
^ [#16390] Update English language file for K1.0.11 and K1.5.3
^ [#16260] Version info updated: New version name: Spreek
^ [#16803] Update credits page
^ [#16475] Upgrade jQuery to version 1.3.2
^ [#16791] Make defines which contain version information
^ [#16782] Add warning to the backend if installed version is SVN, DEV, APLHA, BETA, RC
^ [#16361] Do not trust that $option has been set (use JRequest::getCmd('option') instead)
^ [#16360] Replace $mainframe with $app =& JFactory::getApplication();
- [#16078] Remove broken Bad Words component support
# [#16364] Parse error in admin.kunena.html.php
# [#16757] Forum stats: Popular 5 Threads shows threads where you don't have access to
# [#16722] User Profile shows messages in categories where user has no permissions
# [#16640] Fix broken redirects (SEF)
# [#16501] Allow for menu link variations for JomSocial to get correct item id
# [#16355] Administrator: User Profile Manager uses a lot of memory if limit is not set
# [#16695] Change URL query parameter in reply / quote from 'replyto' to 'id' for better SEF (accept also old one)
# [#16748] Add page number in meta description (For better Google results)
# [#16721] Use always UTF8 while creating database tables
# [#16567] Warn/detect possible problems in Community Builder integration
# [#16790] Make installation more robust when there are errors
# [#16120] Detect failed upgrades
# [#16636] Fix attachments to use Joomla! 1.5 API (add new CKunenaFile class)
# [#16588] Avatar upload fails in FTP mode with strict permissions
# [#16596] Workaround for Joomla bug: Wrong attachment file permissions in FTP mode
# [#16634] Workaround for Joomla Bug: Overwriting files fail in FTP mode if they were not created by using FTP mode
# [#16638] Administrator: Editing CSS fails in FTP mode with strict permissions
# [#16728] Path missing in include (kunena.parser.php)
# [#16664] Fix notices in BBCode parser, permissions handling and profile
# [#16680] Administrator: Add missing translation to Rank management
# [#16679] Announcements: Calendar shows warning message in Add New
