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Kunena 1.5.7 Security Release
The Kunena Team announces the immediate availability of Kunena 1.5.7 . This is an important security release and users are urged to update immediately. Five security issues and an Internet Explorer 8 table bug have been resolved in this release. This release also contains many other important bug fixes.
New features:
- AlphaUserPoints profile and points integration
- JomSocial user points and activity stream integration
Also included are significant speed and memory optimizations in Recent Discussions, My Discussions, Category pages.
We've deprecated default, default_red, default_green and default_gray templates. These have now been removed from Kunena 1.5.7. They will still work if you upgraded from an older release, but recommend against using them.
Security Fixes
Kunena Forum 1.5.7 contains five security fixes:
[#18495] Preview/posting message does not work (Firewall detects attack) [#18496] E-mail Administrators option should not send messages to users which receive system messages [#18443] Report to Moderator believes all users in custom groups should get email [#18465] Online statistics reveals hidden users to registered users [#18468] Check category ID when user is posting to existing thread
All users of previous FireBoard, JoomlaBoard, and Kunena releases are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately.
Known issues
While many issues have been resolved, a number of items remain:
- Moderator tools are still incomplete. We disabled the option to split because it might break threads. - New topics in subforum child forums are not shown on the categories page. - Entering wrong Capthca code resets message form. - Quick Reply changes '>' to '>' and '<' to '<'. - If administrator or moderator edits posts, the email address saved in that message gets replaced.
Downloading Kunena
We use the power of JoomlaCode as our main repository for the public SVN.
You can find the SVN source code repository here: SVN
You can find the latest release tarballs here: Packages
Compatibility with Third-party Kunena Templates
Most old templates made for Kunena 1.5.5 and 1.5.6 still work in Kunena 1.5.7. You should upgrade your template as soon as there will be version for Kunena 1.5.7 as they will fix bugs which have been fixed in latest default_ex theme.
Please make sure that your template works in Kunena 1.5.7 before upgrading your live site!
Default, default_red, default_green and default_gray templates were removed from Kunena 1.5.7.
Compatibility with Third-party Kunena Modules
All Kunena modules verified to work with Kunena 1.5 should work after upgrading to Kunena 1.5.7. If you use third-party Kunena modules, you should test them with the new Kunena version before upgrading your live 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.
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
- Matias- Kunena developer
- Noel Hunter- Kunena developer and admin of House Calls Q&A Forum
- Roland76- Kunena developer
- severdia- Kunena developer, Joomla Leadership Team Member, and admin of PlayShakespeare.com
- Spock- Kunena moderator
- 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 bug-free 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + [#18702] JomSocial login and registration link integration + [#18702] Add suppport for JomSocial user points + [#18702] Add suppport for JomSocial activity stream # [#18527] Bulk move/delete should return back into the same page + [#18528] AlphaUserPoints integration * [#18495] Preview/posting message does not work (Firewall detects attack) # [#18494] Optimize queries in Recent Discussions, My Discussions, Category page * [#18496] E-mail Administrators option should not send messages to users which receive system messages # [#18476] Make installation process more robust # [#18477] Improve build scripts # [#18478] Administrator: Better version warnings # [#18441] Administrator: Avatar source shows wrong configuration variable # [#18442] Debug function does not show MySQL error or where the error occured * [#18443] Report to moderator believes that all users in custom groups should get email # [#18444] Do not show your own message as NEW! # [#18446] Administrator: Accept 0.5 hour timezones # [#18447] Fatal Error in Recent Discussions (out of memory) # [#18448] Do not encode special characters in page title # [#18449] Fix broken pages with some JomSocial modules (mod_hellome etc) # [#18450] Obey username configuration option in welcome message (top profile box) # [#18451] Undefined variable in Recent Discussions # [#18452] User Profile does not show assigned rank if user is admin/moderator - [#18453] Remove broken default_gray, default_green and default_red templates - [#18454] Do not show deprecated default template if it wasn't selected before upgrade # [#18455] Fix CSS error in message.php # [#18456] Remove broken link in Recent Discussions, My Discussions and Show Category # [#18461] Remove notice if C_ASSET_JQUERY is already defined # [#18462] JomSocial Profile links: Use the first menu item id (added by JomSocial during installation) # [#18463] Typo in English language file (on Prune) * [#18465] Online statistics reveals hidden users to registered users ^ [#18466] Cache some repeating queries # [#18467] Increase hit counter if visitor views a thread written by visitor * [#18468] Check category id when user is posting to existing thread # [#18289] Smiley and Rank admin: Images broken in Windows # [#18290] Whoisonline does not work in IIS
