24 January 2010
Kunena 1.5 has quickly become the most popular forum component for Joomla. With over 200,000 installations, many Joomla sites depend on Kunena as an integrated and powerful forum.
Integration is a key aspect of Kunena, so it features embedded module positions and best in class SEO without the need for third-party extensions. You also get close integration with third-party components for profiles and other features of leading social/community components.
Kunena 1.5.9 has just been released. For more information, see the release notes at: http://docs.kunena.com/index.php/Kunena_1.5.9_Read_Me
The Kunena team is also working hard on Kunena 1.6 and 2.0--both are MVC-based native J1.5/1.6 versions. Kunena 1.6 focuses on community-requested features like:
• New profile pages
• New moderation tools
• Mootools-based behaviors (which integrate even better with Joomla and avoid loading extra Javascript libraries)
• A new BBcode editor
• Color-coded categories
• A new default template with a refreshed look
• Customizable profile/avatar positions, category subscriptions
• New Ajax/JSON-based behaviors like auto complete
• A new Joomla menu bar that replaces the proprietary menu tabs of prior versions
• New login module
• Message trash with backend undelete option
• Thread polls on select categories
• Up to 80% reduced SQL queries for pages
These are just a handful of the new features on the way. More details on the progress will be posted soon.