July 2nd, 2009
PostNuke Officially Discontinued
As of July 1, 2009, PostNuke, legacy predecessor to Zikula, is officially discontinued (End Of Life). There will be no further development, security-related or otherwise, of the product. All users are asked to migrate to Zikula, where further development continues.
This decision was made by the Zikula Steering Committee in the second quarter of 2008 and . As of this writing, the Zikula development team will begin implementing the tasks outlined therein. Specifically, the support forums for PostNuke will be archived for reference only and will be unavailable for posting (posting PostNuke-related questions in other forums will result in a polite request to upgrade
).
On February 2, 2009, the Zikula Development Team a Migration Distribution which allows Site Admins to more easily migrate their PostNuke .764 installation to Zikula 1.1.1. (Note that the migration distribution will not be updated to current versions of Zikula.) This distribution will continue to remain available in the . Additions and improvements to that distribution are added to the in the () and support for such migrations will continue in the Support Forum. In addition, webmasters needing expert assistance in their migration may hire a professional. Please contact them through .
Information about PostNuke and a download of the .764 distribution is available at the , strictly for historical record and upgrade purposes.
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