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Piwik 1.7.1

Piwik team — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:33:16 +0000

Piwik 1.7.1 is a minor release, bringing one new feature and resolving a few bugs.

What's new in Piwik 1.7.1?

The archive.php script now requires a new argument --url=http://your-website.com/path/to/piwik/
The URL auto-detection was not working on all systems so we had to add this requirement. The Auto archiving script documentation has been updated.
If you upgraded to Piwik 1.7 and are already using the new archive.php, please update your cron setup to add this parameter or the auto archiving will not run.
In all Piwik reports, you can now select the number of rows to display in the table. Piwik used to display 10 rows for most reports, but you can now change to 10, 25, 50, 250 or 500 rows at once. It even works in the Visitor Log!
- If you change the number of rows to display in any of your Dashboard's widget, the setting will be saved and restored the next time you access your dashboard.
The Referrers reports (Keywords & Search engines, Websites, Campaigns) now display 25 rows by default (instead of 10).
We fixed a few more bugs (see below), and a few regressions introduced in 1.7

This new version does not contain major database schema changes, so the update should be quite easy even if your Piwik DB is enormous.

After You Update

Please use the forums for support.
We really appreciate if you can spread the word about Piwik on your twitter, blog, website, to your friends, at conferences, etc.
Thank you!

List of 15 tickets closed in Piwik 1.7.1

#2461 UI: Selector to choose how many rows to display, in each report footer
#2967 archive.php should require the piwik hostname as a parameter
#2961 archive.sh and archive.php are brokenn with force_ssl
#2943 issue in archive.php when calling over https
#2944 Performance regression in tracker for high traffic website
#2972 Dashboard widget layout resets to default layout unexpectedly
#2975 Goals conversion by "referrer type" does not credit "Direct entry"
#2950 Email reports sent with web cron are not sent in the user language
#1590 Check that chmod commands are given when auto update missing permissions
#2953 MultiSites Plugin API: String typecast does not invoke magical __toString method for PHP < 5.2.0
#2960 Opt-Out does not fallback to English when language is invalid
#2954 PHP 5.1.6 bug: Fatal error: Cannot access self:: when no class scope is active in core/API/Proxy.php on line 326
#2941 Warning: getimagesize(plugins/UserSettings/images/os/Others.gif) failed to open stream
#2940 deprecate enable_framed_logins
#2939 Metadata – "Actions – Main metrics" – value is false instead of 0

Piwik 1.7

Piwik team — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:55:34 +0000

Piwik 1.7 is a major upgrade, bringing many new features, security fixes, performance improvements, and many bug fixes and smaller improvements!

We hope you enjoy Piwik 1.7 as much as we enjoyed working on it. Let us know your feedback or suggestions & thank you for spreading the word on your website / blog / twitter & to your friends!

View the blog post with screenshots of new 1.7 features

What's new in Piwik 1.7?

New Web Analytics reports!

New Loyalty report "Number of visitors who visited the website 1 time, 2 times, etc."
New Recency report "Last visit was 0 day ago, 1 day ago, 2 days ago, etc."
For each Goal and for your Ecommerce analytics, two new reports: "Visits until conversion", "Days until conversion"

Scheduled reports (PDF/HTML) & Image graph improvements

"All Websites" summary can now be included in the scheduled reports.
You can now in 3 clicks receive a daily/weekly summary of ALL your websites analytics in your email box. Enjoy!
Email Reports now include Graphs by default for key metrics.
For example you will automatically see a graph for all reports that plot metrics such as the "Visits overview" report or "Goal overview" report.
Possibility to include a graph before each table report in PDF/HTML reports (disabled by default)
New horizontal bar graphs that look very pretty and allow for better data visualization. These graphs are the default graphs used in Scheduled reports.
Graphs now support Unicode characters (chinese, arabic, hebrew, etc.) after you upload the unicode font.

Major Usability Improvements

On most graphs, you can now select the metric to plot. For example you can now plot Pageviews, Revenue or Conversion rate over the last 30 days.
You can even plot multiple metrics at once, for example you can compare Conversion rate and Revenue for all goals, or for a specific goal.
Dashboard: you can now change the Dashboard Layout to choose 2 columns, 4 columns, or 3 columns with the first one taking half of the width, etc.
There are many layout options available for everyone to have the optimal analytics experience.
Dashboard: you can now "reset" the dashboard layout to the default selection of widgets.
In Visitors > Overview, Piwik used to report "Actions" which include all of Page views, Downloads and Clicks on external links.
Starting in Piwik 1.7 you will now see the detail, ie. 3 different stats and sparklines for Page views, Downloads and Outlinks separately.

Performance improvements when tracking hundreds or thousands of websites in Piwik
- New archive.php script, replacing the previous archive.sh, much more efficient and optimized
- "All websites dashboard" used to fail to load when you track dozens or hundreds of websites. Now it should take a few seconds/less than a minute to load.
Piwik 1.7 also marks an important milestone in Piwik history: the highest number of developers contributing significant new features.
The Piwik team is growing and you can participate!
Security

New option force_ssl to force Piwik to be used over SSL https://
We would like to thank the following security researchers for their responsible disclosure of XSS & click-jacking issues: Piotr Duszynski, Sergey Markov, Mauro Gentile.
Thank you for disclosing security issues to the Piwik team, ensuring a healthy and safe experience for the whole community!
New documentation: How to setup a secure and safe Piwik server and database

Many bug fixes and improvements, see the ticket list below for more details

This new version does not contain major database schema changes, so the update should be quite easy even if your Piwik DB is enormous.

After You Update

Please use the forums for support.
If you use the official Piwik Mobile app you may notice that the graphs look better and are more useful after you upgrade to Piwik 1.7
We appreciate if you can spread the word about Piwik on your twitter, blog, website, to your friends, at conferences, etc. Thank you!

New documentation and FAQs

Web Analytics & Privacy — A guide on how to make Piwik Privacy compliant
Piwik is Free Software — We all know that Piwik is open source, but most importantly, Piwik is a Free Software.
This page explains what it means to you and why it matters.
New FAQ Page for Piwik Mobile app
Does Piwik work on high traffic websites? What is the performance like with millions of pages views per month?
What does "Keyword not defined" mean in the Referers > Search Engines keywords report?
What are the cookies created by Piwik?
I forgot my password or username, how do I reset my password?
Piwik is slow! It takes a long time to load widgets, reports and pages.
Graphs in PDF/HTML reports and/or Piwik Mobile do not display characters correctly in my language (display squares instead)
How do I backup Piwik data and files?
How do I uninstall Piwik?
How much does Piwik cost?

Updated FAQs and docs

Include Image Graphs (PNG) of any Piwik report in your app or website!
Piwik is slow! It takes a long time to load widgets, reports and pages.
I'm a developer, how do I enable logging (and / or SQL profiling) in Piwik?
Piwik Security page updated

List of 99 tickets closed in this release

#2327 New optimized archive.php script for faster and optimized archiving when hundreds/thousands of websites
#1077 "All Websites dashboard" should load fast even when tracking hundreds of websites! MultiSites
#536 Add Loyalty report "Visitors who visited the website 1 time, 2 times, etc."
#584 New Metric: visit count until conversion
#2031 Goal Tracking: New Report "Days to conversion/purchase"
#583 New report "Visitors Recency", days since last visit
#2706 Display Graphs in scheduled Email reports (PDF / HTML)
#1454 Add sparklines and stat for Page views, Downloads and Outlinks separately
#1820 Graphs should display a SELECT to choose the metrics to plot (visits, pages, etc.)
#1559 Dashboard: Customize dashboard, allow to select number of columns and various widgets layouts
#2638 Dashboard: Allow to Reset dashboard to original widgets layout
#2704 Graphs should support Unicode characters & other improvements
#2828 Add "Horizontal Bar Graphs" for more efficient data visualization
#2475 Campaign tracking parameters should be also detected in the URL hash tag (fragment)
#2718 Group all Google search SSL unknown keywords under "Keyword not defined"
#2600 Email PDF/HTML reports: Add option to receive All websites dashboard report
#2840 Visitor Log: De-duplicate repeated page views
#2918 New setting force_ssl that will ensure that Piwik is only used over https SSL
#2902 Ensure that IP is anonymized before the heuristic is applied
#2837 Website selector should have link "All websites" all the time
#2740 Live.getLastVisitsDetails support for filter_limit=-1 (return all visits)
#2769 Truncation should handle UTF-8 (multi-byte encoding)
#2785 Regression: duplicated visits are created when IP is different every page view
#2721 Custom Variable with value zero 0 should be reported as 0 and not as "value not defined"
#2758 Adding segment to VisitorInterest.getNumberOfVisitsPerVisitDuration causes SQL constraint violation
#2728 Some days incorrectly show 0 zero visits when archiving was running the first second of the day
#2931 JS tracker: setCustomVariable does not work when the value is an int/float
#2929 Chrome: Too much time spent in unload handler.
#2924 PDF report: when a number is large, it is displayed in exp notation ie 1.46129e+06 instead of 1461290
#2925 Ecommerce API: some numbers have .0 where as others are rounded
#2934 Pre-minify jqplot library and plugins
#2922 Back button does not work when using Chrome browser
#2751 Forward &segment= parameter to all Dashboard Widgets
#2818 When a scheduled task fails, the archive.php should report the error
#2788 Static Graph: better graphs when date range period parameter
#2717 Error "unable to start session" instead of a proper error message
#2727 pageUrl segment does not work with =@ contains operator
#2815 Call to undefined method Piwik_DataTable_Array::getFirstRow
#2496 Support Page Visibility API to detect pre rendering requests and avoid over-counting page views
#2810 Refactor Multi Sites plugin to follow Piwik plugin conventions
#2903 BC breaking change third party cookie (optional, disabled by default) name changes from "piwik_visitor" to "_pk_uid"
#2911 Chrome Mobile UA detection
#2005 CSV, TSV API exports should support 'expanded' parameter
#2784 Update favicon with transparent background
#2714 Improve CSV/TSV Export
#2792 Delete logs should have option to delete all logs
#2700 Add column "Total revenue" in Goal reports
#2826 Show current version when upgrade pending
#2835 SQLite3 support for tests/javascript
#2580 UsersManager and SitesManager – add and update hooks
#2868 Windows 8 detection
#2870 Add plugin hook to set/modify database connection info
#2871 Add plugin-specific config loader
#2787 When using Custom logo, do not write "Piwik" in the "From" name in Scheduled reports email
#2701 Security: Enable iframe buster on all pages, except Widgets
#2719 Error on "All websites" dashboard for "today" on 32 bit systems
#2729 Email Reports "Send Report now" should send report for the selected date
#2730 Graph widgets support to plot multiple columns
#2731 Disable mailto:tracking
#2761 Mail.ru search engine results encoding has changed
#2735 JSON encoding /decoding problems on older PHP versions
#2783 Piwik load balancer stale cache causes UI bug
#2586 more search engines treated as external sites
#2801 segment breaks sparklines in VisitsSummary
#2808 UserAgentParser does not detect Windows Mobile 7.5 "Mango"
#2795 One single campaign appearing twice in campaigns report
#2806 PHP 5.4.0RC3 compatibility
#2827 Users with 'view' access cannot change their email
#2748 Archiving fails when an invalid column is requested (VisitsSummary)
#2681 Internationalize i18n the Date format on page of Visitor details
#2804 Graph image cutoff first digits when Y axis has decimals
#2831 IndexedBySite will not get all data when asked for metrics from different reports
#2744 Visitor logs links to google should always link to the search result page
#2757 Ecommerce reports should be sorted by Total Revenue instead of visits
#2743 Ecommerce requires Custom Variables plugin, should check and enforce
#2845 javascript error on Goals page in IE 7 due to unexpected comma
#2847 piwik.js: setDoNotTrack() broken
#2866 document.title is overridden by element with id=title or name=title
#2824 Clean-up Windows Phone and Windows Mobile version detection
#2869 SEO ranking widget doesn't show other sites' ranking any more
#2875 unrecognized search engines
#2861 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in Admin.php on line 55
#2577 Call to undefined function imagecreatefrompng when generating PDF
#2790 Guide on how to secure a Piwik server
#2887 When calendar is clicked before all widgets loaded, do not display "Oops…" message
#2894 Goals conversions by Server time wrong timezone conversion
#2904 Automatically remove URL parameters fb_comment_id and fb_xd_fragment
#2901 piwik cannot decode chinese keywords properly sometime from baidu.com
#2897 Ecommerce: Tracking multiple Product categories on an ecommerce page view does not work
#2736 Multiple orders made by the same visitor only show item details of the first order in Ecommerce log
#2755 Hide Custom Variables Product sku/name/category from Ecommerce Custom Variables report
#2912 When exporting data, the "search" filter should be maintained if it was set
#2873 Goal not attributed to campaign when triggered manually
#2844 CustomVariables.getCustomVariablesValuesFromNameId fails
#2816 API parameter filter_truncate should be applied recursively
#2696 Country not detected correctly in conversions in some cases
#2397 Update to jQuery 1.7.1 and jQueryUI 1.8.16
#1170 Faq: How do I "uninstall" piwik?
#2733 HTML Validation Errors in Image Tracking Code

Piwik ftw!

Piwik 1.6

Piwik team — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:33:20 +0000

Piwik 1.6 is a major upgrade, bringing new features, security fixes, and many bug fixes and improvements!

This release is rated critical. Please update now.

What's new in Piwik 1.6?

Ecommerce Analytics improved:
- New: track "price" on Ecommerce product pages
- New: track up to 5 categories for each product page or category page!
Segmentation improved:
- new segment visitConvertedGoalId to select visits that converted a specific Goal
- new segments pageUrl and pageTitle to select all visits that visited a given Page URL or Page name
- new segments customVariablePageName1, customVariablePageValue1, etc. to select all visits that had a specific Custom Variable with scope 'page' set. Until 1.6, Piwik would only segment for Custom Variables with scope 'visit'.
Custom Variables improved:
- string limit for Custom Variable name or value is now 200 characters instead of 100
- when a Custom Variable name is set, but the value is empty, Piwik will now aggregate and report these as "Value not defined"
Dashboard: widgets can now be minimized and maximized for easier analysis
New plugin ImageGraph: generates static PNG graphs for any Piwik report. The graphs are used in the Piwik Mobile app. Kuddos to Arnfried Weber for this amazing contribution!
Security: we would like to thank the following people for their responsible disclosure: Alexandru Pitis, Alexander Schmid, Secure Business Austria, Krzysztof Kotowicz, David Vieira-Kurz, Szymon Gruszecki, Mateusz Goik, Mauro Gentile, Corto Gueguen.
Thank you to all these people for disclosing security issues to the Piwik team, ensuring a healthy and safe experience for the whole community!
Many bug fixes and improvements, see the ticket list below for more details

This new version contains database schema changes so please be careful when running the Update script.
On large Piwik setups, make sure to run the Update Script from the Shell!

After You Update

If you are using cron-based archiving, make sure the archive.sh script has execute (x) permission set for the cron user.
Please use the forums for support.

New & Updated documentation and FAQs

List of 75 tickets closed in this release

#2437 Segmentation support "select visits which visited this URL", and "visited this Page Title"
#2633 Add support for segmentation on "page" scope Custom Variables
#2564 Custom variables not always set in the conversion when using tracking API
#2019 Document how to hide piwik server URL in the Javascript
#1938 ensure that the archive algorithm cannot be triggered multiple times for a same site/period/segment
#2653 New segment visitConvertedGoalId to select all visits which converted a specific goal
#2659 Support for Ecommerce analytics multiple categories per product
#2660 Support for "price" tracking on Ecommerce product page views
#2299 Tracker API setForceVisitDateTime should accept UNIX Timestamp as well as date time
#2677 Add a way to "minimize" a widget
#2671 Limit all Custom vars values and names to 200 instead of 100
#1721 ImageGraph: export reports as graph
#2676 Report when custom variable values are empty, grouped in "Value not defined"
#2568 "Reuse the existing tables" not displayed when reinstalling piwik in existing database
#2663 Middle click (open in a new tab) should work as expected for menus, website selector
#2530 filter only applies to first queried site when date-range is used
#2519 Double encoding for report name
#2190 Fix Exclude low population
#2670 Metadata improvements to generate static graph image URL
#2581 ZendFramework update 1.11.11
#2572 Appcelerator Titanium – User Agent Detection
#2602 Piwik_Session: restore support for file-based sessions
#2621 UserAgentParser.php: use actual IE version instead IE7 when in compatibility mode
#2647 New config setting to disable token_auth authentication in tracking requests
#2648 New config setting to disable browser trigger archiving even for requests with a segment
#2655 New setting, minimum memory limit to enforce when archiving
#2668 Usability: when period is week for example, hover in the calendar highlight all days in the week
#2590 Add link to create a new website in "All websites" dashboard when logged in as Super User
#2556 Add search engine: Blekko
#2503 Option to remove "Piwik" from page title
#2562 Mail with support for non-ssl connections
#2570 Add search engine mirostart
#2573 piwik.js: Tracker Proxy doesn't support _paq.push( item1, item2, … )
#2582 VisitsSumary EvolutionGraph Widget produces JS error in IE 7 and 8
#2574 mysql max user connection reached, triggers errors in widgets
#2604 Unnessary decoding of already decoded strings
#2559 SEO Widget – incomplete results if URL isn't simply the domain name
#2548 Piwik reports 0 visits for single days ni some rare cases
#2594 assume_secure_protocol is not checked in View
#2606 Piwik_Url: getCurrentSchema() should check assume_secure_protocol
#2607 displayed order subtotal value is equal to the quantity of purchased products
#2622 Unit test ipv6 failing on windows
#2631 Hexadecimal encoded URLs don't decoded
#2576 "Mysqli prepare error" on idSite=0
#2649 Forced Segments to pre-processed are actually not completely processed
#2635 Naver as referer and search engine, not properly counted or shown
#2569 Google Mobile Image Search not recognized
#2616 Update deprecated Froogle product search to Google Shopping
#2579 Piwik CSS bug in dashboard when a widget returns an error
#2508 2 goal conversions in the same second, or a page view and goal in same second results in one request being ignored
#2661 Double visits when refreshing cart page
#2665 Invalid markup on Login page
#2674 Product reports for date range does not show Visits metrics
#2675 When piwik maintenance is enabled, API should return an error in the specified format
#2679 Allow JSONP parameter name to be either "callback" or " jsoncallback"
#2613 Email Reports: minor error in UI text
#2667 Remove "visits" from Custom Variables names report since it is incorrect
#2662 Actions.getPageTitle and getPageUrl should work like other API methods with date=last30
#2664 Small usability changes to Goal report
#2636 Division by zero in core/Visualization/Cloud.php on line 59
#2578 Notice: Undefined offset: 1308009600 in /core/Archive/Array/IndexedByDate.php on line 135
#2535 .travel TLD not supported
#2493 Full header message not working on touch devices
#2464 No Special Characters in SMTP Settings
#2646 No Unique Returning Visitors with period=week for VisitFrequency.get
#2684 Handle missing config file setting with a clean error message
#2689 Ecommerce tracking: cart not deleted when order is made
#2693 Google silently changed Pagerank lookup-URL
#2707 Error exporting Ecommerce log in CSV (works in XML)
#2583 UserAgentParser: Safari 5.1 unit tests
#2626 Load testing Script helper: copy visits/pages/conversions from custom date range to today
#2585 Add search engine toolbarhome.com
#2642 HTML Validation Errors in Tracking Code
#2392 PDF reports – long lines overflow into adjacent cell, or truncated
#2694 UserAgentParser: should report Android's browser as Safari

Piwik 1.5.1

Piwik team — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:34:39 +0000

Piwik 1.5.1 is a minor release, resolving a few issues with specific PHP versions and server configurations. There is no new feature in this release.

After You Update

If you are using cron-based archiving, make sure the archive.sh script has execute (x) permission set for the cron user.
Please use the forums for support.

List of 16 tickets closed in this release

#2491 Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0 – Session SaveHandler DbTable
#2499 ErrorHandler – Nesting level too deep – recursive dependency
#2504 Charts – charts cropped at bottom (PHP 5.1.x)
#2507 Charts – no Graph is shown for bounce rate or all values are 0
#2534 Charts – Top of chart cut off if data contains floats
#1841 Proxy: deprecate exportImage and outputImage
#2495 Update Internet Explorer icon
#2497 Automatically include logos from new Piwik URL after server migration
#2500 Charts – Visits Evolution tooltip "NaN" for latest entry (PHP 5.1.x)
#2501 Use relative path to custom logo
#2505 Changes to BlackBerry smartphone and Playbook User Agent detection
#2512 ArchiveProcessing – "Base table or view already exists" for archive_numeric_ table
#2518 Charts – Length of Visits – pie chart overfill
#2520 Live: Undefined index – $currencies[$site->getCurrency()]
#2522 Piwik_Session::start() – don't call it on API calls
#2523 Google Custom Search – referrer changes

Piwik 1.5

Piwik team — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 05:12:43 +0000

Piwik 1.5 is a major upgrade, bringing a few new features:

Ecommerce Analytics
Custom Variables for each page view
Graphs in Canvas+Jquery – no more Flash graphs!
Upload your Custom Logo
IP Anonymization now possible from the Privacy Settings
and more!

It contains many database schema changes so please be careful when running the Update script.
On large Piwik setups, make sure to run the Update Script from the Shell!

After You Update

If you are using cron-based archiving, make sure the archive.sh script has execute (x) permission set for the cron user.
Please use the forums for support.

New & Updated documentation and FAQs

List of 55 tickets closed in this release

#898 Piwik Ecommerce Tracking!
#2373 Inline Documentation
#2432 Track & Report on Custom Variables per page view
#2431 JavaScript Charts
#2008 Allow customizing the Piwik logo
#2233 User Privacy plugin, consolidate privacy protection features
#5 Tables log_ are not purged after archiving is done
#2434 All API functions (including Actions.* and Goals.*) should support all segments
#2425 Website selector inline search should allow to specify the site ID in the search
#2181 Show download link to Piwik Mobile app when user is browsing with iOS/Android
#2444 HTTP_HOST mangling causes Login to fail for some users
#2417 Fatal error: Call to undefined method Piwik_DataTable_Array::getRows() in /var/www/piwik/core/DataTable/Renderer/Html.php on line 83
#2400 Inline search: & becomes &
#2384 Update to jslint 2011-05-17
#2412 Zend Framework 1.11.6 update
#2428 Update .swf's to use newer cache buster tag
#2403 1.4 update – race conditions
#1948 Tracker: review Smartbot filter for Live/Bing
#2447 Update Opera icon
#2449 failed fopen() generates E_WARNING
#2458 Simplify Visitor Generator > Use piwik access logs
#2485 Remove CSS3PIE
#2376 Exclude Yottaa bot from visits
#2401 PDF: Add page numbers
#2426 LOAD DATA (LOCAL) INFILE – pick "best" strategy at runtime
#2304 Update search engine detection for Yahoo! and Babylon
#1869 Outgoing HTTP proxy (host:port and authorization)
#2441 Piwik_Http: custom headers, and file_get_contents
#2443 FAQ: configure forward proxy settings
#1279 Custom ("user") session handler using database (ie MySQL) instead of "files"
#2414 Metadata support for lastX & previousX
#2378 Playstation 3 not recognized
#2380 MariaDB – SQL update fails for 1.4
#2381 Error in report "visits by server time" when there is no visit
#2383 memory_limit = -1 not handled correctly
#2385 inet_pton/inet_ntop functions may be missing in some non-Windows PHP builds
#2399 Error when creating PDF where server has limited GET url, "Please specify a value for 'reports'."
#2406 Empty Expires: headers causes proxy cache to not cache the request
#2398 Apostrophes in sitename – problem with site dropdown list
#2335 Metadata filter_truncate slightly buggy: "Others" shows as "Othersh" in the VisitTime output
#2409 ErrorHandler.php: Cannot use output buffering in output buffering display handlers
#2424 When invalid parameters in URL hash tag, dashboard/reports keep reloading infinitely instead of displaying error message
#1975 Some goals have conversion rate more than 100%
#2387 Visitor Log to show one day too early in some cases
#2446 PDF Email report
#2416 After upgrading to 1.4, Live Plugin embeded as a widget causes user to be redirected to Piwik login screen
#2438 Metadata API should not remove zero hour elements in VisitTime reports
#2484 Visual Menu bug in IE7
#2123 UI: replace confirm() and alert() with jQuery-UI dialog
#2415 simplify language and website selection
#2407 Add a preference for de/activating the All Site auto refresh
#2479 Search Engines – update
#2386 Problem with ampersand in Website Chooser
#2395 "Previous" Paging in visitor log always comes back to first page, but still shows "Previous"
#2427 Fix title "All Websites dashboard (xx visits, xx actions)" in rtl languages

Piwik 1.4

Piwik team — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:56:29 +0000

Piwik 1.4 is a major upgrade, bringing a few new features:

Experimental IPv6 support,
HTML Email & Downloadable Reports (as well as PDF reports),
better Campaign Tracking functionnality & URL Builder for easy Campaign tracking URL generation
and a few bug fixes, including: Email reports now work when you don't use cron, and more efficient Database purge of outdated reports

It contains many database schema changes so please be careful when running the Update script.
On large Piwik setups, make sure to run the Update Script from the Shell!

After You Update

If you are using cron-based archiving, make sure the archive.sh script has execute (x) permission set for the cron user.
Please use the forums for support.

New & Updated documentation and FAQs

List of 31 tickets closed in this release

#2318 Allow Email Reports to be sent in HTML
#1111 IPv6 support
#2362 Scheduled email reports not sent when cron is not setup
#604 New documentation: how to use the campaign feature to track newsletters
#1042 Improve campaigns tracking: URL builder, JS API and user documentation
#2368 The date 'today' is not a correct date range.
#2369 DB space usage: Purge temporary archives more often
#2356 jQuery 1.8.12 update
#2192 Display "Hello, $alias!" instead of "Hello, $login!" in top right screen
#2372 Countries and Currencies update
#2326 Add getCustomVariable in PHP Client
#2336 Metadata API should tell if the data set is fixed size, or not
#2320 PDF Report: add Bookmarks for easy access to report,, and update colors to match UI colors
#2340 Add admin email to error message for users without rights
#2095 AnonymizeIp: introduce new hook for masking the IP at tracker runtime
#1775 SitesManager: CIDR notation
#2351 Windows: IPv6 inet_pton/inet_ntop not supported until php 5.3
#2325 Piwik URL should be auto-detected and cached in DB
#2330 PDFReports: cron user unable to delete file
#2338 php4: chokes on libs/upgradephp/upgrade.php and core/testMinimumPhpVersion.php
#2342 Undefined index: language in …. generalSettings.tpl.php on line 186
#2341 php5.3, mysqli, and libmysqlclient: Piwik_Exec( LOAD DATA INFILE ) fails with -1
#2346 Conversion rate per Referrer can vary from the sum of conversions of each goal
#2360 Updating pdf report with emailMe=0 throws SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1366 Incorrect integer value: " for column 'email_me' at row 1
#2365 Add long2ip() compatibility function for IPv4-only plugins
#2363 VisitTime.getVisitInformationPerServerTime: Empty hours are not returned
#2348 Add search engine junglekey.com/.fr
#2329 piwik.js: allow customize Campaign tracking parameter names
#2055 Filtering multiple proxy server IPs
#2358 Live! Widget unexpectedly travels from dashboard to visitor log
#585 All Plugins should hook on SitesManager.deleteSite and delete the data for the newly deleted website

Piwik 1.3

Piwik team — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:07:57 +0000

Piwik 1.3 is a significant update that fixes bugs and adds new features, including: Custom Date Ranges, Performance improvements, improved Live! real time widget & Visitor Log, much improved Tracking API, and a lot more.

It contains many database schema changes so please be careful when running the Update script. On large Piwik setups, make sure to run the Update Script from the Shell!

After You Update

If you are using cron-based archiving, make sure the archive.sh script has execute (x) permission set for the cron user.
Please use the forums for support.

Documentation pages, new & updated

FAQs

List of 91 tickets closed in this release

#572 Core: Provide custom date range feature
#2258 Add a setting to allow a Goal to trigger multiple times per visit
#2293 Allow Goal to trigger based on Page Title (Event like Goal trigger)
#2220 Visitor tracking becomes really slow on large installation (v1.2)
#2145 Live does not always show recent visitors based on timezone
#1966 Live! plugin performance issues
#2168 Campaigns referers are not attributed to Goal Conversions
#2096 All websites dashboard: display totals of all websites
#2191 Allow API to modify "website creation date"
#2280 Live! API should be advertised as "stable" and can now be reused
#2287 Display ranking on search result page in the Visitor log and Live! plugin
#855 Campaign name and keyword variable names should be defined in a list, and should include utm_* by default.
#2275 New hook needed for UsersManager
#2307 Live! API to support the 'segment' parameter to allow querying any visit level information
#2180 Regression in menu code: double click show orange warning message
#2189 Delete PDF reports when user is deleted
#2242 VisitorGenerator: Warning: uasort() The argument should be an array in core\Menu\Abstract.php on line 151
#373 Period reports must always or never include today's statistics
#2288 Notice: Uninitialized string offset in Common.php on line 1308
#2209 jQuery-UI 1.8.11 update
#2230 refactoring: isIIS() and isApache()
#2231 DataFiles – add get()-like accessors
#2225 Controller: setBasicVariablesView vs setGeneralVariablesView; public vs protected
#2170 Documentation: unique visitors for period=year
#2175 Update screen: advise to disable apache while upgrading
#2229 LanguagesManager.test.php, TranslationsAdmin, and tidy script: refactor saveTranslation
#2243 Bulk insert reports when archiving
#2248 jQuery 1.5.2 update
#2249 UserSettings: test UserAgent changes in Chrome/Chromium 11 (same UA)
#2252 Output buffering inconsistencies
#2253 Unit tests – setup/teardown
#2279 On-demand session file cleanup
#2282 Update to ZendFramework 1.11.5
#2298 Update CSS3PIE to 1.0beta4
#2310 UserAgentParser: Firefox Aurora
#2312 Refactor framekiller and admin controllers
#2164 URLs for websites, why not just hostnames?
#2136 Add response time in the Metadata XML response
#2251 "Add a new website" button should display at top of table as well to avoid scrolling
#2286 Allow 'logme' automatic login mechanism to specify the idSite to load after logging in
#2291 Order Metadata reports the same way Piwik orders reports in the menu
#2281 Improve Visitor Log UI, display Page Titles, Goals conversions
#2299 Tracker API setForceVisitDateTime should accept UNIX Timestamp as well as date time
#2301 PHP Tracker getVisitorId() should discover first party ID cookie (and add getAttributionInfo())
#2302 Tracking API: Allow setTokenAuth() to be an admin token, not only the Super User
#2303 Allow Goals.getGoals() to accept a comma separated list of sites IDs
#2309 Add the segment 'visitorId' to allow querying reports for a given visitor
#1478 Add a table of contents & quick description of each API in the API page
#2317 UserAgentParser: add detection for Samsung's "bada" OS
#2316 Allow to hide hours in the future in output of API function getVisitInformationPerServerTime()
#2322 UserAgentParser: detect Windows Phone 7 in desktop browsing mode
#2203 Snort: false positive on piwik.js
#2205 _readfile() not defined when using piwik.js proxy
#2198 setCustomUrl() support for relative URLs
#2147 Visitor countries widget displays UserCountry_country_Others
#2202 Encoding errors in language files
#2213 Keyword per page widget: invalid argument supplied for foreach ….. eval()'d code
#2215 Handle case where php missing both json and xml extensions
#2232 DB migration to 1.2.1 fails on log_link_visit_action with STRICT mysql & NO_ZERO* options
#2208 Actions Downloads widget
#1578 Case-insensitive domain name matching
#1656 PDFReports: TCPDF temporary subject to open_basedir restriction
#2093 "Download" PDF click returns PDF Reports in default language, not user language
#2239 cron/archive.sh writes error messages to stdout, but stdout is discarded with the default crontab entry
#2163 SitesManager: IE8: "Save" button text is difficult to see
#2246 Installer to check for pack() function available
#2247 VisitorGenerator: location_provider is null
#2218 Fatal error in API response "Maximum function nesting level of '100' reached, aborting!"
#2260 "piwik_option" table name should be quoted in SQL "version_core" update statement
#2263 iframe template in Widgetize plugin without DOCTYPE definition rendered incorrectly in IE
#2259 Live Widget – unneeded ajax requests
#2269 Delete tracker cache files on update
#2264 Fatal error thrown on World Map when logged out
#2267 Piwik_Exec doesn't seem to log the query in the profiler
#2283 Google advanced search not detected
#2284 add bing subdomains to search engines
#2274 Retrieving keywords for the last 7 days with a segment doesn't work
#2297 provider with .co.uk is not used detected as british
#2300 PDF reports show the Unique Visitors column but it's empty when period is not day
#2292 undefined function safe_unserialize() in piwik\core\Cookie.php
#2009 Regression: Outlinks is not filtering out alias URLs anymore
#2314 PDFReports: should hook on SitesManager.deleteSite
#2155 Automatic PDF email report not working when PDF report is linked to deleted site
#2315 calling piwikTracker.getVisitorId() early causes random ID to return, not persisted
#2319 search engines shown among external web sites
#2323 "All websites dashboard" comparison sometimes shows "0%" when monthly report selected
#2236 Add a config file option to disable the length checks on Login & password
#2324 Add setting to customize Live! timeout refresh in seconds
#2223 Bing Images Search URL is wrong
#2250 period selector doesn't close on click outside
#2262 'optOut' form doesn't pass through the 'language' parameter
#2179 Installation: file_get_contents() has been disabled for security reasons

Piwik 1.2.1

Piwik team — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:38:06 +0000

Piwik 1.2.1 is a maintenance release which fixes an incompatibility (introduced in Piwik 1.2) between the piwik.js Javascript file and other older version of Mootools and Prototype JS libraries. There is also a bug fix for Mysql 5 (strict mode) which was preventing new visitors to be recorded.

There are also other non-critical bug fixes included as well as updated translations.

This release does not update the Piwik database schema.

List of issues fixed in this release

#2165 piwik.js: JSON stringify not working with prototype < 1.7 and mootools < 1.3
#2153 Piwik Tracker throws SQL exceptions when using a boolean value for a tinyint(1) field
#2177 serveStaticFiles: better handle disabled readfile()
#2188 Segmentation in API to support greater/less than (or equal) as well as "contains" operators
#2124 Piwik 1.2 and IE9 RC -> empty dashboard
#2138 Default date to load is being ignored
#2148 Can't login if default site deleted
#2162 Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
#2151 UserManager.getUsersSitesFromAccess() doesn't order idsite
#2125 Piwik AutoUpdate (1.1.1 -> 1.2) failing with "Error Opening [absolute/path/to/piwik/latest/latest.zip]"
#2126 WebTest: add auto-update test from latest version
#2156 Update to JSLint 2011-03-05
#2150 Piwik_Option: add delete() methods and unit tests
#2173 piwik.js: getVisitorInfo()
#2178 Search Engines Update
#2154 IndexedByDate.getDataTableFromNumeric() lack of 'order by' breaks integration tests
#2176 WebAppGallery review/feedback
#2185 sanitizeInputValue() – improvements
#2187 update to ZendFramework 1.11.4

Piwik 1.2

Anthon — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:10:39 +0000

Piwik 1.2 is a significant update that fixes bugs and adds new features, including first party cookies and custom variables.

It contains many database schema changes so please be careful when running the Update script, do not click multiple times and give it some time to finish. On large Piwik setups, make sure to run the Update Script from the Shell!

Please read the notes below. Enjoy!

Breaking Changes in the JS API

The deprecated JavaScript API methods setDownloadClass() and setLinkClass() have been removed. Please use setDownloadClasses() and setLinkClasses(), respectively (introduced in Piwik 0.4.2). setCustomData was also deprecated, you can now use setCustomVariable
The configuration setting, "reverse_proxy", has been renamed to "assume_secure_protocol". If your config/config.ini.php contains "reverse_proxy=1", simply change this to "assume_secure_protocol=1".

Deprecated setting "use_first_referer_to_determine_goal_referer" which is now a JS API method (see setConversionAttributionFirstReferrer() in conversion attribution js doc)

Piwik 1.1.1

Piwik team — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:26:32 +0000

This is a maintenance release following Piwik 1.1. This release fixes a few bugs in rare PHP versions.

Important Notes:

if you get a white dashboard after the update, please log out, delete your browser cache, and login again.
if you set the cookie to be ignored from being tracked by Piwik , please set the cookie again from 1.1. The cookie is now signed to prevent abuse, and requires to be re-set (go to Settings > User settings).

List of issues fixed in this release

Fixed errors with PHP 5.2.0 and some PHP 5.1.x builds and PHP 5.2.6
Live! real time visitors is now showing time of the last page view
Some proxies report the IP as a.b.c.d:1234 – this case is now handled (preventing IP showing as 0.0.0.0)
#1946 Template bug in CoreAdminHome
#1662 jQuery – Live Visitors Widget memory leak
#1963 PDFReports: cron task stops with Error: Object of class Piwik_Date could not be converted to int (piwik/core/Date.php on line 47)