Piwik # Open source web analytics

Announcing Piwik 0.5.5. As always, please update to the latest version to receive the latest features, bug fixes, and support.

New Features

• #692 – AnonymizeIP plugin to mask the IP address of your visitors.
• #908 – add a hook to allow plugins to define the website ID to load by default when going to stats
• #1097 – Installation/Update: file integrity check to report missing or corrupt files
• #1129 – Tracker: table index enhancements

Bug Fixes

• #59 – Feedburner plugin update
• #987 – ArchiveProcessing: duplicate idArchive
• #1011 – Provider plugin now limits row count to 500
• #1027 – IE7/IE8 Add a widget (Widgetize) bugs
• #1041 – Keyworks that don't link to search engine page results are now not linked, as expected
• #1061 – non-processable GET-parameter throws error message
• #1071 – get/save language preference
• #1082 – Actions plugin: cannot use object of type Piwik_DataTable_Row as array
• #1087 – Multisites: date range selection in the calendar is be the largest available across websites
• #1089 – sync up DDL with schema update script
• #1090 – "Display JavaScript Tag" always showed name of first website
• #1100 – handle malformed dashboard layout
• #1109 – undefined function error in Goals manager
• #1114 – all actions incorrectly labeled as Page Views?
• #1115 – MultiSites: handle single quote(s) in site name
• #1120 – refinements to the Live! plugin
• #1132 – Epiphany misdetected as Safari
• #1127 – evolution always shows 0% when current visits is 0
• #1136 – handle byte count and other shorthand notation for memory limit
• #1137 – libs/sparkline: rendering bugs with small values or ranges
• #1151 – update to the Update welcome page: displaying full list of SQL queries to execute
• #1193 – non-javascript tracking now disabled by default, possibility to record non-JS visits by appending &rec=1 to the beacon
• #1196 – typos / refactoring of css
• #1147 – plugin enable, disable, dashboard layout save and visit generator operations protected by the token_auth
• - refactoring of the Login controller and views, and fixing the redirect logic

Maintenance

• #445 - added a few .htaccess files to override overly permissive Apache configuration (e.g., directory listing, direct access to .php files)
• #991 – redirect to Installation plugin's welcome screen if database connection credentials fails (instead of an exception and a backtrace)
• #1067 – page titles and for page URLs can now use a different delimiter
• #1068 – internationalize the Goals plugin
• #1091 – Feedback UI improvements
• #1092 – provide workaround if parse_ini_file() is disabled; replacement function by Andrew Sohn
• #1096 – plugin descriptions should be translateable
• #1098 – auto-refresh the Multisites report
• #1099 – added MySQL client/server version compatibility check
• #1101 – numbered args in translations should be %1$s, %2$s, etc.
• #1110 – handle IPv4-mapped addresses; detect IPv6 addresses at Installation
• #1119 – remove out-of-date translations of password recovery email body
• #1122 – E_STRICT clean-up in plugin API files
• #1123  – reogranize browser families; convert WebKit versions to corresponding Safari product versions
• #1133 – add 'charset = utf8' to configuration file on new installs (or reinstalls where tables are deleted) when client/serve charset mismatch detected
• #1135, #1174 - more search engines
• #1150 – outdated reports should be displayed rather than no data at all
• #1155 – cookie path can now be defined in config.ini.php or in global.ini.php
• #1156 – document SPL and Reflection requirements
• #1163 – Palm Pre/Pixi detection
• #1165 - UserSettings unit tests coverage expanded
• #1167 – UserAgentParser issued
• #1175 – update to Zend Framework 1.10.2
• #1176 – update to Smarty 2.6.26
• #1178 – remove unused/obsoltete  json.js
• #1179 – JavaScript API should have trackPageView(title)
• #1181 – first day of stats, select today by default instead of yesterday
• #1182 – coding style changes to Live plugin
• #1191 – PHP 5.2.0 syntax issue
• #1195 – comment typo in _pk_translate function
• #1200 – on successful login, Piwik should redirect to the referer URL only if it is a Piwik URL
• #1202 – utility nonce functions for the plugin framework
• - piwik.js has been YUI-compressed since Piwik 0.4; with 0.5.5, you can now use js/index.php to serve up a deflate/gzip compressed piwik.js if your web server doesn't have mod_deflate or mod_gzip (8.3K vs 3.5K)

Anthon and Matt contributed the bulk of changes for this release.  Thanks also go out to Andrew Sohn, feyp, halfdan, jr-ewing, masterkeedu, pebosi, and yareckon for patches.

This entry was posted by Anthon on Friday, March 19th, 2010 ; category Releases ; RSS comments.