# Open source web analytics

We have just released Piwik 0.6.4, a maintenance release with a new plugin.

• NEW Design!
  Thanks to the mockups from Marcin Gałęcki and the hard work of Stepan Sukharyna, sponsored by German Agency Vorwärts GmbH, we are now introducing the new UI in Piwik 0.6.4. We hope you enjoy the new professional look. We also tried to make it easier to use, let us know what you think using the Forums or feedback forms.
• FASTER User Interface
  Julien Moumné, developer from the Piwik team, implemented Javascript and CSS merge and minification. Instead of fetching all JS/CSS files separately, Piwik now builds one single file, ensuring the UI is fast and very responsive.
• The SEO plugin
  New Dashboard Widget, contributed by Victor Dibia, that displays the website's PageRank, Yahoo Backlinks, number of indexes pages, Alexa rank and the domain age, for the website URL recorded in Piwik.

• Simple Image Tracker
  You can track visitors that don't use JavaScript using a simple embed image (1×1 pixel) code into a website.
• PHP Piwik Tracking API
  You can now track visitors that don't have JavaScript enabled using http tracking API. PHP based websites can use the new tracking client to track their users.
  This is useful in environments where JavaScript cannot be used (e.g. mobile platforms, eBay pages).
• New tests and huge QA effort
  Anthon setup Jenkins for continuous build integration. Matt added full sets of integration tests, ensuring we always know when we break Piwik tracking, API, Archiving logic.
  Integration tests, unit tests, webtests (testing the installation in a fake browser) and Javascript tests (testing piwik.js) are running after each SVN commit and send message to a list and the developer. These are a major improvements in our Quality Assurance effort, to ensure a stable and bugfree Piwik 1.0.
• WAA Compliance
  We reviewed Web Analytics Association specifications, and ensured Piwik is compliant with the latest WAA specs.
• Dashboard widgets will now remember the View type you last clicked and will restore the exact same dashboard each visit.
• Many bug fixes and improvements

For Piwik users updating to 0.6.4

• Security fix: Thank you to Enrico Razza who found and reported to the Piwik team security@piwik.org a vulnerability in Piwik also fixed in 0.6.4.

List of tickets closed in this milestone

• #100        Plugin for SEO piwik: alexa, google pagerank, incoming links
• #1452     Regression: Installer doesn't try and create the DB anymore
• #1446     Provide 'Non Javascript Tracking tag' and document Tracking push API to piwik.php
• #818     Setup continuous integration server for Piwik builds
• #396     Make sure Piwik complies with WAA definitions
• #660     Make Piwik UI faster: merge all Javascript and CSS files together, minify, cache the merged files on disk
• #1154     Mockups of new design for the Piwik UI (dasboard, tables, graphs)
• #1443     Remove from language files lines that don't have the correct number of %s parameters
• #1481     Activating plugin requires re-login.
• #1451     Apache+Rails: malformed REQUEST_URI
• #1444     CSS conflict in feedback form
• #1456     Sorting in API without order
• #90     Widgets should be able to persist some parameters (eg. viewDataTable)
• #1447     Error in core/Tracker/Db/Mysqli.php
• #1425     Regression: feedback popup content is loaded by default
• #1438     Smarty template_c files should be purged on plugin install/uninstall
• #1442     Replace Html Quickform for GPL compatibility
• #973     Plugins hook to control the order of entries in the menu
• #1327     Write Tracker, Archiving and API integration tests.
• #1472     Super user password reset should alert user when config file not writable
• #1467     Problem with html-entities in translation
• #1297     Improve the Visitors > Overview report
• #1479     SEO plugin doesn't catch errors.
• #1484     Bug in download tracking when no other page views
• #1487     Using PHP classes to call API seems broken
• #1485     Piwik plugins define their API metadata
• #1449     Zend Framework update to 1.10.6
• #1440     Make Piwik_Tracker_Visit::handleKnownVisit hookable
• #1403     Refactoring the menu classes and adding top menu hookable
• #1457     Notice: undefined constant E_EXCEPTION
• #1461     tmp/latest/LATEST: Unit test regression
• #1464     Yearly evolution doesn't show unique visitos
• #1357     endless HTTP 302 Moved Temporarily loop instead of login form
• #1480     getTablesInstalled: underscore in prefix matches any character
• #1473     Installation – warning if mbstring extension not enabled
• #1471     Configure PIWIK_URL and PIWIK_HOST in global.ini.php
• #1469     File integrity check errors when files not uploaded in binary mode
• #1340     Installer/Updater: check all directories writeable

This entry was posted by Fabian Becker on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 ; category Changelog ; RSS comments.