# Open source web analytics

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

• Real time widget and Visitor Log
• Simple eCommerce tracking using goals
• Analytics API Reference

FAQs

1. I'm a developer, how do I enable logging (and / or SQL profiling) in Piwik?
2. What are Outlinks, Clicks or Unique clicks?
3. Is Piwik compatible with Nginx?
4. How do I automatically login my users in Piwik when they go from my CMS to Piwik?
5. How do I get reports for a custom date range?
6. How do I track my RSS/Atom feed subscribers?
7. How do I momentarily disable Piwik User Interface and/or Piwik visitor Tracking?
8. How do I enable "Unique Visitors" metric for Yearly reports and for Custom Date Ranges?
9. I would like to import an existing Users database (login, password, emails) in Piwik, but the usernames and passwords are more permissive than what Piwik allows. How do I disable the checks on the Logins & Passwords?

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

This entry was posted by Piwik team on Sunday, April 17th, 2011 ; category Changelog ; RSS comments.