Piwik 2.5.0 Update Released

“Piwik 2.5.0 this is a major release.”

Piwik 2.5.0 is a open source web analytics software program.

It provides you with detailed real time reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages and so much more.

Piwik 2.5.0 aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics.

Changes Details

• New open source project] Github issues mirror for Data ownership and better searchability, on issues.piwik.org
• Create a CHANGELOG.md file that lists all changes and improvements to the core platform
• Create a CONTRIBUTING.md file to let users know how to contribute to Piwik [by @tsteur]
• Refactor reports and dimensions [by @tsteur]
• When there is an error in Piwik throw a http error code 500 [by @mattab]
• Don’t store custom variables in cookies (better privacy) [by @mattab]
• When upgrading Piwik, –dry-run should show all SQL queries including Plugins install queries
• Cross-origin resource sharing [by @czolnowski, @halfdan, @mattab]
• Issues with changing segment name. [by @tsteur]
• “report to load by default” does not change to “All Websites” [by @tsteur]
• Fix HHVM support for CLI [by @Diftraku, @tsteur]
• New Search engines [by @sgiehl]
• In piwik.js when ‘disableCookies’ is pushed to the _paq array, apply it first [by @mattab]
• Show footer icons in the Ecommerce reports [by @tsteur]
• Notice: Undefined index: 2011-08-18 in plugins/API/API.php on line 493 [by @mattab]
• Refactor core:archive command to use symfony console $input rather than getParameterFromCli() method [by @diosmosis]
• In processed report a segment parameter is not added to ImageGraph URL [by @tsteur, @mattab]
• filter, showColumns, hideColumns should work if API returns arrays [by @tsteur]
• Created unified system for running tests in travis for Piwik Core and any Piwik plugin. [by @diosmosis, @mattab]
• Movers and Shakers not compairing correctly when using Segmentation [by @tsteur]
• make the opt-out form work even if JavaScript is disabled [by @craue, @tsteur]
• refs #5950 add possibility to sort Live.getLastVisitsDetails [by @tsteur]
• refs #5936 remove gone files during update [by @tsteur]
• MultiSites.getAll returns wrong format under circumstances [by @tsteur]
• Add ‘Marketplace’ link to the top menu [by @tsteur]
• When Ajax request ends with error (5xx or 4xx), Piwik should display a friendly message notification [by @tsteur]
• Create FAQ to help troubleshoot the error “Failed to load HTML file”
• Widget error message “The report ‘nb_pageviews’ was requested but it is not available at this stage…” [by @diosmosis]
• Encountered unsupported archive type ‘dat.gz.’. [by @mattab]
• Add icon for browser “Mobile Safari” [by @sgiehl]
• PHP Warning: parse_url(http://): Unable to parse URL in core/UrlHelper.php on line 494 [by @fhemberger, @tsteur]
• show visit time in visitor profile [by @mattab]
• huge whitespace in visitor profile [by @fhemberger]
• Visitor engagement: too wide [by @fhemberger]
• Change Visitor Profile log tooltip [by @tsteur]
• Piwik auf IIS im shared hosting erzeugt fehlerhafte CSS-Datei [by @tsteur]
• “zlib i missing” on 64bit Ubuntu systems [by @mattab]
• Real Time Visitor Count – wrong actions counter [by @tsteur]
• code cleanup [by @craue, @mattab]
• Fix parameter in deprecation message in /misc/cron/archive.php [by @fhemberger, @mattab]
• Adding the new variables to “UsersManager.addUser.end” and “UsersManager.updateUser.end” triggers [by @burakcakirel, @mattab]
• Uninitialized string offset: 1 in /srv/piwik/core/Piwik.php on line 158 [by @tsteur]
• Piwik’s asynchronous command line execution module does not properly detect currently running processes on some systems [by @diosmosis]
• code cleanup [by @craue, @tsteur]
• Search engine “Yandex” is defined as a website [by @sgiehl]
• [2.4.1] VisitorMap wrong visit summary? [by @tsteur]
• Add name parameter to MenuTop. [by @czolnowski, @tsteur]
• Treat response with any 2xx status code as successful POST track request [by @sslavic, @mattab]
• Show the image description also as title [by @ThaDafinser, @tsteur]
• PHP Documentation shows 404 Error [by @tsteur]
• added missing variable to postEvent [by @mgazdzik, @tsteur]
• Unable to use new domain extensions as an email address [by @tsteur]
• remove dead code [by @craue, @tsteur]
• code cleanup [by @craue, @tsteur]
• On update, automatically delete from filesystem all Piwik files that are not in the latest release [by @tsteur]
• In the Visitor Profile, show also the time of the visit [by @ThaDafinser, @mattab]
• Integration Tests refactor (move API testing logic to separate classes) [by @diosmosis, @mattab]
• Calling MultiSites.getAll results in “Invalid parameter number” (in Piwik 2.5.0-b1) [by @tsteur]
• refs #5820 Report and dimension refactoring [by @tsteur]
• Plugin: Howto skip/adjust config filter? [by @tsteur]
• Visitors in real-time widget “Page views” metric should not counts other action types [by @mattab, @piwik-auto-commit-bot]
• fixed broken EventDispatcher mechanism for sorting callbacks order [by @mgazdzik, @halfdan]
  #5899 Missing word in FAQ
• search.yahoo.com tracked as external referrer [by @sgiehl]
• Display more useful message when error `Abort pclzip.lib.php : Missing zlib extensions` [by @mattab]
• Add example Dimensions and example Reports to the `ExamplePlugin` [by @tsteur]
• Delete unused column `log_conversion.referer_visit_server_date` [by @mattab]
• CORS refactoring [by @czolnowski, @mattab]
• Visitor profile image width to max-width [by @ThaDafinser, @mattab]
• Unit test fixes [by @mnapoli, @mattab]
• Run marketplace plugin tests with the defined PHP version in plugin.json [by @tsteur]
• Fixed a test to use the configured root URL [by @mnapoli, @mattab]
• When an admin removes a user’s access to a website, sending scheduled reports may fail [by @tsteur]
• 5896 add showColumns/hideColumns filters to arrays [by @tsteur]
• Run tests on older version PHP 5.3.3 [by @mattab]
• Searching in datatable for `?param` results in error message [by @tsteur]
• Sorting Live.getLastVisitsDetails visits by a custom column [by @tsteur]
• Add search engine sputnik.ru [by @sgiehl]
•  Notice: Undefined index: dimension in plugins/API/RowEvolution.php on line 334 [by @tsteur]
• When editing an existing goal, radio buttons are not checked [by @tsteur]
• shell_exec(): Cannot execute using backquotes in Safe Mode [by @mattab]
• Prevent ArchiveWeb test from failing [by @tsteur]
• [automatic translation update] Updated 90 strings in 8 languages (da, de, el, fr, it, ru, sv, tr) [by @sgiehl]
• [automatic translation update] Updated 65 strings in 2 languages (de, pl) [by @sgiehl]
• [automatic translation update] Updated 68 strings in 5 languages (da, de, el, sl, tr) [by @sgiehl]
• [automatic translation update] Updated 84 strings in 7 languages (el, it, ja, nb, nl, sv, tr) [by @sgiehl]
• [automatic translation update] Updated 131 strings in 8 languages (ru, fr, sv, cs, da, de, el, it) [by @sgiehl]

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