Matomo 2.8.1
21 October 2014
Matomo version 2.8.1 is now available (security release).
Upgrading to Matomo 2.8.1
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What's New in Matomo 2.8.1
In this release we have focused on reliability and bug fixing. 28 tickets have been closed by 7 contributors!
Security fixes
- The Piwik team warmly thank security researcher Dingjie Yang for responsibly disclosing a XSS vulnerability occurring in older Internet Explorer browsers. He reported the issue as part of our security bug bounty program.
Bugs fixed
- #6470 Announce that Piwik will stop supporting PHP 5.3 soon [by @mattab]
- #4996 Content Tracking, Banner tracking: track impressions, Clicks on any piece of content [by @tsteur, @mattab]
- #6372 Allow admin users to customise the piwik.js code served by Piwik [by @mnapoli, @mattab]
- #6432 Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function [by @tsteur]
- #6384 Content-type set to text/plain when requesting &idSubtable [by @tsteur]
- #6455 The initSession method has not been changed [by @burakcakirel, @diosmosis]
- #6454 Warning: fread(): Length parameter must be greater than 0 in plugins/ScheduledReports/API.php on line 519 [by @diosmosis]
- #6445 Check if a file was actually copied when copying a file [by @tsteur, @mattab]
- #6440 Added events for Piwik update, enable/disable plugin and Plugin Settings update [by @mnapoli, @mattab]
- #6481 Console command generate:report not geting all available dimensions [by @tsteur]
- #6479 Events Pivot: reads only "from" from date range and fails. [by @diosmosis]
- #6475 PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method Piwik\Db\Adapter\Mysqli::fetch() in core/Tracker/Model.php on line 353 [by @mattab]
- #6474 Notice: Undefined offset: 39 core/DataArray.php on line 121 [by @mattab]
- #6466 Document how to enable Content Tracking by default using CustomTrackerJs
- #6156 redirect /index.php/.whatever?... URLs to /index.php?... to avoid Content-Type browser bugs [by @mnapoli]
- #6053 xss affecting IE6, IE7 and IE8
- #6015 Pages Search Results: Error message + Graph with no Data [by @tsteur]
- #6465 Php 5.6 "Automatically populating $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is deprecated" [by @mattab, @mnapoli]
- #6461 CI icons: Use svg instead of png to get better image quality [by @PeterDaveHello, @mattab]
- #6459 Removed tests for PHP 5.4 and 5.5. We only test for 5.3.3 and 5.6. [by @mnapoli]
- #6452 Issues with Zend Mode message [by @tsteur, @diosmosis]
- #6446 Extracted `Piwik::getJavascriptCode()` into a separate, non static class [by @mnapoli]
- #6413 Reduce number of jobs in the Travis CI piwik/piwik build [by @tsteur]
- #6281 Add missing search engine hosts [by @sgiehl]
- #6123 Visitors in Real-time ecommerce order tooltip formatting [by @tsteur]
- #6058 Keep composer.json and composer.lock synchronised at all times [by @mnapoli, @mattab]
- #6482 [automatic translation update] Updated 209 strings in 3 languages (ja, tr, cs) [by @sgiehl]