Software update: Matomo 3.6.0

Version 3.6.0 of Matomo has been released. Matomo is the new name of Piwik and is an open source alternative to Google Analytics† It uses PHP and a MySQL database to do its job. The functionality can be easily extended with plugins, of which more than twenty are included. Of course you can also turn it off if certain functionality is not needed. For more information about Matomo, please refer to this page and an overview of the schedule is on this page to find. The release notes for this release are as follows:

what’s new?

255 tickets have been closed by more than 26 contributors. Read more about the most important changes:

Users management redesigned

Users Management has been completely re-designed with efficiency and usability in mind. Check out the updated ‘Manage users’ guide to see how powerful and easy it now is to manage users and permissions, even across hundreds of websites and users.

New ‘write’ permission and ‘admin’ can now create users

We’re also slightly changing what ‘admin’ permission means, and we introduce a new ‘write’ permission for more flexibility. Users with ‘admin’ permissions have more power starting in Matomo 3.6.0: they can now directly create new users and give these users permissions to access the website’s data.

Improvements in reporting and dashboards

In terms of reporting: you can now build more awesome and precise dashboards by including only the metric(s) you need in your dashboard (Try the new widget “Generic > Metric” to display your KPI chosen amongst all of the dozens KPIs available in Matomo). In Referrers reports, “Social network” is now its own Referrer type along Search Engines, Websites, Campaigns and Direct entries. In all email reports, users will now find an “Unsubscribe” link that will let them unsubscribe from the email report. When you segment data in a report and the data is not processed yet, a notification will now explain why and clarify what to do next.

Administration and security improvements

In terms of Admin features: You can now define a Privacy policy page, and/or a Terms and conditions page for your Matomo that will be displayed at the bottom of certain pages, such as the Login screen. CORS hostnames can also now be configured in the User Interface directly (no more need to edit the config file). So far when you deleted a website, Matomo did not delete RAW data in your database. But starting in 3.6.0 a scheduled task will run to delete all data for websites that were deleted.

This release also brings dozens of other improvements and fixes. For example the Matomo Glossary has been redesigned and improved. MySQL 5.7.17+ compatibility with support for group replication. And we introduce several security improvements, please learn more about security in the section below.

New Tag Manager product now available for free in Matomo!

And our new and awesome Tag Manager is available for free from the Marketplace. It is a complete open source alternative to Google Tag Manager. Check it out! Soon we will include it in Matomo by default.