Download Matomo 4.5.0

Version 4.5 of Matomo has been released. Matomo 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† The release notes for this release are as follows:

what’s new?

This is a maintenance release focusing on the stability and reliability of Matomo. In particular there have been improvements to System Checks and Reports UI, and some changes in preparation for PHP 8.1. We’ve made several security improvements including adding Content Security Policy to prevent some XSS attacks within Matomo.

Matomo Tag Manager has received several useful updates. Previously when you used Tag Manager Debugger you had to append parameters to a URL, now you can simply enter the URL in a form and click Debug.

Tag Manager now also detects elements coming into view on a webpage even when the visitor is not scrolling. This is the last release in which Matomo is fully compatible with Internet Explorer 11 (see blog post†

We are grateful for all community members who reported feedback and suggestions, our awesome team of translators for their work, and our Premium Features customers and Matomo Cloud hosting customers for their amazing support.

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