Software Update: Piwik 0.4.1

Piwik is being developed as an open source alternative to Google Analytics. It uses php and a mysql database to do its job. The functionality can be easily extended via plugins, of which just over twenty are included with installation. Of course you can also turn it off if certain functionality is not needed. For more information, we refer you to this page and an overview of the schedule is on this page to read. The developers released version 0.4.1 a few days ago, which includes the following list of changes:

Version 0.4.1

We release today 0.4.1 mostly for compatibility with the newly released PHP 5.2.10.

• FIXED #821 Piwik is PHP 5.2.10 Compatible: Incompatible method declaration in Piwik_Log_APICall
• ADDED #778 javascript API to trigger a goal trackGoal. See documentation for trackGoal Javascript function
• FIXED #814 sourceElement can become NULL in function clickHandler
• FIXED #760 Changes to ‘Basic HTML’ format
• FIXED #742 Open Flash Chart update to Version2 Kvasir
• FIXED #820 Piwik_ViewDataTable: $this->dataTable->getFirstRow() returns false and attempts to access getColumns()
• FIXED #815 password reset should be reset only when email was successfully sent
• FIXED #808 OFC2 export as image broken on IE8
• FIXED #805 PHP session settings
• FIXED #620 Piwik should use autoload (lazy load) classes instead of using require_once
• FIXED #798 IE6 error when clicking on menu: flash object not destroyed properly (patch by Marc Trudel)
• FIXED #795 Flash Widgets – “loading-blue.gif” never finishes
• FIXED #697 Campaign parameter ignored when not as first parameter
• FIXED #786 Installation on IIS fails with http status 405 error
• FIXED #787 change to support embedded widgets across domains; add sample cross domain policy (install in wwwroot and edit list of permitted hosts)
• FIXED #785 Bug the new piwik.js from Version 0.4 doesn’t work with perfectlightbox
• FIXED #736 unset cookie value if set(name, val) is called with val = Null
• FIXED #810 Class ‘Piwik_URL’ not found
• FIXED #784 Error when deleting a goal
• FIXED #783 Piwik includes wrong Send library

Most patches for 0.4.1 were submitted by Anthon Pang.