Piwik 2.12.0

[chris]

From the ​Piwik 2.12.0 announcement:

Piwik 2.12.0 is a new major release of Piwik! In this release we have focused on security, performance, and data quality improvements.

What’s new?

Loading reports in the UI will be faster overall, as well as custom date range reports and archiving. There were improvements made in both memory and CPU usage.

When you create a new website in Piwik, it will now show instructions and display the Javascript Tracking code instead of the dashboard, as long as no data has been tracked.

There is a new data quality tool: a console command to geo-locate any past visits which don’t have geo-location data.

There are also important security improvements such as the one-click update which will now be done over secure connection HTTPS, or the fact that the token_auth will be removed from all of the log outputs.

If you use the “Make it flat” feature, you may have noticed it was slow on large datasets: from Piwik 2.12.0 the Flattened reports will now render quickly even on the largest datasets (“Make it flat” is available via the bottom right icon in most reports).

There are also several other bug fixes and improvements: 49 tickets have been closed by 7 contributors! (see the list of issues below)

[chris]

Following the notes at PiwikServer#Updates

sudo -i
vi /web/stats.transitionnetwork.org/piwik/config/config.ini.php
cd /web/stats.transitionnetwork.org/
cp piwik/config/config.ini.php .
export PIWIK="2.12.0"
wget "https://builds.piwik.org/piwik-$PIWIK.tar.gz"
tar -zxvf piwik-$PIWIK.tar.gz
cp config.ini.php piwik/config/
chown -R www-data:www-data piwik/
php /web/stats.transitionnetwork.org/piwik/console core:update

 *************************************
   Everything is already up to date.  
 *************************************

/etc/init.d/php5-fpm restart
vi /web/stats.transitionnetwork.org/piwik/config/config.ini.php 

I checked the Piwik web interface and everything seems to be working fine, closing.