Download Piwik 2.16.1

An update for version 2.16.0 of Piwik has been released. This program 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 Piwik, please refer to this page and an overview of the schedule is on this page to find.

Version 2.16.0 is a release that will be supported for a longer period of time than usual. It includes a new look and improved search functionality. In addition, performance has been improved, new troubleshooting capabilities have been added, and many more bugs have been fixed. The following improvements have also been made in this update:

What’s new?
In this release we focus on improving the reliability of our Long Term Support release of Piwik. Several bugs are fixed including some security issues. Overall, performance has been slightly improved. We’ve also made several small improvements to usability such as new useful inline help messages. This release also includes small new features for better measuring your domains and/or sub-domains and/or groups of pages in one or several websites. Dozens of new Devices and Brands are now detected by our Device Detector library. Our community has also submitted several new referrer spammers to help keep your Piwik analytics data accurate.

Security release
This release is rated critical. We have identified and fixed several security issues in this release. The Piwik Security team is grateful for the responsible disclosures by our security researchers: Egidio Romano (granted a critical security bounty), James Kettle and Pawel Bartunek (XSS) and Emanuel Bronshtein (limited XSS). Thank you for making Piwik more secure!