Matomo 3.6.1

Version 3.6.1 of Matomo has been released. Matomo is the new name of Piwik and is an open source alternative for Google Analytics . It uses php and a MySQL database to do its job. The functionality can easily be expanded with plug-ins of which more than twenty are supplied. Of course you can also turn it off if certain functionality is not necessary. For more information about Matomo we refer to this page and an overview of the planning can be found on this page . The release notes for this issue, which resolves many security issues, are as follows:

What’s new?

Our focus is on maintenance, stability, and security

We’ve launched a new ] security bug bounty program on HackerOne . As a result, we have received lots of great reports and security issues (XSS) which are fixed in this release

If you use NGINX, please take a look at our new minimal NGINX configuration which implements best practices for Matomo on NGINX .

When you create a goal matching an event, you can now automatically set the Event Value as the Goal Revenue for each goal conversion. This is useful when you use it at the same time.

Not only you can measure Websites and Mobile Apps with Matomo, but you can also create an “Intranet” website. Intranet websites should be used whenever you need an intranet website, where most visitors on the intranet are within your internal network. This new Intranet website feature means you do not need to configure Matomo as per this FAQ anymore.

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