Matomo 5.12.0 - Analytics Platform

What’s new in our latest release?

Matomo 5.12.0, our latest minor release, introduces new AI Chatbot reports, refreshed evolution graphs across Matomo, and reporting improvements.

Release Highlights

Your biggest audience might not be human

The new AI Chatbots Content Requests reports reveal which pages and documents AI chatbots access on your website. Identify your most requested content, detect broken pages and documents, monitor server response times, and compare AI and human-favoured pages with new Discrepancy Scores. Everything you need to keep your content visible, accessible, and AI-ready.

Monitor AI chatbot activity in real time

The new AI Chatbots Real-time report lets you monitor AI chatbot activity as it happens. Track chatbot request volume, the pages they access, and HTTP errors over recent time windows to quickly identify content availability issues and verify that AI assistants can successfully access your content.

Smarter charts. Modern reports.

Matomo’s reporting experience has been refreshed with enhanced row evolution graphs and report interactions that make it faster to scan and plot metrics, compare performance, and interpret trends efficiently.

acquisition graph — Acquisition Overview

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Database upgrade

This release does not contain any major database upgrade.

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Tickets closed in Matomo 5.12.0

Core improvements

#23249, #22587 Automatically update idvisitor column across log tables on change. [by @sgiehl, @caddoo]
#24191 Use flat-first archiving for Actions reports to reduce memory usage. [by @sgiehl]
#24206 Fix pagination Next button visible when all data fits on one page. [by @clcl777]
#24534 Ignore AI assistant campaign attribution in tracker. [by @tzi]
#24573 Add AI Chatbots Content Requests reports for pages and documents. [by @sgiehl]
#24580 Adds superuser admin warnings ahead of Matomo 6 requirement changes. [by @sgiehl]
#24584 Improve preset period selector behaviour. [by @tzi]
#24587 Apply new plot line colours. [by @chippison]
#24588 Do not update comparison state when popover parameter changes. [by @sgiehl]
#24604 Redesign chart legends. [by @tzi, @chippison]
#24610 Add Human-Favoured and AI-Favoured Pages reports for AI Chatbots. [by @sgiehl]
#24612 Fix blank Ecommerce evolution graph when comparing periods. [by @caddoo]
#24615 Fix KPI widget for metrics where a lower value is better. [by @sgiehl]
#24620, #24591 Apply excluded query parameter rules to bot tracking URLs. [by @sgiehl]
#24622 Fix incorrect IP anonymization reading in CNIL check. [by @chippison]
#24625 Activity log search now also matches group names. [by @lachiebol]
#24641 Update the plot and chart metric selector. [by @chippison]
#24643 Update Tag Manager icon on the no-data page. [by @sgiehl]
#24646 Improve help icons and inline help in dark mode. [by @tzi]
#24652 Align TSV report renderer name handling with CSV. [by @sgiehl]
#24655, #24654 Fix saving annotations on date range periods. [by @chippison]
#24656 Fix comparison sparkline colours for positive and negative values. [by @nathangavin]
#24659 Add AI Insights top menu and reporting menu groups. [by @sgiehl]
#24661 Adds What’s new entry for new AI Chatbots Content Requests Reports. [by @sgiehl]
#24663 Fix Visitors Map legend and stats colours in dark mode. [by @chippison]
#24675 Fix Devices report icons in dark mode. [by @chippison, @sgiehl]
#24682 Use new monochrome icons manifest for dark mode. [by @sgiehl]
#24686 AI assistant now available on the real-time page. [by @nathangavin]
#24694 Fix goal segment comparisons to use the originally selected date range. [by @nathangavin]
#24698, #22548 Improve region names for better geolocation database detection. [by @sgiehl]
#24699 Escape setDomains and setCookieDomain values in the generated tracking snippet. [by @paul9590]
#24700 Fix duplicate results and section switching in AI Insights quick search. [by @sgiehl]
#24707 Fix segment editor modal to follow dark mode theme. [by @tzi]
#24708 Fix site selector search visibility in dark mode. [by @tzi]