Matomo 5.3.0

What’s new in Matomo 5.3.0

Matomo 5.3.0, our latest minor release, delivers a range of improvements focused on security, privacy, data archiving, and user experience, as well as general bug fixes. This update brings key user interface improvements across Matomo from a redesigned All Websites dashboard to improved usability of key actions in reports and extended variable support in Matomo Tag Manager.

Release Highlights

All Websites Dashboard: A More Intuitive and Powerful Overview

The redesigned All Websites Dashboard provides a streamlined, visually enhanced way to monitor multiple websites at a glance. With a modern layout and improved usability, it ensures that key metrics are accessible and actionable from any device for an optimised user experience.

New Total Hits metric

The All Websites Dashboard now includes the Total Hits metric to quickly gauge the overall volume of interactions for your sites. This excludes data from previously deleted sites or deleted records and may differ from billing hits, which could include historical data before deletion.

For general users, the dashboard presents a clear, consolidated view of key visitor insights, making it easier to track performance trends across multiple sites:

matomo all websites dashboard release 5.3.0

For admin users, the updated interface offers additional functionality, including subscription details and the ability to set up new website measurables directly from the dashboard:

matomo all websites dashboard for admin

The updated dashboard provides an optimised experience on any device – whether you’re on a desktop, tablet, or smartphone. With on-the-go access, you can effortlessly monitor multiple websites, review key visitor insights, and manage settings anytime, anywhere.

matomo all websites dashboard mobile app

Matomo Reports: Faster Access to Key Actions

Action icons in report tables, such as Change Visualisation, Export, and Search, are now available at the top of the report (below the report title) as well as at the end of the report. This improvement makes it easier to access key functions without scrolling, especially for reports with a large number of rows.

matomo reports with key actions at top

Privacy: Enhanced Compliance with GDPR Tools

When using the GDPR Tools to extract visitor data, Matomo now enforces privacy settings by preventing data retrieval for sites where visitor logs or visitor profiles are disabled. This ensures that personal data remains inaccessible when logging is turned off, reinforcing privacy protections and compliance.

Matomo Tag Manager: Smarter Configuration with Expanded Variable Support

  1. Tag Manager now supports additional tracking capabilities previously only available via direct JavaScript (_paq). Implemented functionalities within the Matomo Configuration Variable, aligning it more closely with JavaScript tracking.
  2. Added a new {{FormElement}} to capture and interact with specific form elements. This allows for easy reference to form elements in triggers and tags, and use CSS selectors and other methods to target specific form interactions.

After you update

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Database upgrade

This release does not contain any major database upgrade.

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Tickets closed in Matomo 5.3.0

All Websites Dashboard

Reporting

  • #22849: Increase width of the Segments drop-down list. [by @nathangavin]
  • #22827: Report tables now include action icons (e.g., change visualisation, export, search) below the report title and not only at the end of the report. [by @michalkleiner]
  • #23041: Super Users can now share user-specific segments without restricting the original owner’s ability to edit them. This update also improves the SegmentEditor API with enhanced type hinting and automatic sanitisation. [by @sgiehl]

Privacy and Security

  • #23017: When using the GDPR Tools to extract data, if a site with visitor logs or visitor profiles disabled is selected, the data is not available. [by @nathangavin]
  • #23068: The 2FA input field now uses autocomplete="one-time-code" and a new ID to prevent password managers from misidentifying it as a login field. [by @sgiehl]

Performance and Archiving

  • #22989: Allow invalidation of All Visits only and improvements to parts of the core:invalidate-report-data command. [by @sgiehl]
  • #22981: Store Hostname of archiving server in Invalidation Records. [by @sgiehl]
  • #23021: Adds a new command to allow administrators to reset stuck invalidations that are incorrectly marked as “in progress”. [by @sgiehl]
  • #23035: Automatically remove duplicate invalidations upon reset. [by @sgiehl]
  • #22979: Limit the processing time of archiving jobs. [by @sgiehl]
  • #22394: Prevent redundant double archiving of overlapping periods in multi-server setups. [by @sgiehl]

Matomo Tag Manager (MTM)

  • #943: Tag Manager now supports additional tracking capabilities previously only available via direct JavaScript (_paq). [by @AltamashShaikh]
  • #953: Added a new {{FormElement}} to capture and interact with specific form elements. [by @AltamashShaikh]
  • #967: The Google Analytics 4 (GA4) tag has been replaced with the Google tag (gtag.js), ensuring compatibility with the latest tracking implementation. [by @AltamashShaikh]
  • #972: Updated reference check to include variables referencing variables. [by @snake14]
  • #958: Fixed issue with missing array key at upgrade. [by @mikkeschiren]