Matomo 0.4.4

New Features
#425, #904, #908 – Provide MYSQLI support
#642 – package Piwik for Microsoft Web Application Gallery
Added Norwegian and Korean translations

Bug Fixes
#923 – invalid XML response from UsersManager.getSitesAccessFromUser
#926 – add character encoding for the Export as Image page
#935 – re-order code to make global vars available to a plugin’s JavaScript
#942 – calendar should use server date for ‘today’
#944 – timestamp should appear before message in log files
#945 – set session name and prefix session namespaces
#953 – API doesn’t handle default null parameters well
#954 – escape left & right brackets in URL; fixes Open Flash Chart error in some environments
#962, #963 – fix “integer” and “float” detection in getRequestVar(); remove “numeric” default
#964 – fix Opera 10 detection
#974 – Swedish characters don’t show up properly in UI
#975 – reload page if user logs out in another tab
#976 – exception if session.save_path not writeable
#978 – fix %ss typo in translations
#996 – fixes message box error when deleting a website open for editing (Settings | Websites)
#999 – suppress top bar navigation links for disabled plugins
#1003 – fix problem with empty translation strings
#1005 – delete obsolete directories for users updating from pre-Piwik 0.2.10
#1007 – workaround Opera 9.22 EMCAScript engine (parser bug)
– Add IGNORE keyword to ALTER statement; MySQL in ‘strict’ mode was erroring out ‘Incorrect integer value’.
– Fix color assignments when more than 8 items loaded in Evolution chart

Maintenance

Updated Catalan, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Serbian translations
#497 – Update to Zend Framework 1.9.4
#540 – adding support for plugins that define their own unit tests
#632 – move local mods to subclassed ZF classes
#749 – Login form changes
#913 – add detection for Iron web browser
#916 – update search engines list; remove some duplicates
#918 – filter out newest Googlebot
#919 – more helpful help text (Installation)
#921, #922 – Added Piwik_View::factory().
#925 – add curl & stream fallback methods to sendHttpRequest()
#929, #941 – minor css changes
#937 – set_time_limit() refactoring
#951 – remove download and outlink variable names from global.ini.php
#956 – json_encode or xml extensions required; add system checks to Installation
#957 – adding support for Tracker plugin unit testing
#958 – update the Live/Bing bot filter
#971 – Update to Open Flash Charts version 2 Lug Wrym Charmer
#995 – add bz2 and tbz2 to list of recognized download extensions in piwik.js; updated QUnit
– consistent use of Piwik_TranslateException()
– changes to isPhpCliMode()
– phpdoc updates

Translations
#759, #924, #937, #939 – We need your help translating the Installation and CoreUpdater plugins! The strings are now fully translatable. We’ve added browser language detection and a language selection drop down.

Our thanks to anush, bodo, cn_dark, feyp, hansfn, jpfle, pebosi, Glen Solsberry, and Ralf Trattman for patches.