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Changelog

14.15.6 – 2025-11-09

• New: Introduced a refactored background-process migration system and removed legacy AJAX migrations.
• New: Updated the Single Visitor page and added an “Other Visits” section.
• Enhancement: Converted the Visitor Columns migrator into a background process, added a progress notice, and introduced a “Data Migrations” section on the Optimization page.
• Enhancement: Linked 404 report items directly to the Single Resource page.
• Fix: Fixed unknown location link issue in Visitor Information.
• Fix: Resolved chart display issues with non-Gregorian dates.
• Fix: Fixed external link detection for accurate outbound tracking.
• Fix: Corrected the label displayed for selected filters on the Link Tracker page.

14.15.5 – 2025-09-21

• Enhancement: Added date range validation on report pages.
• Enhancement: Improved compare style and number formatting in “At a Glance” widgets.
• Enhancement: Updated chart component to show a message when no data is available.
• Enhancement: Limited queue and AJAX migrations (and their notices) to the “Minimum Role to Manage Settings.”
• Enhancement: Refactored the migration codebase for better structure, readability, and maintainability.
• Enhancement: Added a “Recheck Schema” button on the optimization page to recheck database health via AJAX.
• Fix: Fixed console warnings on Chromium-based browsers on the settings page.
• Fix: Fixed incorrect “Queue Migration” completion notice after plugin updates.
• Fix: Resolved activation issues on fresh installs.
• Dev: Removed the wp_statistics_data_export_base_query and wp_statistics_data_export_query filters.

14.15.4 – 2025-09-02

• Enhancement: Refactored the update process and database schema updates to run on the frontend.
• Enhancement: Optimized the database manager to avoid duplicate queries.
• Enhancement: Improved Visitor Info display logic.
• Enhancement: Refactored install/uninstall code into separate classes for activation, load, and uninstall.
• Enhancement: Optimized schema health checks to run daily on the dashboard and after activation or updates.
• Enhancement: Improved responsiveness by converting “Optimize Page” actions in the Plugin Maintenance tab into asynchronous AJAX requests.
• Fix: Prevented wp_statistics_tracker_js_errors option bloat by limiting stored errors and truncating error messages.
• Fix: Fixed sorting issue in the Top Pages widget on the Page Insights report.
• Fix: Fixed Region widget issue when a country is not detected on the Geographic page.
• Fix: Prevented false “Queue Migration” notices after updates.
• Fix: Corrected the Filter Modal Reset button redirect.
• Fix: Fixed Visitor Journey not recording repeat visits to the same page.

14.15.3 – 2025-08-18

• Fix: Fixed a warning by validating geographic location codes are strings or integers before use.
• Fix: Correct redirect URL after clicking ‘Start Migration’.
• Fix: Fixed Author Analytics filter issue.
• Enhancement: Added LiteSpeed Cache detection for improved cache-related warning notifications.
• Enhancement: Randomized the execution time of the GeoIP update event to reduce simultaneous load on jsdelivr.
• Enhancement: Improve performance of visitor migration.

14.15.2 – 2025-08-10

• New: Added compatibility with the Borlabs Cookie plugin.
• New: License keys can now be set via wp-config.php using constants like WP_STATISTICS_LICENSE and are automatically validated on init.
• Enhancement: Visitor data now stores only the major browser version to improve performance and reduce query load.
• Enhancement: Refactored advanced reporting to reduce redundant queries and improve performance.
• Enhancement: Replaced the legacy Robot List with the Device-Detector isBot check and renamed the bot detection field.
• Fix: Fixed filter issues on the Visitors and Referred Visitors pages.
• Fix: Adjusted access control for specific plugin actions.
• Fix: Fixed display issues on the single-visitor page when user_id is missing.
• Fix: Updated the Top Countries widget to calculate percentages based on all visitors.

14.15.1 – 2025-07-29

• Enhancement: Numbers in Overview widgets are now abbreviated (e.g., 10k), with full values shown on hover.
• Enhancement: Made integration JS files dependencies of tracker.js to avoid cache-related issues.
• Enhancement: Display a notice when a caching plugin is active.
• Fix: Fixed an issue with transient cache duration settings.
• Fix: Corrected color display for period-over-period comparison metrics.

14.15 – 2025-07-22

• New: Added an Overview report for Visitor Insight.
• New: Added an Overview report for Page Insights.
• New: Added a Device Overview report.
• Enhancement: Improved migration performance by running schema updates synchronously and removing background processes.
• Enhancement: Improved the Views report under Visitor Insight.
• Enhancement: Unset the Consent Integration setting when integration is deactivated.
• Enhancement: Added country name to flag tooltip in Visitor Info.
• Enhancement: Added unread notification badge to the Help Center menu.
• Enhancement: Merged notification and campaign cron jobs into a single daily schedule.
• Enhancement: Dashboard now shows only the “Traffic Overview” widget by default for a cleaner start.
• Enhancement: Optimized getTrafficOverviewData for fewer queries and faster widget loading.
• Enhancement: Skipped GeoIP database download in local environments to speed up setup.
• Enhancement: Removed unused comments join from Page Insights query to improve performance.
• Enhancement: Improved “Back” button functionality across pages to return to the previous view accurately.
• Enhancement: Improved warning message for missing consent-management plugin.
• Fix: Fixed report URL issues for custom post types.
• Fix: Resolved zero page view issues for non-‘category’ taxonomy filters.
• Fix: Fixed incorrect tracking of WooCommerce My Account sub-pages.
• Fix: Prevented number_format() warning when value is null in PHP 8.4.5.

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