Matomo 5.7.0 is now available, including the latest patch release 5.7.1 with security and stability improvements. If you’re running Matomo on-premise, we recommend keeping your instance up to date to benefit from the latest enhancements and protections.

This release focuses on improving the overall stability, reliability, and day-to-day usability of the platform.

One highlight: you can now reorder reports in Scheduled Reports using drag and drop. A small change that saves real time when you manage multiple reports for your team.

We've also improved archiving robustness, period selection, and reduced unnecessary error logging across the platform.

More features are in the works for upcoming releases, with some useful insights about AI. Stay tuned!

We have some important news to share about how Matomo is evolving:

Adam Taylor, previously Chief Operating Officer, has been appointed CEO of Matomo, effective this month.

Matthieu Aubry, co-founder and CEO for over 10 years, moves into the newly created role of Chief Product Officer (CPO) to focus on product strategy, innovation, and keeping the platform closely aligned with your needs.

What does this mean for you, users of Matomo? Matthieu's full-time focus on the product means faster progress on the features, usability, and enterprise capabilities you've been asking for.

We're also expanding our presence in Europe with 2 new Country Sales Lead for France and Germany.

These changes reflect our commitment to being closer to you, understanding your local reality, and building an analytics platform you can rely on for the long term.

As you've seen above, our updates often include critical security patches. Applying updates as soon as they're available is one of the simplest and most effective steps you can take to protect your instance. But keeping Matomo up to date is just one part of the picture.

We've put together a practical security checklist that covers everything from 2FA and access controls to API token management, file permissions, and database hardening. It's structured by deployment type, so whether you run Matomo Cloud or On-Premise, you'll find the steps that apply to you.

Not technical? No problem. You can download the checklist and forward it to your IT team in one click.

It's designed to be actionable, with clear difficulty levels and direct links to the relevant documentation.

Your dashboards might be lying to you.

A growing share of website traffic now comes from AI assistants, crawlers, and automated systems. Not from real people. From a server perspective, it all looks the same. From a decision-making perspective, the difference is everything.

If you can't tell which visits are human and which are machines, you risk optimising for noise. In our latest article, we break down how AI is changing what your analytics data actually means, why total sessions are becoming a misleading metric, and how to start measuring what matters: real human traffic.

Six years ago, we released the first version of Matomo for WordPress, bringing privacy-first analytics directly into the WordPress ecosystem.

We'd love to hear from you. If Matomo for WordPress has been useful for your site, leaving a review on WordPress.org makes a real difference. It helps other site owners discover ethical analytics, and it helps us understand what's working and what we can improve.

It takes two minutes and means a lot to help other users!

We're proud to share that Matomo has been recognised at the FOSS Awards, celebrating outstanding contributions to free and open-source software!

the contributors who improve the code, the translators who make Matomo accessible worldwide, and every organisation that chooses open-source analytics. Thank you for being part of this!