while waiting for an almost ten gigabytes large piwik database to be updated, i’m just writing down that piwik got a new release yesterday.
upgrading piwik is easy. i pushed all steps to upgrade it on a linux (debian) server in a small shell script you may find useful.
simple update script for piwik
#!/bin/bash
# auto-update piwik
# @author bigbabou <bigbabou@web.de>
#
# where my current piwik resides
installdir=/var/www/
# where the ugly stuff should be made
workingdir=/home/bigbabou/
# used for copying the new piwik source
piwikdir=/home/bigbabou/piwik/*
logfile=updatepiwik.log
# where the new piwik can be downloaded
piwikurl=http://piwik.org/latest.zip
cd ${workingdir}
# check if update is necessary
wget -N -o${logfile} ${piwikurl}
# overwrite silently
unzip -q -o latest.zip
# tidy up old piwik dir
cd ${installdir}
rm -rf core js lang libs misc plugins tests themes tmp
rm index.php piwik.js piwik.php robots.txt README
# safe global.ini before updating
chown root config/global.ini.backup_by_script
chmod 770 config/global.ini.backup_by_script
echo 'copying new files'
cp -r ${piwikdir} .
chown -R www-data *
chgrp -R www-data *
ls --color=auto -lA ${installdir}
# make nightly precaching exectuable
chmod 770 ${installdir}'misc/cron/archive.sh'
# clean up stuff
cd ${workingdir}
rm latest.zip
rm How\ to\ install\ Piwik.html
rm -rf piwik
echo 'piwik update successful. have a nice day!'
## update db on shell
php ${installdir}index.php
echo ' - update script end -'
exit 0
two lines could be added for convenience
chmod 777 ${installdir}tmp/cache
chmod 777 ${installdir}tmp/templates_c