Snowplow JavaScript Tracker v1.0.0

Our 1.0.0 release! Lots of infrastructural improvements, some new features (like offline storage) and removing some very old deprecations.

• Blog post

New features

• Added user fingerprinting on/off switch and configurable hash seed (#7)

Testing & CI

• Added Intern unit tests for payload.js (#5)
• Wrote tests for AsyncQueueProxy (#100)
• Moved functions from identifers.js into payload.js and wrote Intern tests for them (#108)
• Added Travis CI to the project (#103)
• Added codeclimate button to README (#137)

Build & documentation

• Added named Grunt tasks (#86)
• Added a built with Grunt button to the README (#102)
• Added extra meta-data to package.json (#83)
• Moved part of banner.js into Gruntfile with grunt-concat's banner option so its values are based on package.json (#82)
• Added getting started info for developers to README, thanks @pkallos! (#129)

Architectural changes

• Started using Browserify for modules (#74)
• Replaced some/all of lib/.js with modules (#7)
• Tightened public API for SnowPlow (#29)
• Renamed SnowPlow everywhere to Snowplow (#69)
• Prepended window. or SnowPlow.windowAlias. onto _snaq everywhere (#39)
• Moved hasSessionStorage and hasLocalStorage into detectors.js (#91)
• Replaced all functions in identifiers.js which are directly available from lodash (#85)
• Removed legacy Piwik plugin framework (#56)

Deprecations

• Removed attachUserId as fully deprecated now (#64)
• Removed setSiteId as fully deprecated now (#63)
• Removed getVisitor-Id, -Info as fully deprecated now (#62)
• Removed trackEvent as fully deprecated now (#61)
• Deprecated trackImpression (#66)

Snowplow JavaScript Tracker v0.14.1

A single bug fix for the code underlying the setUserIdFrom* methods.

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug where fromQuerystring was matching fragments instead of just the querystring (#116)

Snowplow JavaScript Tracker v0.14.0

Some neat new features, and introducing a Grunt-based build process.

• Blog post

New features

• Introduced gzipped sp.js library (#48)
• Added setUserIdFromReferrer and setUserIdFromLocation (#57)
• Added ability to pass a referrer to Snowplow from an IFRAME (#1)
• Tested setDoNotTrack and renamed it to respectDoNotTrack (#28)
• Added setUserIdFromCookie (#78)

Grunt-based build process

• Switched deployment to use Grunt (#58)
• Replaced snowpak.sh with Grunt and grunt-yui-compressor (#53)
• Updated grunt and intern dependencies (#54)

Tidy up

• Removed all DEBUG blocks from codebase (#65)
• Renamed requestStringBuilder to payloadBuilder and moved it into its own file, payload.js (#55)
• Moved detect...() functions into new file context.js (#37)
• Moved cookie-related functionality into new file cookie.js (#77)
• Removed getLegacyCookieName as no longer needed for migrating cookie IDs (#50)

Snowplow JavaScript Tracker v0.13.1

Fixing an important bug which meant dtm (client timestamp) was no longer being sent.

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug where non-String values are not being added to our payload (#71)

Snowplow JavaScript Tracker v0.13.0

New functionality (custom contexts, transaction currencies, setPlatform) and some general tidy-up.

• Release blog post
• Custom contexts guide

New functionality

1. Added custom unstructured contexts (#49)
2. Added currency field to ecommerce transactions (#34)
3. Added setPlatform support, thanks @rcs! (#25)

Small additions

• Added base64decode to Tracker (#36)
• Added null check to requestStringBuilder() (#40)
• Added array helpers (#41)
• Fixed (harmless) bug in base64.js (#35)

Project tidy-up

• Added fully retrospective CHANGELOG (#20)
• Switched to Semantic versioning & only put MAJOR version in hosted path to snowplow.js (#47)
• Added package.json (#38)
• Added retrospective tags back in (#22)
• Restructured folders (#21)
• Update .gitignore to be node-friendly .gitignore (#52)