Providing updates

Change notifications

To add "What's new?" change notifications for your plugin, create a changes.json file in your plugin folder containing JSON data to describe each change.

[
  {
    "title":       "New feature x added",
    "description": "Now you can do a with b like this",
    "version":     "4.0.2",
    "link_name":   "For more information go here",
    "link":        "https://www.matomo.org"
  },
  {
    "title":       "New feature y added",
    "description": "Now you can do c with d like this.",
    "version":     "4.0.1"
  }
]

Key	Description
title	A short heading describing the change.
description	Body text describing the change in more detail, HTML may be used.
version	The version of the plugin in which this changes was made.
link_name	Display name of a link to be shown underneath the change description, optional.
link	URL of the link, optional.

Whenever a plugin is installed or updated any new entries in the changes.json file will be loaded into the changes database table and shown when the "What's New?" menu icon is clicked. Change notifications are loaded in reverse order from how they appear in the changes.json file, so the last entry in the file will be displayed first. Changes will be shown for six months from the date that they were loaded.