stats bug since 2.3 (with wp-stats and SlimStats)

see https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/135835

and ticket #5121:
https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/5121

After upgrading to wordpress 2.3, none of my statistic plugins (wp-stats 1.1.1 and SlimStat? 1.605) work properly anymore.

It looks like all hits to posts are returned as hits for one post: Spider-Man 3 (2007) 112 https://www.ihad.de/2007/05/06/spider-man-3-2007/ e.g. a hit is listed as “Spider Man 3” but the link points to https://www.ihad.de/2005/09/16/pitch-black-2000/ a totally different article.

I moved the post back to “draft” status and sure enough wp-stats (and SlimStats?) started reporting all hits to any post as hits for post My first 80386 PC 4 https://www.ihad.de/2007/04/10/my-first-80386-pc/

Since this happens with any statistic plugin I am a bit at a loss what could be the cause. Possibly the wp 2.3 DB changes? This happens no matter what theme I have active (even the wp 2.3 default theme).

I had a friend search for “Rome canceled” in goggle and click on the link that leads to my post: https://www.ihad.de/2007/02/24/rome-season-3-cancelled/

afterwards the stats increased by one for the Spider-Man post…