Crontab Archiving not working after upgrade

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When running manually the command for test I receive this;

cosmic@trace:~$ sudo /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/matomo/console core:archive --url="https://trace.uhlhosting.ch/"
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:26] 24495  ---------------------------
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:26] 24495  INIT
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:26] 24495  Running Matomo 3.10.0-b3 as Super User
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:26] 24495  ---------------------------
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:26] 24495  NOTES
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:26] 24495  - If you execute this script at least once per hour (or more often) in a crontab, you may disable 'Browser trigger archiving' in Matomo UI > Settings > General Settings.
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:26] 24495    See the doc at: https://matomo.org/docs/setup-auto-archiving/
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:26] 24495  - Reports for today will be processed at most every 900 seconds. You can change this value in Matomo UI > Settings > General Settings.
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:26] 24495  - Reports for the current week/month/year will be requested at most every 3600 seconds.
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:26] 24495  - Archiving was last executed without error 12 min 12s ago
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:26] 24495  ---------------------------
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:26] 24495  START
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:26] 24495  Starting Matomo reports archiving...
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  - no new tracking data for website id 1 since 2019-06-06 13:05:14 UTC (since the last successful archiving)
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  Skipped website id 1 as archiving is not needed
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  - tracking data found for website id 2 since 2019-06-06 13:05:14 UTC (since the last successful archiving)
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  Skipped website id 2, already done 12 min 24s ago, Time elapsed: 0.003s
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  - no new tracking data for website id 3 since 2019-06-06 13:05:14 UTC (since the last successful archiving)
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  Skipped website id 3 as archiving is not needed
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  - no new tracking data for website id 4 since 2019-06-06 13:05:14 UTC (since the last successful archiving)
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  Skipped website id 4 as archiving is not needed
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  Done archiving!
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  ---------------------------
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  SUMMARY
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  Total visits for today across archived websites: 0
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  Archived today's reports for 0 websites
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  Archived week/month/year for 0 websites
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  Skipped 4 websites
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  - 3 skipped because no new visit since the last script execution
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  - 1 skipped because existing daily reports are less than 900 seconds old
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  - 0 skipped because existing week/month/year periods reports are less than 3600 seconds old
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  Total API requests: 0
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  done: 0/4 0%, 0 vtoday, 0 wtoday, 0 wperiods, 0 req, 343 ms, no error
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  Time elapsed: 0.343s
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  ---------------------------
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  SCHEDULED TASKS
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  Starting Scheduled tasks... 
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  done
INFO [2019-06-06 13:17:27] 24495  ---------------------------

Now when I run these commands:

cosmic@trace:/etc/cron.d$ sudo crontab -u www-data -e

MAILTO="cosmin@uhlhost.net"
5 * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/matomo/console core:archive --url="https://trace.uhlhosting.ch/" > /var/log/matomo/matomo-archive.log

cosmic@trace:/etc/cron.d$ grep 'CRON'.*\(www-data\) /var/log/syslog
Jun  6 07:05:01 trace CRON[15986]: (www-data) CMD (/usr/bin/php /var/www/html/matomo/console core:archive --url="https://trace.uhlhosting.ch/" > /dev/null)
Jun  6 08:05:01 trace CRON[16944]: (www-data) CMD (/usr/bin/php /var/www/html/matomo/console core:archive --url="https://trace.uhlhosting.ch/" > /dev/null)
Jun  6 09:05:01 trace CRON[18058]: (www-data) CMD (/usr/bin/php /var/www/html/matomo/console core:archive --url="https://trace.uhlhosting.ch/" > /dev/null)
Jun  6 10:05:01 trace CRON[19394]: (www-data) CMD (/usr/bin/php /var/www/html/matomo/console core:archive --url="https://trace.uhlhosting.ch/" > /dev/null)
Jun  6 11:05:01 trace CRON[20203]: (www-data) CMD (/usr/bin/php /var/www/html/matomo/console core:archive --url="https://trace.uhlhosting.ch/" > /dev/null)
Jun  6 12:05:01 trace CRON[21404]: (www-data) CMD (/usr/bin/php /var/www/html/matomo/console core:archive --url="https://trace.uhlhosting.ch/" > /dev/null)
Jun  6 13:05:01 trace CRON[22816]: (www-data) CMD (/usr/bin/php /var/www/html/matomo/console core:archive --url="https://trace.uhlhosting.ch/" > /dev/null)
cosmic@trace:/etc/cron.d$

I have added logging to latest crontab edit, since was hopping to find more details why is reported in admin UI like:

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Well, the archiving reports that you have no new visits, since the last archiving. No errors in sight.

For the message in the admin UI: Do you have disabled browser archiving? It will only check your cron archiving if the browser archiving is disabled.

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Thanks for reply! It seems the Browser archiving was On after upgrade, this caused all the confusion. Now all stats are back green, will keep count of such in future.

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