Sub-teams

Ever since people could form teams to compete against other groups, we have gotten the requests for the ability to divide a teams up in sub-teams to further improve their competing capabilities.

You can now (team founders and managers only) create sub-teams inside your team and start competing within your team!

On your own time

The pulse times have always been displayed in the local time of where WhatPulse is located (in the Netherlands). But due to diversity of our users, that is simply not practical anymore.

From now on, the time displayed will be in your own personal time. You can also choose the time zone you want to use by using the link on the bottom of each page.

Other Nuggets

• Allow users to reset their own stats

• Make the computer chart on the profiles metric selectable

• Add sub-teams to Web API

• Add easy “Join Team” button to team profile page

• Don’t require users to part their current team before joining a new one

• Normalize dates and times across the site

• Add “My Stats” & “My Team” buttons to help center and forums header

• Fix user team rank bug; it always displayed the last ranking in the team

• Fix menu highlights in forums and help center

Debian 7.0 (Wheezy) has been released recently, and they have updated the Qt packages to the minimum required version to run the WhatPulse client.

This is why we’ve compiled a Debian version of the WhatPulse client.

You can download the Debian release here: http://whatpulse.org/downloads/

The regular Linux installation how-to also applies to Debian.

When you do upgrade, please make sure you pulse your statistics before upgrading. This new version includes stronger database integrity checks, which might cause it to logout the first time 2.1 starts. After this first time, the client will make sure your database stays safe and strong!

As usual, you can find 2.1 on our download page. You can also find a summary of the changes right here:

New!

• Per application keyboard/mouse statistics

• WinPcap 4.1.3 for Windows 8 support

• The login procedure has been simplified to be a breeze. You can add computers from the wizard and it auto detects your computer name.

• New updater for automatic updates to make updating easier

• An option to run WhatPulse as Administrator (Windows), to catch input from elevated applications

Fixed!

• Database backups. This fixes startup crashes and data loss

• Random client crashes

• Client not counting input stats after hibernations

• Linux crash when pf_ring (network) was not available

• Windows lag every 5 minutes

• Tons of other little things!

Improved!

• Network monitoring performance (less CPU)

• Time period selector for per country network stats

• Windows XP support (input and network stats)

• Require SSL libraries on Linux, otherwise account settings cannot be saved

• Linux: Set up network capabilities automatically instead of having to do it manually

• Log to ‘app.log’ inside the settings directory so you can see what’s going on

• Tons of other little things!

Note: If you are getting a startup error on Windows, please remove the directory %LOCALAPPDATA%WhatPulse and try again. It means your database is not integer, coming from the old client.

• Add computer list to Web API output

• Add SSL access for Web API (https://api.whatpulse.org)

• Add pie chart of computer usage in public profile

• Add “Latest Forum Posts” to public profile

• Add missing premium membership trial page

• Add profile preview window when editing your profile

• Add an easy way to add statistic variables in the profile editor

• Optimise loading times by using a CDN for the media files

• Fix short urls for usernames with special characters

• Fix 32/64bit linux downloads by linking to the linux client download page

• Fix “My WhatPulse” navigation when already inside the /my/ menu

• Fix avatar uploads in certain browsers

All users are encouraged to update to WhatPulse 2.0.4, available on our download page! (pulse before you install)

Here is a full list of the changes:

• [Enhancement] Add an option to disable automated pulse notifications

• [Enhancement] Blink tray icon on keyboard or mouse option (plus an option to disable that)

• [Enhancement] Launch Geek Window on startup when it was open upon closing the client

• [Enhancement] Update statistics every second when Geek Window is open

• [Enhancement] Don’t show tray notifications when a full screen application is running

• [Enhancement] Add the ability to auto detect the system proxy server

• [Enhancement] Add total account overview (totals + ranks) to account tab

• [Enhancement] Only use database file every 5 minutes, cache everything else. This brings disk I/O usage to a near standstill.

• [Enhancement] Make scheduled backups of databases and fall back on backups if main database file gets corrupted

• [Fix] Improve accuracy of measuring both uptime and bandwidth

• [Fix] Count bandwidth from and to a proxy server in unpulsed stats (was excluded in previous clients)

• [Fix] Show more accurate network usage on interface overview

• [Fix] Don’t check for updates or internet IP when “Work Offline” is enabled

• [Fix] The ‘Year’ option in the keyboard + mouse heat map was not the last 12 months, but the current year

• [Fix] Extra precautions for double pulsing

• [Windows — Enhancement] Don’t show a icon in the taskbar for the Geek Window

• [Windows — Enhancement] Improve input (keys/clicks) hooks for full screen or heavy load applications (games)

• [Windows — Enhancement] Count unknown (media) keys.

• [Windows — Fix] The client crashed when certain applications were running

• [OSX — Enhancement] Replace the black menu icon with a more fitting one.

• [OSX — Enhancement] Optimize detection of network interfaces (2500% quicker)

• [OSX — Enhancement] Optimize detection of running processes (120% quicker)

• [OSX — Fix] Detect when computer goes into sleep mode and release lock on bpf device(s). This will make sure OSX won’t need to create extra bpf devices, which in turn will make the client ask you for your password to reset permissions on these new files.

• [Linux — Enhancement] Multiple CPU optimizations for better performance

• [Linux — Enhancement] Optimize application bandwidth measuring (less CPU)

• [Linux — Fix] Some network interfaces were not detected if certain system files did not exist

If you’re wondering where 2.0.2 and 2.0.3 went, they were released on the forums. 😉