Release Notes for WhatPulse

5.5.2 2023-08-29

🐛 Bug Fixes

• There was an issue in 5.5 and 5.5.1 where WhatPulse could crash when networking stats were enabled, the system wakes up from sleep, and there was a change in the network (wifi or new IP address).
• Don't disable the time period selection when the mouse heat map is disabled, as the time period also works for the details page.
• Fixed tagging versions with 3 numbers (like 5.5.1) as a beta version.

5.5.1 2023-08-25

📈 Improvements

• Updated translation files. Chinese and Slovakian are much improved.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Internal bug fix with how network stats are sent to the website.

5.5 2023-08-21

🎉 New Features

• Added exports of key combinations via the export wizard. 🪄
• Added a banner message when a computer is archived, keeping you informed. 
• Added a manual backup trigger in the account tab for added convenience. 🗃️
• Windows: Transitioned to Lostdomain codesign for enhanced stability. This means the permissions pop up will say Lostdomain, instead of WhatPulse. 🔒

📈 Improvements

• Exporting the mouse heat now to match your screen resolution accurately, instead of the smaller image it was previously. 🖥️
• Enhanced link readability in the dark theme. 🎨
• Simplified translation by allowing custom translation files via a command line parameter. 🌍
• Optimized network interface counters for macOS, resulting in better performance and reliability. 
• Revived the auto-updating feature for effortless updates. Stay up to date with ease! 🔄

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug causing high CPU usage when a network interface disappears. 💯
• Resolved a bug where the client could crash when resuming from sleep, when networking was enabled and there was a change in the computers' network. 💤
• Resolved an issue where the network interface IP address was not displaying on macOS. 
• Custom time periods no longer reset to the last month when refreshing. 📆
• Real-time time period selection now remembers your preference across sessions. ⏳

5.4 2023-04-03

🎉 New Features

• Added a period selection on the Overview tab so you can glance at all your stats in a specific time window.
• Throughout the interface, WhatPulse now remembers the time window you've selected last and shows it again when you re-open the client.

📈 Improvements

• Improved handling of applications that run from network paths. Sometimes it couldn't determine the application name and showed the entire path.
• The WhatPulseMaintenanceTool will no longer be updated every time, which prevents the updater from needing to run twice.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• On the Applications overview of the Uptime tab, duplicate apps might've been listed. Not anymore.
• Additional fixes for network traffic numbers; make sure the Geek Window also shows 6PB+ and correct a miscalculation throughout the interface.
• Sometimes the Input History chart could show the number of keys or clicks from the same hour of the day before. I.e., 10 am today was actually 10 am yesterday. 

5.3 2023-03-14

🎉 New Features

• Brand new real-time network traffic chart

📈 Improvements

• Better network statistics performance, recording higher speeds.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix showing larger total download & upload values than 2.8PB
• Fix crashing bug with automated database backups for certain accounts

5.2 2023-03-04

📝 Notes

• We've prepared 5.2 for an upcoming website update that is scheduled for March 16th. To ensure uninterrupted pulsing, we encourage all users to upgrade to WhatPulse 5.2 before that date.

🎉 New Features

• Introducing %TodayUptime% as a variable in the Geek Window, which displays today's uptime.

📈 Improvements

• Improved application upload handling, which resolves missing applications on the website.
• Enhanced Geek Window sizing, allowing for a much smaller window size.
• For Premium users, we have improved the weekly online database backups to run in the background, instead of the dedicated backup window.
• Improved mouse distance handling; distances could be too great in some scenarios.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Apple M-CPUs were showing up as 'Apple M1 Ma'.
• Corrected the initial application uptime overview, which was displaying all-time instead of today's data.
• Fixed an issue where pulsing application stats for newly installed clients were not showing up in some cases.
• On macOS 13 and above, we have signed the WhatPulseMaintenanceTool.app, which enables it to run again. Previous versions of macOS may require a reinstallation to activate the updates.

5.1 2022-11-30

🎉 New Features

• Add unpulsed mouse scrolls, mouse distance, and ranks for scrolls and distance to Geek Window variables.
• Make the Geek Window canvas larger, so you can add more stats.
• Apple Silicon: Also make the installer a native Silicon app, preventing the need of Rosetta for the installation of WhatPulse.

📈 Improvements

• Windows hid system shortcuts (mostly involving alt) from WhatPulse, but not anymore. Key counts and key combination recording now includes system shortcuts.
• Handle monitor setup changes (resolution, dpi changes) better, making mouse distance moved more reliable when you make changes to your monitor(s).
• Minor interface changes, like rearranging the stats on the Overview tab, styling the Geek Window transparency slider, and more.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix application selection resetting, causing a possible crash when acting on an application (like ignoring it).
• Skip tabs that are disabled (i.e., uptime is disabled entirely) during scroll and arrow navigation.
• Fix the network per-country view when changing between time windows; when going from a large time window (month) to a small (today), it didn't clean up the countries that have no stats for today.
• Reinstate buttons on macOS color picker for the Geek Window to make it clearer you can pick a new color and click OK.
• Linux: Resolve SSL errors when downloading and restoring a database.

5.0 2022-11-21 Read more

🎉 New Features

• New stats for mouse distance and scrolls!

  • Mouse distance is tracked in inches and translated into your native measurements. You can toggle between metric and imperial in the General Settings.
  • Scrolls are counted in all directions: up, down, left, and right.
  • We redesigned the mouse details page to fit the new metrics.
  • Includes per-application stats.
• Computer Uptime: Add an uptime chart with the hourly uptime of the last eight days.
• Computer Uptime: Change the "Favorite reboot days" dot chart into a pie chart that's easier to read.
• Add support for hourly mouse coordinate exports.
• Add navigation links to the feedback form and help center for easy access.
• Support for macOS 13 (Ventura) and Apple Silicon processors.
• Add the ability to delete a network interface from the list, deleting its history.
• Add a startup parameter to get the current client version.

  • For example: .\WhatPulse.exe --version

📈 Improvements

• Improve Geek Window position tracking with multiple monitors and fix remembering the Geek Window position between sessions.
• Make it easier to change the Geek Window font size.
• Upload the computer profile (specs, hardware) after pulsing if the website doesn't have a profile. Speeds up the computer profile visibility.

• Modernize the software framework: Windows is now 64bit only, and we upgraded Qt from v5 to v6. This means faster development.

• Ignore Tailscale VPN interfaces. VPN interfaces produce bad stats.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Don't shuffle tabs when saving the settings, making the page jump.
• Input and Network applications could show fewer stats than recorded when applications have multiple different folders from where it runs. An example of an application that does this is Discord.
• Sometimes the client would not start on Windows with a non-administrator account, and when 'Run as Administrator' was enabled.
• Fix the percentage calculation of the mouse button with low numbers. Sometimes the middle button showed 1% with 0 clicks.
• Fix mouse coordinate exports. In some cases, the results were 0x0 instead of the resolution coordinates (i.e., 1021x879)
• Linux: fix detecting touchpad gestures as (many) clicks in some scenarios.
• Windows: Fix navigation menu icon size and quality when system scaling is more than 150%

📝 Notes

• The Linux AppImage is the only distribution from now on. We will no longer update the Snap.
• In line with the Premium features and messaging, the per-application input and uptime history are now limited to 1 week.

4.3 2022-09-04

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Mouse Heat Map could show only top left clicks in certain situations.
• Sometimes the Russian language didn't show in the options.

4.2 2022-09-01 Read more

🐛 Bug Fixes

• The mouse heat map could show a red dot after playing certain games. These games lock the cursor in the center of the screen. WhatPulse now ignores these clicks on the heat map.
• Networking stats on Windows could stop collecting after a computer wakes up from sleep.

📈 Improvements

• WhatPulse needs certain macOS system permissions to measure network traffic, and sometimes macOS overrules those permissions, stopping the network stats. We've improved the handling of these permissions, making them permanent.
• There's no longer a popup when you run WhatPulse as an administrator, and running as an administrator is now the default. This will make sure we count all applications.

🎉 New Features

• Remote Desktop & Virtual Machine Support for keys and clicks, networking and uptime were already supported.
• A way to upload your computer hardware changes directly to the website via the Settings tab under the Advanced button. 
• Add Russian to the available languages.
• Add translations for the facts in German, Spanish, Polish, and Slovak.