WhatPulse 6.0.1

The new issue reporter in 6.0 worked wonders! It gave us a lot of useful insights into what was causing crashes and instability on various computer configurations and corner cases. We’ve fixed a lot of those issues, and this update should be much more stable across all platforms.

Crash fixes

• Notifications – Fixed crashes when clicking or dismissing banners multiple times during animation.
• System tray – Fixed crashes from rapidly clicking/tapping the tray icon.
• Charts – Fixed crashes when hovering over charts while data was refreshing.
• Profile switching – Fixed crash when switching profiles from the tray without opening Settings first.
• Shutdown stability – Hardened cleanup of network monitor, browser extension server, database, and heatmap components to prevent crashes on exit. Nothing you'd notice, but it should reduce the chance of crashes during shutdown or sleep.
• Heatmap settings – Fixed crashes when changing monitor setups while the heat map is open, and specifically when it was refreshing.

Platform-specific fixes

• macOS

  • Safer GeoIP database updates (no more file overwrite crashes).
  • Fixed timestamp bug that could cause timezone-related crashes.

• Windows

  • Third-party shell extensions (e.g., OneDrive/Dropbox) could cause crashes when WhatPulse was retrieving application icons. This is now handled more robustly, ignoring the extension if it causes issues.
  • Fixed rare double-launch after automatic update.
  • Improved MSI uninstall cleanup.

• Linux

  • Fixed crashes during network changes and WhatPulse exits.
  • Properly stopped packet capture thread on exit.
  • Upgraded Qt to fix monitor hotplug crashes.
  • Hid non-functional “pending apps” indicator.

Improvements

• Faster time series sync – Catch-up sync is now much faster after being offline.

A solid stability update to keep WhatPulse running smoothly in the background.