What's new with WhatPulse?

🎉 New Features

• Full redesign of the client, moving from 1990s design to the 21st century. All new icons, buttons, heatmaps, and more!
• Sign Windows installer and client. Removes the "unknown publisher" warning.

📈 Improvements

• Improve rich tray menu usage significantly.
• Upgrade to Qt 5.15.
• Windows: Let Qt handle scaling on high DPI screens. This should significantly improve the presentation of the client.

🎉 New Features

• A completely new tray menu that shows your current stats and looks a whole lot better.
• Allow meta key (ctrl on Windows, cmd on macOS) + 1,2,3, etc. to navigate through the client tabs (Input, Network, etc.).
• Use Npcap instead of WinPcap for traffic statistics. Npcap has improved speed and efficiency, and has better support for wireless networks.
• macOS 10.15 support

📈 Improvements

• Database handling has been improved significantly. With an upgraded SQLite version, optimised settings, background data loading, and more - the client database should be more stable (hopefully no more critical database failures) and faster.
• Improve macOS security handling by always checking for the right permissions for asking to fix them.
• Windows: Improve client deployment procedure and make sure all dependencies are included. This fixes issues like; no browser opening when logging into the client, looking at an empty client, and more.
• macOS: Let the client to be in light mode, always. Forced dark mode does not look good. (tbc)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix some drop down boxes that showed a scrollbar.
• Fix exporting data for a custom time window.

📝 Notes

• Known Issue: Windows installer and application are not signed; you might need to press "continue anyway".
• Known Issue: Tray menu shows regularly when you're not logged in (instead of the login focused menu).

🎉 New Features

• The login system has been completely redesigned to callback to the website to log in. This means the Facebook login has been fixed and we've added options for Twitter, Google and LinkedIn. When logging in to the client, a browser window will open which allows you to log onto the website and authorize your client.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix calculation of the current uptime in specific Windows versions.

📈 Improvements

• Revamp OpenSSL support to 1.1+ (mostly for the Linux versions).
• Add the latest Apple computers recognition.

🎉 New Features

• Applications were not uploading properly from certain systems with an older database structure or older sqlite libraries.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• From 2.8.2b1, new applications didn't upload. This fixes that!

📈 Improvements

• IMPORTANT: There have been a couple of security updates. First, password handling has been made more accurate and secure (thanks to Caboose700, for reporting it). This will automatically be updated when you log in to our website.

Second, the client to website communication is now encrypted end-to-end. An anonymous reporter (thanks!) brought a scenario to our attention where it was possible to extract data from the back and forth between the client and website. This update prevents those leaks.

For more in depth information about these changes, check our blog.

🎉 New Features

• Client settings are now saved to the website. When you log in to an existing computer, the client will ask you if you want to apply the existing settings or start anew.
• When starting a new client for the first time, a small wizard (not Gandalf) will guide you through the settings.
• When logging into an existing computer, it will now display the totals per stat (previously it started from 0).
• In all date selectors, the ability to select a custom date range (instead of just today, yesterday, 3 months ago, etc).
• We're now using the new logo on the client. There are 2 options: a black or white version to best suit your theme.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• On high-resolution screens, the client now looks normal again (instead of HUMONGOUS text and images).
• In certain situations the keyboard heat map wasn't loading. This has been fixed.
• On MacOS, the system permission correction sometimes didn't go through properly and you had to do it by hand.
• Fix the error "drive not found" when a USB disk with an application on it gets ejected.

🎉 New Features

• There is a refresh icon below the keyboard heat map that spins while the heat map is loading, so you can see when it is doing so.

📈 Improvements

• Speed up the startup time of the client.
• Download all files (the network port translation, GeoIP database) over HTTPS.
• Prepare the client for multiple languages (coming soon).

🎉 New Features

• When logging in to an already used computer, the client can now download its previously used settings and apply them.
• When logging into a new computer, the client will present a quick guide to configure the most used client settings.
• Added a setting to automatically install new updates.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Windows: Actually show the keyboard heat-map refresh button.
• MacOS: Fix automatically setting permissions for keyboard & mouse access (since 2.8.2b2)

🎉 New Features

• Download total computer stats (keys, clicks, etc) when logging into your account. If for some reason the local WhatPulse files are lost, you'll still have the total computer stats again.

📈 Improvements

• Replace a couple of left over old logo images with the new logo.
• Add a "Check for Updates" menu item and have the updater on MacOS be more active & accurate.

🎉 New Features

• Support for dvorak and azerty keyboard layouts in the keyboard heat map.

📈 Improvements

• Upload new applications every 5 minutes instead of every 15 minutes so it appears on the website quicker.
• Remove the application information requirement from uploading and try to find matching info on the website.
• Reduce amount of background workers. Some systems still have instability issues, this will dramatically reduce the crashes (hopefull to zero) on those systems.
• General optimization of bandwidth collector. Better performance at higher bandwidth rates.
• Remove some memory leaks when disabling and re-enabling statistics manually.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Asking to execute an unneeded update for WinPcap.
• Fix crash on client exit (networking stack)
• Linux: Fix incorrect counting of bandwidth (missing a few bytes)
• OS X Mavericks: Fix some font issues
• Linux: Fix empty process details on some systems
• Windows: Launching updater from client failed (updater.exe not found)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Windows: Client crash or disabling input twice (or putting your computer to sleep twice).
• OS X: Fix client crash on upgraded systems with older libpcap.
• Windows: Sometimes the updater.exe wasn't launched correctly. ("updater.exe not found")