What's new with WhatPulse?

Use setting
Include beta releases

WhatPulse 2.8.2b2

December 27, 2017

πŸŽ‰ 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.

πŸ“ˆ 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.

WhatPulse 2.2.1

December 27, 2017

WhatPulse 2.3b1

December 27, 2017

πŸŽ‰ New Features

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

πŸ“ˆ 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.

πŸ› 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)

WhatPulse 2.3b2

December 27, 2017

πŸ› 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")

WhatPulse 2.3b3

December 27, 2017

πŸ› Bug Fixes

  • Applications were not uploading properly from certain systems with an older database structure or older sqlite libraries.
  • Removed reference to broken pcap function which can cause the client to crash on system resumes.
  • Client crashed when the Uptime Activity graph was open and you refreshed the account information and Premium was activated.

πŸŽ‰ New Features

  • Open Main Window on tray double click, if 'Pulse on double click' has been disabled.
  • Added (currently static) application aliases for better naming applications.

πŸ“ˆ Improvements

  • Account Wizard tab glitched on final login step.
  • Set "Upload application info" to default enabled.
  • Added button for a link to the Premium explanation on the 'Premium Only' tabs.

πŸ› Bug Fixes

  • 'Premium Only' background disappeared when opening and closing the main window several times.
  • Account tab header displayed twice on initial login.
  • Update "Premium:" text value on "Refresh Status" button.

WhatPulse 2.3

December 27, 2017

πŸŽ‰ New Features

  • Added support for dvorak and azerty keyboard layouts
  • OS X Mavericks support

πŸ› Bug Fixes

  • A few remaining client random crash situations. All platforms should be stable as a rock now!
  • Allow GeoIP database downloads on computers using a non-standard character set
  • When using an upgraded client, applications were sometimes not properly uploaded to the website.
  • On Windows tilde and apostrophe were sometimes mixed up. On OS X 9, tilde and caps lock were sometimes not counted.
  • OS X: The client sometimes lost the network hook when coming out of sleep, or even crashed.
  • WINDOWS: Sometimes the updater was not launched correctly (Ҁœupdater.exe not foundҀ)

πŸ“ˆ Improvements

  • Interface and collection optimizations on memory and CPU, making the client use 40% less memory and be 20% faster.
  • Only used applications are now sent to the website, minimizing clutter in your overviews.
  • Interface updating has been tweaked so that the Geek Window updates are a lot smoother.
  • Ignore dead center clicks in the mouse heat map. Some games lock the cursor in the center, ruining your mouse heat map.
  • ҀœRefresh StatusҀ on the Account tab now also refreshes totals and ranks.
  • When ҀœPulse on double clickҀ is disabled, open the main window upon double clicks.
  • A lot of tiny awesome stuff!

WhatPulse 2.3.1

December 27, 2017

πŸŽ‰ New Features

  • Added colemak keyboard layout

πŸ“ˆ Improvements

  • Ignore network interface 'Virtual WiFi Miniport' on Windows. WinPcap crashes on those interfaces.

πŸ› Bug Fixes

  • Network graph gaps and spikes
  • Fix client crash on sleep when the network statistics are shut down too quickly (happens on fast computers).

WhatPulse 2.4b1

December 27, 2017

πŸŽ‰ New Features

  • Export functionalities!
  • Export your keyboard & mouse heat maps
  • Export network bandwidth history per application, interface or originating country
  • Export the uptime of your applications and computer restarts
  • Use the buttons directly on the tabs, or use the advanced (premium) Export Wizard
  • The advanced Export Wizard provides all possible data exports!
  • Add a menu to the tray icon for quickly enabling and disabling statistics
  • Add an option for auto pulsing on every hour
  • Show exactly what your auto pulse settings do for you, in human terms
  • Add window with all the available fun facts, which can be opened by clicking the fact icon or text
  • Mac OSX: Show icon in Dock when the client is open, to make it easier to bring to focus

πŸ“ˆ Improvements

  • Upgraded to Qt5 for better overall performance and memory management
  • Multiple interface improvements to improve the user experience
  • Multiple performance tweaks; lesser database usage, more caching
  • Change tray icon to alert when the client is not logged in
  • Document command line options in a --help menu
  • Add command line option to disable network statistics from startup

πŸ› Bug Fixes

  • Check the downloaded GeoIP.dat for corruption and don't load it if it is corrupted
  • Detect date changes when the interface is open, so that 'today', 'yesterday', etc. display the correct data when the day changes
  • Network stats could cause the client to crash upon exiting, under heavy network load
  • Properly calculate Current/Average/Maximum values on Realtime bandwidth tab

WhatPulse 2.4b2

December 27, 2017

πŸ“ˆ Improvements

  • Add a network counter monitor for Windows which catches network monitor time outs (on system sleep/hibernation) and restarts networking counting
  • Don't restart networking on OSX on sleep/wake up and have the network monitor fix network counting. May be related to some OS X crashes when waking the system up.
  • Show release notes of all clients from current version to latest version for a full overview of changes when skipping versions.

πŸ› Bug Fixes

  • The auto pulse on every hour on every day works now
  • OS X / Linux: Fix transparency of geek window
  • OS X: Leave the Geek Window open when closing main window

WhatPulse 2.4

December 27, 2017

πŸŽ‰ New Features

  • Export functionalities!
  • Export your keyboard & mouse heat maps
  • Export network bandwidth history per application, interface or originating country
  • Export the uptime of your applications and computer restarts
  • Use the buttons directly on the tabs, or use the advanced (premium) Export Wizard
  • The advanced Export Wizard provides all possible data exports!
  • Add a menu to the tray icon for quickly enabling and disabling statistics
  • Add an option for auto pulsing on every hour
  • Show exactly what your auto pulse settings do for you, in human terms
  • Add window with all the available fun facts, which can be opened by clicking the fact icon or text
  • Mac OSX: Show icon in Dock when the client is open, to make it easier to bring to focus

πŸ“ˆ Improvements

  • Multiple interface improvements to improve the user experience
  • Multiple performance tweaks; lesser database usage, more caching
  • Add a network counter monitor for Windows which catches network monitor time outs (on system sleep/hibernation) and restarts networking counting
  • Change tray icon to alert when the client is not logged in
  • Document command line options in a --help menu
  • Add command line option to disable network statistics from startup
  • Don't restart networking on OSX on sleep/wake up and have the network monitor fix network counting. May be related to some OS X crashes when waking the system up.
  • Show release notes of all clients from current version to latest version for a full overview of changes when skipping versions.

πŸ› Bug Fixes

  • Properly colour a key inside the keyboard heat map when it is 0. Sometimes turned out red, previously.
  • Fix rendering of the hours on the application uptime activity graph
  • Fix displaying day changes in application uptime activity graph.
  • Check the downloaded GeoIP.dat for corruption and don't load it if it is corrupted
  • Detect date changes when the interface is open, so that 'today', 'yesterday', etc. display the correct data when the day changes
  • Network stats could cause the client to crash upon exiting, under heavy network load
  • Properly calculate Current/Average/Maximum values on Realtime bandwidth tab