What's new with WhatPulse?

🎉 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")

🐛 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.

🎉 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.

📈 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.

🐛 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.

🎉 New Features

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

🐛 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 (“updater.exe not found”)

📈 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.
• “Refresh Status” on the Account tab now also refreshes totals and ranks.
• When “Pulse on double click” is disabled, open the main window upon double clicks.
• A lot of tiny awesome stuff!

🎉 New Features

• Added colemak keyboard layout

📈 Improvements

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

🐛 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).