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WhatPulse 2.6b3

December 27, 2017

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix bandwidth spikes at the end of the realtime network graph
  • Fix saving and loading of premium expiration date
  • Actually show numbers on the qwertz keys in the heat map
  • Fix display of german characters in qwerty heat map on Windows
  • Improve display of interface on dark themes (Windows & Linux only)

🎉 New Features

  • Start counting keys per hour to display at a later stage

WhatPulse 2.6b4

December 27, 2017

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Windows: Fix "updater.exe --beta" error message when updating to a new beta.

📝 Notes

  • Windows: Coming from current 2.6 beta, you will have to download the installer on the forums, earlier betas will have above issue!

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Windows: Fix settings checkboxes layout.
  • Fix a few facts accuracy: they did not take the newly added per hour stats into account.

📈 Improvements

  • Change 'month' in time selector to reflect last 29-31 days instead of the current month.

🎉 New Features

  • Add a "Last 12 hours" and "Last 24 hours" view to the input history chart.
  • Add facts for most productive hour for keys and clicks.
  • Remember all select boxes across the client and select them when reopening the main window.

📝 Notes

  • Known issue: Windows sorts the input history view selection wrong, which makes it display the last 7 days chart when it is first selected on the last 12 hours.

WhatPulse 2.6b5

December 27, 2017

🎉 New Features

  • Display most used key combinations on the input tab.
  • Add keyboard, mouse and trackpad hardware detection for display on computer profile page.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • 2.6b4 stopped input counting on a new hour in certain situations, this has been fixed.

📈 Improvements

  • The client warned but allowed older databases, which caused an enormous amount of errors. It now prevents loading of older databases.
  • OS X: Restore native checkboxes and only use the custom checkboxes on Windows (for dark themes).
  • Make the uptime dots a bit smaller so that they do not cross the day name.
  • Windows: Make the period selection bigger.
  • Add some spacing between the keyboard heat-map and the top data.

🗑️ Removed

  • Remove QWERTZ layout for now.

WhatPulse 2.6

December 27, 2017

🎉 New Features

  • Added the NumPad to the keyboard heat-map.
  • Brand new communication framework; pulsing is more reliable, secure and data-loss free!
  • Extra time windows in the real-time network graph (last 5, 15, 30 and 60 minutes)
  • Added variables for todays keys, clicks, download and upload in the Geek Window.
  • Added a new setting to include beta versions in the update check.
  • Display most used key combinations.
  • Added uploading of heat-maps for a future website feature.
  • Added a cool dotted graph to show which days are your favorite days to reboot.
  • Premium: Add a "Last 12 hours" and "Last 24 hours" view to the input history chart.
  • Add facts for most productive hour for keys and clicks.
  • Add keyboard, mouse and trackpad hardware detection for display on computer profile page.
  • OS X: Offer the user to automatically fix Accessibility permissions on startup when detecting they are not correct.

📈 Improvements

  • Computer names can now be renamed on the website with no impact on the client. "Refresh Status" will update to the new computer name.
  • OS X: Fix retina screen support for the menu bar icon.
  • Detect whether a fullscreen app is active and don't send any notifications (and remove the option to disable notifications for that purpose).
  • Several interface and security improvements; it looks better with dark themes and all login info is encrypted twice.
  • Change 'month' in time selection to reflect last 29-31 days instead of the current month.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix bandwidth spikes at the end of the real-time network graph
  • Fix false-positive premium membership deactivations in some cases.
  • Fix not being able to resize keyboard and mouse heat-maps to the maximum size of your screen.
  • Fix thicker black borders on Windows 8.1 on several spots in the interface.
  • Avoid "Missing input" message upon pulsing in some rare cases.

WhatPulse 2.6.1

December 27, 2017

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix keyboard heat-map not updating in some cases. Note that only presentation was affected by this, data recorded in 2.6 will be there.
  • Fix crashing bug on start-up on all platforms. Related: losing your login on a system startup.

🎉 New Features

  • Add an advanced setting feature called "Reset Geek Window Location" to reset the location of the Geek Window in case it does not show (due to a monitor or resolution change).

WhatPulse 2.6.2

December 27, 2017

📈 Improvements

  • Detect whether keyboard heat-map data has any NumPad keys in it and display the NumPad if needed (so hide it on a PC without a NumPad).

🎉 New Features

  • When you logout and login to the same account, the client will not reset the unpulsed stats anymore.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix keyboard heat-map not displaying the heat when per application input stats are disabled.
  • Fix daily averages FAQ for keys and clicks.
  • Fix application ignoring on the per application keyboard heat-map.

🎉 New Features

  • Add per application shortcut counter, for future display.

WhatPulse 2.6.3

December 27, 2017

🎉 New Features

  • Windows 10 recognition.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Facebook login from inside the client and make it more secure.
  • Fixed total of clicks in application FAQ.

🗑️ Removed

  • Remove URL icanhazip.com from the IP detection list to prevent anti-virus from detecting WhatPulse as malware.

WhatPulse 2.7b1

December 27, 2017

🎉 New Features

  • Support for high resolutions on Windows.
  • Measure and display the different types of network traffic. This uses a dynamic traffic type database, which can be updated frequently.
  • New auto pulse option: pulse on client startup.
  • Added buttons to the Advanced settings to manually update the network GeoIP and the Network Port Description database.

📈 Improvements

  • With some database magic, the disk usage has been cut in half!

WhatPulse 2.7b2

December 27, 2017

🎉 New Features

  • Client API: With the Client API you can programmatically extract real-time data from the client for use in your own program. More on this in a new website called Developer Center, but for now simply point your browser to http://localhost:3490 to discover more (after enabling it in your settings).
  • Network: Added a time selector for the traffic types to view a certain time span.
  • Network: Allow users to override traffic type description through a custom CSV file (more info on the forums).
  • Network: Added a time selector for the per application traffic to view historic application traffic data.
  • Mac OS X: New OS X version icons!

📈 Improvements

  • Network: Show when testing internet connectivity.
  • Windows: Also optimize the Updater for high resolution screens.
  • Improve a few interface elements.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Properly display Network Traffic Types for non-premium users during the beta.
  • Network: In the per application stats, idle applications could have a rate up to 16TB/s.
  • Mac OS X: Fix auto correction for keyboard/mouse access in OS X 10.11.

WhatPulse 2.7b3

December 27, 2017

🎉 New Features

  • Traffic Types: Add an option to record unknown traffic (not registered in the network ports CSV) and and disable it by default. This will stop database files growing extensively when using Peer-to-Peer download services.

📈 Improvements

  • When using the 'Reset' button, the client now asks which statistic you want to reset instead of resetting all stats. Also fix resetting of per traffic type stats.
  • Adjust some interface element sizes (few buttons, some text) to look more spiffier.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fix email validation for newer domain extensions.
  • Fix unknown key names in an exported CSV file (they were mangled unicode mumbo-jumbo).
  • Client API: Fix Pulse function.
  • Fixed validation of computer names when creating a new one.