What's new with WhatPulse?

🎉 New Features

• Allow the Windows installer to install WhatPulse without Administrative permissions.

📈 Improvements

• Exclude virtual interfaces (docker, other virtualizations) from the computer profiles.
• Improve top navigation menu by fixing an issue where only the "Account" tab was showing on initial setup, and removing the help and feedback icons to create more space.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix not showing the initial setup page for blank accounts during the setup process.
• Fix an issue where if 'Upload application info' was disabled, it could still send apps data for previously uploaded applications to the time series (so appear in the weekly update).
• macOS: Fix an issue where the client could crash when the "Launch when computer starts" option is disjointed with reality.
• Add a few missing translations. They'd appear as English instead of its translated counterpart.

📈 Improvements

• Format the numbers in the keyboard heat maps' hover labels to improve readability.

🎉 New Features

• Brazilian Portuguese Language: WhatPulse now includes a Brazilian Portuguese translation, making it more accessible to Portuguese-speaking users. Courtesy of Éder Magalhães Machado.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• A bug that could cause the application to crash if a backup took too long has been fixed.
• A fix has been applied to ensure application icons in certain lists are visible on all table rows. Certain systems had the icons inside even rows hidden.
• Uptime Calendar Bug: Fixed a crash related to fast navigation through the uptime calendar.
• Auto Pulse Settings Disabling Fix: Resolved an issue where disabling auto pulse settings wasn’t being saved correctly.

📈 Improvements

• Windows: The installer now consistently uses 'WhatPulse' as its registry key instead of a random GUID. This means the WhatPulse version in the registry is always up to date, meaning apps like UCheck won't be confused about which version is installed.
• macOS: Dynamically detect whether the device is Intel or Apple Silicon-based. This means you'll always get the right version when updating.
• Linux: The AppImage will now always load bundled OpenSSL libraries to prevent SSL errors when there's a gap in your OpenSSL version and the one WhatPulse's build with.
• Client API: Ensured that the REST API always returns the JSON format headers, and fix a possible delay when connecting with an IP address that's not in the allowed list.
• Immediate Tray Icon Update: When you change the color settings, the tray icon will now update right away to reflect the changes.

🎉 New Features

• Twinkling new settings design, making it easier to discover which settings are available and how to tweak WhatPulse to your taste.
• Brand-new setting to squash tray notifications when WhatPulse auto pulses. Disable Notification on auto pulse to stop receiving pulse notifications, but continue to get notifications on other things.4
• macOS Sonoma (14.0) support, and improved hardware details detection. Hardware details show up on your computer profile pages.
• New Web Socket API for statistics update messages. More info in the developer center.
• Introducing the WhatPulse Stream Deck plugin! More info in the help center.

📈 Improvements

• macOS: Improved performance of the hardware detection by integrating directly into macOS, instead of using the system_profiler and ioreg commands. In English: WhatPulse uses less CPU when detecting your devices.
• General Client API performance improvements. Less CPU used when hammering the API. I’d still recommend trying the new web socket API, if you’re collecting stats often.
• Tackled a few memory leaks discovered through testing tools. Less memory = good.

📝 Notes

• The portable mode setting has found a new home in the Advanced Actions button. Not many of you use it, so this saves space in the general settings.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• There was an issue in 5.5 and 5.5.1 where WhatPulse could crash when networking stats were enabled, the system wakes up from sleep, and there was a change in the network (wifi or new IP address).
• Don't disable the time period selection when the mouse heat map is disabled, as the time period also works for the details page.
• Fixed tagging versions with 3 numbers (like 5.5.1) as a beta version.

📈 Improvements

• Updated translation files. Chinese and Slovakian are much improved.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Internal bug fix with how network stats are sent to the website.

🎉 New Features

• Added exports of key combinations via the export wizard. 🪄
• Added a banner message when a computer is archived, keeping you informed.
• Added a manual backup trigger in the account tab for added convenience. 🗃️
• Windows: Transitioned to Lostdomain codesign for enhanced stability. This means the permissions pop up will say Lostdomain, instead of WhatPulse. 🔒

📈 Improvements

• Exporting the mouse heat now to match your screen resolution accurately, instead of the smaller image it was previously. 🖥️
• Enhanced link readability in the dark theme. 🎨
• Simplified translation by allowing custom translation files via a command line parameter. 🌍
• Optimized network interface counters for macOS, resulting in better performance and reliability.
• Revived the auto-updating feature for effortless updates. Stay up to date with ease! 🔄

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug causing high CPU usage when a network interface disappears. 💯
• Resolved a bug where the client could crash when resuming from sleep, when networking was enabled and there was a change in the computers' network. 💤
• Resolved an issue where the network interface IP address was not displaying on macOS.
• Custom time periods no longer reset to the last month when refreshing. 📆
• Real-time time period selection now remembers your preference across sessions. ⏳

🐛 Bug Fixes

• 100% CPU bug when a network interface disappears from the system (i.e., USB unplug, removal from docking station). Could happen on Windows and macOS.
• Restart network capture after waking up from sleep to prevent high CPU usage.

🎉 New Features

• Added the ability to send messages from the website to clients. We'll be using this for announcements and notifying clients about issues (like the SSL certificate of a few months ago).
• Windows: Add crash captures, to monitor and troubleshoot client issues.
• Added support for custom translation files via command-line parameters. Useful for when creating new translations, and you want to see it in action.

📝 Notes

• Windows: Moved the Digital Signature of the client from WhatPulse to Lostdomain. You'll see this name in the popup when Windows verifies you want to install the client.

📈 Improvements

• Added text colors of all links to ensure readability in both themes.
• Make the mouse heat map export look better by scaling the heat map points to your monitor resolution.

🎉 New Features

• Make the exported mouse heat map image larger, match the size of the screen resolution
• Add a button in the Account tab to start an online backup manually (premium members)

📈 Improvements

• macOS: Improve network monitoring to use significantly less CPU, and less error-prone to network changes (in and out of docking, manually turning network on and off, etc.)
• Improved the Chinese translation, courtesy of Epoch_SoC

🎉 New Features

• Added exporting of key combinations (including per application) via the Export Wizard

📈 Improvements

• Windows: Move watchdog away from directly connecting to the client (introduced in 5.5b1) to prevent random crashes of the client. Also use built-in Windows methods to protect the client from runaway processes.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a few German translations, courtesy of Nils