What's new with WhatPulse?

🎉 New Features

• Make the setting Automatically install new versions work again, now that the new installer has matured.

📈 Improvements

• Windows: Improve the watchdog to prevent false positives (and the pop-up saying something is wrong with WhatPulse).
• macOS: Add additional safeguards in the networking stats to prevent high CPU usage when the network changes (i.e., sleep, switching to a different network).

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Ensure that background data loading that's used for the keyboard heat map doesn't stall. This fixes the issue of the keyboard heat map being blank sometimes.
• Fix an issue where the real-time time period wasn't selected when it remembered the real-time selection from a previous session.
• macOS: Fix not showing network interface IP addresses.
• Selecting a custom time period sometimes resulted in showing data from the last month.

🎉 New Features

• Added a period selection on the Overview tab so you can glance at all your stats in a specific time window.
• Throughout the interface, WhatPulse now remembers the time window you've selected last and shows it again when you re-open the client.

📈 Improvements

• Improved handling of applications that run from network paths. Sometimes it couldn't determine the application name and showed the entire path.
• The WhatPulseMaintenanceTool will no longer be updated every time, which prevents the updater from needing to run twice.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• On the Applications overview of the Uptime tab, duplicate apps might've been listed. Not anymore.
• Additional fixes for network traffic numbers; make sure the Geek Window also shows 6PB+ and correct a miscalculation throughout the interface.
• Sometimes the Input History chart could show the number of keys or clicks from the same hour of the day before. I.e., 10 am today was actually 10 am yesterday.

🎉 New Features

• Brand new real-time network traffic chart

📈 Improvements

• Better network statistics performance, recording higher speeds.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix showing larger total download & upload values than 2.8PB
• Fix crashing bug with automated database backups for certain accounts

📝 Notes

• We've prepared 5.2 for an upcoming website update that is scheduled for March 16th. To ensure uninterrupted pulsing, we encourage all users to upgrade to WhatPulse 5.2 before that date.

🎉 New Features

• Introducing %TodayUptime% as a variable in the Geek Window, which displays today's uptime.

📈 Improvements

• Improved application upload handling, which resolves missing applications on the website.
• Enhanced Geek Window sizing, allowing for a much smaller window size.
• For Premium users, we have improved the weekly online database backups to run in the background, instead of the dedicated backup window.
• Improved mouse distance handling; distances could be too great in some scenarios.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Apple M-CPUs were showing up as 'Apple M1 Ma'.
• Corrected the initial application uptime overview, which was displaying all-time instead of today's data.
• Fixed an issue where pulsing application stats for newly installed clients were not showing up in some cases.
• On macOS 13 and above, we have signed the WhatPulseMaintenanceTool.app, which enables it to run again. Previous versions of macOS may require a reinstallation to activate the updates.

📈 Improvements

• Improved application upload handling, that fixes missing applications on the website.

🎉 New Features

• New network real-time traffic chart! Built from the ground up with a new design. This also fixes the gap in the last minute that could happen in some cases.
• Add %TodayUptime% as a variable to the Geek Window. Translates to today's uptime.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix initial application uptime overview: the selection said today, but the data said all time.
• Fix pulsing application stats for newly installed clients, in some cases.

🎉 New Features

• Add unpulsed mouse scrolls, mouse distance, and ranks for scrolls and distance to Geek Window variables.
• Make the Geek Window canvas larger, so you can add more stats.
• Apple Silicon: Also make the installer a native Silicon app, preventing the need of Rosetta for the installation of WhatPulse.

📈 Improvements

• Windows hid system shortcuts (mostly involving alt) from WhatPulse, but not anymore. Key counts and key combination recording now includes system shortcuts.
• Handle monitor setup changes (resolution, dpi changes) better, making mouse distance moved more reliable when you make changes to your monitor(s).
• Minor interface changes, like rearranging the stats on the Overview tab, styling the Geek Window transparency slider, and more.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix application selection resetting, causing a possible crash when acting on an application (like ignoring it).
• Skip tabs that are disabled (i.e., uptime is disabled entirely) during scroll and arrow navigation.
• Fix the network per-country view when changing between time windows; when going from a large time window (month) to a small (today), it didn't clean up the countries that have no stats for today.
• Reinstate buttons on macOS color picker for the Geek Window to make it clearer you can pick a new color and click OK.
• Linux: Resolve SSL errors when downloading and restoring a database.

🎉 New Features

• New stats for mouse distance and scrolls!

• Mouse distance is tracked in inches and translated into your native measurements. You can toggle between metric and imperial in the General Settings.
• Scrolls are counted in all directions: up, down, left, and right.
• We redesigned the mouse details page to fit the new metrics.
• Includes per-application stats.

• Computer Uptime: Add an uptime chart with the hourly uptime of the last eight days.
• Computer Uptime: Change the "Favorite reboot days" dot chart into a pie chart that's easier to read.
• Add support for hourly mouse coordinate exports.
• Add navigation links to the feedback form and help center for easy access.
• Support for macOS 13 (Ventura) and Apple Silicon processors.
• Add the ability to delete a network interface from the list, deleting its history.
• Add a startup parameter to get the current client version.

• For example: .\WhatPulse.exe --version

📈 Improvements

• Improve Geek Window position tracking with multiple monitors and fix remembering the Geek Window position between sessions.
• Make it easier to change the Geek Window font size.
• Upload the computer profile (specs, hardware) after pulsing if the website doesn't have a profile. Speeds up the computer profile visibility.
• Modernize the software framework: Windows is now 64bit only, and we upgraded Qt from v5 to v6. This means faster development.
• Ignore Tailscale VPN interfaces. VPN interfaces produce bad stats.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Don't shuffle tabs when saving the settings, making the page jump.
• Input and Network applications could show fewer stats than recorded when applications have multiple different folders from where it runs. An example of an application that does this is Discord.
• Sometimes the client would not start on Windows with a non-administrator account, and when 'Run as Administrator' was enabled.
• Fix the percentage calculation of the mouse button with low numbers. Sometimes the middle button showed 1% with 0 clicks.
• Fix mouse coordinate exports. In some cases, the results were 0x0 instead of the resolution coordinates (i.e., 1021x879)
• Linux: fix detecting touchpad gestures as (many) clicks in some scenarios.
• Windows: Fix navigation menu icon size and quality when system scaling is more than 150%

📝 Notes

• The Linux AppImage is the only distribution from now on. We will no longer update the Snap.
• In line with the Premium features and messaging, the per-application input and uptime history are now limited to 1 week.

🎉 New Features

• Add the ability to delete a network interface from the list, deleting its history

📈 Improvements

• Ignore Tailscale VPN interfaces. VPN interfaces typically produce bad stats.
• Show a message in the reboot pie chart when there's no reboots yet.
• Finalise translations with all new updates.

📝 Notes

• Move version number from titlebar to the overview tab and settings tab for a cleaner titlebar.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix chart label flickering on Windows and Linux.

📈 Improvements

• After reviewing screenshots of the different slice configurations in the Favorite reboot days chart, I've moved the labels with the day name to the outside of the chart for readability.