What's new with WhatPulse?

📝 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.

🎉 New Features

• Add an uptime chart with the hourly uptime of the last 8 days.
• Change the "Favorite reboot days" dot chart into a pie chart that's easier to read.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix detection the right horizontal scroll direction (left or right) on certain systems.

🗑️ Removed

• In line with the Premium features and messaging, per-application input and uptime history is now limited to 1 week. The time selection will mention to upgrade to a Premium account when trying to use the extended history.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix a crash when toggling between network per-application time windows and apps are removed from the list.
• Prevent from reaching the help and feedback tabs when using the arrow keys to navigate the tabs.

📈 Improvements

• Upgrade npcap to 1.71 and don't try to upgrade npcap when there's a newer version installed.
• Set the application uptime view to 'today' by default.

🎉 New Features

• Add mouse scrolls and distance to the website communications.

Note that they won't be visible on the website yet, that will come when 4.4 becomes general available. Please update either way, I need the incoming data and it'll give you a head start on having scrolls and distance online. 😉