What's new with WhatPulse?

🎉 New Features

• New Design: We've redesigned the entire client and give it a much more modern look. - New Tray Menu: One of the best kept secrets of the client was that you could hover over the tray icon and get a quick glance of your stats. We've made that an integral part of the new menu and sproushed it up a lot more!

• New Design: Every single screen in the client has gotten a facelift.
• New Iconography: Let's face it; the previous icons were from 2001. Starting 3.0, we'll be using icons that are sleek and that you recognize.
• New Keyboard Heat Map: This is one of our favorites and yours (so we're told) too. It looks so much better now!
• Check out our blog to see screenshots.

📈 Improvements

• Database Optimizations: A lot of work went into the local database and optimizing it to be more resilient. We've got more ways to go, but this means less 'critical database errors'.

🎉 New Features

• Windows: Moved from Winpcap to Npcap for better Windows 10+ support, better accuracy in traffic counting, and better security.
• Signed digitally: No more 'unidentified developer' warnings when installing or running WhatPulse. Finally.
• macOS 11 (Big Sur) Support: There are some smaller nuggets in this support, like automatically adjusting the menu icon to the dynamic color of the menu bar.
• macOS: Add new permissions manager that shows a window validating the Accessibility and Input Monitoring system settings. It also walks you through exactly how to configure these.
• macOS: Recognize Apple M1 processors. This isn't support for them (even though the client runs on M1). More info here.
• Client Navigation: Allow META+1, META+2, etc. to navigate through the tabs in the client. On Windows and Linux (tba), the META key is CTRL. On macOS, it's CMD.

📈 Improvements

• Auto Pulsing: After detecting no internet and disabling auto pulsing, try it again after 1 hour.
• Qt Upgrade: While boring, we did want to mention that we've upgraded to Qt 5.15.2. THe reason: this solves the high screen resolution and scaling issues that 2.x had. NOTE: Reports say this doesn't work fully, when you have scaling set to 125% or above.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• The mouse heat map export returned a list with coordinates '0,0'. Not very useful. Now, it actually lists the coordinates.
• The Input History widget has the 7 weeks and 7 months switched. Not any more.

📈 Improvements

• Optimize database access for the keyboard and mouse heat maps (read: updates without freezing the window).
• Enable auto pulsing after 1 hour of waiting after 3 initial failures.
• Windows: Fix positioning of the tray menu for menu bars on the right, left, or top.

🎉 New Features

• Recognize new Apple M1 computers (this is not support for M1).

🎉 New Features

• MacOS 11 (Big Sur) support:

• New system permissions manager that helps you set the right macOS permissions for WhatPulse.
• Change menu bar icon color on the fly, depending on what theme and wallpaper is used.
• Better recognize apple computer models.

📈 Improvements

• Installers and Updater Security:

• Sign everything on macOS and Windows (no more complaints about unknown developers)
• Change menu bar icon color on the fly, depending on what theme and wallpaper is used.
• Better recognize apple computer models.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix mouse heatmap exporting (X and Y were always 0).

📈 Improvements

• Redesign settings that enable statistics. This makes them usable on Linux also.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix displaying right dates in the input history charts in specific cases.

🎉 New Features

• Full redesign of the client, moving from 1990s design to the 21st century. All new icons, buttons, heatmaps, and more!
• Sign Windows installer and client. Removes the "unknown publisher" warning.

📈 Improvements

• Improve rich tray menu usage significantly.
• Upgrade to Qt 5.15.
• Windows: Let Qt handle scaling on high DPI screens. This should significantly improve the presentation of the client.

🎉 New Features

• A completely new tray menu that shows your current stats and looks a whole lot better.
• Allow meta key (ctrl on Windows, cmd on macOS) + 1,2,3, etc. to navigate through the client tabs (Input, Network, etc.).
• Use Npcap instead of WinPcap for traffic statistics. Npcap has improved speed and efficiency, and has better support for wireless networks.
• macOS 10.15 support

📈 Improvements

• Database handling has been improved significantly. With an upgraded SQLite version, optimised settings, background data loading, and more - the client database should be more stable (hopefully no more critical database failures) and faster.
• Improve macOS security handling by always checking for the right permissions for asking to fix them.
• Windows: Improve client deployment procedure and make sure all dependencies are included. This fixes issues like; no browser opening when logging into the client, looking at an empty client, and more.
• macOS: Let the client to be in light mode, always. Forced dark mode does not look good. (tbc)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix some drop down boxes that showed a scrollbar.
• Fix exporting data for a custom time window.

📝 Notes

• Known Issue: Windows installer and application are not signed; you might need to press "continue anyway".
• Known Issue: Tray menu shows regularly when you're not logged in (instead of the login focused menu).

🎉 New Features

• The login system has been completely redesigned to callback to the website to log in. This means the Facebook login has been fixed and we've added options for Twitter, Google and LinkedIn. When logging in to the client, a browser window will open which allows you to log onto the website and authorize your client.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix calculation of the current uptime in specific Windows versions.

📈 Improvements

• Revamp OpenSSL support to 1.1+ (mostly for the Linux versions).
• Add the latest Apple computers recognition.

🎉 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.