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WhatPulse 2.8.2b2

December 27, 2017

🎉 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.

WhatPulse 2.2.1

December 27, 2017

WhatPulse 2.3b1

December 27, 2017

🎉 New Features

  • Support for dvorak and azerty keyboard layouts in the keyboard heat map.

📈 Improvements

  • Upload new applications every 5 minutes instead of every 15 minutes so it appears on the website quicker.
  • Remove the application information requirement from uploading and try to find matching info on the website.
  • Reduce amount of background workers. Some systems still have instability issues, this will dramatically reduce the crashes (hopefull to zero) on those systems.
  • General optimization of bandwidth collector. Better performance at higher bandwidth rates.
  • Remove some memory leaks when disabling and re-enabling statistics manually.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Asking to execute an unneeded update for WinPcap.
  • Fix crash on client exit (networking stack)
  • Linux: Fix incorrect counting of bandwidth (missing a few bytes)
  • OS X Mavericks: Fix some font issues
  • Linux: Fix empty process details on some systems
  • Windows: Launching updater from client failed (updater.exe not found)

WhatPulse 2.3b2

December 27, 2017

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Windows: Client crash or disabling input twice (or putting your computer to sleep twice).
  • OS X: Fix client crash on upgraded systems with older libpcap.
  • Windows: Sometimes the updater.exe wasn't launched correctly. ("updater.exe not found")

WhatPulse 2.3b3

December 27, 2017

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Applications were not uploading properly from certain systems with an older database structure or older sqlite libraries.
  • Removed reference to broken pcap function which can cause the client to crash on system resumes.
  • Client crashed when the Uptime Activity graph was open and you refreshed the account information and Premium was activated.

🎉 New Features

  • Open Main Window on tray double click, if 'Pulse on double click' has been disabled.
  • Added (currently static) application aliases for better naming applications.

📈 Improvements

  • Account Wizard tab glitched on final login step.
  • Set "Upload application info" to default enabled.
  • Added button for a link to the Premium explanation on the 'Premium Only' tabs.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • 'Premium Only' background disappeared when opening and closing the main window several times.
  • Account tab header displayed twice on initial login.
  • Update "Premium:" text value on "Refresh Status" button.

WhatPulse 2.3

December 27, 2017

🎉 New Features

  • Added support for dvorak and azerty keyboard layouts
  • OS X Mavericks support

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • A few remaining client random crash situations. All platforms should be stable as a rock now!
  • Allow GeoIP database downloads on computers using a non-standard character set
  • When using an upgraded client, applications were sometimes not properly uploaded to the website.
  • On Windows tilde and apostrophe were sometimes mixed up. On OS X 9, tilde and caps lock were sometimes not counted.
  • OS X: The client sometimes lost the network hook when coming out of sleep, or even crashed.
  • WINDOWS: Sometimes the updater was not launched correctly (“updater.exe not found”)

📈 Improvements

  • Interface and collection optimizations on memory and CPU, making the client use 40% less memory and be 20% faster.
  • Only used applications are now sent to the website, minimizing clutter in your overviews.
  • Interface updating has been tweaked so that the Geek Window updates are a lot smoother.
  • Ignore dead center clicks in the mouse heat map. Some games lock the cursor in the center, ruining your mouse heat map.
  • “Refresh Status” on the Account tab now also refreshes totals and ranks.
  • When “Pulse on double click” is disabled, open the main window upon double clicks.
  • A lot of tiny awesome stuff!

WhatPulse 2.3.1

December 27, 2017

🎉 New Features

  • Added colemak keyboard layout

📈 Improvements

  • Ignore network interface 'Virtual WiFi Miniport' on Windows. WinPcap crashes on those interfaces.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Network graph gaps and spikes
  • Fix client crash on sleep when the network statistics are shut down too quickly (happens on fast computers).

WhatPulse 2.4b1

December 27, 2017

🎉 New Features

  • Export functionalities!
  • Export your keyboard & mouse heat maps
  • Export network bandwidth history per application, interface or originating country
  • Export the uptime of your applications and computer restarts
  • Use the buttons directly on the tabs, or use the advanced (premium) Export Wizard
  • The advanced Export Wizard provides all possible data exports!
  • Add a menu to the tray icon for quickly enabling and disabling statistics
  • Add an option for auto pulsing on every hour
  • Show exactly what your auto pulse settings do for you, in human terms
  • Add window with all the available fun facts, which can be opened by clicking the fact icon or text
  • Mac OSX: Show icon in Dock when the client is open, to make it easier to bring to focus

📈 Improvements

  • Upgraded to Qt5 for better overall performance and memory management
  • Multiple interface improvements to improve the user experience
  • Multiple performance tweaks; lesser database usage, more caching
  • Change tray icon to alert when the client is not logged in
  • Document command line options in a --help menu
  • Add command line option to disable network statistics from startup

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Check the downloaded GeoIP.dat for corruption and don't load it if it is corrupted
  • Detect date changes when the interface is open, so that 'today', 'yesterday', etc. display the correct data when the day changes
  • Network stats could cause the client to crash upon exiting, under heavy network load
  • Properly calculate Current/Average/Maximum values on Realtime bandwidth tab

WhatPulse 2.4b2

December 27, 2017

📈 Improvements

  • Add a network counter monitor for Windows which catches network monitor time outs (on system sleep/hibernation) and restarts networking counting
  • Don't restart networking on OSX on sleep/wake up and have the network monitor fix network counting. May be related to some OS X crashes when waking the system up.
  • Show release notes of all clients from current version to latest version for a full overview of changes when skipping versions.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • The auto pulse on every hour on every day works now
  • OS X / Linux: Fix transparency of geek window
  • OS X: Leave the Geek Window open when closing main window

WhatPulse 2.4

December 27, 2017

🎉 New Features

  • Export functionalities!
  • Export your keyboard & mouse heat maps
  • Export network bandwidth history per application, interface or originating country
  • Export the uptime of your applications and computer restarts
  • Use the buttons directly on the tabs, or use the advanced (premium) Export Wizard
  • The advanced Export Wizard provides all possible data exports!
  • Add a menu to the tray icon for quickly enabling and disabling statistics
  • Add an option for auto pulsing on every hour
  • Show exactly what your auto pulse settings do for you, in human terms
  • Add window with all the available fun facts, which can be opened by clicking the fact icon or text
  • Mac OSX: Show icon in Dock when the client is open, to make it easier to bring to focus

📈 Improvements

  • Multiple interface improvements to improve the user experience
  • Multiple performance tweaks; lesser database usage, more caching
  • Add a network counter monitor for Windows which catches network monitor time outs (on system sleep/hibernation) and restarts networking counting
  • Change tray icon to alert when the client is not logged in
  • Document command line options in a --help menu
  • Add command line option to disable network statistics from startup
  • Don't restart networking on OSX on sleep/wake up and have the network monitor fix network counting. May be related to some OS X crashes when waking the system up.
  • Show release notes of all clients from current version to latest version for a full overview of changes when skipping versions.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Properly colour a key inside the keyboard heat map when it is 0. Sometimes turned out red, previously.
  • Fix rendering of the hours on the application uptime activity graph
  • Fix displaying day changes in application uptime activity graph.
  • Check the downloaded GeoIP.dat for corruption and don't load it if it is corrupted
  • Detect date changes when the interface is open, so that 'today', 'yesterday', etc. display the correct data when the day changes
  • Network stats could cause the client to crash upon exiting, under heavy network load
  • Properly calculate Current/Average/Maximum values on Realtime bandwidth tab
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