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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 foundâ€Â)
📈 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