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.

🎉 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.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Mouse Heat Map could show only top left clicks in certain situations.
• Sometimes the Russian language didn't show in the options.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• The mouse heat map could show a red dot after playing certain games. These games lock the cursor in the center of the screen. WhatPulse now ignores these clicks on the heat map.
• Networking stats on Windows could stop collecting after a computer wakes up from sleep.

📈 Improvements

• WhatPulse needs certain macOS system permissions to measure network traffic, and sometimes macOS overrules those permissions, stopping the network stats. We've improved the handling of these permissions, making them permanent.
• There's no longer a popup when you run WhatPulse as an administrator, and running as an administrator is now the default. This will make sure we count all applications.

🎉 New Features

• Remote Desktop & Virtual Machine Support for keys and clicks, networking and uptime were already supported.
• A way to upload your computer hardware changes directly to the website via the Settings tab under the Advanced button.
• Add Russian to the available languages.
• Add translations for the facts in German, Spanish, Polish, and Slovak.

🎉 New Features

• An "Auto Detect" option to select the right theme based on your system setting
• Fact translation. Arabic, French, Dutch, and Chinese are done, other languages will follow.
• The ability to search for applications in the keyboard heat map application dropdown.
• Added an AppImage format to the Linux distribution.

📈 Improvements

• Several design tweaks. Like fancy new drop downs, padding around the checkboxes to make them more readable, soft rounded buttons, and more.
• Measure uptime per hour. This is going to be used in the weekly update soon, stay tuned!

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Sometimes the list of database backups to restore was empty. Fixed that.
• Fixed Linux online database backups.
• Premium status could sometimes expire in the client. It wasn't refreshing the end date correctly.
• Fixed SSL errors with the Linux client, that prevented logging in, pulsing, etc.
• New v4.0 installs sometimes complained about a missing MSVCP140_1.dll file.

🎉 New Features

• New Design: Looks aren’t everything, but after years of the same, the client is now sporting a fresh and modern design. It's easier to use, prettier to look at, and you can get to different pages quicker.
• Dark Mode! And boy does it look good. Switch between the 🌗 modes in the Settings.
• A new installer & updater that works the same on Windows and macOS. (Linux tbd)

• There's a new app called WhatPulseMaintenanceTool that is used to install, update, and remove the client.
• Update notifications now only happen within the client. You'll see a banner at the top of the window.

• Application Uptime History: We've added the time selection on the application uptime, so you can select the most used date ranges, or a custom date range to see how long you’ve used an application.
• A new setting called Pause notifications lets you mute all notifications coming from the client (i.e., successful pulse).
• We've added support for Arabic, Bulgarian, Spanish, and Polish. These updates are driven by our awesome community; thank you to Ammar, Rado, Inktest, and Krzysiek!

Is your language not available and do you want to help translate the client? Find out how here.

📈 Improvements

• Better indicate when certain stats are disabled on the Overview tab.
• Network Improvements: When downloading with 200Mb/s or more, the accuracy has gone from ~80% with 3.x, to ~98% accuracy with 4.0. 🚀
• The 'Open Window on Startup' setting is now also available on the General Settings tab.
• Improved the way applications are uploaded to the website so that they show up faster.
• An online database restore now downloads to your system's temp directory. This fixes restores when using portable mode.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash in relation to the GeoIP (network traffic correlation to countries) database.
• Fixed a crash when your Windows or macOS username has non-Unicode characters in it. (i.e. РПК)
• Fixed high CPU and unresponsiveness, which sometimes happened on Windows after waking up after sleep when networking is enabled.
• Fixed fact statistics sometimes being displayed as "%VAR%"
• Fixed the %InstantKeyRate% and %InstantClickRate% Geek Window variables. These were showing 2x the actual value.

📝 Notes

• The NPcap version is updated to 1.60, which will get updated during the installation.
• Automatic Bug Reports and Usage Data: The client can automatically collect and send us anonymized data about bugs and usage. If you'd like to learn more about what's collected, how it's sent to us, and how we use it, please check out this Help Center article.

🎉 New Features

• French translation. Thank you UBrain! (GitHub)
• German translation. Thank you Finn! (GitHub, Twitter)
• Slovak translation. Thank you Richard Gráčik! (GitHub, Twitter)
• Swedish translation. Thank you Remlej9! (GitHub, Twitter)
• Add %CurrentUptime% as a Geek Window statistic.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• With reopening the client a few times, the languages were doubly loaded in the select box.
• Hidden tray icon when you're not logged in.

📝 Notes

• Facts are in English (will be translated in future versions).

🎉 New Features

• Translations! Starting with Dutch, we now offer the client in multiple languages. You can change the language in the Settings tab. If you would like to translate the client to your own language for your fellow citizens, please contact us at support@whatpulse.org
• Support for Windows 11.
• Support for macOS 12 (Monterey).
• Better looking icon that looks great on both light and dark themes.
• All time selection bars now have an All option to show all your stats.
• Export Wizard: Add a per hour grouping option for input to export data for each hour (except the mouse heat map; the client doesn't keep per hour for the heat map).

📈 Improvements

• Windows: the icon now automatically adjusts to the selected theme.
• Start online back-ups automatically (in 5 seconds so you have time to abort, if needed)
• Improved opening the browser when logging into the client. Also show the manual link to the login page instantly.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Add missing Export Wizard menu in some Export menus (mostly on the Network tab).

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix heat map image sharing and exporting.
• Windows: Fix empty application name if the application no longer exists (show the path instead).

📈 Improvements

• Many backend changes to get ready to translate the client into other languages.