What's new with WhatPulse?

🎉 New Features

• Twinkling new settings design, making it easier to discover which settings are available and how to tweak WhatPulse to your taste.
• Brand-new setting to squash tray notifications when WhatPulse auto pulses. Disable Notification on auto pulse to stop receiving pulse notifications, but continue to get notifications on other things.4
• macOS Sonoma (14.0) support, and improved hardware details detection. Hardware details show up on your computer profile pages.
• New Web Socket API for statistics update messages. More info in the developer center.
• Introducing the WhatPulse Stream Deck plugin! More info in the help center.

📈 Improvements

• macOS: Improved performance of the hardware detection by integrating directly into macOS, instead of using the system_profiler and ioreg commands. In English: WhatPulse uses less CPU when detecting your devices.
• General Client API performance improvements. Less CPU used when hammering the API. I’d still recommend trying the new web socket API, if you’re collecting stats often.
• Tackled a few memory leaks discovered through testing tools. Less memory = good.

📝 Notes

• The portable mode setting has found a new home in the Advanced Actions button. Not many of you use it, so this saves space in the general settings.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• There was an issue in 5.5 and 5.5.1 where WhatPulse could crash when networking stats were enabled, the system wakes up from sleep, and there was a change in the network (wifi or new IP address).
• Don't disable the time period selection when the mouse heat map is disabled, as the time period also works for the details page.
• Fixed tagging versions with 3 numbers (like 5.5.1) as a beta version.

📈 Improvements

• Updated translation files. Chinese and Slovakian are much improved.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Internal bug fix with how network stats are sent to the website.

🎉 New Features

• Added exports of key combinations via the export wizard. 🪄
• Added a banner message when a computer is archived, keeping you informed.
• Added a manual backup trigger in the account tab for added convenience. 🗃️
• Windows: Transitioned to Lostdomain codesign for enhanced stability. This means the permissions pop up will say Lostdomain, instead of WhatPulse. 🔒

📈 Improvements

• Exporting the mouse heat now to match your screen resolution accurately, instead of the smaller image it was previously. 🖥️
• Enhanced link readability in the dark theme. 🎨
• Simplified translation by allowing custom translation files via a command line parameter. 🌍
• Optimized network interface counters for macOS, resulting in better performance and reliability.
• Revived the auto-updating feature for effortless updates. Stay up to date with ease! 🔄

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug causing high CPU usage when a network interface disappears. 💯
• Resolved a bug where the client could crash when resuming from sleep, when networking was enabled and there was a change in the computers' network. 💤
• Resolved an issue where the network interface IP address was not displaying on macOS.
• Custom time periods no longer reset to the last month when refreshing. 📆
• Real-time time period selection now remembers your preference across sessions. ⏳

🎉 New Features

• Added a period selection on the Overview tab so you can glance at all your stats in a specific time window.
• Throughout the interface, WhatPulse now remembers the time window you've selected last and shows it again when you re-open the client.

📈 Improvements

• Improved handling of applications that run from network paths. Sometimes it couldn't determine the application name and showed the entire path.
• The WhatPulseMaintenanceTool will no longer be updated every time, which prevents the updater from needing to run twice.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• On the Applications overview of the Uptime tab, duplicate apps might've been listed. Not anymore.
• Additional fixes for network traffic numbers; make sure the Geek Window also shows 6PB+ and correct a miscalculation throughout the interface.
• Sometimes the Input History chart could show the number of keys or clicks from the same hour of the day before. I.e., 10 am today was actually 10 am yesterday.

🎉 New Features

• Brand new real-time network traffic chart

📈 Improvements

• Better network statistics performance, recording higher speeds.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix showing larger total download & upload values than 2.8PB
• Fix crashing bug with automated database backups for certain accounts

📝 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.