What's new with WhatPulse?

🎉 New Features

• Introducing Profiles! You can create profiles to group and keep track of stats during a specific time. For example, keep track of how much you're gaming, how many keys you pressed on a project, or working for a client.

• Create & manage profiles under the Settings tab and Profiles section.
• Activate and deactivate profiles in the tray menu.
• Filter profile stats when analyzing stats by selecting the profile in the top-right dropdown.
• Setting to automatically deactivate an active profile when your computer shuts down or goes to sleep.
• Setting to change the color of the WhatPulse menu icon to show that a profile is active.
• Integrate automation to activate and deactivate profiles using the client API to enable our Stream Deck plugin to physically turn profiles on and off. (Stream Deck plugin update coming soon!)
• Show the current active profile in the Geek Window using the %CurrentProfile% variable.

Note: Profiles is a WhatPulse Premium feature.

• To improve developer experience, we added an OpenAPI specification to the Client API, and http://127.0.0.1:3490/ is now using Swagger UI.
• Windows: Add an option to install for all users on the computer.

📈 Improvements

• Added a feedback notification when settings are saved, so you're 💯 sure they are saved.
• macOS: Improve network interface detection. Sometimes with computers with multiple interfaces, the last interface wasn't detected properly.
• macOS: Updated the Apple computers model database to recognize the newer models.
• Be more verbose about why connections are rejected from the client API in the HTTP responses. Also, add the dual stack localhost address by default (::ffff:127.0.0.1).

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fix translating dates inside the facts.
• Make sure all updating the Geek Window transparency has immediate effect on all Windows versions, there were some versions where this didn't work and you had to restart WhatPulse for the transparency to take effect.
• Prevent the real-time network traffic graph to draw funky backtracking lines by clearing the data when it's not being updated, or the chart united (bits vs bytes) are changed.
• Windows: Fixed application metadata discovery (version, vendor, etc.) on some Windows versions.
• When ignoring an application in the uptime tab, the client asked whether you wanted to reset the Geek Window to its defaults. This fixes that misplaced message.
• Skip npcap installation when WhatPulse is being installed via the command-line. Otherwise it would still pop up a GUI for the NPcap installer.

🎉 New Features

• Brazilian Portuguese Language: WhatPulse now includes a Brazilian Portuguese translation, making it more accessible to Portuguese-speaking users. Courtesy of Éder Magalhães Machado.
• Windows: Allow the installer to install WhatPulse without Administrative permissions.

📈 Improvements

• Linux: The AppImage will now always load bundled OpenSSL libraries to prevent SSL errors when there's a gap in your OpenSSL version and the one WhatPulse's build with.
• macOS: Dynamically detect whether the device is Intel or Apple Silicon-based. This means you'll always get the right version when updating.
• Immediate Tray Icon Update: When you change the color settings, the tray icon will now update right away to reflect the changes.
• Client API: Ensured that the REST API always returns the JSON format headers, and fix a possible delay when connecting with an IP address that's not in the allowed list.
• Windows: The installer now consistently uses 'WhatPulse' as its registry key instead of a random GUID. This means the WhatPulse version in the registry is always up to date, meaning apps like UCheck won't be confused about which version is installed.
• Format the numbers in the keyboard heat maps' hover labels to improve readability.
• Improve top navigation menu by fixing an issue where only the "Account" tab was showing on initial setup, and removing the help and feedback icons to create more space.
• Exclude virtual interfaces (docker, other virtualizations) from the computer profiles.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Auto Pulse Settings Disabling Fix: Resolved an issue where disabling auto pulse settings wasn’t being saved correctly.
• Fix not being able to update input settings (i.e. auto pulse numbers) when the Geek Window was open.
• Uptime Calendar Bug: Fixed a crash related to fast navigation through the uptime calendar.
• A fix has been applied to ensure application icons in certain lists are visible on all table rows. Certain systems had the icons inside even rows hidden.
• A bug that could cause the application to crash if a backup took too long has been fixed.
• Add a few missing translations. They'd appear as English instead of its translated counterpart.
• macOS: Fix an issue where the client could crash when the "Launch when computer starts" option is disjointed with reality.
• Fix an issue where if 'Upload application info' was disabled, it could still send apps data for previously uploaded applications to the time series (so appear in the weekly update).
• Fix keyboard heat map sharing to your online profile.

🎉 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.