What's new with WhatPulse?

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Fixed 'Network access is disabled' error when the client is communicating online (i.e., pulsing).
• Fixed double start-up on Windows. This caused the client window to show even if the option was disabled. It also caused the client to lock up, sometimes.
• Fixed icon scaling on Windows on a high-resolution scale.
• Fixed Wireless vs. Wired network traffic fact.

📈 Improvements

• When finding new application versions, mark them for update to the website and log an application upgrade (for future use in an application timeline).

🎉 New Features

• Add an action on application lists to open the online profile of the application.

📈 Improvements

• Make it more apparent that settings need to be saved by greying out the save button until a setting has changed.

🎉 New Features

• New Design: We've redesigned the entire client and give it a much more modern look. - New Tray Menu: One of the best kept secrets of the client was that you could hover over the tray icon and get a quick glance of your stats. We've made that an integral part of the new menu and sproushed it up a lot more!

• New Design: Every single screen in the client has gotten a facelift.
• New Iconography: Let's face it; the previous icons were from 2001. Starting 3.0, we'll be using icons that are sleek and that you recognize.
• New Keyboard Heat Map: This is one of our favorites and yours (so we're told) too. It looks so much better now!
• Check out our blog to see screenshots.

📈 Improvements

• Database Optimizations: A lot of work went into the local database and optimizing it to be more resilient. We've got more ways to go, but this means less 'critical database errors'.

🎉 New Features

• Windows: Moved from Winpcap to Npcap for better Windows 10+ support, better accuracy in traffic counting, and better security.
• Signed digitally: No more 'unidentified developer' warnings when installing or running WhatPulse. Finally.
• macOS 11 (Big Sur) Support: There are some smaller nuggets in this support, like automatically adjusting the menu icon to the dynamic color of the menu bar.
• macOS: Add new permissions manager that shows a window validating the Accessibility and Input Monitoring system settings. It also walks you through exactly how to configure these.
• macOS: Recognize Apple M1 processors. This isn't support for them (even though the client runs on M1). More info here.
• Client Navigation: Allow META+1, META+2, etc. to navigate through the tabs in the client. On Windows and Linux (tba), the META key is CTRL. On macOS, it's CMD.

📈 Improvements

• Auto Pulsing: After detecting no internet and disabling auto pulsing, try it again after 1 hour.
• Qt Upgrade: While boring, we did want to mention that we've upgraded to Qt 5.15.2. THe reason: this solves the high screen resolution and scaling issues that 2.x had. NOTE: Reports say this doesn't work fully, when you have scaling set to 125% or above.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• The mouse heat map export returned a list with coordinates '0,0'. Not very useful. Now, it actually lists the coordinates.
• The Input History widget has the 7 weeks and 7 months switched. Not any more.

📈 Improvements

• Optimize database access for the keyboard and mouse heat maps (read: updates without freezing the window).
• Enable auto pulsing after 1 hour of waiting after 3 initial failures.
• Windows: Fix positioning of the tray menu for menu bars on the right, left, or top.

🎉 New Features

• Recognize new Apple M1 computers (this is not support for M1).

🎉 New Features

• Applications were not uploading properly from certain systems with an older database structure or older sqlite libraries.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• From 2.8.2b1, new applications didn't upload. This fixes that!

📈 Improvements

• IMPORTANT: There have been a couple of security updates. First, password handling has been made more accurate and secure (thanks to Caboose700, for reporting it). This will automatically be updated when you log in to our website.

Second, the client to website communication is now encrypted end-to-end. An anonymous reporter (thanks!) brought a scenario to our attention where it was possible to extract data from the back and forth between the client and website. This update prevents those leaks.

For more in depth information about these changes, check our blog.

🎉 New Features

• Client settings are now saved to the website. When you log in to an existing computer, the client will ask you if you want to apply the existing settings or start anew.
• When starting a new client for the first time, a small wizard (not Gandalf) will guide you through the settings.
• When logging into an existing computer, it will now display the totals per stat (previously it started from 0).
• In all date selectors, the ability to select a custom date range (instead of just today, yesterday, 3 months ago, etc).
• We're now using the new logo on the client. There are 2 options: a black or white version to best suit your theme.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• On high-resolution screens, the client now looks normal again (instead of HUMONGOUS text and images).
• In certain situations the keyboard heat map wasn't loading. This has been fixed.
• On MacOS, the system permission correction sometimes didn't go through properly and you had to do it by hand.
• Fix the error "drive not found" when a USB disk with an application on it gets ejected.

🎉 New Features

• There is a refresh icon below the keyboard heat map that spins while the heat map is loading, so you can see when it is doing so.

📈 Improvements

• Speed up the startup time of the client.
• Download all files (the network port translation, GeoIP database) over HTTPS.
• Prepare the client for multiple languages (coming soon).

🎉 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!

🎉 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).

🎉 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

🎉 New Features

• Geek Window: Add realtime keys, clicks, download and upload per second variables called "Rates".
• Add support for Windows 8.1, Windows 2012R2 and OS X Yosemite (10.10).
• OS X: Client is now signed with a proper certificate (Gatekeeper likes us now).

📈 Improvements

• The Facebook login experience has been greatly enhanced.
• The Qt framework has been upgraded to Qt5 (from Qt4) and we've sent it to the gym. The Windows is now only 22MB (42% smaller) and the Mac client is now 34MB (45% smaller)
• Reduce memory usage greatly on some computers where it used much memory.
• Database size: Delete mouse points older than 3 months from the heat map to save space and memory usage (option to keep them). This reduces the size of an average database with 80% and improves client performance.
• Improved communication flow to prevent wrong tokens when internet connectivity is unreliable.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Windows: Fixed some cases where 'zombie' client processes can happen (client was running but not showing).
• Fix issues where client does not start on Windows startup in some cases.
• Fix Geek Window transparency glitch when saving new layout and make modifying Geek Window layout more smooth.
• OS X: Fix recognition of AMD processors on Hackintosh computers.
• Replace fact variables with 'no data' when there's no data instead of showing the variables names themselves