Version number | Changes |
1.0 (6 February 2003 (2003-02-06)) | Initial release. Pressed keys were counted. |
1.1 (12 November 2003 (2003-11-12)) | The following features were added:
- Ability to change password via the client
- Geek Window, which have always displayed the current statistics
- Token System, which have blocked cheating by multiple times pulsing the same data (A string had to be matched from the previous pulse)
- Automatic pulsing after every X keys
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1.2 (1 January 2004 (2004-01-01)) | Clicks are now counted along with pressed keys. |
1.3 (15 May 2004 (2004-05-15)) | The client now counts and stores which keys have been pressed, and how many times. (The order of the keys are not stored, not making the program a keylogger) |
1.4 (10 September 2004 (2004-09-10)) |
- The ability to pulse every X click was added
- The client now displays the current logged in user
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1.5 (19 August 2006 (2006-08-19)) |
- The client now tracks mouse distance
- Pulse Profiles (now Computers) appeared
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1.6 (12 March 2009 (2009-03-12)) |
- New login window for existing accounts and new users
- Optimized local database file and its location for newer operating systems and stability
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1.7 (10 August 2010 (2010-08-10)) |
- Windows 7 support
- Portable mode, which allows the user to save its data without an internet connection
- Key frequencies image generator, which makes a keyboard heatmap, and displays it in the user's web browser
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2.0 (22 December 2012 (2012-12-22)) |
- Dropped mouse distance tracking (because of the different and inaccurate methods to track mouse distance between the supported operating systems)
- Added Bandwidth tracking, which counts the user's downloaded and uploaded data (using WinPcap)
- The client now also stores system uptime
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2.0.1 (31 December 2012 (2012-12-31)) |
- Add some critical keys to keyboard heatmap.
- Unable to set a proxy when logging in.
- The heatmaps do not update 'today' after a manual reset.
- Windows closes input hooks when putting your CPU under load (games), which makes it stop counting keys and clicks.
- Random crashes when using a wireless network connection.
- Random crashes when using sleep or hibernation mode.
- Auto pulsing is disabled too quickly when detecting pulse errors.
- The client does not see certain USB network adapters.
- Computer crashes (BSOD) can cause the client to ask for a login, next start up.
- Only show active metrics in tooltip (icon hover).
- Allow a password reset without knowing the old password.
- Several optimisations for speed and memory management.
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2.0.4 (1 February 2013 (2013-02-01)) |
- Add an option to disable automated pulse notifications
- Blink tray icon on keyboard or mouse option (plus an option to disable that)
- Launch Geek Window on startup when it was open upon closing the client
- Update statistics more often in Geek Window
- Don't show notifications when a fullscreen application is running
- Add the ability to auto detect the system proxy server
- Don't write database queries right away, cache them. (saves disk I/O)
- Make scheduled backups of databases and fall back on backups when main database file gets corrupted
- Add total account overview (totals + ranks) to account tab
- Count uptime more accurately (2.0.1 was about 1% off)
- Count bandwidth more accurately
- Count bandwidth from and to a proxy server in unpulsed stats (was excluded in previous clients)
- Show more accurate network usage on interface overview
- Don't check for updates or internet IP when "Work Offline" is enabled
- The 'Year' option in the keyboard + mouse heatmap was not the last 12 months, but the current year
- Extra precautions for double pulsing
Fixed in Linux
- Some network interfaces were not detected if certain system files did not exist
- Optimize application bandwidth measuring (70% less CPU)
Fixed in Windows
- The client crashed when certain applications were running
- Enhance input hook usage (i.e. fullscreen applications, busy CPU)
- Ignore system services for application uptime
Enhancements in Mac OS X
- Optimize detection of network interfaces (2500% quicker)
- Optimize detection of running processes (120% quicker)
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2.1 (26 April 2013 (2013-04-26)) |
- Per application keyboard/mouse statistics
- WinPcap 4.1.3 for Windows 8 support
- The login procedure has been simplified to be a breeze. You can add computers from the wizard and it auto detects your computer name.
- New updater for automatic updates to make updating easier
- An option to run WhatPulse as Administrator (Windows), to catch input from elevated applications
Fixes:
- Database backups. This fixes startup crashes and data loss
- Random client crashes
- Client not counting input stats after hibernations
- Linux crash when pf_ring (network) was not available
- Windows lag every 5 minutes
Improvements:
- Network monitoring performance (less CPU)
- Time period selector for per country network stats
- Windows XP support (input and network stats)
- Require SSL libraries on Linux, otherwise account settings cannot be saved
- Linux: Set up network capabilities automatically instead of having to do it manually
- Log to 'app.log' inside the settings directory so you can see what's going on
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2.2 (8 September 2013 (2013-09-08)) |
- Added a setting to disable pulsing upon a double click of the tray icon.
- Mouse heat map now displays in proper screen ratio.
- The tray icon menu has been changed to be more useful.
- Allow applications to be ignored for input as well.
- Allow network traffic measurements without the third-party libraries (WinPcap, libpcap). NOTE: Without these libraries, the client will not pulse network traffic to the website.
- Windows: Added a crash reporter which will report any issues back to us and notify you of the problem.
- Apple OS X: Use the built-in notification center, if available.
- Fixed auto pulsing with keys; it pulsed the current keys, not the set value.
- Fixed IPv6 network traffic measurements.
- Fixed keyboard heat map counting of navigation keys (arrows, home, page up, etc.) on some computers.
- General Interface and Performance optimisations, 2.2 uses less memory/CPU and the interface has a better experience.
- Improve database backups to be less intrusive (disk I/O) and be a lot faster.
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2.2.1 (15 September 2013 (2013-09-15)) |
- Using the Crash Reporter, we were able to collect a good deal of information about issues that some people have. Using this information, we've made a lot of (20+) improvements that are related to the stability of the client. Anyone having stability issues is encouraged to update!
- Windows updater fix ("file not found" error, run updater.exe manually if you have this issue
- Fix Mac OS X support for 10.7 and lower
- Fix Mac OS X updater "improperly signed" messages (update manually if you have this issue
- Hide "Re-upload applications" on Linux (not supported)
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2.3 (27 November 2013 (2013-11-27)) |
New:
- Added support for dvorak and azerty keyboard layouts
- OS X Mavericks support
Fixed:
- 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”)
Improved:
- 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.
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2.3.1 (12 December 2013 (2013-12-12)) |
New:
- Added colemak keyboard layout
Improved:
- Ignore network interface 'Virtual WiFi Miniport' on Windows. WinPcap crashes on those interfaces.
Fixed:
- Network graph gaps and spikes
- Fix client crash on sleep when the network statistics are shut down too quickly (happens on fast computers).
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2.4 (19 April 2014 (2014-04-19)) |
New:
- 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 OS X: Show icon in Dock when the client is open, to make it easier to bring to focus
Improved:
- 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 OS X 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.
Fixed:
- 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
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2.4.1 (28 September 2014 (2014-09-28)) |
New:
- 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
Improved:
- 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
Fixed:
- 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
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2.5 (9 December 2014 (2014-12-09))[7] |
New:
- The client now differentiates between mouse buttons and a presentation of these stats has been added.
- You can now ignore specific network interfaces for network monitoring.
Improved:
- The client will no longer reset the local database when logging out, so local stats can be kept through a re-login.
- OS X: Detect black theme and auto adjust black W icon to a white W icon.
Fixed:
- OS X: Fix computer model and architecture detection on Yosemite.
- Linux: Fix text color when using black themes.
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