WhatPulse Professional Release Notes

This update brings a few quality-of-life improvements, bug fixes, and under-the-hood changes to improve stability and future compatibility.

🪄 Improvements

• The setup wizard now has its own window, making the setup and main interface simpler.
• The Geek Window stats %TotalDistance% and %TotalScrolls% now reflect account totals correctly, not just the current computer’s stats.
• The network time series for computers with multiple interfaces has been fixed to sum the data correctly, ensuring accurate historical data. This applies to the time series currently used in the Discord leaderboards.
• Fixed a few memory leaks when opening the main window repeatedly, which will slightly reduce memory usage over time.
• Fixed a few possible crashes when exiting WhatPulse with the main window still open. You were closing WhatPulse anyway, so these weren’t really a problem—but still worth fixing.

WhatPulse Professional updates

• Improved compatibility for Nuance PowerScribe.
• Streamlined the Professional interface by removing buttons that only apply to the Community version (such as share buttons, online profile link, change password, etc.).
• Clicking “Open Online Stats” now takes you to your Dashboard for a more integrated experience.
• The release notes link now points to the new whatpulse.pro/releasenotes page when there’s a new version.

We’ve added an organization-wide audit log to give you clearer oversight of everything happening in your WhatPulse Professional account. Admins and owners can now view a complete timeline of key events: computer assignments, settings changes, logins, password changes, and more—with full context like IP addresses, browser details, and timestamps.

Need to verify who made a change? Check. The audit log is searchable, easy to navigate, and available right from your sidebar. It’s a simple way to stay informed and accountable without extra overhead.

🚀 New

Multi-monitor mouse heat map support

Mouse activity is now mapped across multiple screens, allowing for per-display heat maps. You can analyze each monitor individually or review the entire setup at once. Heat map rendering has also been visually refreshed for better clarity.

Extended Application Activity history

The Application Activity chart now supports scrolling beyond the 24-hour default, making it easier to review usage patterns and behaviors over time—ideal for weekly or multi-day productivity analysis.

Updated dark mode UI

Dark mode has been visually aligned with the current WhatPulse design system. The updated theme improves visual clarity and reduces eye strain during extended usage.

🔧 Improvements

Separate internet vs. local traffic tracking

Network traffic is now categorized internally as either local or internet. While this won’t appear in the UI just yet, the separation is already reflected in exported data—useful for teams conducting bandwidth audits or compliance reviews.

Reintroduction of full packet capture (PCAP)

WhatPulse now captures network data using full packet capture instead of OS counters, improving reliability. The network capture engine also includes: a 256MB packet buffer, immediate mode enabled, NIC buffering enhancements

Together, these updates improve performance and enable accurate monitoring of high-throughput connections up to 10Gbit/s.

Database and performance optimizations

• The app loads significantly faster, even with multi-year datasets.
• Database integrity checks are now performed weekly, with automatic repair routines for structural issues.
• A smarter caching mechanism improves responsiveness across charts and reports.

Additional updates

• Game controller input: Gamepads from Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, 8BitDo, and others are now auto-detected and correctly mapped—ensuring accurate input tracking across devices.
• Keyboard heat map: Application grouping is improved, and tooltips now display the full executable path for each item.
• Better resilience during system sleep/wake cycles: duplicate event protection and more robust startup checks reduce the chance of crashes.
• Network request handling is more stable, with request timeouts and automatic recovery from stalled network states.
• Upgraded to Qt 6.9.1 on Windows and macOS, improving compatibility and access to modern platform features.
• Linux improvements: Correct theme detection, smoother window behavior on GNOME, properly positioned toolbar buttons, and improved display detection for mouse tracking.
• Upgraded embedded SQLite version for better performance and smaller log file size.
• Move client communication to app.whatpulse.pro from whatpulse.pro. Same external IP addresses, only different hostname.

🐛 Fixes

• Windows: Resolved an issue where some update checks mistakenly triggered a UAC prompt.
• Fixed incorrect global stats caused by deleting a local profile.
• Corrected a visual bug where updates didn’t appear to complete when the MaintenanceTool was also updated.
• Fixed lingering mouse button data in the Mouse Details page when switching between time ranges.
• Eliminated false mouse clicks at coordinate (0,0) from the heat map display.
• Uptime chart no longer stretches the Y-axis when a day has no data.
• Improved styling for startup error messages to ensure readability during critical failures.
• Time series data for network activity now groups correctly by hour and day on multi-adapter systems (feature not yet exposed in the UI).
• The embedded Swagger API interface now renders correctly instead of returning JSON headers.

You can now merge multiple computers into a single record. This helps when upgrading or moving hardware, or cleaning up duplicate entries.

The merge combines all stats, app data, and history from a source computer into your target computer—keeping your data intact. Start by clicking the new “Merge” button on any computer’s detail page.

Learn how to merge computers →

New: CSV Exports

You can now export data in CSV format from the Computers, Users, Applications, and Pulses sections.

• Exports include all matching data, not just what’s visible on screen.
• Supports filters like search terms, tags, and date ranges.
• Perfect for reporting, analysis, and working with your data in Excel, Google Sheets, or BI tools.

Available today for all organizations—admins can export everything, users can export their own data. Look for the Export CSV button in your dashboard, or learn more in our help center.

Ever wondered which apps your marketing team is really using all day? Now you can filter application usage data by computer tags to see exactly who’s doing what. Compare teams, analyze departments, or finally catch which office is spending too much time on cat videos.

Learn more in the Help Center

You can now add tags to your computers (like “Marketing,” “Engineering,” or “That One Machine That Always Crashes”) making it easier to organize and filter your fleet. Perfect for creating teams, tracking departments, or just satisfying your inner organizer.

Learn more in the Help Center

It’s now easier than ever to get data for a specific date range! The new date range widget lets you quickly pick standard date ranges, or select a custom range in a single view:

After the initial onboarding, it was a bit difficult to find your organization ID for subsequential WhatPulse app installs. Not anymore! Find (and quickly copy to clipboard) your organization ID on both the Downloads page and the Organization settings page.

To make automated deployments easier, we’ve just published a Microsoft Installer (MSI) package! It holds the same version of the WhatPulse software, but integrates into enterprise deployment managers more easily.

Get it from the downloads page.

• Date Ranges for Apps: You can now filter app usage by date on your own dashboard and user pages, making it easier to see what applications were used during a specific time frame.
• Mouse Distance Preference: Choose between miles (imperial) or kilometers (metric) for mouse distance, and it’ll update everywhere—charts, tables, you name it.
• Search Reset: Hit “Escape” in the search box to quickly clear your search and start fresh.

To keep track of what’s being added to WhatPulse Professional, you can now see a history of updates in this very widget!

Newly uploaded applications will now show their applications that are discovered from the computers.

To make it easier to reach out and find help for WhatPulse Professional, we’ve included the Help Center on the sidebar and the chat support widget on the bottom right. Don’t hesitate to reach out!