v0.12.2b1

[ErikBjare]

v0.12.2b1

These are the release notes for ActivityWatch version v0.12.2b1.

This is a beta release, let us know if something goes wrong!*

New to ActivityWatch? Check out the website and the README.

Installation

See the getting started guide in the documentation.

Downloads

• Windows (.exe, installer)
• macOS (.dmg)
• Linux (.zip)

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

@alclary, @chengyuhui, @dependabot[bot], @ErikBjare, @iloveitaly, @lgtm-com[bot], @LockBlock-dev, @LunarWatcher, @luzpaz, @maciekstosio, @modderme123, @omahs, @pktiuk, @ShootingKing-AM, @soxofaan, @vedantmgoyal2009, @xylix, @yumemio

Changelog

Changes since v0.12.0b3

📦 activitywatch

✨ Features (1)

• feat(scripts): added contributor stats to build_changelog, now generating full release notes instead of just changelog (aa21904)

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix(script): minor fixes to build_changelog (e28ad11)

🔨 Misc (9)

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• docs(README): minor formatting improvement (#816) (ac53b78)
• docs: added how to claim GitPOAP in CONTRIBUTING.md (5a1b39d)
• docs(README): added DOI/zenodo, updated donations badge (d8c7753)
• chore: release v0.12.1 (f322f49)
• docs(README): fix typos (#789) (44e47f9)
• scripts: added printing of twitter usernames for each contributor in build_changelog.py (c9081f5)
• chore: bumped version to v0.12.0 (7259e24)
• chore: added .python-version to gitignore (e8287a1)
• Merge pull request #765 from ActivityWatch/dev/build-release-notes (67c2491)

📦 aw-server

🐛 Fixes (3)

• fix: re-enable flask multi-threading (#94) (a012e7a)
• fix: made heartbeats threadsafe (#95) (92997c2)
• fix: added detect_version_poetry utility function (b1ff0f1)

🔨 Misc (4)

• chore: applied no_implicit_optional (af61292)
• docs(README): fix broken link (#87) (0e55b94)
• style: applied black (644d14c)
• refactor: ran pyupgrade --py38-plus (f47ad75)

📦 aw-webui

✨ Features (10)

• feat: added timeline visualization in Activity view (#380) (d96471c)
• feat: add support for magic string CATEGORIES in query editor (#372) (e9aa9e1)
• feat: pull default query from query param (#371) (e2c5a7a)
• feat: added category-builder to easily make categories from uncategorized time (and a notification when much is uncategorized) (#378) (74778e0)
• feat: added "count-as-active" setting to always count some apps/titles as active (#375) (40e6f25)
• feat(wip): include stopwatch activity in Activity view, hidden behind devmode toggle (#368) (1980a40)
• feat: started working on force-directed graph for visualizing category-transitions (#365) (a4c932b)
• feat: added ability to filter by category through URL query params, and through clicking in the category-summary vis (also rewrote summary.js to .ts) (2510f4a)
• feat: added CSV events export to Buckets view (067a43a)
• feat: started working on timespiral visualization (16da90b)

🐛 Fixes (26)

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• fix: print error when CATEGORIES used and no categories set (#388) (7d4438f)
• fix: better messages in CategoryBuilder when all done (12effc6)
• fix: ci and e2e test (#383) (cbb555d)
• fix: fixed unnecessary settings store update (6b71838)
• fix: improved categorization settings in several ways (validation, escaping, unsaved changes dialog) (9f37315)
• fix: fixed bugs in QueryExplorer (27e5c59)
• fix: fixes to count-as-active (033ad99)
• fix: enforce unix-style newlines through .gitattributes (#377) (4a6de2f)
• fix: add browser-queries support for waterfox and orion (#370) (b6bd53f)
• fix: fixed NewReleaseNotification couldn't be hidden/disabled (#374) (bfe847c)
• fix: fixed minor bugs (ab3a62a)
• fix: fixed tests (baa9a04)
• fix: set pwa.iconPaths.faviconSVG to null, to prevent 404 request for missing svg-version icon (2e29815)
• fix: multiple fixes to event editing (5099a68)
• fix: added aw-webui commit hash to settings page (for debugging CI) (f4a0741)
• fix: fixed bug where category filter was not working (fixes[#766](How to view list of "Uncategorized" entries? #766)) (abc276c)
• fix: set type for 'theme' to union of valid literals ('light' | 'dark') (6771434)
• fix: set correct center color for categories sunburst, depending on theme (e96f6df)
• fix: fixes and improvements to timespiral vis (6303cb5)
• fix: added appnames for firefox dev edition (130f00d)
• fix: fixed bug in sunburst-clock (from d3 v6) and converted it to typescript (b8f6837)
• fix: turn timespiral into a proper view that can be navigated to in devmode (f3ac629)
• fix: added ticks to timespiral, and other fixes (a34ab73)
• fix: added hour-gaps to timespiral vis (cd6ec5c)
• fix: minor fixes to timespiral (a7fc561)
• fix: fixed browser/editor bucket fallback to host 'unknown' (9d4a638)

🔨 Misc (8)

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• refactor: switched to using media repo for logo assets (4362717)
• docs: better explain how to use pre-releases for dev/testing (#373) (3361706)
• refactor: improved typing coverage for sunburst-clock.ts (f9481d0)
• refactor: improved typing coverage (with type-coverage and typescript-coverage-report) (b0f1a93)
• test: fixes to screenshot test (#362) (beefd71)
• test: minor improvements to screenshot test (7ed699e)
• test: increased timeouts for screenshot tests (hopefully fixing visualizations that haven't yet rendered) (3aaab25)
• style: fixed lint issues (c1371eb)

📦 media

🔨 Misc (9)

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• added social media and play store banners (7eeb8d6)
• Remove unnecessary logo after automatic dark mode recoloration (cb597f7)
• Merge pull request #1 from xylix/monochrome-logos (6097588)
• Add monochrome logos (Used on MacOS trayicon) (510cefc)
• Merge branch 'master' of github.com:ActivityWatch/media (1c1221c)
• added 128px version of logo (915724f)
• added png2icns script and icns version of logo (32b7939)
• added .ico version of logo (9cb68e0)
• Initial commit, included logo, banner and Varela Round (d705a5f)

📦 aw-server-rust

✨ Features (1)

• feat: add custom visualization support (custom_static) (#301) (8bf4cb3)

🐛 Fixes (10)

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• fix: applied cargo fmt (7b8b7b3)
• fix: fixed deprecations and ran clippy --fix (923ba82)
• fix: several android fixes (#323) (8173d57)
• fix: better bucket matching error (taking into account hostname) (#318) (3d7d952)
• fix: only filter certain loggers when not in debug mode (#319) (fbdc6b5)
• fix: extra debug logging when in testing mode (#310) (5bd70f9)
• fix(sync): important FIXME comments, improvements to sync scripts (922f9b3)
• fix: source log level from ENV (#304) (d6b3992)
• fix: minor fixes to sync, renamed sync-testing scripts, improved README (60badc3)
• fix(sync): build --release aw-sync in test-sync script (639614b)

🔨 Misc (3)

• chore: bumped version to 0.12.1 (8df8251)
• docs: source comment typo (#303) (2bbf4ee)
• test: adding explicit test for long pulse merge (#307) (d6a61d9)

📦 aw-webui

✨ Features (10)

• feat: added timeline visualization in Activity view (#380) (d96471c)
• feat: add support for magic string CATEGORIES in query editor (#372) (e9aa9e1)
• feat: pull default query from query param (#371) (e2c5a7a)
• feat: added category-builder to easily make categories from uncategorized time (and a notification when much is uncategorized) (#378) (74778e0)
• feat: added "count-as-active" setting to always count some apps/titles as active (#375) (40e6f25)
• feat(wip): include stopwatch activity in Activity view, hidden behind devmode toggle (#368) (1980a40)
• feat: started working on force-directed graph for visualizing category-transitions (#365) (a4c932b)
• feat: added ability to filter by category through URL query params, and through clicking in the category-summary vis (also rewrote summary.js to .ts) (2510f4a)
• feat: added CSV events export to Buckets view (067a43a)
• feat: started working on timespiral visualization (16da90b)

🐛 Fixes (26)

Click to expand

• fix: print error when CATEGORIES used and no categories set (#388) (7d4438f)
• fix: better messages in CategoryBuilder when all done (12effc6)
• fix: ci and e2e test (#383) (cbb555d)
• fix: fixed unnecessary settings store update (6b71838)
• fix: improved categorization settings in several ways (validation, escaping, unsaved changes dialog) (9f37315)
• fix: fixed bugs in QueryExplorer (27e5c59)
• fix: fixes to count-as-active (033ad99)
• fix: enforce unix-style newlines through .gitattributes (#377) (4a6de2f)
• fix: add browser-queries support for waterfox and orion (#370) (b6bd53f)
• fix: fixed NewReleaseNotification couldn't be hidden/disabled (#374) (bfe847c)
• fix: fixed minor bugs (ab3a62a)
• fix: fixed tests (baa9a04)
• fix: set pwa.iconPaths.faviconSVG to null, to prevent 404 request for missing svg-version icon (2e29815)
• fix: multiple fixes to event editing (5099a68)
• fix: added aw-webui commit hash to settings page (for debugging CI) (f4a0741)
• fix: fixed bug where category filter was not working (fixes[#766](How to view list of "Uncategorized" entries? #766)) (abc276c)
• fix: set type for 'theme' to union of valid literals ('light' | 'dark') (6771434)
• fix: set correct center color for categories sunburst, depending on theme (e96f6df)
• fix: fixes and improvements to timespiral vis (6303cb5)
• fix: added appnames for firefox dev edition (130f00d)
• fix: fixed bug in sunburst-clock (from d3 v6) and converted it to typescript (b8f6837)
• fix: turn timespiral into a proper view that can be navigated to in devmode (f3ac629)
• fix: added ticks to timespiral, and other fixes (a34ab73)
• fix: added hour-gaps to timespiral vis (cd6ec5c)
• fix: minor fixes to timespiral (a7fc561)
• fix: fixed browser/editor bucket fallback to host 'unknown' (9d4a638)

🔨 Misc (8)

Click to expand

• refactor: switched to using media repo for logo assets (4362717)
• docs: better explain how to use pre-releases for dev/testing (#373) (3361706)
• refactor: improved typing coverage for sunburst-clock.ts (f9481d0)
• refactor: improved typing coverage (with type-coverage and typescript-coverage-report) (b0f1a93)
• test: fixes to screenshot test (#362) (beefd71)
• test: minor improvements to screenshot test (7ed699e)
• test: increased timeouts for screenshot tests (hopefully fixing visualizations that haven't yet rendered) (3aaab25)
• style: fixed lint issues (c1371eb)

📦 media

🔨 Misc (9)

Click to expand

• added social media and play store banners (7eeb8d6)
• Remove unnecessary logo after automatic dark mode recoloration (cb597f7)
• Merge pull request #1 from xylix/monochrome-logos (6097588)
• Add monochrome logos (Used on MacOS trayicon) (510cefc)
• Merge branch 'master' of github.com:ActivityWatch/media (1c1221c)
• added 128px version of logo (915724f)
• added png2icns script and icns version of logo (32b7939)
• added .ico version of logo (9cb68e0)
• Initial commit, included logo, banner and Varela Round (d705a5f)

📦 aw-watcher-afk

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix: fixed incorrect description argument to ArgumentParser (7ec5683)

🔨 Misc (2)

• docs: document default afk detection threshold (#56) (c50bacb)
• style: applied pyupgrade (ef53160)

📦 aw-watcher-window

✨ Features (1)

• feat: started work on macOS swift-strategy (fc423c1)

🐛 Fixes (9)

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• fix: misc fixes to swift script on macos, incl URL inspection (#69) (f08afe8)
• fix: improved error handling to avoid logspam (#73) (8b78fdd)
• fix: fixed incorrect description argument to ArgumentParser (dde734f)
• fix: kill aw-watcher-window-macos when exiting on macOS (47b65c3)
• fix: check that we're on macOS before using swift-strategy (de95b63)
• fix: changed default strategy_macos to swift (5ba4781)
• fix: fixed aw-watcher-window-macos binary path when bundled as .app (1287e96)
• fix: made macOS swift-strategy respect config (ebd8787)
• fix: finished MVP of macOS swift-strategy, fixing lots of issues (6d68ae3)

🔨 Misc (4)

• chore: applied no_implicit_optional (6fdff0e)
• perf: use win32 API instead of WMI to query process information (#83) (6e0778d)
• docs: added FIXME comment (6afa7aa)
• refactor: ran pyupgrade --py38-plus (24fafe1)

📦 aw-qt

✨ Features (1)

• feat: added --no-gui flag to aw-qt, and added --interactive flag for a minimal repl UI (#89) (744c8d2)

🐛 Fixes (3)

• fix: fixed icon search path when bundled as .app (8ec5db9)
• fix: update to pyqt6 (#90) (79be33b)
• fix: improved arguments to endless sleep call (fa27df4)

🔨 Misc (1)

• refactor: moved setpgrp, turned .format() into f-strings (0040f9b)

📦 aw-core

🐛 Fixes (3)

• fix: added rotating logfile handler with max size to prevent large logs (#114) (94f7f96)
• fix: better comment out example/placeholder config (only keys, not headers or empty lines) (#113) (d7c91cd)
• fix: added all to package (4cea325)

🔨 Misc (2)

• chore: applied no_implicit_optional (6f0affa)
• chore: bumped version to 0.5.11 (637a392)

📦 aw-client

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix: improved error handling, avoiding huge log files (#68) (408e814)

🔨 Misc (2)

• chore: applied no_implicit_optional (4e45bb6)
• chore: bumped version to 0.5.11 (9bae2fd)

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