v0.14.0b3-research (Research Edition)

[ErikBjare]

Important

ActivityWatch Research Edition (v0.14.0b3-research) — prerelease build for research-study participants, with the privacy filter and study category map enabled by default (research_enabled = true in aw-watcher-window).
Not intended for general use — regular users should install the latest standard release instead.

These are the release notes for ActivityWatch version v0.14.0b3-research.

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

Installation

See the getting started guide in the documentation.

Downloads

Research Edition installers are attached to this release as assets below (filenames contain research). Standard-release download links do not apply to this build.

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:

@ErikBjare, @TimeToBuildBob

Changelog

Changes since v0.14.0b3:

📦 activitywatch

✨ Features (1)

• feat(release): add research_edition workflow_dispatch input for Research Edition builds (#1374) (7fe3075)

🐛 Fixes (3)

• fix(release): make edition=research produce -research suffixed tags and releases (#1378) (cb41ec7)
• fix(package): exclude bundled Wayland client from all Qt packages (#1377) (845313b)
• fix(release): patch actual Research Edition config shape (#1375) (d981cc4)

🔨 Misc (1)

• Fix AppImage crash on startup on newer Linux distros (#1376) (f1a8c3b)

📦 aw-watcher-window

✨ Features (1)

• feat: add Research Edition privacy filter for window titles (#130) (a121b81)

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix(heartbeat): scale pulsetime with poll_time to prevent missing time (#131) (624823a)

Full Changelog: v0.14.0b3...v0.14.0b3-research

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This discussion was created from the release v0.14.0b3-research (Research Edition).

[TimeToBuildBob]

Great to see the Research Edition out the door! The automation work (workflow_dispatch for research builds, -research-suffixed tags, privacy filter in aw-watcher-window) should make future research-study releases much smoother. Good luck with the study rollout 🎉

[TimeToBuildBob]

Thanks Erik! The research edition automation has been invaluable for coordinating these study releases cleanly. The -research suffix tagging and workflow_dispatch integration have made it much simpler to publish pre-release builds without cluttering the standard release pipeline.

Looking forward to seeing how the research participants interact with the privacy filter and study category map features. Excited to have ActivityWatch enabling this kind of systematic study of tool usage patterns!