v0.14.0b5

These are the release notes for ActivityWatch version v0.14.0b5.

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:

@0xbrayo, @2e3s, @ErikBjare, @fanxing11, @hawai-i, @NickWick13, @rrogerc, @TiberiusNemesis, @TimeToBuildBob

Changelog

Changes since v0.14.0b4:

📦 activitywatch

✨ Features (2)

• feat(release): enable start-at-login by default in research Qt builds (#1426) (d7a269c)
• feat(ci): add independent manylinux_2_28 Qt build target (glibc 2.28 ABI floor) (#1409) (115e49e)

🐛 Fixes (5)

• fix(release): sync server submodule with Tauri lock (#1429) (88d559a)
• fix(macos): add Apple Events entitlement for browser URLs (#1411) (63eece5)
• fix: preserve updated submodules during sync (#1415) (c4bf10c)
• fix(release): validate Tauri aw-server lock (#1413) (7181a9b)
• fix(ci): propagate retried build failures (#1406) (ce58382)

🔨 Misc (1)

• Sanitize hostname metadata from Research Edition exports (#1408) (991d906)

(excluded 14 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-server

✨ Features (1)

• feat(profile): add --profile flag and port/settings isolation (#167) (088b8f4)

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix(cors): scope moz-extension wildcard to aw-watcher-web endpoints (#166) (a693cac)

(excluded 3 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-webui

✨ Features (7)

• feat(categories): support field-scoped regex rules on master (#952) (a2ca625)
• feat(i18n): add Swedish translation (#947) (3eebf68)
• feat(header): mark Research Edition builds (#941) (71087a2)
• feat(billing): add BillingView — category-grouped billable hours export (#938) (d4bfd6f)
• feat(categories): let builds ship a preset category set active by default (#936) (322159b)
• feat(ai-summary): add client-side AI activity summary page (#922) (1be5633)
• feat(settings): add aw-notify configuration panel (#923) (009f484)

🐛 Fixes (19)

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• fix(ux): replace prompt() with modals for Android WebView compatibility (#966) (2809ee2)
• fix: split week/month desktop queries by day to avoid 30s timeout (#951) (ec73005)
• fix(android): don't merge on 'title' key for aw-watcher-android buckets (#960) (85db7b5)
• fix(categories): import JSON from Android SAF and persist a single save (#956) (97891e1)
• fix(ci): find server logs under the testing cache root, never fail on absence (#962) (7141e39)
• fix(queries): match Arc and Dia in the chrome appname patterns (#928) (d88a9a5)
• fix(query): use native date inputs in query options (#953) (2e757c5)
• fix(categories): auto-select sole hostname and stop lying about missing watchers (#950) (13a9428)
• fix: three small dashboard fixes (#232, #935, #299) (#942) (3cbe349)
• fix(layout): preserve bottom margin on small screens (#946) (3092e41)
• fix(views): guard server info before dereferencing in templates (#933) (d9b42c2)
• fix(category-builder): support hosts with only Android/ScreenTime buckets (#932) (7db0598)
• fix(settings): unify aw-notify config schema (#924) (266a714)
• fix(categories): prevent saving invalid regex patterns (#921) (82407b4)
• fix(activity): hide unsupported visualizations instead of showing warning (#919) (e304925)
• fix(queries): don't split on semicolons inside string literals (#918) (cefc618)
• fix(ci): drop brittle PAT-based dependabot automerge (#901) (58173d8)
• fix(ios): screentime compatibility patch with Greptile review fixes (#917) (bf0fc84)
• fix(categories): filter null/empty segments before saving class name (#902) (a5ec97b)

🔨 Misc (1)

• docs(ai-summary): link the published agents-and-ai guide (#958) (3ba41f4)

(excluded 13 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-server-rust

✨ Features (3)

• feat(classify): optional priority field for category rules (#663) (d2e7b80)
• feat(profile): named instance profiles via --profile flag (#652) (c8533a0)
• feat(server): let packaged builds override the reported version (#656) (77defef)

🐛 Fixes (6)

• fix(datastore): merge disjoint aw-watcher-android-test events on name collision (#661) (8f03f04)
• fix(aw-sync): forward API key on Android JNI client (#666) (6d4fdf7)
• fix(server): reject bucket creation with whitespace in client hostname (#658) (840d11c)
• fix(android): log Rust panics to logcat via android_log (#654) (2de9533)
• fix(android): load widget classes from datastore, not unauthenticated HTTP (#653) (75722f3)
• fix: resolve cargo build warnings (#619) (ab9c848)

🔨 Misc (1)

• perf(aw-transform): cache categorize results per event data to fix month-view timeout (#657) (7429039)

(excluded 3 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-webui

✨ Features (5)

• feat(header): mark Research Edition builds (#941) (71087a2)
• feat(billing): add BillingView — category-grouped billable hours export (#938) (d4bfd6f)
• feat(categories): let builds ship a preset category set active by default (#936) (322159b)
• feat(ai-summary): add client-side AI activity summary page (#922) (1be5633)
• feat(settings): add aw-notify configuration panel (#923) (009f484)

🐛 Fixes (12)

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• fix(categories): auto-select sole hostname and stop lying about missing watchers (#950) (13a9428)
• fix: three small dashboard fixes (#232, #935, #299) (#942) (3cbe349)
• fix(layout): preserve bottom margin on small screens (#946) (3092e41)
• fix(views): guard server info before dereferencing in templates (#933) (d9b42c2)
• fix(category-builder): support hosts with only Android/ScreenTime buckets (#932) (7db0598)
• fix(settings): unify aw-notify config schema (#924) (266a714)
• fix(categories): prevent saving invalid regex patterns (#921) (82407b4)
• fix(activity): hide unsupported visualizations instead of showing warning (#919) (e304925)
• fix(queries): don't split on semicolons inside string literals (#918) (cefc618)
• fix(ci): drop brittle PAT-based dependabot automerge (#901) (58173d8)
• fix(ios): screentime compatibility patch with Greptile review fixes (#917) (bf0fc84)
• fix(categories): filter null/empty segments before saving class name (#902) (a5ec97b)

(excluded 13 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-watcher-afk

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix(windows): retry failed idle queries safely (#85) (c1a0209)

📦 aw-watcher-window

✨ Features (1)

• feat(macos): capture URL from Firefox-based browsers via accessibility tree (#134) (05c0d92)

🐛 Fixes (2)

• fix(research): classify by longest matching pattern, not map order (#138) (14ecd58)
• fix(config): keep research options out of the first-run config (#137) (a7690ac)

📦 aw-qt

✨ Features (3)

• feat(autostart): add autostart_on_first_run config option (#131) (1337c9a)
• feat(profile): add --profile flag for isolated instances (#128) (455ad3e)
• feat(autostart): user-toggleable OS-level autostart (login item) support (#127) (45f4c2f)

📦 aw-core

✨ Features (4)

• feat(classify): optional priority field for category rules (#153) (a76de08)
• feat(dirs): testing-root fallback with legacy artifacts (#152) (81e4367)
• feat(cli): add --profile flag to aw-cli (step 6 of #1399) (#151) (16e493b)
• feat(dirs): profile isolation via AW_PROFILE appname suffix (#149) (11f17e7)

🔨 Misc (2)

• chore: bump version to 0.5.18 (6f5f28e)
• perf(aw-transform): cache categorize/tag results per event data to fix month-view timeout (#150) (18e0b10)

📦 aw-client

✨ Features (2)

• feat(profile): add profile= to ActivityWatchClient and --profile CLI (#118) (f80900e)
• feat: add --format json option to canonical command (#117) (101b803)

📦 aw-notify

✨ Features (1)

• feat(config): read configuration from ActivityWatch settings API (#39) (9f8c3e4)

📦 aw-tauri

✨ Features (3)

• feat(profile): add --profile flag for isolated instances (#241) (03cb62b)
• feat(updater): add updater signing pubkey, build updater artifacts when key present (#240) (9bbb52e)
• feat(autostart): expose start-at-login as a user-facing toggle (#238) (f70bcdf)

🐛 Fixes (2)

• fix(deps): update aw-server profile API (#248) (f0c4518)
• fix(deps): bump bundled aw-server from 0.13.1 to 0.14.0 (#243) (f2757d1)

(excluded 9 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-webui

✨ Features (9)

• feat(categories): support field-scoped regex rules on master (#952) (a2ca625)
• feat(i18n): add Swedish translation (#947) (3eebf68)
• feat(header): mark Research Edition builds (#941) (71087a2)
• feat(billing): add BillingView — category-grouped billable hours export (#938) (d4bfd6f)
• feat(categories): let builds ship a preset category set active by default (#936) (322159b)
• feat(ai-summary): add client-side AI activity summary page (#922) (1be5633)
• feat(settings): add aw-notify configuration panel (#923) (009f484)
• feat(home): engagement-gated supporter nudge + route survey/forum links through /go/ (#915) (464405d)
• feat(i18n): add vue-i18n with en, uk, de, ru, zh-CN locales (#896) (948be8d)

🐛 Fixes (26)

Click to expand

• fix(ux): replace prompt() with modals for Android WebView compatibility (#966) (2809ee2)
• fix: split week/month desktop queries by day to avoid 30s timeout (#951) (ec73005)
• fix(android): don't merge on 'title' key for aw-watcher-android buckets (#960) (85db7b5)
• fix(categories): import JSON from Android SAF and persist a single save (#956) (97891e1)
• fix(ci): find server logs under the testing cache root, never fail on absence (#962) (7141e39)
• fix(queries): match Arc and Dia in the chrome appname patterns (#928) (d88a9a5)
• fix(query): use native date inputs in query options (#953) (2e757c5)
• fix(categories): auto-select sole hostname and stop lying about missing watchers (#950) (13a9428)
• fix: three small dashboard fixes (#232, #935, #299) (#942) (3cbe349)
• fix(layout): preserve bottom margin on small screens (#946) (3092e41)
• fix(views): guard server info before dereferencing in templates (#933) (d9b42c2)
• fix(category-builder): support hosts with only Android/ScreenTime buckets (#932) (7db0598)
• fix(settings): unify aw-notify config schema (#924) (266a714)
• fix(categories): prevent saving invalid regex patterns (#921) (82407b4)
• fix(activity): hide unsupported visualizations instead of showing warning (#919) (e304925)
• fix(queries): don't split on semicolons inside string literals (#918) (cefc618)
• fix(ci): drop brittle PAT-based dependabot automerge (#901) (58173d8)
• fix(ios): screentime compatibility patch with Greptile review fixes (#917) (bf0fc84)
• fix(categories): filter null/empty segments before saving class name (#902) (a5ec97b)
• fix(build): allow root git dependencies for npm >= 12 (fixes activitywatch#1356) (#913) (749585f)
• fix(buckets): show phone icon for Android devices in Raw Data view (#905) (5799225)
• fix(activity): detect Android device at runtime for view selection (#903) (de79efe)
• fix(categories): allocate safe numeric ID when class list is empty (#892) (0c0b846)
• fix(deps): resolve 16 npm audit vulnerabilities via audit fix (#893) (122a2ca)
• fix(i18n): use Intl.DateTimeFormat for locale-aware date/time display (#894) (17d4a4b)
• fix(buckets): surface real server error message on import failure (#890) (f24f6e9)

🔨 Misc (3)

• docs(ai-summary): link the published agents-and-ai guide (#958) (3ba41f4)
• docs: add subscribe CTA to the Home Support section (#914) (edb7d71)
• chore: bump media submodule (0a43547)

(excluded 16 less relevant commits)

📦 media

🔨 Misc (1)

• docs: added LICENSE (a451514)

📦 awatcher

🔨 Misc (5)

• Bump version to 0.4.0 (c32ca62)
• Add tests (186ee12)
• Resolve local domain (fb83190)
• Refactor API key retrieval (14e8946)
• Make stylistic adjustments (fe1077b)

Full Changelog: v0.14.0b4...v0.14.0b5