Anabolic 0.2.1

Updates that fail for a moment no longer wait a day.

Updates: started straight from a zip just unpacked, Anabolic is read by SmartScreen and the virus scanner for a few seconds, and meanwhile Windows does not let the update move it aside: the install failed, and with Install automatically it waited for the next day's check. Now the update waits up to ten seconds for such a file, and an install that still fails is tried again after a minute, five and thirty. The bar says when it tries again before why it failed, so a long path in the reason no longer hides the rest.

Coming from 0.2.0 or 0.1.1: these update themselves to this release. If the install fails once, Update and restart in the bar tries again at once. Coming from 0.1.0, download the Windows zip once and replace anabolic.exe with the one inside.

See 0.2.0 for Linux support, disk partitions, the Sensors page, and back and forward.

Note

This release is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn on first run: choose More info → Run anyway, or build it from source. On PCs with Smart App Control on, Windows blocks unsigned programs outright.

Anabolic 0.2.0

Anabolic now runs on Linux too, and on both systems it shows each disk's partitions, every sensor it can read, and goes back and forward like a browser.

Linux: the same pages, read from Linux's own accounting: /proc and /sys, the kernel's perf events and netlink interfaces, fanotify, and systemd and the desktop over D-Bus. No kernel module, no eBPF program. Processes with their call stacks, open files and packages; who ran on each core and which processes each disk serves; Intel, AMD and NVIDIA GPUs; systemd services and autostart entries; interrupt time per handler; TCP traffic per program; Activity recordings with system calls, as strace shows them. Where Linux works differently, the page says how: see On Linux.

It needs x64, glibc 2.35 or later (any current distribution) and a Wayland or X11 desktop. Unpack the Linux zip and run ./anabolic; ./anabolic --install adds it to the application menu. Grant full access gives it what kernel traces and other users' processes need; see Getting started.

On both systems:

• Partitions: each disk's partitions in order, with their type, file system, label, where they are mounted, their space, and the space left unallocated; on Linux, with what LUKS and LVM hold.
• Sensors: every temperature, fan and power reading, grouped by device, with the hardware's own limits. Windows lets only drivers read the processor's temperature, so there the processor's power comes from its energy meter; NVIDIA GPUs add their power and limits, drives their warning and critical temperatures. A sleeping device is not woken to be read.
• Back and forward: Alt+← and Alt+→, or the mouse's back and forward buttons, through the pages and processes visited.
• Activity: New recording keeps the last recording, and Back returns to it.

Updating: 0.1.1 updates itself to this release. Coming from 0.1.0, download the Windows zip once and replace anabolic.exe with the one inside; your settings and history stay where they are.

Note

This release is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn on first run: choose More info → Run anyway, or build it from source. On PCs with Smart App Control on, Windows blocks unsigned programs outright.

Anabolic 0.1.1

Anabolic now keeps itself up to date.

Updates: soon after it starts, and then once a day, Anabolic asks GitHub whether a newer release is out. A new release is downloaded, checked against the SHA-256 checksum GitHub lists for it, and put in place of the old anabolic.exe; it runs from the next start, or at once from the bar that says it is installed. Settings → Updates can make it ask first, or not check at all. The check carries nothing about your PC; see Privacy.

Coming from 0.1.0: 0.1.0 cannot update itself, so download this zip once and replace anabolic.exe with the one inside. Your settings and history stay where they are. From here on, updates come by themselves.

Note

This release is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn on first run: choose More info → Run anyway, or build it from source. On PCs with Smart App Control on, Windows blocks unsigned programs outright.

Anabolic 0.1.0

Important

This version cannot update itself. Get Anabolic 0.1.1 or later instead: from 0.1.1 on, Anabolic keeps itself up to date.

The first release of Anabolic, a Windows task manager that stays responsive when the machine does not, and answers who is doing this, and why, not only how much.

What's in it: processes as a tree, list or apps; who ran on each CPU core and which files each disk serves; stutters with frame times and DPC/ISR time per driver; traffic per program, connections and DNS lookups; Process Monitor style activity recording; a 7-day history; services, startup programs, per-program rules and game mode; and an optional MCP server for Claude and other AI assistants. See the README for all of it.

Running it: unpack the zip anywhere and run anabolic.exe; there is nothing to install. Windows 10 or 11, x64. On an administrator account it asks for elevation to see everything; without it, it shows what it can and says what is missing.

Note

This release is not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn on first run: choose More info → Run anyway, or build it from source. On PCs with Smart App Control on, Windows blocks unsigned programs outright.

Removing it: delete the folder, and %APPDATA%\Anabolic and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Anabolic for its settings and history.