v0.14.0b2

[ErikBjare]

These are the release notes for ActivityWatch version v0.14.0b2.

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, @amsam0, @ErikBjare, @fanxing11, @musicinmybrain, @TimeToBuildBob

Changelog

Changes since v0.14.0b1:

📦 activitywatch

✨ Features (1)

• feat(ci): restore x86_64 macOS builds via macos-15-intel runner (#1364) (4e3dbde)

🐛 Fixes (10)

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• fix(ci): bump MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET from 10.9 to 12.0 (#1363) (bb19d73)
• fix(ci): use team ID for notarytool keychain profile name (#1362) (8e04c7d)
• fix(ci): ignore pytest 9 until Python 3.10 (#1346) (c85c3a7)
• fix(ci): sign macOS artifacts only on release tags (#1348) (ab38e31)
• fix(scripts): replace deprecated pip --format=legacy with freeze in uninstall.sh (#1344) (a2eb69d)
• fix(ci): build Qt AppImage on Ubuntu 22.04 (#1345) (09bc42b)
• fix(ci): pin GitHub Actions to commit SHAs (supply chain hardening) (#1322) (b2cd444)
• fix(deps): unblock pip security updates (#1321) (18dd98c)
• fix(ci): pin WebKit to 2.44.0-2 to fix blank-webview regression on Linux (#1311) (bf66fa6)
• fix(ci): follow higher prerelease line when one already exists (#1308) (fa69210)

🔨 Misc (2)

• [codex] fix(ci): resolve macOS codesign identity from imported cert (#1337) (b32338d)
• refactor(ci): unify release workflows (#1313) (634bb51)

(excluded 11 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-server

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix: return 400 instead of 500 for malformed timeperiods in /api/0/query/ (#163) (2778e15)

(excluded 2 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-webui

✨ Features (6)

• feat(i18n): add vue-i18n with en, uk, de, ru, zh-CN locales (#896) (948be8d)
• feat(ui): pre-release polish pass — bug fixes, tests, and view-level revamps (#857) (dc02ac8)
• feat(home): add r/activitywatch community links (#854) (363e1c7)
• feat(settings): add privacy filter editor (#830) (6516230)
• feat: add saved query presets to Query Explorer (#829) (f52008f)
• feat(buckets): bulk delete buckets by host (closes #662) (#821) (b8ec3c0)

🐛 Fixes (26)

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• 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)
• fix(tests): skip cross-locale assertions when Node lacks full-icu (#884) (5b77a78)
• fix(deps): override esbuild to patched version (#867) (38fcf69)
• fix(activity): revert timeline_barchart as wide vis — breaks default 3-vis layout (#863) (8768475)
• fix(timeline): keep scroll zoom anchored to cursor (#860) (53b1499)
• fix(activity): widen timeline barchart card (89d8a77)
• fix(deps): override vulnerable d3-color (#858) (afa1e61)
• fix(score): show selected period label (#845) (5c04d24)
• fix(categories): keep durations readable for long names (#843) (c72fffa)
• fix(timeline): localize chart date labels (#825) (adbddb4)
• fix(ci): restore PAT for dependabot auto-merge (#837) (475442e)
• fix(query-explorer): solid Rename/Delete buttons for saved queries (#835) (0072d36)
• fix(ui): replace <wbr> with zero-width space in timeline labels, move bulk-delete to dropdown (#834) (0db3447)
• fix(ci): skip unused setup-cml Vega install (#832) (266b20b)
• fix(deps): remove obsolete Vue CLI Jest plugin (#833) (ddbb4f8)
• fix(ci): repair dependabot automation (#828) (62ee4ed)
• fix: remove deprecated keyboard option from vis-timeline (#826) (18a3946)
• fix(timeline): wrap long bucket labels on narrow screens (#822) (af1f3fd)
• fix(settings): prevent null localStorage values from overriding state defaults (#815) (8d9a7f8)
• fix(views): use queryOptions.start for +1 week button (closes #817) (#819) (907959c)

🔨 Misc (2)

• chore: bump media submodule (0a43547)
• test(timeline): add regression tests for cursor-anchored zoom (#847) (#866) (9cdc708)

(excluded 7 less relevant commits)

📦 media

🔨 Misc (1)

• docs: added LICENSE (a451514)

📦 aw-server-rust

✨ Features (4)

• feat(android): add migration for aw-watcher-android-test bucket names (#628) (c022e85)
• feat(datastore): add opt-in SQLCipher encryption support (#584) (af324f9)
• feat(server): add --config override for server config path (#601) (c82981d)
• feat(privacy-filter): add heartbeat-level privacy filtering engine (#600) (df49b3d)

🐛 Fixes (8)

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• fix(android): update JNI androidQuery bucket name to aw-watcher-android (#632) (0094c14)
• fix(sync): chunk event fetch in sync_one() to prevent OOM on large buckets (#631) (d87bd93)
• fix(deps): upgrade reqwest 0.11 → 0.12 to fix rustls-webpki vulnerability (#617) (6f6c64a)
• fix(ci): harden dependabot automerge workflow (#611) (288decb)
• fix(android): make compile-android.sh cwd-safe (#609) (7812b56)
• fix(android): load embedded server config (#608) (0c8b2ad)
• fix(aw-client-rust): fail on non-2xx responses (#607) (73389bc)
• fix(query): support select_keys in regex rules (#605) (5b3f0f8)

🔨 Misc (5)

• perf: cache compiled regex in categorization rules (#634) (d350f42)
• aw-sync: add --mode to daemon, fix unrespected --start-date (#620) (9e771ef)
• chore: bump webui submodule (c665f2d)
• perf(datastore): enable WAL journal mode (#616) (d7349c2)
• Performance improvements (#615) (73ae710)

(excluded 10 less relevant commits)

📦 aw-webui

✨ Features (6)

• feat(i18n): add vue-i18n with en, uk, de, ru, zh-CN locales (#896) (948be8d)
• feat(ui): pre-release polish pass — bug fixes, tests, and view-level revamps (#857) (dc02ac8)
• feat(home): add r/activitywatch community links (#854) (363e1c7)
• feat(settings): add privacy filter editor (#830) (6516230)
• feat: add saved query presets to Query Explorer (#829) (f52008f)
• feat(buckets): bulk delete buckets by host (closes #662) (#821) (b8ec3c0)

🐛 Fixes (26)

Click to expand

• 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)
• fix(tests): skip cross-locale assertions when Node lacks full-icu (#884) (5b77a78)
• fix(deps): override esbuild to patched version (#867) (38fcf69)
• fix(activity): revert timeline_barchart as wide vis — breaks default 3-vis layout (#863) (8768475)
• fix(timeline): keep scroll zoom anchored to cursor (#860) (53b1499)
• fix(activity): widen timeline barchart card (89d8a77)
• fix(deps): override vulnerable d3-color (#858) (afa1e61)
• fix(score): show selected period label (#845) (5c04d24)
• fix(categories): keep durations readable for long names (#843) (c72fffa)
• fix(timeline): localize chart date labels (#825) (adbddb4)
• fix(ci): restore PAT for dependabot auto-merge (#837) (475442e)
• fix(query-explorer): solid Rename/Delete buttons for saved queries (#835) (0072d36)
• fix(ui): replace <wbr> with zero-width space in timeline labels, move bulk-delete to dropdown (#834) (0db3447)
• fix(ci): skip unused setup-cml Vega install (#832) (266b20b)
• fix(deps): remove obsolete Vue CLI Jest plugin (#833) (ddbb4f8)
• fix(ci): repair dependabot automation (#828) (62ee4ed)
• fix: remove deprecated keyboard option from vis-timeline (#826) (18a3946)
• fix(timeline): wrap long bucket labels on narrow screens (#822) (af1f3fd)
• fix(settings): prevent null localStorage values from overriding state defaults (#815) (8d9a7f8)
• fix(views): use queryOptions.start for +1 week button (closes #817) (#819) (907959c)

🔨 Misc (2)

• chore: bump media submodule (0a43547)
• test(timeline): add regression tests for cursor-anchored zoom (#847) (#866) (9cdc708)

(excluded 7 less relevant commits)

📦 media

🔨 Misc (1)

• docs: added LICENSE (a451514)

📦 aw-watcher-afk

✨ Features (1)

• feat(afk): add gamepad/joystick support via evdev (Linux) (#80) (4c0375f)

🐛 Fixes (4)

• fix: restart gamepad listener when its threads die (#82) (b61b7f9)
• fix: auto-recover input listeners after X server restart (#78) (7c5b19f)
• fix: detect parent death by ppid change instead of ppid==1 (#77) (94f88e3)
• fix(windows): use GetTickCount64 to prevent overflow after 49.7 days (#76) (2d4519c)

📦 aw-watcher-window

✨ Features (1)

• feat(macos): support native title exclusion flags (#128) (3dc0a1b)

🐛 Fixes (4)

• fix: target macOS 14 for swift helper (#126) (288b67f)
• fix(ci): use 'poetry run' in test target + run typecheck (#129) (fd5cfcb)
• fix(windows): handle hwnd==0 gracefully for UAC/secure desktop (#118) (61b482b)
• fix(xlib): handle None return from get_wm_name() on KDE Plasma (#115) (9e8fba1)

🔨 Misc (1)

• [macos] Improve handling of missing application attributes (#105) (1370d29)

📦 aw-core

✨ Features (1)

• feat(transform): add merge_subwatcher_fields for editor/browser field enrichment (662aba1)

🐛 Fixes (8)

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• fix(query): expose pulsetime param in q2_flood (#142) (c4d31b8)
• fix: regenerate poetry.lock to match pyproject.toml (#140) (a4d2064)
• fix(transform): prefer latest overlapping subwatcher event (e83b17f)
• fix(query2): normalize merge_subwatcher_fields conflict errors (5823d15)
• fix(transform): collapse adjacent split segments (c46cd00)
• fix(transform): split subwatcher enrichment by overlap (a397b0d)
• fix(transform): address Greptile P1/P2 findings on merge_subwatcher_fields (e78081b)
• fix: use UTC-aware datetime for bucket.created and event.timestamp defaults (#136) (2859a09)

🔨 Misc (1)

• Merge pull request #138 from TimeToBuildBob/feat/merge-subwatcher-fields (f320889)

📦 aw-client

🐛 Fixes (3)

• fix(queue): warn before connect and create buckets immediately (#112) (b2ddb46)
• fix: use f-string for browser query so default_limit is interpolated (#110) (14e7497)
• fix: escape_doublequote was using JS regex syntax, never matched anything (#109) (a53cebe)

📦 aw-notify

✨ Features (3)

• feat: support --config and -c flags for config path (f3ff5e8)
• feat: various performance improvements (6881394)
• feat: display previous day productivity-scores (f529c70)

🐛 Fixes (1)

• fix: log fatal errors (375cd53)

📦 aw-tauri

✨ Features (3)

• feat: module_args for default args for non-autostart args (06e70b0)
• feat(cli): add --daemon and --mini modes for headless/lightweight operation (#224) (0ea13c9)
• feat(auth): bootstrap aw-webui token on launch (#216) (10322dc)

🐛 Fixes (6)

• fix: don't re-inject aw-notify flags on restart (5152d3a)
• fix: warn instead of silently dropping unparsable module args (3f656f8)
• fix: escape TOML string values in generated config (490164e)
• fix: silence unused_mut clippy warning in mini tray builder (b8c9c52)
• fix: change identifier in tauri configuration to net.activitywatch.tauri (#214) (f12def5)
• fix: fix file descriptor recycling bug The fd being dropped early lead to random characters being dropped from the output of aw-notify (4a7babb)

🔨 Misc (4)

• refactor: consolidate ManagerState into a single per-module map (7cf0dad)
• docs: fix misleading module_args example in README (e16e860)
• perf: build tray menu once and sync checked state in place (94bec32)
• refactor: remove muts in file path creation (32817f6)

(excluded 5 less relevant commits)

📦 awatcher

🔨 Misc (5)

• Merge pull request #74 from QazCetelic/patch-1 (d5669d3)
• Use anyhow error and include path (70a4f5f)
• Be more specific when writing kwin script fails (22f199a)
• Merge pull request #73 from 0xbrayo/load-apikeys (ef0eee1)
• load AW authkey if configured (ee3ab6c)

Full Changelog: v0.14.0b1...v0.14.0b2

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