Stasis v3.7.0-stable

Stasis Release v3.7.0-stable

This release focuses on smarter tracking, faster real-time insights, and a more polished, reliable widget experience across the app, making Stasis feel significantly smoother and more responsive in everyday use.

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New Features

• Introduced Taskbar Activity Widget with real-time usage tracking and interactive insights
• Enhanced URL detection heuristics with robust fallback matching for improved accuracy across browsers

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Performance & Optimization

• Replaced database polling with Tauri app storage for faster widget settings access
• Optimized network calls using AbortController + recursive polling
• Reduced unnecessary API calls with _last_updated signal-based fetching
• Implemented adaptive polling (slower when collapsed, faster when expanded)
• Added visibility-aware execution (pauses during fullscreen/hidden states)
• Improved shutdown performance and digest delivery timing
• Reduced memory usage by minimizing unnecessary UI retention
• Optimized widget lifecycle and improved overall responsiveness

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UI & Improvements

• Redesigned widget with interactive app-wise usage bar
• Added app icons in Current Session for better clarity
• Improved progress bar visuals with gradients and smooth transitions
• Introduced Glassmorphism theme and refined visual styling
• Refactored Settings UI with a dedicated Widget section
• Enhanced hover interactions, tooltips, and detail cards
• Improved window resizing and anchored positioning behavior

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Fixes & Stability

• Fixed widget flickering, visibility, and fullscreen detection issues
• Resolved unclickable UI in browser mode
• Fixed COM threading issues in URL tracking
• Corrected browser naming inconsistencies across APIs
• Fixed Daily Digest generation, template, and delivery issues
• Resolved permission errors for report storage
• Fixed race conditions in hover interactions and timers
• Improved graceful shutdown reliability

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Under the Hood Changes

• Refactored widget into a separate entry bundle for better modularity
• Improved Rust–frontend lifecycle synchronization
• Centralized shutdown handling and system state tracking
• Enhanced activity categorization pipeline with exe_path support
• Cleaned up logging, error handling, and redundant code paths
• Updated build configs, versioning, and dependencies
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Stasis v3.6.0-stable

Stasis Release v3.6.0-stable Release

This release focuses on smarter tracking, faster insights, and a cleaner, more user-friendly experience across the app.

New Features

• Automated app name detection using system metadata for clean, human-readable names across the dashboard.
• Telegram Daily Digest on shutdown with Top 5 apps and total usage summary.
• Introduced cumulative screentime tracking for accurate usage across restarts.
• Redesigned Weekly Reports with improved layout, readability, and richer insights.
• Added persistent report caching for instant report loading and smoother experience.

Performance & Optimization

• Faster report generation with backend + frontend caching.
• Eliminated report loading flicker and reduced redundant processing.

UI & Improvements

• Cleaner UI with consistent, user-friendly app names.
• Removed technical clutter for a more polished experience.

Fixes & Stability

• Improved lifecycle tracking reliability and fixed shutdown time issues.
• Better data consistency across restarts and sessions.

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Stasis v3.5.0-stable

Stasis Release v3.5.0-stable Release

This release focuses on a major dashboard evolution: richer goals, stronger reporting, faster performance, and a cleaner visual experience across the app.

New Features

• Goals & Targets are now deeply integrated into the dashboard with inline status, quick create/edit flows, and better keyboard support.
• Weekly Reports were expanded with compare mode, export options, verbosity controls, analytics, and scheduler support.
• Added Windows Notification Center support for goals/limits plus smarter notification behavior (daily digest, quiet mode, silent limit actions).
• Added a weekly hourly activity API/grid for better time-of-day productivity insights.
• Added optional Telegram integration controls and optional dependency install progress UX.

Performance & Optimization

• Faster, smoother tab switching and reduced remount/flicker behavior across dashboard pages.
• Consolidated startup data loading via bundle endpoints to cut mount-time fetch overhead.
• Improved backend caching and query efficiency (including index-friendly date filtering and reduced redundant SQL).
• Better runtime throughput with threaded API handling, batched file-monitor writes, and background URL resolution.

Architecture & Refactoring

• Refactored settings schema into dedicated tables for clearer data boundaries.
• Reorganized dashboard information architecture (Goals/Limits/Reports under Insights).
• Refined overview card layout system for consistency and maintainability.
• Moved Telegram-specific utilities into a cleaner module structure.

UI & Visual Improvements

• Redesigned Weekly Report page.
• Improved motion polish, hover behavior, spacing rhythm, and card consistency.
• Added clearer goal controls and modernized interaction patterns in overview and goals surfaces.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed settings tab trailing scroll-space issue.
• Fixed overview blank-page regression and restored missing goal modal interactions.
• Fixed timeline tooltip clamping/gap markers and update snooze scheduling behavior.
• Fixed blocked-state persistence/re-block behavior and ignored-app cache invalidation.
• Fixed a file monitor memory-growth issue and logger handler stability.

Documentation & Assets

• Added a comprehensive MkDocs documentation site with expanded README/project docs.
• Improved documentation navigation and styling assets.

Under the Hood

• Added lock-based thread safety in blocking service state.
• Standardized boolean settings handling.
• Included stability hardening across polling, caching, and background task flows.

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Stasis v3.1.6-beta

Changelog — Stasis Beta 3.1.6

New Features

• Completely redesigned the DaySummary module with a new pill-based UI including interactive sparklines, session deltas, and real-time break nudges
• Added live session telemetry for more accurate analytics tracking
• Implemented a robust settings backend with native data retention policies and granular tracking controls such as file system logging toggles
• Added an automated System App Discovery system to detect installed applications and simplify setting up blocking limits without manually entering executable paths
• Implemented persistence for temporary website and application unblocks so focus sessions remain uninterrupted even if the service restarts
• Added breach logging to track when limits are exceeded, providing better behavioral insights
• Added sparkline trend visualizations across key metrics such as screen time, productivity, and focus using a 7-day trend series
• Added BestTimeInsight which detects the most productive contiguous two-hour window and highlights it with contextual analytics
• Introduced a new SectionEmpty component to gracefully handle empty chart states instead of rendering blank visuals
• Added merged Input Activity trend analytics combining keystrokes and mouse clicks into a single insight metric
• Introduced a Today jump button in the DateNavigator that appears only when viewing historical dates with available data
• Added HistoricalBanner displaying the selected date, days-ago context, and a quick return-to-today action when viewing historical data

Performance & Optimization

• Reduced SQLite database locking issues by optimizing concurrent read and write handling for smoother UI behavior during background logging
• Introduced settings caching to reduce redundant database queries and minimize CPU usage
• Implemented lazy-start logic for the FileWatchdog observer so file monitoring only runs when tracking is enabled
• Improved dashboard performance by consolidating multiple state hooks into a reducer-driven architecture to avoid race conditions
• Optimized analytics rendering by ensuring consistent card sizing and pinned sparkline footers across metric cards

Architecture & Refactoring

• Refactored the core wellbeing_routes implementation into modular API route files for improved maintainability and faster development
• Introduced a new backend endpoint /api/spark-series to provide high-fidelity 7-day trend data for dashboard visualizations
• Simplified internal discovery logic for applications and websites for improved reliability across different system configurations
• Improved the architecture of the background blocking service for better stability and reduced system overhead
• Consolidated dashboard state management by replacing multiple useState hooks with a reducer pattern supporting LOAD_START, LOAD_DATA, LOAD_EMPTY, and LOAD_ERROR states
• Added scroll restoration so the dashboard scrolls to the top when navigating between dates

UI & Visual Improvements

• Added NoiseOverlay using SVG fractal noise to create subtle visual depth across the dashboard
• Ambient UI orbs now transition to indigo when viewing historical dates instead of the current day
• Brand accent colors, status indicators, and logo styling dynamically shift between green and indigo depending on live versus historical context
• Converted dashboard section cards to frosted-glass containers with backdrop blur for visual consistency
• Added staggered entrance animations for metric cards with progressive delays
• Replaced the static TabPanel with AnimatedTabPanel using fade and translate animations for smoother tab transitions
• Fixed footer visibility so it becomes readable on hover instead of appearing nearly invisible
• Enabled keyboard hint indicators in the tab group on hover for better discoverability
• Improved the hourly activity section with inline section titles and peak-hour annotations

Bug Fixes

• Fixed database locking issues that occasionally caused tracker interruptions during concurrent read and write operations
• Resolved flickering in DaySummary animations by optimizing React state updates and component wrapping
• Fixed an issue where activity_logger was omitted in a previous performance commit
• Improved validation for time inputs in the Limits page to prevent invalid configuration states
• Fixed SVG gradient collisions in sparkline charts by generating unique gradient identifiers for each instance

Documentation & Assets

• Updated the Stasis landing page and marketing website
• Added new screenshot assets across documentation and the web portal reflecting the latest UI changes

Stasis v3.1.4-beta

Changelog

New Features & UI Enhancements

• Added a dynamic footer displaying the current app version and copyright year, with a clickable link to the Stasis GitHub repository
• Introduced an interactive Day Summary widget providing a concise snapshot of daily activity
• Optimized the Date Navigator to display a clean 14-day view for easier browsing through history
• Improved dashboard number counters with smooth animations that transition to new values instead of resetting to zero, with support for floating-point precision for accurate productivity percentages
• Performed visual cleanup by permanently hiding legacy keyboard hint numbers for a cleaner and distraction-free interface

Analytics & Data Accuracy

• Fixed browser grouping in the Top Apps section so all websites used within the same browser (e.g., Firefox or Chrome) aggregate into a single entry
• Overhauled hourly activity tracking so the tracker flushes data every 60 seconds even without window changes
• Added a dedicated API endpoint powering hourly charts for improved accuracy
• Standardized timezone and date handling across the app to prevent glitches around day boundaries

Bug Fixes & Chart Improvements

• Reworked the Category Donut chart legend to eliminate layout shifting when hovering items
• Improved category visualization by showing the top 3 categories by default with the rest hidden behind a +N expandable toggle
• Filtered out micro-usage entries under 60 seconds to prevent 0% clutter in charts
• Added rich centered tooltips with ranked app lists, proportional usage bars, and emojis directly inside the donut chart

Under the Hood (Developer & Performance)

• Performed a major UI refactor by decomposing the large Overview and Activity pages into reusable components such as ScreenTimeCard, ProductivityCard, and SessionTimeline
• Converted pages into lightweight orchestrators for faster rendering and improved maintainability
• Optimized CI/CD by updating GitHub Actions to trigger deployment only when index.html changes

Stasis v3.1.3-beta

Changelogs

New Features

• Added a hardware acceleration toggle to disable Tauri's WebView2 acceleration, allowing fallback to software rendering and saving around 120MB of background RAM usage
• Improved media playback detection to correctly recognize fullscreen and theater modes, counting Entertainment and Communication apps as active usage when maximized
• Expanded heuristics for video playback detection across major streaming platforms (Hotstar, Netflix, Prime Video) and specific URL paths to prevent false idle states
• Deeply integrated the Ignored Apps setting across the background tracker and Dashboard so ignored apps fully pause tracking and no longer deduct from the daily Focus Score

Performance Improvements

• Reduced startup time and idle RAM footprint by lazy-loading heavy modules (OpenCV, internet checkers, Telegram API, image tools) only when the related feature is triggered
• Redesigned backend efficiency by introducing a Process Metadata caching system, eliminating redundant Windows system calls and reducing CPU usage by 40–60%
• Reduced disk thrashing by batching database writes every 15 seconds, improving SSD lifespan and preventing background micro-stutters during multitasking

Bug Fixes and Reliability

• Implemented graceful shutdown handling to intercept Windows termination signals and flush remaining data to the database before exit, preventing corruption
• Fixed update manager comparison logic to properly preserve semantic version tags such as -beta or -rc
• Enforced single UI instance behavior, preventing multiple Stasis windows from launching simultaneously

Build and CI Improvements

• Enabled UPX compression for standalone Python builds in GitHub Actions to reduce final binary size
• Fixed PyInstaller CI builds to correctly embed the dynamic application version (e.g. stasis-backend-v3.1.2-beta.exe) in artifacts and releases
• Implemented automated pre-release detection that tags GitHub releases as -beta or -alpha based on the version name
• Optimized the static site deployment workflow to trigger only when index.html changes

Stasis v3.0.0

Stasis – New Release 3.0.0

Features

• Implement trend comparisons and “vs yesterday” indicators
• Add usage trend badge to individual browser rows
• Implement individual browser & website breakdown in Apps dashboard
• Upgrade productivity score with Context-Aware Focus Score
• Improve URL categorization logic
• Hide background system processes from dashboard
• Implement automatic 6-hour interval update check on startup
• Implement dedicated Updates UI with live GitHub changelog integration
• Implement robust in-app update manager and UI
• Implement native app icon extraction with multi-level caching
• Centralize versioning and add app icon API endpoint

Performance Improvements

• Optimize memory footprint and backend efficiency
• Improve icon resolution performance and dashboard rendering speed
• Modularize WellbeingDashboard for better performance and maintainability

Fixes

• Fix backend orphan processes not being killed on quit
• Fix update manager elevation and installer lifecycle issues
• Resolve UI hydration and data loading glitches
• Improve installer lifecycle stability

Thank you for using Stasis.
If you encounter any bugs or have suggestions, feel free to open an issue.

Stasis v2.5.0

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Stasis v2.4.0

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Stasis v1.0.2

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