Download ActivityWatch 0.14.2

These are the release notes for ActivityWatch version v0.14.2.
New to ActivityWatch? Check out the website and the README.
Installation
See the getting started guide in the documentation.
Downloads
Classic distribution
- Windows (.exe installer)
- macOS: Intel | Apple Silicon (.dmg)
- Linux: .zip | .AppImage | .deb
Tauri distribution (experimental — native Wayland support on Linux)
- Windows (.exe installer)
- macOS: Intel | Apple Silicon (.dmg)
- Linux: .AppImage | .zip
Support ActivityWatch
ActivityWatch is free and open source, with no feature gates. If it is useful to you, AW Pro is an optional subscription that funds ongoing development.
Contributors
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release:
@0xbrayo, @andreivince, @ErikBjare, @fanxing11, @kvnloo, @RaoufGhrissi, @TimeToBuildBob, @Yarish652, @zachsplat
Changelog
Changes since v0.14.1:
📦 activitywatch
✨ Features (1)
- feat(packaging): ship awatcher in the non-Tauri Linux bundle (#1531) (c8b9203)
🐛 Fixes (5)
- fix(release): harvest signed Linux deb/rpm updater artifacts (#1542) (b4b3bd3)
- fix(release): pass bundle version to the Tauri compilation (#1535) (71cdc78)
- fix(packaging): pin Qt Wayland watcher substitution (#1532) (5f54ca2)
- fix(issue-forms): remove invalid empty title keys (#1524) (33f667d)
- fix(package): don't trust uname -m for Windows zip arch (#1520) (e0d283f)
🔨 Misc (2)
- docs(readme): link AW Pro support with attribution; drop stale budget badge (#1543) (0d114d7)
- docs(README): update architecture diagram (34c7e61)
(excluded 13 less relevant commits)
📦 aw-server
✨ Features (1)
- feat(api): bulk event delete endpoint (aw-server-rust parity) (#189) (0b36a59)
🐛 Fixes (8)
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- fix(api): reject nonfinite heartbeat pulse windows (#207) (7af1920)
- fix(export): serialize WSGI-safe attachment filenames (#212) (b298f74)
- fix(export): prefix CSV data keys that collide with id/timestamp/duration (#184) (c1ea4ee)
- fix(settings): preserve saved state on persistence errors (#198) (05bc762)
- fix(config): use [server] in isolated profile roots (#170) (991fa6e)
- fix(ci): drop brittle PAT-based dependabot automerge (#196) (be99fec)
- fix(storage): close request database connections (#171) (6356feb)
- fix(http): accept IPv6 loopback Host headers (#172) (f8a352c)
(excluded 17 less relevant commits)
📦 aw-server-rust
✨ Features (7)
- feat(transform): add merge_subwatcher_fields query function (#824) (1d101d4)
- feat(aw-sync): status --clean-legacy prunes re-exported buckets from own staging (#723) (b1d7976)
- feat(aw-sync): add Android JNI resetStaging for own-device staging db (#815) (82995ea)
- feat(android): add setSetting JNI binding (#816) (919cbff)
- feat(server): bulk event delete endpoint (#781) (ce65045)
- feat(server): serve query reads from a read-only datastore handle (#807) (af70e58)
- feat(query): per-request time budget and slow-query logging (#806) (6f4204f)
🐛 Fixes (15)
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- fix(transform): parse scheme-less Android browser domains (#852) (67432e6)
- fix(datastore): invalidate heartbeat cache on delete and rename (#826) (fe353a6)
- fix(android): invalidate the query cache on JNI writes (#831) (92631a3)
- fix(transform): sort union_no_overlap inputs by timestamp (#838) (c684083)
- fix(datastore): update JSON settings fields atomically (#834) (cfccd10)
- fix(query): parse negative number literals in the query language (#832) (c58b49d)
- fix(sync): migrate staging database name (#800) (69e0ac4)
- fix(server): make bucket_list_changed non-blocking — drop reader.reload_buckets() (#821) (9bedc57)
- fix(android): let /api/0/info report the device hostname (#823) (db85090)
- fix(legacy-import): propagate insert_events/create_bucket errors instead of panicking (#822) (c883054)
- fix(recovery): restart-safe union of Windows Local and Roaming histories (#813) (fe558c4)
- fix(datastore): detect a corrupt database at startup, checkpoint WAL on close (#778) (4f955b0)
- fix(aw-server): detect if ActivityWatch is already running on AddrInUse (#773) (efad1f0)
- fix(android): force-commit setSetting before reporting ok (#817) (d0f5074)
- fix(query_cache): bound pending_flush to write_log_size, skip when no reader (#818) (84a26e1)
🔨 Misc (3)
- test(client): fix Windows CI flake in test_wait_for_start_retries_without_blocking_executor (#819) (6de27c9)
- test(sync): pin PeerReport visibility contract for record_peers=true (#787) (ccf07c5)
- test(server): verify stopwatch acknowledgements survive process restart (#814) (18fb62e)
(excluded 18 less relevant commits)
📦 aw-webui
✨ Features (30)
- feat(i18n): explain translation quality and invite native-speaker corrections (#1163) (c933686)
- feat(trends): group the time chart by day or week (#1194) (1805832)
- feat(activity): per-device active time in the multi-device view (#1170) (a226d13)
- feat(categories): carry common app defaults from #495 (#1166) (283305e)
- feat(timeline): group consecutive short events into expandable composites (#1181) (d7f874b)
- feat(activity): select exact sub-day intervals (#1168) (dba35d3)
- feat(trends): filter category history and comparisons (#1182) (519c6ff)
- feat(home): tag Android subscribe CTA as inapp-home-android (#1185) (1f56021)
- feat(i18n): add Indonesian (id) locale (#1155) (d7d45cd)
- feat(i18n): add Swahili (sw) locale (#1158) (86178ef)
- feat(i18n): add Bengali (bn) locale (#1156) (244e7ec)
- feat(i18n): add Urdu (ur) locale with RTL direction (#1157) (360dd13)
- feat(i18n): add Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR) locale (#1150) (fb8e824)
- feat(i18n): add French (fr) locale (#1149) (efcfbcc)
- feat(i18n): add Japanese (ja) locale (#1154) (f3c86db)
- feat(i18n): add Hindi (hi) locale (#1151) (db9e22d)
- feat(i18n): add Arabic (ar) locale with rtl document direction (#1152) (b1541fd)
- feat(i18n): localize remaining screens in Simplified Chinese (#1147) (78ad8ce)
- feat(i18n): add Spanish (es) locale (#1145) (f54fa2f)
- feat(i18n): complete uk/de/ru/sv/zh-CN coverage and report translation % per locale (#1143) (001921b)
- feat(i18n): complete Simplified Chinese UI coverage (#1134) (ac8a180)
- feat(activity): show banner when core watcher bucket is stale (#1083) (a3559fa)
- feat(timeline): add merged final-category row (#1129) (8557c08)
- feat(timeline): add date shift buttons and preserve query params on period nav (#1128) (7e3347f)
- feat(search): include browser URL/title results alongside window events (#1025) (d678505)
- feat(android): blend browser URL data when aw-watcher-web is present (#1091) (65ac42e)
- feat(nav): add Category Builder to the tools menu as a standalone page (#1117) (195d168)
- feat(nav): add Category Builder to the tools menu as a standalone page (#1114) (49d2091)
- feat(buckets): list buckets as rows instead of a button table (#1092) (375c135)
- feat(ui): open phone navigation in a side drawer (#1102) (e11ddab)
🐛 Fixes (66)
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- fix(report): export successful calculation inputs with results (#1257) (d6d1f21)
- fix(transforms): enumerate every overlapping pair (#1144) (50f6b74)
- fix(sunburst): align reporting-day arcs with wall-clock ticks (#1240) (5c6b36f)
- fix(settings): keep the confirmed privacy-filter baseline when a save fails (#1136) (4c85178)
- fix(time): preserve relative intervals and validate inclusive range bounds (#1204) (6b69113)
- fix(bucket): bind merge inputs to current selection loads (#1211) (c3a1f26)
- fix(query): bind preset confirmations to invocation snapshots (#1218) (bbf2fe5)
- fix(reports): anchor query windows to the configured logical day (#1201) (e174ede)
- fix(graph): preserve structural category identities (#1219) (3b898d8)
- fix(categories): preserve structural hierarchy and tree expansion (#1220) (3ebeadc)
- fix(buckets): retry only pending confirmed host deletions (#1212) (16aff47)
- fix(categories): preserve structural paths through category selectors (#1226) (3f8e326)
- fix(categories): preserve complete paths during enumeration (#1232) (f39df23)
- fix(ai-summary): bind activity and inference to one invocation (#1237) (fa2faee)
- fix(views): isolate layout drafts and await confirmed saves (#1222) (4176400)
- fix(categories): avoid empty alternative when appending first pattern (#1230) (2213244)
- fix(top-bucket): preserve typed value identity in grouping (#1242) (82f6ef6)
- fix(categories): acknowledge only the saved category snapshot (#1228) (2fc61ef)
- fix(settings): persist only intentionally updated keys (#1223) (ab82878)
- fix(categories): reject malformed imports before live mutation (#1239) (fd1c979)
- fix(alerts): preserve category paths and compare goal units (#1216) (034c919)
- fix(top-bucket): keep async results owned by the latest load (#1234) (c9e4cee)
- fix(ai-summary): aggregate literal application and domain keys (#1238) (68ac353)
- fix(summary): redraw when the selected data key changes (#1245) (ab97aa7)
- fix(graph): keep Generate results owned by the current invocation (#1248) (e2f3fa7)
- fix(editor): bind drafts and mutations to selection identity (#1208) (abbd592)
- fix(bucket): reconcile confirmed event deletions (#1207) (4b58484)
- fix(reports): bind chart data to the successful report query (#1205) (c3a1014)
- fix(buckets): keep import status owned by the current selection (#1210) (4fe9d20)
- fix(query): keep results owned by the latest submission (#1217) (bfc798b)
- fix(notifications): persist preferences and backoff explicitly (#1224) (18c276d)
- fix(search): keep results owned by latest submission (#1206) (5c50b93)
- fix(ci): reject failed screenshot publication (#1236) (de58c19)
- fix(activity): open per-device breakdown as floating popover (#1197) (0b73e83)
- fix(categories): match default Kate alternative as a whole field (#1184) (628a447)
- fix(sunburst): use configured category colors for window arcs (#1183) (d9a3386)
- fix(export): neutralize spreadsheet formulas in client-side CSV exports (#1192) (a3f9ed5)
- fix(ai-summary): count app changes independently of idle gaps (#1180) (8d662f8)