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Workrave Portable Changelog

What's new in Workrave Portable 1.11.0 Beta 12

Mar 22, 2024
  • Fix installer integrity check

New in Workrave Portable 1.11.0 Beta 11 (Mar 21, 2024)

  • Support status icons using the StatusNotifierItem protocol (#447)
  • Fix GNOME Shell 46 support (#532)
  • Allow compilation without Wayland support (#523)
  • Fix Wayland on KDE6 (#523)
  • Fix force X11 option (#525)
  • Prevent focus stealing on Windows when break window is closed

New in Workrave Portable 1.11.0 Beta 10 (Feb 3, 2024)

  • Fix issue where after installing an update, some files got removed after the first reboot.
  • Fix issue where the main window is reopened after the screen is unlocked.
  • Fix issue where the rest break window is opened below other Workrave windows.
  • Add activity monitoring for KDE on Wayland
  • Improved Wayland support on KDE (and other Wayland compositors that support the Layer Shell protocol)

New in Workrave Portable 1.11.0 Beta 9 (Dec 3, 2023)

  • Changes since Workrave 1.11.0-beta.7:
  • Workrave now always shows the exercises during a restbreak on the primary monitor
  • Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (#512, Paulo Haddad Martim)
  • Fix build on Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04.

New in Workrave Portable 1.10.52 (Sep 25, 2023)

  • Fix GNOME 45 compatibility

New in Workrave Portable 1.11.0 Beta 7 (Aug 15, 2023)

  • Fix download of automatic update
  • Support HTTP proxies for automatic update downloads
  • Support Unicode characters in the automatic update changelog
  • Updated Translations:
  • Created Tamil translation (#498, TamilNeram)
  • Updated Italian translation (#496, albanobattistella)

New in Workrave Portable 1.11.0 Beta 6 (Jul 4, 2023)

  • Improve High-DPI icons on Windows
  • Support GNOME Shell 44
  • Support GNOME Shell 44 in combination with Gtk 4
  • On Windows, Workrave now raises the main window when clicking on the pinned application icon.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix "Start Workrave on logon"
  • Fix Assertion 'GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
  • Several build fixes
  • Status window is no longer displayed when not configured
  • Updated Translations:
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Updated Italian translation
  • Updated Polish translation
  • Updates Spanish translation

New in Workrave Portable 1.10.51.1 (Jun 18, 2023)

  • Support GNOME Shell 43 (#430 by Jeremy Bich,async from 1.11)
  • Add option to force the use of the X11 Gtk backend on Wayland
  • Support GNOME Shell 44 (#487)
  • Fix crash on Linux when not using GNOME.

New in Workrave Portable 1.10.51 (Jun 18, 2023)

  • Support GNOME Shell 43 (#430 by Jeremy Bich,async from 1.11)
  • Add option to force the use of the X11 Gtk backend on Wayland
  • Support GNOME Shell 44 (#487)
  • Fix crash on Linux when not using GNOME.

New in Workrave Portable 1.11.0 Beta 5 (Jan 12, 2023)

  • Added preferences for the experimental auto-update feature
  • Preliminary support for custom user defined exercises
  • Redesigned the preferences dialog
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed language selection on Windows
  • Fixed special characters in the Windows status icon menu
  • Fixed issue where sound could not be disabled (#443)
  • Fixed issue where the status window could not be disabled (#444)
  • The installer now removes files no longer required (#446)

New in Workrave Portable 1.11.0 Beta 2 (Nov 8, 2022)

  • Updates Polish translation (#423 by ChuckMichael)
  • Update Dutch translation (#437 by WKobes)
  • Support GNOME Shell 43 (#430 by Jeremy Bicha)
  • Add option to force the use of the X11 Gtk backend on Wayland
  • Experimental auto-update feature
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix 'Lock screen' functionality from rest break window
  • Fix showing natural break window when screen is unlocked

New in Workrave Portable 1.11.0 Alpha 3 (Aug 28, 2022)

  • Fix GNOME shell applet loading on Ubuntu Focal

New in Workrave Portable 1.11.0 Alpha 2 (Jun 2, 2022)

  • Networking support was removed
  • Focus assist settings moved from menu to preferences
  • The menus are no longer accessible during a break (#394 by 1Jesper1)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix GNOME shell applet on GNOME 42 (#396)
  • The installer will ask for a reboot if in-use files were overwritten
  • The installer will terminate Workrave when it is running
  • The application icon is now properly displayed
  • The break warning window no longer disappears when moving aside
  • Translations:
  • Updated Simplified Chinese translation (#391 by sr093906)
  • Updated Italian translation (#403 by albanobattistella)

New in Workrave Portable 1.10.50 (Apr 1, 2022)

  • The "Restbreak now" button in the main window no longer responds to keyboard (#368)
  • Allow installation on Windows without administrator rights.
  • Fix vertical alignment of GNOME shell applet (#356)
  • Support GNOME Shell 42 (#396)
  • Restore support for Windows Vista and up (#367)
  • The 'Backward shoulder stretch' exercises now plays a sound twice matching the description (#354)

New in Workrave Portable 1.11.0 Alpha 1 (Feb 27, 2022)

  • Major internal code cleanup and code modernization.
  • Initial (incomplete) port to macOS using Qt6
  • The default sound theme was changed to the "Subtle" theme (#362)
  • You can now change the operation mode for a limited amount of time (#98,
  • A portable version is now available for Windows and Linux (#180)
  • Workrave now follows the XDG basedirectory specification (#192)
  • The Windows version is now 64 bit (#295)
  • Workrave can now automatically change the operation mode based on Windows Focus Assist (#255,
  • A dark UI theme is now supported on Windows (#214)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed Windows system tray menu that would not always properly open (#373)
  • Fixed vertical positioning of GNOME shell applet (#356)
  • GNOME shell applet is now compatible with GNOME up to version 42 (#342, #352, #355)
  • DPI scaling with multiple monitor has been fixed (#308, #315)
  • Fixed the description of the backward shoulder stretch exercise (#354)
  • Add version number to installer to support Microsoft's Windows Package Manager (winget) (#349, #353 by Kaleb Luedtke)
  • Translations:
  • Complete overhaul of Simplified Chinese translation (#385 by sr093906)
  • Updated Hebrew translation (#361 by Omer I.S.)
  • Updated Italian translation (#359 by albanobattistella)
  • Updated Persian translation (#358 by MSKF)
  • Updated Catalan translation (#338 by Jordi Mallach)

New in Workrave Portable 1.10.49 (Jan 5, 2022)

  • Adds support for GNOME Shell 41 (#342, Timo Jyrinki)
  • Inno Setup improvement (#353, Kaleb Luedtke)

New in Workrave Portable 1.10.48 (Aug 3, 2021)

  • Fixed GNOME Shell applet on Ubuntu 18.04 (#281)

New in Workrave Portable 1.10.47 (Jul 27, 2021)

  • Workrave 1.10.47 has been released. This release fixes an number of bugs and add support for GNOME Shell 40.
  • Fixed a crash of the GNOME Shell applet (#281)
  • Adds support for GNOME Shell 40 (#288)
  • Fixed issue where the installer would fail when installing as system user (#291)
  • Fixed incorrect disabling of postpone/skip button (#301)
  • Warn if operation mode is not 'normal' after unlocking the screen (Windows only for now)

New in Workrave Portable 1.10.45 (Apr 29, 2021)

  • Micro breaks without a postpone button could be postponed by starting a
  • rest break while the break prompt window was visible and then clicking
  • postpone in the rest break window. The postpone button is now disabled
  • when the micro break is overdue, and the maximum number of break prompts
  • was reached.
  • A new sound theme calls 'Bells' has been added (#225, Pieter De Decker)
  • Added support for High-DPI displays in the Windows Applet.
  • The Windows applet now correctly enforces a minimum size (#252)
  • Initial support for icon themes.
  • Fixes:
  • Fixed build issue with libayatana-indicator3
  • Fixed issue where Workrave would show 2 status icons on Linux (#258)
  • Fixed a deprecation warning in the Gnome Shell applet (#251)
  • The cinnamon applet is no longer bouncing up and down (#253)
  • Fixed issue where the current language was always "Unrecognized language"
  • Fixed issue where activity monitoring would stop after restarting Gnome Shell
  • Fixed issue that caused the main window to disappear (#244, 259)
  • Translation updates:
  • Updated Chinese translation (#232, wintertee)
  • Updated French translation (Darialalala)
  • Updated Dutch translation (Matthias Huijgen)
  • Fixed typo in the Italian translation (#234, albanobattistella)

New in Workrave Portable 1.10 (Jan 16, 2013)

  • Improvements:
  • Split "show 'postpone' and 'skip'" checkbox into two checkboxes.
  • Add the capability to delete all stored statistics (Ray Satiro)
  • Workrave now offers a Gnome 3 applet. Applets for both Gnome 3 classic and the Gnome shell are available.
  • Workrave now offers an application indicator (applet) in Unity.
  • Workrave now supports DBus on window. DBus can be used to control Workrave by an external program.
  • Many new translations and translation updates.
  • Bug fixes. Including:
  • On Windows, Workrave does not stay in the 'suspended' mode after resuming from hibernate/sleep.