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<h1>History of Previous Changes</h1>
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<b>This page details the changes made in previous versions only.</b>
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Current changes are detailed in <a href="changes.html">Changes</a>.
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<b>Changes sections are chronologically ordered from top (most recent) to bottom
(least recent)</b>
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<h1>Version 5.2.1</h1>
<p>
Summary
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Improvements">Improvements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Thanks">Thanks</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2>
<p>
This release is a minor bugfix release. Please see the <a href="changes_history.html">Changes history page</a>
to view the last release notes of version 5.2.
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</h2>
<ul>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Improvements">Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63926">
Bug
63926</a>
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JDBC Connection Configuration: Add ability to set connection properties</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
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</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63906">
Bug
63906</a>
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NPE for InfluxDB backend listener during failover testing</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63910">
Bug
63910</a>
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Broken maven poms in released 5.2 version </li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63911">
Bug
63911</a>
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ApacheJMeter_config.jar content has changed (bin moved to run and missing files)</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Thanks">Thanks</h2>
<p>We thank all contributors mentioned in bug and improvement sections above:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/vincentclee">Vincent Lee</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p>We also thank bug reporters who helped us improve JMeter.</p>
<ul>
</ul>
<p>
Apologies if we have omitted anyone else.
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</h2>
<ul>
<li>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</li>
<li>
The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
the total number of threads only applies to a locally run test, otherwise it will show <span class="code">0</span> (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55510">
Bug
55510</a>).
</li>
<li>
Note that under some windows systems you may have this WARNING:
<pre class="source">
java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0
x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(&hellip;) returned error code 5.
</pre>
The fix is to run JMeter as Administrator, it will create the registry key for you, then you can restart JMeter as a normal user and you won't have the warning anymore.
</li>
<li>
You may encounter the following error:
<pre class="source">java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints</pre>
if you run a HTTPS request on a web site with a SSL certificate (itself or one of SSL certificates in its chain of trust) with a signature
algorithm using MD2 (like <span class="code">md2WithRSAEncryption</span>) or with a SSL certificate with a size lower than 1024 bits.
This error is related to increased security in Java 8+.
<br>
To allow you to perform your HTTPS request, you can downgrade the security of your Java installation by editing
the Java <span class="code">jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms</span> property. Remove the MD2 value or the constraint on size, depending on your case.
<br>
This property is in this file:
<pre class="source">JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security</pre>
See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56357">
Bug
56357</a> for details.
</li>
<li>
Under Mac OSX Aggregate Graph will show wrong values due to mirroring effect on numbers.
This is due to a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065373">JDK-8065373</a>
The fix is to use JDK8_u45 or later.
</li>
<li>
View Results Tree may fail to display some HTML code under HTML renderer, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54586">
Bug
54586</a>.
This is due to a known Java bug which fails to parse "<span class="code">px</span>" units in row/col attributes.
See Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031109">JDK-8031109</a>
The fix is to use JDK9 b65 or later.
</li>
<li>
JTable selection with keyboard (<span class="keycombo"><span class="keysym">SHIFT</span>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<span class="keysym">up/down</span></span>) is totally unusable with Java 7 on Mac OSX.
This is due to a known Java bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025126">JDK-8025126</a>
The fix is to use JDK 8 b132 or later.
</li>
<li>
Since Java 11 the JavaScript implementation <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/335">Nashorn has been deprecated</a>.
Java will emit the following deprecation warnings, if you are using JavaScript based on Nashorn.
<pre class="source">
Warning: Nashorn engine is planned to be removed from a future JDK release
</pre>
To silence these warnings, add <span class="code">-Dnashorn.args=--no-deprecation-warning</span> to your Java arguments.
That can be achieved by setting the enviroment variable <span class="code">JVM_ARGS</span>
<pre class="source">
export JVM_ARGS="-Dnashorn.args=--no-deprecation-warning"
</pre>
</li>
</ul>
<h1>Version 5.2</h1>
<p>
Summary
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Improvements">Improvements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Thanks">Thanks</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2>
<p>
This release is a major release. Please see the <a href="changes_history.html">Changes history page</a>
to view the last release notes of version 5.1.1.
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder now appends number at end of names, while previously it added it at beginning. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63450">
Bug
63450</a>
</li>
<li>When using XPath Assertion with an XPath expression returning a boolean, <span class="code">True if nothing matches</span> had no effect and always returned true, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63455">
Bug
63455</a>
</li>
<li>XML parsing now refuses unsecure XML, this has impacts on the following features:
<ul>
<li>XMLAssertion</li>
<li>XMLSchemAssertion</li>
<li>XPath function</li>
<li>XPath 1 &amp; 2 Extractors</li>
<li>XPath 1 &amp; 2 Assertions</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Improvements">Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63450">
Bug
63450</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder: Put number at end instead of beginning</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63790">
Bug
63790</a>
-
Embedded Resources download: Optimize CSS parsing by removing source location</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63406">
Bug
63406</a>
-
JDBC connection configuration: new option for pre-initialize to initialize the connection pool. Contributed by Franz Schwab (franz.schwab at exasol.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63561">
Bug
63561</a>
-
JDBC Request: Allow to only fetch a certain number of rows. Contributed by Franz Schwab (franz.schwab at exasol.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63801">
Bug
63801</a>
-
Add Bolt protocol support for Neo4j database. Contributed by GraphAware (www.graphaware.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63565">
Bug
63565</a>
-
If Controller: GC issue with JMeter during the endurance run when using with "Interpret Condition as Variable Expression?" unchecked =&gt; Improve documentation</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63720">
Bug
63720</a>
-
BackendListener: InfluxDBBackendListenerClient Add support for InfluxDB 2. Contributed by Jakub Bedn&aacute;&#345; (https://github.com/bednar)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63770">
Bug
63770</a>
-
View Results Tree: Add JMESPath Tester. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62863">
Bug
62863</a>
-
Enable PKCS11 keystores for usage with KeyStore Manager. Based on patch by Clifford Harms (clifford.harms at gmail.com).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/457">
Pull request #457</a>
-
Slight performance improvement in PoissonRandomTimer by using ThreadLocalRandom. Based on a patch by Xia Li.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62787">
Bug
62787</a>
-
New <span class="code">XPath2 Assertion</span> supporting XPath2 with better performances than <span class="code">XPath Assertion</span>. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63643">
Bug
63643</a>
-
Skip BOM on files opened through <span class="code">FileServer</span> and use the BOM to detect the character encoding,
if none is given explicitly. Reported by Havlicek Honza (havlicek.honza at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63727">
Bug
63727</a>
-
New <span class="code">JMESPath Extractor</span> element to ease extraction from JSON using <a href="http://jmespath.org">JMESPath</a> technology. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63763">
Bug
63763</a>
-
New <span class="code">JMESPath Assertion</span> element to ease assertion on JSON using <a href="http://jmespath.org">JMESPath</a> technology. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63775">
Bug
63775</a>
-
Allow Boundary Extractor to accept empty boundaries</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63219">
Bug
63219</a>
-
New function <span class="code">__StringToFile</span> to save/append a string into a file. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>Use <span class="code">AtomicInteger</span> for <span class="code">__counter</span> instead of synchronization on our own</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63471">
Bug
63471</a>
-
<span class="code">StringConverter</span>s used for report generation should ignore white space around numbers.</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63396">
Bug
63396</a>
-
JSR223 Test Elements: Description of Parameters is misleading, same for Script</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63480">
Bug
63480</a>
-
XPathAssertion and XPathAssertion2: Improve test coverage for input coming from variable. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63452">
Bug
63452</a>
-
Tools / Import from cURL: Complete coverage of all command line options that are valid in JMeter use case. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63419">
Bug
63419</a>
-
Tools / Import from cURL: Add ability to import a set of cURL commands from a file. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63760">
Bug
63760</a>
-
JOrphanUtils: add random alphanumeric password generator</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63355">
Bug
63355</a>
-
View Results Tree: Browser view option is not Available since Java 11, document how to make it available, see <a href="./usermanual/hints_and_tips.html#browser_renderer_view_results_tree">this</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62861">
Bug
62861</a>
-
Thread Group: Provide ability to configure whether a new iteration is a new user or same user (Would be applied on Cookie Manager, Cache Manager and httpclient.reset_state_on_thread_group_iteration). Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63616">
Bug
63616</a>
-
Fix Javadoc: <pre class="source">JMeterContext#getThreadNum()</pre> starts at 0 and not 1. Contributed by Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Updated to httpclient/httpmime 4.5.10 (from 4.5.7)</li>
<li>Updated to dnsjava 2.1.9 (from 2.1.8)</li>
<li>Updated to jsoup 1.12.1 (from 1.11.3)</li>
<li>Updated to rsyntaxtextarea 3.0.4 (from 3.0.2)</li>
<li>Updated to caffeine 2.8.0 (from 2.6.2)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-codec 1.13 (from 1.11)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-lang3 3.9 (from 3.8.1)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-pool 2.7 (from 2.6)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-text 1.8 (from 1.6)</li>
<li>Updated to freemarker 2.3.29 (from 2.3.28)</li>
<li>Updated to httpcore/httpcore-nio 4.12 (from 4.11)</li>
<li>Updated to jodd 5.0.13 (from 5.0.6)</li>
<li>Updated to log4j 2.12.1 (from 2.11.1)</li>
<li>Updated to ph-commons 9.3.7 (from 9.2.1)</li>
<li>Updated to ph-css 6.2.0 (from 6.1.1)</li>
<li>Updated to Mozilla Rhino 1.7.11 (from 1.7.10)</li>
<li>Updated to Saxon-HE 9.9.1-5 (from 9.9.1-1)</li>
<li>Updated to slf4j 1.7.28 (from 1.7.25)</li>
<li>Updated to tika-core and tika-parsers 1.22 (from 1.21)</li>
<li>Updated jackson-annotations, jackson-core and jackson-databind to 2.9.10 (from 2.9.8)</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Migrated from subversion to <a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter">Git</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63630">
Bug
63630</a>
-
Switch build from Apache Ant to Gradle</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63529">
Bug
63529</a>
-
Add more unit tests for org.apache.jorphan.util.JOrphanUtils. Contributed by John Bergqvist(John.Bergqvist at diffblue.com)</li>
<li>Updated to latest checkstyle (version 8.22)</li>
<li>Clean-up of code in <span class="code">CompareAssertion</span> and other locations. Based on patch by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/491">
Pull request #491</a>
-
Increase Graphite metrics coverage. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/520">
Pull request #520</a>
-
Replace anonymous classes with lambda expressions. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/524">
Pull request #524</a>
-
Migration from JUnit 4 to JUnit 5. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk).</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63298">
Bug
63298</a>
-
HTTP Requests with encoded URLs are being sent in decoded format</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63364">
Bug
63364</a>
-
When setting <span class="code">subresults.disable_renaming=true</span>, sub results are still renamed using their parent SampleLabel while they shouldn't. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63129">
Bug
63129</a>
-
JMeter can not identify encoding during first time page submission. Based partly on analysis and PR made by Naveen Nandwani (naveen.nandwani at india.nec.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62672">
Bug
62672</a>
-
HTTP Request sends double requests when using proxy with authentication. Based on patch by Artem Fedorov (artem.fedorov at blazemeter.com) and contributed by BlazeMeter.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63574">
Bug
63574</a>
-
HTTP Cache Manager does not cache resource if <span class="code">Cache-Control</span> header is missing.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63442">
Bug
63442</a>
-
Reduce scanning for <span class="code">LogParser</span> implementations in AccessLogSamplerBeanInfo.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63563">
Bug
63563</a>
-
LdapExtSampler: When sampler fails with exception differing from NamingException, no SampleResult is generated</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63469">
Bug
63469</a>
-
JMSPublisher: Race condition in jms.client.ClientPool#clearClient</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63319">
Bug
63319</a>
-
<span class="code">ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException</span> in Aggregate Graph when selecting 90&nbsp;% or 95&nbsp;% columns</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63423">
Bug
63423</a>
-
Selection of table rows in Aggregate Graph gets lost too often</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63347">
Bug
63347</a>
-
View result tree: The search field is so small that even a single character is not visible on Windows 7</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63433">
Bug
63433</a>
-
ListenerNotifier: Detected problem in Listener NullPointerException if filename is null. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63674">
Bug
63674</a>
-
Strip results with subresults deeper in their hierarchy when DataStripping is enabled</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63455">
Bug
63455</a>
-
XPath Assertion: <span class="code">True if nothing matches</span> does not work if XPath expression returns a boolean. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63513">
Bug
63513</a>
-
Add MariaDB examples to JDBC documentation. Contributed by Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63484">
Bug
63484</a>
-
Add notes to use Apache Velocity as JSR223 script language. Based on a patch by Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63519">
Bug
63519</a>
-
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/471">
Pull request #471</a>
-
Use correct method <span class="code">getLabelResource()</span> in JMeter tutorial. Contributed by Sun Tao (buzzerrookie at hotmail.com&gt;)</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63394">
Bug
63394</a>
-
JMeter should fail with non-zero when test execution fails (due to missing test plan or other reason). Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63464">
Bug
63464</a>
-
image/svg+xml is wrongly considered as binary</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63490">
Bug
63490</a>
-
At end of scheduler duration lots of Samplers gets executed at the same time</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/480">
Pull request #480</a>,
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/482">
Pull request #482</a>
-
Fix a few typos in comments and log messages. Based on patch by Anass Benomar (anassbenomar at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63751">
Bug
63751</a>
-
Correct a typo in Chinese translations. Reported by Jinliang Wang (wjl31802 at 126.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63723">
Bug
63723</a>
-
Distributed testing: JMeter master ends distributed test though some threads still are active</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63614">
Bug
63614</a>
-
Distributed testing: Unable to generate Dashboard report at end of load test</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63862">
Bug
63862</a>
-
Search Dialog / Search in View Results Tree: Uncaught exception if regex is checked and regex is invalid</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63793">
Bug
63793</a>
-
Fix unsecure XML Parsing</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Thanks">Thanks</h2>
<p>We thank all contributors mentioned in bug and improvement sections above:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Clifford Harms (clifford.harms at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://ubikloadpack.com">Ubik Load Pack</a>
</li>
<li>Xia Li</li>
<li>Naveen Nandwani (naveen.nandwani at india.nec.com)</li>
<li>Artem Fedorov (artem.fedorov at blazemeter.com)</li>
<li>Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Sun Tao (buzzerrookie at hotmail.com)</li>
<li>John Bergqvist (John.Bergqvist at diffblue.com)</li>
<li>Franz Schwab (franz.schwab at exasol.com)</li>
<li>Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>Anass Benomar (anassbenomar at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/bednar">Jakub Bedn&aacute;&#345;</a>
</li>
<li>Pascal Schumacher (pascalschumacher at apache.org)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://graphaware.com/">GraphAware</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p>We also thank bug reporters who helped us improve JMeter.</p>
<ul>
<li>Sergiy Iampol (sergiy.iampol at playtech.com)</li>
<li>Brian Tully (brian.tully at acquia.com)</li>
<li>Amer Ghazal (amerghazal at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Stefan Seide (stefan at trilobyte-se.de)</li>
<li>Havlicek Honza (havlicek.honza at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Pierre Astruc (pierre.astruc at evertest.com)</li>
<li>Jinliang Wang (wjl31802 at 126.com)</li>
</ul>
<p>
Apologies if we have omitted anyone else.
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</h2>
<ul>
<li>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</li>
<li>
The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
the total number of threads only applies to a locally run test, otherwise it will show <span class="code">0</span> (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55510">
Bug
55510</a>).
</li>
<li>
Note that under some windows systems you may have this WARNING:
<pre class="source">
java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0
x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(&hellip;) returned error code 5.
</pre>
The fix is to run JMeter as Administrator, it will create the registry key for you, then you can restart JMeter as a normal user and you won't have the warning anymore.
</li>
<li>
You may encounter the following error:
<pre class="source">java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints</pre>
if you run a HTTPS request on a web site with a SSL certificate (itself or one of SSL certificates in its chain of trust) with a signature
algorithm using MD2 (like <span class="code">md2WithRSAEncryption</span>) or with a SSL certificate with a size lower than 1024 bits.
This error is related to increased security in Java 8+.
<br>
To allow you to perform your HTTPS request, you can downgrade the security of your Java installation by editing
the Java <span class="code">jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms</span> property. Remove the MD2 value or the constraint on size, depending on your case.
<br>
This property is in this file:
<pre class="source">JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security</pre>
See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56357">
Bug
56357</a> for details.
</li>
<li>
Under Mac OSX Aggregate Graph will show wrong values due to mirroring effect on numbers.
This is due to a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065373">JDK-8065373</a>
The fix is to use JDK8_u45 or later.
</li>
<li>
View Results Tree may fail to display some HTML code under HTML renderer, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54586">
Bug
54586</a>.
This is due to a known Java bug which fails to parse "<span class="code">px</span>" units in row/col attributes.
See Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031109">JDK-8031109</a>
The fix is to use JDK9 b65 or later.
</li>
<li>
JTable selection with keyboard (<span class="keycombo"><span class="keysym">SHIFT</span>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<span class="keysym">up/down</span></span>) is totally unusable with Java 7 on Mac OSX.
This is due to a known Java bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025126">JDK-8025126</a>
The fix is to use JDK 8 b132 or later.
</li>
<li>
Since Java 11 the JavaScript implementation <a href="https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/335">Nashorn has been deprecated</a>.
Java will emit the following deprecation warnings, if you are using JavaScript based on Nashorn.
<pre class="source">
Warning: Nashorn engine is planned to be removed from a future JDK release
</pre>
To silence these warnings, add <span class="code">-Dnashorn.args=--no-deprecation-warning</span> to your Java arguments.
That can be achieved by setting the enviroment variable <span class="code">JVM_ARGS</span>
<pre class="source">
export JVM_ARGS="-Dnashorn.args=--no-deprecation-warning"
</pre>
</li>
</ul>
<h1>Version 5.1.1</h1>
<p>
Summary
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Improvements">Improvements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Thanks">Thanks</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2>
<p>
This release is mainly a bugfix release. Please see the <a href="changes_history.html">Changes history page</a>
to view the last major behaviors with the version 5.1.
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Live Reporting and Web Report</h3>
<p>A new menu entry has been added to the <b>Tools</b> menu. It's allow to generate
a results report from a previous CSV/JTL file.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.1.1/01_menu_generate_report.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.1.1/01_menu_generate_report.png" width="1209" height="341" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<br>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.1.1/02_windows_generate_report.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.1.1/02_windows_generate_report.png" width="1624" height="565" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</h2>
<ul>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Improvements">Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62977">
Bug
62977</a>
-
Allow sending HTTP requests without a default User-Agent header</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63185">
Bug
63185</a>
-
LDAP related elements: Add option to implicitly trust SSL/TLS connections/Disable hostname verification. Based on contribution by Brian Wolfe (wolfebrian2120 at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63178">
Bug
63178</a>
-
CSS Selector Extractor: Improve performance of JODD (JoddExtractor) based implementation</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59896">
Bug
59896</a>
-
Report / Dashboard: Add a menu entry to generate a report on demand from a CSV file. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/444">
Pull request #444</a>
-
Update to latest Spock v1.2 (was 1.0). Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/446">
Pull request #446</a>
-
Improve Unit tests readability and use of Spock. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63203">
Bug
63203</a>
-
Unit Tests: Replace use of <span class="code">@Deprecated</span> by <span class="code">@VisibleForTesting</span> for methods/constructors/classes made public for Unit Testing only</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/449">
Pull request #449</a>
-
Refactor and Test ResponseTimePercentilesOverTimeGraphConsumer. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/450">
Pull request #450</a>
-
Abstract graph consumer improvements. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/451">
Pull request #451</a>
-
Improve a few unit tests and classes. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63202">
Bug
63202</a>
-
JMS Publisher: ObjectMessageRenderer creates XStream instance with uninitialized security</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63204">
Bug
63204</a>
-
<span class="code">RenderAsJSON#prettyJSON</span>: <span class="code">JSONParser#parse</span> cannot return JSONValue</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62446">
Bug
62446</a>
-
Counter documentation is wrong in required fieds. Contributed by orimarko at gmail.com</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62327">
Bug
62327</a>
-
TestPlan: In library table if path is modified and plan saved, the modification is lost on file reload</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63241">
Bug
63241</a>
-
<span class="code">__threadGroupName</span> causes a NullPointerException if called from non Test threads</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63198">
Bug
63198</a>
-
Response Time Vs Request and Latency Vs Request graphs don't line up with throughput. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63201">
Bug
63201</a>
-
SearchTreeDialog disappears behind master JFrame. Contributed by Benoit Vatan (benoit.vatan at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63220">
Bug
63220</a>
-
<span class="code">Function Helper Dialog</span>, <span class="code">Export transactions for report</span> and <span class="code">Import from cURL</span> disappear being master JFrame. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63207">
Bug
63207</a>
-
java.lang.NullPointerException: null when run JMeter 5.1 with proxy options</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58183">
Bug
58183</a>
-
Rampup may not be respected if thread take time to start leading to threads continuing to start post ramp up time</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Thanks">Thanks</h2>
<p>We thank all contributors mentioned in bug and improvement sections above:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://ubikloadpack.com">Ubik Load Pack</a>
</li>
<li>Benoit Vatan (benoit.vatan at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>Brian Wolfe (wolfebrian2120 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>orimarko at gmail.com</li>
</ul>
<p>We also thank bug reporters who helped us improve JMeter.</p>
<ul>
</ul>
<p>
Apologies if we have omitted anyone else.
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</h2>
<ul>
<li>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</li>
<li>
The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
the total number of threads only applies to a locally run test, otherwise it will show <span class="code">0</span> (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55510">
Bug
55510</a>).
</li>
<li>
Note that under some windows systems you may have this WARNING:
<pre class="source">
java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0
x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(&hellip;) returned error code 5.
</pre>
The fix is to run JMeter as Administrator, it will create the registry key for you, then you can restart JMeter as a normal user and you won't have the warning anymore.
</li>
<li>
You may encounter the following error:
<pre class="source">java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints</pre>
if you run a HTTPS request on a web site with a SSL certificate (itself or one of SSL certificates in its chain of trust) with a signature
algorithm using MD2 (like <span class="code">md2WithRSAEncryption</span>) or with a SSL certificate with a size lower than 1024 bits.
This error is related to increased security in Java 8+.
<br>
To allow you to perform your HTTPS request, you can downgrade the security of your Java installation by editing
the Java <span class="code">jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms</span> property. Remove the MD2 value or the constraint on size, depending on your case.
<br>
This property is in this file:
<pre class="source">JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security</pre>
See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56357">
Bug
56357</a> for details.
</li>
<li>
Under Mac OSX Aggregate Graph will show wrong values due to mirroring effect on numbers.
This is due to a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065373">JDK-8065373</a>
The fix is to use JDK8_u45 or later.
</li>
<li>
View Results Tree may fail to display some HTML code under HTML renderer, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54586">
Bug
54586</a>.
This is due to a known Java bug which fails to parse "<span class="code">px</span>" units in row/col attributes.
See Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031109">JDK-8031109</a>
The fix is to use JDK9 b65 or later.
</li>
<li>
JTable selection with keyboard (<span class="keycombo"><span class="keysym">SHIFT</span>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<span class="keysym">up/down</span></span>) is totally unusable with Java 7 on Mac OSX.
This is due to a known Java bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025126">JDK-8025126</a>
The fix is to use JDK 8 b132 or later.
</li>
</ul>
<h1>Version 5.1</h1>
<p>
Summary
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Improvements">Improvements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Thanks">Thanks</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">Core improvements</h3>
<p>JDBC testing has been improved with ability to set init SQL statements and add
compatibility with JDBC drivers that do not support QueryTimeout
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.1/jdbc-connection-config-init-request.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.1/jdbc-connection-config-init-request.png" width="1122" height="727" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Various bug fixes have been implemented, like gathering the correct headers when recording requests through the HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder using HTTPS</li>
<li>In version 5.0, JMeter was changed to rename Sub results using a custom Naming Policy (<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62550">
Bug
62550</a>). This change could be annoying for Functional Testing, a new property
<span class="code">subresults.disable_renaming=true</span> has been introduced to revert if needed to previous behaviour. An alternative is to check <span class="code">Functional Test Mode</span> in Test Plan, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63055">
Bug
63055</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="ch_title">UX improvements</h3>
<p>Templates can provide parameters that are filled in on test plan generation,
<span class="code">Recording</span> template uses this feature
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.1/templates-parametes.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.1/templates-parametes.png" width="726" height="453" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>A new <span class="code">Tools</span> menu has been introduced to collect those entries,
that are used for general usage around JMeter, like:
<ul>
<li>
<span class="code">Function Helper Dialog</span>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code">Export transactions for report</span>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code">Generate Schematic View</span> which provides an overview as HTML of the Test plan</li>
<li>
<span class="code">Import from cURL</span> which allows you to create or update your test plan by importing a cURL command</li>
<li>
<span class="code">Compile JSR223 Test Elements</span>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code">Create a heap dump</span>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code">Create a thread dump</span>
</li>
</ul>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.1/jmeter-new-menu-tools.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.1/jmeter-new-menu-tools.png" width="268" height="237" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Test Plan</h3>
<p>Ability to create a Test plan from a cURL command.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.1/http-request-from-curl-request.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.1/http-request-from-curl-request.png" width="1026" height="439" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Scripting / Debugging enhancements</h3>
<ul>
<li>A menu item to compile all JSR223 Elements is now available in <span class="code">Tools</span> menu</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="ch_title">Live Reporting and Web Report</h3>
<ul>
<li>A JSON file containing summary of a load test statistics is now generated when using <span class="code">-e</span> or <span class="code">-g</span> options.</li>
<li>Percentiles computing graphed over time algorithm has been modified to restart for each time slot</li>
<li>More user-friendly behaviour when reporting folder does not exist or is not empty through <span class="code">-f</span> command line option</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>In <span class="code">Response Time Percentiles Over Time (successful responses)</span> graph of the HTML report, before this version, percentile computation of each time slot used the percentile data
of previous time slot as a base. Starting with this version, each time slot is independant. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62883">
Bug
62883</a>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code">ClientJMeterEngine#rsetProperties</span> signature has been changed to use <span class="code">HashMap&lt;String,String&gt;</span> instead of Properties, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63034">
Bug
63034</a>
</li>
<li>A new Menu item <span class="code">Tools</span> has been introduced, some menu items that were in <span class="code">Help</span> menu are now under this new menu item. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63094">
Bug
63094</a>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code">slf4j-ext</span> has been removed from libraries (lib folder) and JMeter pom. It was not used by default and due to CVE-2018-8088 and unavailability of a stable version
containing a fix to this issue, we decided to remove it. If you still needed, you can add it in lib folder.</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Improvements">Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62840">
Bug
62840</a>
-
HTTP Request: Add option <span class="code">httpclient4.gzip_relax_mode</span> to avoid error when unzipping what seems to be invalid streams</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63025">
Bug
63025</a>
-
Enhance Search &amp; Replace functionality for HTTP Request to include port and protocol field. Initial code fix by Mohamed Ibrahim (rollno748 at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62934">
Bug
62934</a>
-
Add compatibility for JDBC drivers that do not support QueryTimeout </li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62935">
Bug
62935</a>
-
Pass custom <span class="code">mail.*</span> properties to Mail Reader Sampler. Implemented by Artem Fedorov (artem.fedorov at blazemeter.com) and contributed by BlazeMeter.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63055">
Bug
63055</a>
-
Don't rename SampleResult Label when test is running in Functional mode or property <span class="code">subresults.disable_renaming=true</span>. Implemented by Artem Fedorov (artem.fedorov at blazemeter.com) and contributed by BlazeMeter.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62822">
Bug
62822</a>
-
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/407">
Pull request #407</a>
-
Render uninitialized min and max values in Summary Report as <span class="code">#N/A</span>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62766">
Bug
62766</a>
-
Keystore Config: We should load all aliases by default. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62832">
Bug
62832</a>
-
JDBC Connection Configuration: Be able to set init SQL statements. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63037">
Bug
63037</a>
-
When using <span class="code">CSVRead</span> search the script base path for files, too.</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62883">
Bug
62883</a>
-
Report / Dashboard: Change the way percentiles are computed for Response Time Percentiles Over Time (successful responses) graph</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63060">
Bug
63060</a>
-
Report Generator: A generator should only check for folder/files it generates and only delete those ones</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63059">
Bug
63059</a>
-
Create a new JsonExporter that exports as JSON the content of data computed for HTML Dashboard Statistics table. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63081">
Bug
63081</a>
-
Command line Option <span class="code">-f</span> does not delete report folder when using generation only through command line option <span class="code">-g</span>. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62959">
Bug
62959</a>
-
Ability to create a Test plan from a cURL command. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/394">
Pull request #394</a>
-
Allow <span class="code">null</span> values in <span class="code">FieldStringEditor</span>. Based on patch by Mingun (alexander_sergey at mail.ru)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62826">
Bug
62826</a>
-
When changing LAF, make JMeter restart if user clicks yes to popup</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62257">
Bug
62257</a>
-
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/401">
Pull request #401</a>
-
Expand/Collapse short key <span class="keysym">-</span> (minus sign) on numpad doesn't work. Contributed by Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62752">
Bug
62752</a>
-
Add to Documentation: <span class="code">ctx.getThreadNum()</span> is zero-based while <span class="code">${__threadNum}</span> is one-based</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/411">
Pull request #411</a>
-
Use <span class="code">SHA-1</span> instead of <span class="code">SHA1</span> in <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.save.SaveService</span>. Contributed by Paco (paco.xu at daocloud.io)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62914">
Bug
62914</a>
-
Add a hint in Thread Group UI about duration of test</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62925">
Bug
62925</a>
-
Add support for ThreadDump to the JMeter non-GUI</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62870">
Bug
62870</a>
-
Templates: Add ability to provide parameters. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62829">
Bug
62829</a>
-
Allow specifying Proxy server scheme for HTTP request sampler, Advanced tab and command line option. Contributed by Hitesh Patel (hitesh.h.patel at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59633">
Bug
59633</a>
-
Menus <span class="code">Save Test Plan as</span>, <span class="code">Save as Test Fragment</span> and <span class="code">Save Selection as ...</span> should use a new file name in File Dialog</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61486">
Bug
61486</a>
-
Make jmeter-server and non GUI mode run headless</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63093">
Bug
63093</a>
-
Add <span class="code">Compile JSR223 Test Elements</span> menu item. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63094">
Bug
63094</a>
-
Introduce a new Tools menu</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63101">
Bug
63101</a>
-
Propose a menu item to generate readable overview of Test Plan</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63144">
Bug
63144</a>
-
View listener tree take a long time to open response that has huge text. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/408">
Pull request #408</a>
-
Log an informational message instead of an stack trace, when JavaFX is not found for the <span class="code">RenderInBrowser</span> component.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/412">
Pull request #412</a>
-
Update Chinese translation. Contributed by &#21016;&#22763; (liushilive at outlook.com).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/406">
Pull request #406</a>
-
Add a short paragraph on how to use a security manager with JMeter.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62893">
Bug
62893</a>
-
Use StringEscapeUtils from commons-text (version 1.6) instead of the deprecated ones from commons-lang3.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62972">
Bug
62972</a>
-
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/435">
Pull request #435</a>
-
Replace calls to deprecated method <span class="code">Class#newInstance</span>.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63034">
Bug
63034</a>
-
ClientJMeterEngine: Make rsetProperties use <span class="code">HashMap&lt;String,String&gt;</span> instead of Properties</li>
<li>Updated to httpclient/httpmime 4.5.7 (from 4.5.6)</li>
<li>Updated to httpcore 4.4.11 (from 4.4.10)</li>
<li>Updated to httpcore-nio 4.4.11 (from 4.4.10)</li>
<li>Updated to tika-core and tika-parsers 1.20 (from 1.18)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-dbcp2-2.5.0 (from commons-dbcp2-2.4.0)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-lang3-3.8.1 (from commons-lang3-3.8)</li>
<li>Updated to groovy-all-2.4.16 (from groovy-all-2.4.15)</li>
<li>Updated to httpasyncclient-4.1.4.jar (from 4.1.3)</li>
<li>Updated to jsoup-1.11.3 (from 1.11.2)</li>
<li>Updated to cglib-nodep-3.2.9 (from cglib-nodep-3.2.7)</li>
<li>Updated to ph-commons-9.2.1 (from ph-commons-9.1.2)</li>
<li>Updated to log4j-2.11.1 (from log4j-2.11.0)</li>
<li>Updated to xmlgraphics-commons 2.3 (from 2.2)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63033">
Bug
63033</a>
-
Updated to Saxon-HE 9.9.1-1 (from 9.8.0-12). Thanks at Saxonica</li>
<li>Updated to xstream 1.4.11 (from 1.4.10)</li>
<li>Updated to jodd 5.0.6 (from 4.1.4)</li>
<li>Updated to asm-7.0 (from 6.1)</li>
<li>Update to ActiveMQ 5.15.8 (from 5.5.16)</li>
<li>Updated to rsyntaxtextarea-3.0.2 (from 2.6.1)</li>
<li>Updated to apache-rat-0.13 (from 0.12)</li>
<li>Updated to jacocoant-0.8.3 (from 0.8.2)</li>
<li>Updated to hsqldb-2.4.1 (from 2.4.0)</li>
<li>Updated to mina-core-2.0.19 (from 2.0.16)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62818">
Bug
62818</a>
-
Updated to xercesImpl to 2.12.0 (from 2.11.0). Reported by Stefan Seide (stefan at trilobyte-se.de)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62744">
Bug
62744</a>
-
Upgrade jquery to version 3.3.1, jquery-ui to 1.12.1, bootstrap to 3.3.7</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62821">
Bug
62821</a>
-
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/405">
Pull request #405</a>
-
Use SHA-512 checksums instead of MD5 to verify jar downloads</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63053">
Bug
63053</a>
-
Remove referrals to never implemented internals from user documentation. Reported by U. Poblotzki (u.poblotzki at thalia.de)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63082">
Bug
63082</a>
-
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/437">
Pull request #437</a>
-
Use utf-8 for properties files in source</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63177">
Bug
63177</a>
-
Rename NON GUI mode into CLI Mode in documentation</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62785">
Bug
62785</a>
-
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/400">
Pull request #400</a>
-
Incomplete search path applied to the filenames used in the upload functionality of the HTTP sampler. Implemented by Artem Fedorov (artem.fedorov at blazemeter.com) and contributed by BlazeMeter.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62842">
Bug
62842</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder: Brotli compression is not supported leading to "<span class="code">Content Encoding Error</span>"</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60424">
Bug
60424</a>
-
Hessian Burlap application: JMeter inserts <span class="code">0x0D</span> before <span class="code">0x0A</span> automatically (http binary post data)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62940">
Bug
62940</a>
-
Use different <span class="code">cn</span> and type of SAN extension when we are generating certificates based on IP addresses.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62916">
Bug
62916</a>
-
HTTP Test Script Recorder fails with UnsupportedOperationException if recording is started after a distributed test has been run</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62987">
Bug
62987</a>
-
A TestBean element under HTTP(S) Test Script recorder does not work. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63015">
Bug
63015</a>
-
Abnormal NoHttpResponseException when running request through proxy HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder after a first failing request. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62852">
Bug
62852</a>
-
HTTP Request Header missing information when using a proxy. Thanks to Oleg Kalnichevski (olegk at apache.org)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63048">
Bug
63048</a>
-
JMeter does not retrieve link resources of type "shortcut icon" or "icon". Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62775">
Bug
62775</a>
-
If many jars are in a folder referenced by <span class="code">user.classpath</span>, startup can be extremely slow due to JUnit</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63031">
Bug
63031</a>
-
Incorrect JDBC driver class: <span class="code">org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDrivery</span>. Contributed by Sonali (arora.sonali99 at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62806">
Bug
62806</a>
-
ModuleController cloning by Run behaves differently whether in GUI or Non GUI mode. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62847">
Bug
62847</a>
-
If Controller cannot use variable for index exposed by LoopController/WhileController/ForEachController</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63064">
Bug
63064</a>
-
Ignore spaces at the end and beginning of expressions used in IfController</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62770">
Bug
62770</a>
-
Aggregate Graph throws <span class="code">ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException</span>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63069">
Bug
63069</a>
-
ResultCollector does not write end of XML file if user exits while a Recording or a test is running. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63138">
Bug
63138</a>
-
InfluxDB BackendListenerClient: In case of error, log is in debug, it should be in error</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62774">
Bug
62774</a>
-
XPath2Extractor: Scope variable is broken. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62860">
Bug
62860</a>
-
JSON Extractor: Avoid NPE and noisy error message "<span class="code">Error processing JSON content in</span>" when variable is not found</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62777">
Bug
62777</a>
-
Web Report / Dashboard: Hide All in <span class="code">Response Time Percentiles Over Time (successful responses)</span> fails.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62780">
Bug
62780</a>
-
Web Report / Dashboard: Display All in <span class="code">Response Time Vs Request</span> fails.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62781">
Bug
62781</a>
-
Web Report / Dashboard: Display All in <span class="code">Response Time Overview</span> fails.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62782">
Bug
62782</a>
-
Web Report / Dashboard: Remove duplicate/unused dependencies</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62894">
Bug
62894</a>
-
Report / Dashboard: Throughput is in wrong column which is confusing as unit is millisecond</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63016">
Bug
63016</a>
-
Empty HTML report if source csv contains labels with quotes. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<ul>
<li>Change <span class="code">Test Action</span> (old name) to <span class="code">Flow Control Action</span> in Component Reference documentation. Contributed by Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62745">
Bug
62745</a>
-
Fix undefined disabled icon. Contributed by Till Neunast (https://github.com/tilln)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62743">
Bug
62743</a>
-
Client auth must be enabled on distributed testing</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62767">
Bug
62767</a>
-
NPE when searching under certain conditions. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62790">
Bug
62790</a>
-
<span class="code">ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException</span> when calling replace without selecting the first match</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62795">
Bug
62795</a>
-
JMeter master sometimes ends distributed test even though some of the slaves have not finished</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62336">
Bug
62336</a>
-
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/396">
Pull request #396</a>
-
Some shortcuts are not working correctly on windows. Contributed by Michael Pavlov (michael.paulau at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62889">
Bug
62889</a>
-
Format JSON Arrays when displayed with JSON Path Tester.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62900">
Bug
62900</a>
-
ObjectProperty#getStringValue() can throw NullPointerException</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63099">
Bug
63099</a>
-
Escape commata in function helper dialog only outside of variable replacement structures.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63105">
Bug
63105</a>
-
Export Transactions for Report: fix 2 bugs</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63106">
Bug
63106</a>
-
Apply naming policy does not refresh UI</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63180">
Bug
63180</a>
-
Apply Naming Policy allows multi selection but only considers first node</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63090">
Bug
63090</a>
-
Remove slf4j-ext due to CVE-2018-8088</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Thanks">Thanks</h2>
<p>We thank all contributors mentioned in bug and improvement sections above:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Oleg Kalnichevski (olegk at apache.org)</li>
<li>Till Neunast (https://github.com/tilln)</li>
<li>Mingun (alexander_sergey at mail.ru)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://ubikloadpack.com">Ubik Load Pack</a>
</li>
<li>Artem Fedorov (artem.fedorov at blazemeter.com)</li>
<li>Stefan Seide (stefan at trilobyte-se.de)</li>
<li>&#21016;&#22763; (liushilive at outlook.com)</li>
<li>Michael Pavlov (michael.paulau at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Paco (paco.xu at daocloud.io)</li>
<li>Hitesh Patel (hitesh.h.patel at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Sonali (arora.sonali99 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Mohamed Ibrahim (rollno748 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>U. Poblotzki (u.poblotzki at thalia.de)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.saxonica.com">Saxonica</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p>We also thank bug reporters who helped us improve JMeter.</p>
<ul>
</ul>
<p>
Apologies if we have omitted anyone else.
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</h2>
<ul>
<li>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</li>
<li>
The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
the total number of threads only applies to a locally run test, otherwise it will show <span class="code">0</span> (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55510">
Bug
55510</a>).
</li>
<li>
Note that under some windows systems you may have this WARNING:
<pre class="source">
java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0
x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(&hellip;) returned error code 5.
</pre>
The fix is to run JMeter as Administrator, it will create the registry key for you, then you can restart JMeter as a normal user and you won't have the warning anymore.
</li>
<li>
You may encounter the following error:
<pre class="source">java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints</pre>
if you run a HTTPS request on a web site with a SSL certificate (itself or one of SSL certificates in its chain of trust) with a signature
algorithm using MD2 (like <span class="code">md2WithRSAEncryption</span>) or with a SSL certificate with a size lower than 1024 bits.
This error is related to increased security in Java 8+.
<br>
To allow you to perform your HTTPS request, you can downgrade the security of your Java installation by editing
the Java <span class="code">jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms</span> property. Remove the MD2 value or the constraint on size, depending on your case.
<br>
This property is in this file:
<pre class="source">JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security</pre>
See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56357">
Bug
56357</a> for details.
</li>
<li>
Under Mac OSX Aggregate Graph will show wrong values due to mirroring effect on numbers.
This is due to a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065373">JDK-8065373</a>
The fix is to use JDK8_u45 or later.
</li>
<li>
View Results Tree may fail to display some HTML code under HTML renderer, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54586">
Bug
54586</a>.
This is due to a known Java bug which fails to parse "<span class="code">px</span>" units in row/col attributes.
See Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031109">JDK-8031109</a>
The fix is to use JDK9 b65 or later.
</li>
<li>
JTable selection with keyboard (<span class="keycombo"><span class="keysym">SHIFT</span>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<span class="keysym">up/down</span></span>) is totally unusable with Java 7 on Mac OSX.
This is due to a known Java bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025126">JDK-8025126</a>
The fix is to use JDK 8 b132 or later.
</li>
</ul>
<h1>Version 5.0</h1>
<p>
Summary
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Improvements">Improvements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Thanks">Thanks</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">Core improvements</h3>
<p>Rest support has been improved in many fields
<ul>
<li>Multipart/form-data requests now work for <span class="code">PUT</span>, <span class="code">DELETE</span> &hellip;</li>
<li>It is now also possible to send a JSON Body with attached file</li>
<li>Parameters entered in Parameters Tab are now used in body instead of being ignored</li>
</ul>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_rest1.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_rest1.png" width="1216" height="340" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_rest2.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_rest2.png" width="1223" height="314" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>In distributed testing, JMeter now automatically prefixes thread names with engine host and port, this makes the counting of threads correct in the HTML report without any other configuration as it was required before
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_distributed.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_distributed.png" width="1156" height="543" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>XPath 2.0 is supported in a new element called <span class="code">XPath2 extractor</span> providing easier XML namespaces handling, up to date XPath syntax and better performances
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_xpath2_extractor.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_xpath2_extractor.png" width="879" height="340" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_xpath2_tester.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_xpath2_tester.png" width="1213" height="730" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>Upgrade to HTTP Components 4.6 last APIs has been completed and JMeter does not rely anymore on deprecated APIs of this library</p>
<p>It is now possible to control in an easier way Loop breaking and Loop switching to next iteration. This is available in <span class="code">Flow Control Action</span> and <span class="code">Result Status Action Handler</span> elements
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_flow_control_action.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_flow_control_action.png" width="772" height="270" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_result_status_handler.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_result_status_handler.png" width="615" height="212" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>While Controller now exports a variable containing its current index named <span class="code">__jm__&lt;Name of your element&gt;__idx</span>. So for
example, if your While Controller is named WC, then you can access the looping index through <span class="code">${__jm__WC__idx}</span>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Scripting / Debugging enhancements</h3>
<p>Search feature has been improved to allow you to iterate in the tree over search results and do necessary replacements through <span class="code">Next</span>/<span class="code">Previous</span>/<span class="code">Replace</span>/<span class="code">Replace/Find</span> buttons
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_search_feature.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_search_feature.png" width="829" height="524" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>In View Results Tree, the request and response headers/body are clearly separated to allow you to better inspect requests and responses. You can also search in all those tabs for a particular value
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_vrt_request_body.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_vrt_request_body.png" width="737" height="366" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_vrt_response_body.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_vrt_response_body.png" width="771" height="552" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>Recording feature has been improved to provide a popup that is always on top when you navigate in browser allowing you to name transactions while you navigate in your application.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_recording.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_recording.png" width="1425" height="796" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>You can now restart JMeter from menu <span class="menuchoice"><span class="guimenuitem">File</span>&nbsp;&rarr;&nbsp;<span class="guimenuitem">Restart</span></span>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_restart.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_restart.png" width="199" height="318" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Live Reporting and Web Report</h3>
Reporting feature has been enhanced
<p>A new Graph Total Transactions per second has been added to the HTML Web Report
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_total_trans_per_sec.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_total_trans_per_sec.png" width="1156" height="536" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>It is now possible to graph over time custom metrics available as JMeter Variables through <span class="code">sample_variables</span>. Those custom metrics graphs will be
available in the HTML Report in <span class="code">Custom Graphs section</span>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_custom_graphs.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_custom_graphs.png" width="1426" height="755" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>Hits per second graph now takes into account the embedded resources
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_hits_per_sec.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/5.0/jmeter_5_hits_per_sec.png" width="1153" height="537" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>In Live reporting, the sent and received bytes are now sent to Backends (InfluxDB or Graphite)</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Functions</h3>
<p>A New function <span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/functions.html#__threadGroupName">__threadGroupName</a></span> has been introduced to obtain ThreadGroup name.</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Since JMeter 5.0, when using default HC4 Implementation, JMeter will reset HTTP state (SSL State + Connections) on each thread group iteration. If you don't want
this behaviour, set <span class="code">httpclient.reset_state_on_thread_group_iteration=false</span>
</li>
<li>Since JMeter 5.0, in relation to above remark, <span class="code">https.use.cached.ssl.context</span> is deprecated and not used anymore.</li>
<li>Since JMeter 5.0, when using CSV output, sub results will now be also output to CSV file. To revert to previous behaviour set <span class="code">jmeter.save.saveservice.subresults=false</span>, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62470">
Bug
62470</a>, <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60917">
Bug
60917</a>, <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62550">
Bug
62550</a>.</li>
<li>Since JMeter 5.0, <span class="code">CSS/JQuery Extractor</span> has been renamed to <span class="code">CSS Selector Extractor</span>
</li>
<li>Since JMeter 5.0, <span class="code">Test Action</span> has been renamed to <span class="code">Flow Control Action</span>
</li>
<li>Since JMeter 5.0, JMeter renames subResults to <span class="code">parentName-N</span> where N is a number to ensure that Hits Per Second graph includes resources downloads, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62550">
Bug
62550</a>, <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62470">
Bug
62470</a> and <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60917">
Bug
60917</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Improvements">Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62260">
Bug
62260</a>
-
Improve Rest support. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58757">
Bug
58757</a>
-
HTTP Request : Updated deprecated methods of HttpComponents to last APIs of httpclient-4.5.X. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62212">
Bug
62212</a>
-
Recorder : Improve UX by providing a popup above all windows to be able to change Transaction names and pauses while using Browser. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62248">
Bug
62248</a>
-
HTTP Request : Parameters entered in Parameters Tab should be used in body instead of being ignored. Partly based on a patch by Artem Fedorov contributed by Blazemeter.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60015">
Bug
60015</a>
-
Multipart/form-data works only for <span class="code">POST</span> using HTTPClient4 while it should for <span class="code">PUT</span>, <span class="code">DELETE</span>, &hellip; Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62317">
Bug
62317</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder: allow to add ResultSaver to created sampler</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/376">
Pull request #376</a>
-
JUnitSampler logs exceptions except assertion-failures from test cases as warnings. Contributed by Davide Angelocola (davide.angelocola at fisglobal.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62244">
Bug
62244</a>
-
Rename <span class="code">Test Action</span> to <span class="code">Flow Control Action</span>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62302">
Bug
62302</a>
-
Move JSR223 Sampler up the menu. Contributed by Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62595">
Bug
62595</a>
-
SMTPSampler does not allow configuring the SSL/TLS protocols to be used on handshake. Contributed by Felipe Cuozzo (felipe.cuozzo at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62237">
Bug
62237</a>
-
While Controller : Export variable containing current index of iteration. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62195">
Bug
62195</a>
-
Save Responses to a file : Improve component and UI. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62209">
Bug
62209</a>
-
InfluxBackendListenerClient: First Assertion Failure Message must be sent if error code and response code are empty or OK</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62269">
Bug
62269</a>
-
Bug 62269 - View Results Tree : Response and Request Tabs should contains Header and Body tabs. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62270">
Bug
62270</a>
-
View Results Tree : Allow searching in Request headers, Response Headers, and Request body. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62276">
Bug
62276</a>
-
InfluxDBBackendListenerClient / GraphiteBackendListenerClient : Add sent and received bytes to metrics. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62320">
Bug
62320</a>
-
Counter : Reference Name property is not clear</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60991">
Bug
60991</a>
-
XPath Extractor : Implement XPath 2.0. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62593">
Bug
62593</a>
-
Rename CSS/JQuery Extractor to CSS Selector Extractor. Contributed by Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62178">
Bug
62178</a>
-
Add default value to <span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/functions.html#__V">__V</a></span> function. Contributed by Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62178">
Bug
62178</a>
-
Add function <span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/functions.html#__threadGroupName">__threadGroupName</a></span> function to obtain ThreadGroup name. Mainly contributed by Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62533">
Bug
62533</a>
-
Allow use epoch time as Date String value in function <span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/functions.html#__dateTimeConvert">__dateTimeConvert</a></span>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62541">
Bug
62541</a>
-
Allow <span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/functions.html#__jexl3">__jexl3</a></span>, <span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/functions.html#__jexl2">__jexl2</a></span> functions to support new syntax as <span class="code">var x;</span>. Contributed by Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61834">
Bug
61834</a>
-
Function Helper Dialog : Improve tests by showing variables and keeping them available between evaluations</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62243">
Bug
62243</a>
-
Dashboard : make option "<span class="code">--forceDeleteResultFile</span>"/"<span class="code">-f</span>" option delete folder referenced by "<span class="code">-o</span>" option</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62367">
Bug
62367</a>
-
HTML Report Generator: Add Graph Total Transactions per Second. Contributed mainly by Martha Laks (laks.martha at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62166">
Bug
62166</a>
-
Report/Dashboard: Provide ability to register custom graphs and metrics in the JMeter Dashboard. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62542">
Bug
62542</a>
-
Report/Dashboard : Display more information on filters when graph is empty. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62426">
Bug
62426</a>
-
Optimize performance of report generation. Based on feedback by Allen (444104595 at qq.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62550">
Bug
62550</a>
-
Modify SubResult Naming Policy</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60917">
Bug
60917</a>
-
Load Test with embedded resources download : Hits per seconds does not take into account the downloaded resources</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62684">
Bug
62684</a>
-
Distributed Testing : Add automatically to thread name a prefix to identify engine. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62155">
Bug
62155</a>
-
Search Feature: Make Search text field get focus</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62156">
Bug
62156</a>
-
Search Feature : Distinguish between node that matches search and node that contains a child that matches search</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62234">
Bug
62234</a>
-
Search/Replace Feature : Enhance UX and add Replace/Next/Previous/Replace &amp; Find features. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62238">
Bug
62238</a>
-
Add ability to Switch to next iteration of Current Loop. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62239">
Bug
62239</a>
-
Add ability to Break Current Loop</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61635">
Bug
61635</a>
-
Add a menu to restart JMeter</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62470">
Bug
62470</a>
-
CSV Output : Enable logging of sub results when <span class="code">jmeter.save.saveservice.subresults=true</span>. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62473">
Bug
62473</a>
-
Setting "<span class="code">saveservice_properties</span>" has counter intuitive behaviour</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62354">
Bug
62354</a>
-
Correct calculation and usage of units for second per user (reported by jffagot05 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62700">
Bug
62700</a>
-
Introduce <span class="code">jsr223.init.file</span> to allow calling a JSR-223 script on JMeter startup</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62128">
Bug
62128</a>
-
Try to guess <span class="code">JMETER_HOME</span> correctly, when <span class="code">jmeter.bat</span> is called from a batch file in another directory. Contributed by logox01 (logox01 at gmx.at)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/386">
Pull request #386</a>
-
Add parameter support for RMI keystore creation scripts. Contributed by Logan Mauzaize (t524467 at airfrance.fr)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62065">
Bug
62065</a>
-
Use Maven artifact for JAF Module instead of embedded module</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61714">
Bug
61714</a>
-
Update Real-time results documentation</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/382">
Pull request #382</a>
-
Correct typo in documentation. Reported by Perze Ababa (perze.ababa at gmail.com&gt;)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/392">
Pull request #392</a>
-
Correct typo in documentation. Reported by Aaron Levin</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/379">
Pull request #379</a>
-
Improve chinese translations. Contributed by XmeterNet</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/358">
Pull request #358</a>,
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/365">
Pull request #365</a>,
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/366">
Pull request #366</a>,
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/375">
Pull request #375</a>
-
Updated to latest checkstyle (v8.8). Expanded Checkstyle to files
in <span class="code">src</span> and <span class="code">test</span>; fixed newly checked files. Based on contribution
by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62095">
Bug
62095</a>
-
Correct description for right boundary parameter in Boundary Extractor. Contributed by Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62113">
Bug
62113</a>
-
Updated to latest Bouncycastle (v1.60). Based on contribution by Olaf Flebbe (oflebbe at apache.org)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62171">
Bug
62171</a>
-
Remove <span class="code">.md5</span> checksums and keep only <span class="code">.sha512</span> checksums for source and binary archives</li>
<li>Updated to groovy-all-2.4.15 (from groovy-all-2.4.13)</li>
<li>Updated to asm-6.1 (from 6.0)</li>
<li>Updated to tika-core and tika-parsers 1.18 (from 1.17)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62482">
Bug
62482</a>
-
Sync documentation to the implementation of the ForEachController. Based on contribution by Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62529">
Bug
62529</a>
-
Updated to httpclient-4.5.6 (from httpclient 4.5.5) and updated to freemarker-2.3.28 (from freemarker-2.3.23). Based on patch by Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Updated to httpmime-4.5.6 (from httpmime-4.5.5)</li>
<li>Updated to caffeine-2.6.2 (from caffeine-2.6.1)</li>
<li>Updated to cglib-nodep-3.2.7 (from cglib-nodep-3.2.6)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-dbcp2-2.4.0 (from commons-dbcp2-2.2.0)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-pool2-2.6.0 (from commons-pool2-2.5.0)</li>
<li>Updated to httpcore-4.4.10 (from httpcore-4.4.9)</li>
<li>Updated to httpcore-nio-4.4.10 (from httpcore-nio-4.4.9)</li>
<li>Updated to log4j-2.11.0 (from log4j-2.10.0)</li>
<li>Updated to ph-css-6.1.1 (from ph-css-6.0.0)</li>
<li>Updated to ph-commons-9.1.2 (from ph-commons-9.0.0)</li>
<li>Updated to rhino-1.7.10 (from +rhino-1.7.7.2)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-lang3-3.8 (from commons-lang3-3.7)</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62114">
Bug
62114</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder : Client certificate authentication uses the first SSLManager created. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61058">
Bug
61058</a>
-
HTTP Request : Add option <span class="code">httpclient4.deflate_relax_mode</span> to avoid "Unexpected end of ZLIB input stream" when deflating what seems to be invalid streams. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43612">
Bug
43612</a>
-
HTTP PUT does not honor request parameters. Implemented by Artem Fedorov (artem.fedorov at blazemeter.com) and contributed by BlazeMeter Ltd.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60190">
Bug
60190</a>
-
Content-Type is added for <span class="code">POST</span> unconditionally. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62462">
Bug
62462</a>
-
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/387">
Pull request #387</a>
-
Make delegation of credentials in SPNEGO possible again.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58807">
Bug
58807</a>
-
<span class="code">Reset SSL State on Thread Group iteration only (was https.use.cached.ssl.context=false</span> is broken)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62716">
Bug
62716</a>
-
When Recording, JMeter removes Authorization from generated Header Manager when using Bearer Token</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62235">
Bug
62235</a>
-
Java 9 - illegal reflective access by org.apache.jmeter.util.HostNameSetter</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62464">
Bug
62464</a>
-
Set start- and end-time on JMS publisher sampler, even if initialization fails.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62616">
Bug
62616</a>
-
FTPSampler: Upload file-size is not counted in sentBytes</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62265">
Bug
62265</a>
-
ModuleController behaves strangely</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62097">
Bug
62097</a>
-
Update JTable in Aggregate Report only when new data has arrived. That way selections of rows will be kept longer around.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62203">
Bug
62203</a>
-
Influxdb BackendListener client: store user tags to annotation and internal transaction. Contributed by Sergey Batalin (sergey_batalin at mail.ru)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62251">
Bug
62251</a>
-
TextGraphiteMetricsSender does not invalidate lost connections in case of network errors </li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60705">
Bug
60705</a>
-
Fix headers of Aggregate Reports and friends when columns are moved around.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62463">
Bug
62463</a>
-
Distributed client/server setup: use different RMI ports for the remote objects when using SSL</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61664">
Bug
61664</a>
-
HTTP Authorization Manager : Digest works only with legacy <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/2069">RFC 2069</a>, <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/2617">RFC 2617</a> is not implemented. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62252">
Bug
62252</a>
-
HTTP header merging logic does not correspond to the documentation</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62554">
Bug
62554</a>
-
BoundaryExtractor : Field to check is not reset</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62553">
Bug
62553</a>
-
Random element might return same value even if property "Per thread user (User)" is set to TRUE</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62637">
Bug
62637</a>
-
Take scheduler into account when calcuting delay for Synchronizing Timer</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62310">
Bug
62310</a>
-
French translation of Precise Throughput Timer label</li>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62333">
Bug
62333</a>
-
Report Dashboard - When one series contains no value, the graph colors logic is wrong. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62283">
Bug
62283</a>
-
Report Dashboard - Date is not correctly displayed on chart when granularity is &le;&nbsp;1 day</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62520">
Bug
62520</a>
-
The tool-tip text when we hover on the point in 'Latency Vs Request' graph should be 'Median Latency'</li>
</ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62211">
Bug
62211</a>
-
Fix HTTP Request Server Documentation. Contributed by Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/388">
Pull request #388</a>
-
Fix a typo. Contributed by Giancarlo Romeo (giancarloromeo at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62107">
Bug
62107</a>
-
JMeter fails to start under Windows when <span class="code">JM_LAUNCH</span> contains spaces</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62110">
Bug
62110</a>
-
A broken JUnit class (due to missing dependency) breaks JMeter menus. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/377">
Pull request #377</a>
-
Small fix of the docs. Contributed by Peter Doornbosch (peter.doornbosch at luminis.eu)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62124">
Bug
62124</a>
-
Recording templates : Add more exclusions and use Transaction Name by default</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62127">
Bug
62127</a>
-
Store filename as String instead of File in FileEditor. This will prevent conversion of filenames from Unix style path separators to Windows style when used for example in CSV Data Set Config.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56150">
Bug
56150</a>
-
Keep the index right, when scrolling through the menu items.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62240">
Bug
62240</a>
-
If SampleMonitor implementation is a TestBean if will not be initialized correctly</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62295">
Bug
62295</a>
-
Correct order of elements when duplicating a selection of multiple elements.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62397">
Bug
62397</a>
-
Don't break lines at commata when using JSON Path Tester</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62281">
Bug
62281</a>
-
Prevent NPE in MapProperty. Patch by belugabehr (dam6923 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62457">
Bug
62457</a>
-
In usermanual, the UUID Function's example is wrong. Contributed by helppass (onegaicimasu at hotmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62478">
Bug
62478</a>
-
Escape commata in parameters when constructing function strings in the GUI function helper. Reported by blue414 (blue414 at 163.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62463">
Bug
62463</a>
-
Fix usage of ports, when <span class="code">client.rmi.localport</span> is set for distributed runs.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62545">
Bug
62545</a>
-
Don't use a colon as part of the "tab" string when indenting JSON in RenderAsJSON.</li>
<li>Part of <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62637">
Bug
62637</a>
-
Avoid Integer overrun when dealing with very large values in <span class="code">TimerService#adjustDelay</span>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62683">
Bug
62683</a>
-
Error dialog has no text when user opens completely invalid test plan.</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Thanks">Thanks</h2>
<p>We thank all contributors mentioned in bug and improvement sections above:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>Ori Marko (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Davide Angelocola (davide.angelocola at fisglobal.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://ubikloadpack.com">Ubik Load Pack</a>
</li>
<li>Olaf Flebbe (oflebbe at apache.org)</li>
<li>Peter Doornbosch (peter.doornbosch at luminis.eu)</li>
<li>logox01 (logox01 at gmx.at)</li>
<li>Sergey Batalin (sergey_batalin at mail.ru)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.xmeter.net">XMeter</a>
</li>
<li>Imane Ankhila (iankhila at ahlane.net)</li>
<li>jffagot05 (jffagot05 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Perze Ababa (perze.ababa at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Martha Laks (laks.martha at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Logan Mauzaize (t524467 at airfrance.fr)</li>
<li>belugabehr (dam6923 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Giancarlo Romeo (giancarloromeo at gmail.com)</li>
<li>helppass (onegaicimasu at hotmail.com)</li>
<li>blue414 (blue414 at 163.com)</li>
<li>Aaron Levin</li>
<li>Allen (444104595 at qq.com)</li>
<li>Felipe Cuozzo (felipe.cuozzo at gmail.com)</li>
<li>bangnab (ambrosetti.nicola at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<p>We also thank bug reporters who helped us improve JMeter.</p>
<p>
Apologies if we have omitted anyone else.
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</h2>
<ul>
<li>View Results Tree may freeze rendering large response particularly if this response has no spaces, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60816">
Bug
60816</a>.
This is due to an identified Java Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8172336">UI stuck when calling <span class="code">JEditorPane.setText()</span> or <span class="code">JTextArea.setText()</span> with long text without space</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</li>
<li>
The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
the total number of threads only applies to a locally run test, otherwise it will show <span class="code">0</span> (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55510">
Bug
55510</a>).
</li>
<li>
Note that under some windows systems you may have this WARNING:
<pre class="source">
java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0
x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(&hellip;) returned error code 5.
</pre>
The fix is to run JMeter as Administrator, it will create the registry key for you, then you can restart JMeter as a normal user and you won't have the warning anymore.
</li>
<li>
You may encounter the following error:
<pre class="source">java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints</pre>
if you run a HTTPS request on a web site with a SSL certificate (itself or one of SSL certificates in its chain of trust) with a signature
algorithm using MD2 (like <span class="code">md2WithRSAEncryption</span>) or with a SSL certificate with a size lower than 1024 bits.
This error is related to increased security in Java 8+.
<br>
To allow you to perform your HTTPS request, you can downgrade the security of your Java installation by editing
the Java <span class="code">jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms</span> property. Remove the MD2 value or the constraint on size, depending on your case.
<br>
This property is in this file:
<pre class="source">JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security</pre>
See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56357">
Bug
56357</a> for details.
</li>
<li>
Under Mac OSX Aggregate Graph will show wrong values due to mirroring effect on numbers.
This is due to a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065373">JDK-8065373</a>
The fix is to use JDK8_u45 or later.
</li>
<li>
View Results Tree may fail to display some HTML code under HTML renderer, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54586">
Bug
54586</a>.
This is due to a known Java bug which fails to parse "<span class="code">px</span>" units in row/col attributes.
See Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031109">JDK-8031109</a>
The fix is to use JDK9 b65 or later.
</li>
<li>
JTable selection with keyboard (<span class="keycombo"><span class="keysym">SHIFT</span>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<span class="keysym">up/down</span></span>) is totally unusable with Java 7 on Mac OSX.
This is due to a known Java bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025126">JDK-8025126</a>
The fix is to use JDK 8 b132 or later.
</li>
</ul>
<h1>Version 4.0</h1>
<p>
Summary
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Improvements">Improvements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Thanks">Thanks</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">Core improvements</h3>
<p>JMeter now supports JAVA 9.</p>
<p>New <a href="usermanual/component_reference.html#Boundary_Extractor"><span class="code">Boundary Extractor</span></a> element available which provides easy extraction with better performances
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/boundary_extractor.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/boundary_extractor.png" width="1078" height="315" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>New <a href="usermanual/component_reference.html#JSON_Assertion"><span class="code">JSON Assertion</span></a> element available to assert on JSON responses.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/json_assertion.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/json_assertion.png" width="1095" height="307" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>New <a href="usermanual/component_reference.html#Precise_Throughput_Timer"><span class="code">Precise Throughput Timer</span></a> element available which produces Poisson arrivals with given constant throughput.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/precise_throughput_timer.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/precise_throughput_timer.png" width="1080" height="381" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>JMS Point-to-Point sampler has been enhanced with <span class="code">read</span>, <span class="code">browse</span>, <span class="code">clear</span> options.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/jmsptp_communication_styles.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/jmsptp_communication_styles.png" width="1080" height="489" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>Best property values are now selected on many Test Elements to ensure best practices are the defaults:
<ul>
<li>Newly added <span class="code">If Controller</span> now uses by default Expression which is the most performing option.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/if_controller_condition.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/if_controller_condition.png" width="716" height="248" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/if_controller_expression.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/if_controller_expression.png" width="717" height="251" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Newly added JSR223 Test Element now cache compiled script by default if language used provides this feature.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/jsr223_cache_compilation.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/jsr223_cache_compilation.png" width="346" height="49" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>
<a href="usermanual/component_reference.html#Loop_Controller"><span class="code">Loop controller</span></a> and
<a href="usermanual/component_reference.html#ForEach_Controller"><span class="code">ForEach Controller</span></a>
now expose their current iteration as a variable named <span class="code">__jm__&lt;Name of your element&gt;__idx</span> that
you can use like this for example for a Loop Controller named <span class="code">MyLoopController</span>:
<pre class="source">${__jm__MyLoopController__idx}</pre>.
See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61802">
Bug
61802</a>
</p>
<p>Cookies are now shown in View Results Tree during recording. They were previously always shown as empty.</p>
<p>
<a href="usermanual/component_reference.html#Response_Assertion"><span class="code">Response Assertion</span></a> now allows you to customize assertion message and assert on Request Data.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/response_assertion_enhancements.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/response_assertion_enhancements.png" width="909" height="617" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">UX improvements</h3>
<p>JMeter now uses <a href="https://github.com/bulenkov/Darcula">Darcula LAF</a> by default</p>
<p>Workbench has been dropped from UI, you can now use Non Test Elements as immediate children of Test Plan.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/goodbye_workbench.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/goodbye_workbench.png" width="282" height="144" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>Menu UX have been improved to make most used elements available more rapidly.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/menu_organization.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/menu_organization.png" width="711" height="322" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder now allows you to name your transactions while recording in a more human readable way.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/recorder_naming_samplers.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/recorder_naming_samplers.png" width="1011" height="502" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p></p>
<p>UX improvements made on, among the most notable :</p>
<ul>
<li>Module Controller informs user at least one Controller is required</li>
<li>Function Helper Dialog (The wizard that helps using and testing functions) has been improved in many fields.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/function_helper_dialog_enhancements.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/4.0/function_helper_dialog_enhancements.png" width="772" height="315" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Switch Controller trims text to avoid issues when a space is introduced before/after name</li>
<li>Test Plan is now saved before running the test plan</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="ch_title">Functions</h3>
<p>New Function <a href="usermanual/functions.html#__digest"><span class="code">__digest</span></a> provides easy computing of SHA-XXX, MDX hashes:
<pre class="source">${__digest(MD5,Apache JMeter 4.0 rocks !,,,)}</pre> will return <span class="code">0e16c3ce9b6c9971c69ad685fd875d2b</span>
</p>
<p>New Function <a href="usermanual/functions.html#__dateTimeConvert"><span class="code">__dateTimeConvert</span></a> provides easy conversion between date formats:
<pre class="source">${__dateTimeConvert(01 Jan 2017,dd MMM yyyy,dd/MM/yyyy,)}</pre> will return <span class="code">01/01/2017</span>
</p>
<p>New Function <a href="usermanual/functions.html#__changeCase"><span class="code">__changeCase</span></a> provides ability to switch to Upper / Lower / Capitalized cases
<pre class="source">${__changeCase(Avaro omnia desunt\, inopi pauca\, sapienti nihil,UPPER,)}</pre> will return <span class="code">AVARO OMNIA DESUNT, INOPI PAUCA, SAPIENTI NIHIL</span>
</p>
<p>New Functions <a href="usermanual/functions.html#__isVarDefined"><span class="code">__isVarDefined</span></a>
and <a href="usermanual/functions.html#__isPropDefined"><span class="code">__isPropDefined</span></a> provide testing of properties and variables availability
<pre class="source">${__isPropDefined(START.HMS)}</pre> will return <span class="code">true</span>
<pre class="source">${__isVarDefined(JMeterThread.last_sample_ok)}</pre> will return <span class="code">true</span>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Scripting and Plugin Development</h3>
<p>You can now call <span class="code">SampleResult#setIgnore()</span> if you don't want your sampler to be visible in results</p>
<p>
<span class="code">JavaSamplerContext</span> used by <span class="code">AbstractJavaSamplerClient</span> has been enhanced with new methods to easy plugin development.</p>
<p>JMeter now distributes additional Maven sources and javadoc artifacts into <a href="https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/jmeter/ApacheJMeter_core/4.0/">Maven repository</a>
</p>
<p>Plugins can now register listeners to be notified when a Test Plan is opened/closed</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Live Reporting and Web Report</h3>
<p>InfluxDB backend listener now allows you to add custom tags by adding them with prefix <span class="code">TAG_</span>, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61794">
Bug
61794</a>
</p>
<p>In Web Report responseTime distribution graph is more precise</p>
<p>Some bugfixes have been made on report generation, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61900">
Bug
61900</a>, <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61900">
Bug
61900</a>61956, <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61899">
Bug
61899</a>.
Graphs <i>Latency Vs Request</i> and <i>Response Time Vs Request</i> did not exceed 1000 RPS due to <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61962">
Bug
61962</a>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Configuration of JMeter environment</h3>
<p>JVM settings for the JMeter start scripts can be placed in a separate file (<span class="code">bin/setenv.sh</span> on Unix
and <span class="code">bin\setenv.bat</span> on Windows), that gets called on startup. The startup script
itself does not have to be edited anymore.</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<span class="code">Start time</span> and <span class="code">End date</span> of Thread Group have been removed, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61549">
Bug
61549</a>
</li>
<li>In distributed testing, mode <span class="code">Hold</span> has been removed. Use alternative and more efficient modes</li>
<li>For 3<sup>rd</sup> party plugins, the following method in <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.gui.tree.JMeterTreeNode</span> has been dropped for migration to Java 9 (<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61529">
Bug
61529</a>)
<pre class="source">public Enumeration&lt;JMeterTreeNode&gt; children()</pre>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code">tearDown Thread Group</span> will now run on stop and shutdown of a test by default. If you don't want this behaviour,
uncheck <span class="code">Run tearDown Thread Groups after shutdown of main threads</span> on <span class="code">Test Plan</span> element, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61656">
Bug
61656</a>
</li>
<li>Properties <span class="code">sampleresult.getbytes.headers_size</span> and <span class="code">sampleresult.getbytes.body_real_size</span> have been dropped, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61587">
Bug
61587</a>
</li>
<li>JMeter will now save your test plan whenever you run it. This behaviour can be controlled by property <span class="code">save_automatically_before_run</span>, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61731">
Bug
61731</a>
</li>
<li>Workbench element has been dropped, you now directly add <span class="code">Non Test Element</span> as children of Test Plan. When loading a Test Plan that contains the element
JMeter will move the <span class="code">Mirror Server</span>, <span class="code">Property Display</span> and HTTP(s) <span class="code">Test Script Recorder</span> elements as direct children of Test Plan. For
any other element, it will create a <span class="code">Test Fragment</span> element called <span class="code">Workbench Test Fragment and move the elements in it</span>.</li>
<li>Following classes have been dropped (<span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.functions.util.ArgumentEncoder</span>, <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.functions.util.ArgumentDecoder</span>), see <a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/335">
Pull request #335</a>
</li>
<li>In JMS Point-to-Point sampler, setting timeout to 0 will now mean infinite timeout while previously it would be switched to 2000 ms, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61829">
Bug
61829</a>
</li>
<li>When Assertions are at different scopes, they are executed starting with the most OUTER one to the most INNER one. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61846">
Bug
61846</a>
</li>
<li>JMeter now starts by default using English locale. This change is due to missing translations in many supported languages.
You can change locale by modifying in jmeter and jmeter.bat (or preferably setenv.sh/setenv.bat) the <span class="code">JVM_ARGS</span> system property values.
We'd also be very grateful if you can contribute translations in supported languages.
</li>
<li>SwitchController now trims by default the content of switch to avoid issue related to unwanted spaces. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61771">
Bug
61771</a>
</li>
<li>JMeter JVM heap settings have changed from <span class="code">-Xms512m -Xmx512m</span> to <span class="code">-Xms1g -Xmx1g</span>
</li>
<li>Beanshell version has been upgraded to bsh-2.0b6 which introduces breaking changes and more strict parsing rules</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Improvements">Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/316">
Pull request #316</a>
-
Warn about empty truststore loading. Contributed by Vincent Herilier (https://github.com/vherilier)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61639">
Bug
61639</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder: In request filtering tab, uncheck by default "Notify Child Listeners of filtered samplers"</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61672">
Bug
61672</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder: Have the ability to choose the sampler name while keeping the ability to just add a prefix</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53957">
Bug
53957</a>
-
HTTP Request: In Parameters tab, allow pasting of content coming from Firefox and Chrome (unparsed)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61587">
Bug
61587</a>
-
Drop properties <span class="code">sampleresult.getbytes.headers_size</span> and <span class="code">sampleresult.getbytes.body_real_size</span>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61843">
Bug
61843</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder: Add SAN to JMeter generated CA Certificate. Contributed by Matthew Buckett</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61901">
Bug
61901</a>
-
Support for <span class="code">https.cipherSuites</span> System property. Contributed by Jeremy Arnold (jeremy at arnoldzoo.org)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61544">
Bug
61544</a>
-
JMS Point-to-Point Sampler: Enhance communication styles with read, browse, clear. Based on a contribution by Benny van Wijngaarden (benny at smaragd-it.nl)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61829">
Bug
61829</a>
-
JMS Point-to-Point: If Receive Queue is empty and a timeout is set, it is not taken into account. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61739">
Bug
61739</a>
-
Java Request / JavaSamplerClient: Improve <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.protocol.java.sampler.JavaSamplerContext</span>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61762">
Bug
61762</a>
-
Start Next Thread Loop should be used everywhere</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61675">
Bug
61675</a>
-
If Controller: Use expression by default and add a warning when the other mode is used. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61770">
Bug
61770</a>
-
Module Controller: Inform user in UI that he needs to have at least one Controller in his plan. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61771">
Bug
61771</a>
-
SwitchController: Switch field should be trimmed by safety</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57760">
Bug
57760</a>
-
View Results Tree: Cookie Header is wrongly shown as empty (no cookies) when viewing a recorder Sample Result. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61769">
Bug
61769</a>
-
View Results Tree: Use syntax highlighter in XPath Tester, JSON Path Tester and CSS/JQuery Tester. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61776">
Bug
61776</a>
-
View Results Tree: Expansion of <span class="code">Add expand/collapse all</span> menu in render XML view. Contributed by Maxime Chassagneux and Graham Russell</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61852">
Bug
61852</a>
-
View Results Tree: Add a Boundary Extractor Tester</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61794">
Bug
61794</a>
-
Influxdb backend: Add as many custom tags as wanted by just create new lines and prefix theirs name by "<span class="code">TAG_</span>" on the GUI backend listener</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60213">
Bug
60213</a>
-
New component: Boundary based extractor</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61845">
Bug
61845</a>
-
New Component JSON Assertion based on AtlanBH JSON Path Assertion donated to JMeter-Plugins and migrated into JMeter core by Artem Fedorov (artem at blazemeter.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61931">
Bug
61931</a>
-
New Component: Precise Throughput Timer, timer that produces Poisson arrivals with given constant throughput. Contributed by Vladimir Sitnikov (sitnikov.vladimir at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61644">
Bug
61644</a>
-
HTTP Cache Manager: "Use Cache-Control/Expires header when processing GET requests" should be checked by default</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61645">
Bug
61645</a>
-
Response Assertion: Add ability to assert on Request Data</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51140">
Bug
51140</a>
-
Response Assertion: add ability to set a specific error/failure message that is later shown in the Assertion Result. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61534">
Bug
61534</a>
-
Convert AssertionError to a failed assertion, allowing users to use assert in their code. Fixing a regression introduced in 3.2</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61756">
Bug
61756</a>
-
Extractors: Improve label name "Reference name" to make it clear what it makes</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61758">
Bug
61758</a>
-
<span class="code">Apply to:</span> field in Extractors, Assertions: When entering a value in <span class="code">JMeter Variable Name</span>, the radio box <span class="code">JMeter Variable Name</span> should be selected by default. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61846">
Bug
61846</a>
-
Scoped Assertion should follow same order of evaluation as Post Processors</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61724">
Bug
61724</a>
-
Add <span class="code">__digest</span> function to provide computing of Hashes (SHA-XXX, MDX). Based on a contribution by orimarko at gmail.com</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61735">
Bug
61735</a>
-
Add <span class="code">__dateTimeConvert</span> function to provide date formats conversions. Based on a contribution by orimarko at gmail.com</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61760">
Bug
61760</a>
-
Add <span class="code">__isPropDefined</span> and <span class="code">__isVarDefined</span> functions to know if property or variable exist. Contributed by orimarko at gmail.com</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61759">
Bug
61759</a>
-
Add <span class="code">__changeCase</span> function to change different cases of a string. Based on a contribution by orimarko at gmail.com</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61561">
Bug
61561</a>
-
Function helper dialog should display exception in result</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61738">
Bug
61738</a>
-
Function Helper Dialog: Add Copy in Generate and clarify labels. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62027">
Bug
62027</a>
-
Help: Introduce property <span class="code">help.local</span> to allow choosing between local (offline) documentation and online documentation</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61593">
Bug
61593</a>
-
Remove Detail, Add, Add from Clipboard, Delete buttons in Function Helper GUI</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61606">
Bug
61606</a>
-
Translate button <span class="code">Browse&hellip;</span> in some elements (which use FileEditor class)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61747">
Bug
61747</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder: add the missing doc to "Create transaction after request (ms)"</li>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61871">
Bug
61871</a>
-
Reduce jmeter.reportgenerator.graph.responseTimeDistribution.property.set_granularity default value from 500ms to 100ms</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61879">
Bug
61879</a>
-
Remove useless files in HTML report template</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61591">
Bug
61591</a>
-
Drop Workbench from test tree. Implemented by Artem Fedorov (artem at blazemeter.com) and contributed by BlazeMeter Ltd.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61549">
Bug
61549</a>
-
Thread Group: Remove start and end date</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61529">
Bug
61529</a>
-
Migration to Java 9. Partly contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61709">
Bug
61709</a>
-
SampleResult: Add a method <span class="code">setIgnore()</span> to make JMeter ignore the SampleResult and not send it to listeners</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61806">
Bug
61806</a>
-
Allow to use <span class="code">SampleResult#setIgnore()</span> in post-processors and assertions script (JSR223 elements)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61607">
Bug
61607</a>
-
Add browse button in all BeanShell elements to select BeanShell script</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61627">
Bug
61627</a>
-
Don't clear LogView anymore when clicking on Warning/Errors Indicator</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61629">
Bug
61629</a>
-
Add Think Times to Children menu should not consider disabled elements</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61655">
Bug
61655</a>
-
SampleSender: Drop HoldSampleSender implementation</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61656">
Bug
61656</a>
-
<span class="code">tearDown Thread Group</span> should run by default at stop or shutdown of test</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61659">
Bug
61659</a>
-
<span class="code">JMeterVariables#get()</span> should apply <span class="code">toString()</span> on non string objects</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61555">
Bug
61555</a>
-
Metaspace should be restricted as default</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61693">
Bug
61693</a>
-
JMeter aware of Docker (<span class="code">-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions</span> <span class="code">-XX:+UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap</span>)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61694">
Bug
61694</a>
-
Add <span class="code">-server</span> option in <span class="code">jmeter.bat</span>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61697">
Bug
61697</a>
-
Introduce Darcula Look And Feel to make JMeter UI more attractive</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61704">
Bug
61704</a>
-
Toolbar: Improve a bit the right part</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61731">
Bug
61731</a>
-
Enhance Test plan Backup with option to save before run. Based on a contribution by orimarko at gmail.com</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61640">
Bug
61640</a>
-
JSR223 Test Elements: Enable by default caching. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61785">
Bug
61785</a>
-
Add <span class="menuchoice"><span class="guimenuitem">Help</span>&nbsp;&rarr;&nbsp;<span class="guimenuitem">Useful links</span></span> to create issues and download nightly build</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61808">
Bug
61808</a>
-
Fix main frame position. Implemented by Artem Fedorov (artem at blazemeter.com) and contributed by BlazeMeter Ltd.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61802">
Bug
61802</a>
-
Loop / ForEach Controller should expose a variable for current iteration. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/349">
Pull request #349</a>
-
Add i18n resources(zh_CN). Contributed by Helly Guo (https://github.com/hellyguo)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/351">
Pull request #351</a>
-
Fixed about dialog position on first view. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/352">
Pull request #352</a>
-
Menu bar - added mnemonics to more menu items. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/353">
Pull request #353</a>
-
Re-wrote some existing tests in Spock. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61919">
Bug
61919</a>
-
UX: Reorder Menus. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61920">
Bug
61920</a>
-
Plugins: Add ability to listen to Test Plan loading/closing. Contributed by Peter Doornbosch (https://bitbucket.org/pjtr/)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61935">
Bug
61935</a>
-
Plugins: Let GUI component (dynamically) decide whether it can be added via the menu or not. Contributed by Peter Doornbosch (https://bitbucket.org/pjtr/)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61969">
Bug
61969</a>
-
When changing LAF through GUI, user should be informed that it is better to restart</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61970">
Bug
61970</a>
-
JMeter now uses English as default locale to avoid missing translations in some locales make UI look weird</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56368">
Bug
56368</a>
-
Create and Deploy source artifacts to Maven central</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61973">
Bug
61973</a>
-
Create and Deploy javadoc artifacts to Maven central</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/371">
Pull request #371</a>
-
Fix example in documentation for <a href="./usermanual/component_reference.html#XPath_Assertion">XPath Assertion</a>. Contributed by Konstantin Kalinin (kkalinin at hotmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62039">
Bug
62039</a>
-
Distributed testing: Provide ability to use SSL</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Updated to bsh-2.0b6 (from bsh-2.0b5)</li>
<li>Updated to groovy-all-2.4.13 (from groovy-all-2.4.12)</li>
<li>Updated to rhino-1.7.7.2 (from rhino-1.7.7.1)</li>
<li>Updated to tika-core and tika-parsers 1.17 (from 1.16)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-dbcp2-2.2.0 (from 2.1.1)</li>
<li>Updated to caffeine 2.6.1 (from 2.5.5)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-codec-1.11 (from 1.10)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-io-2.6 (from 2.5)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-lang3-3.7 (from 3.6)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-pool2-2.5.0 (from 2.4.2)</li>
<li>Updated to asm-6.0 (from 5.2)</li>
<li>Updated to jsoup-1.11.2 (from 1.10.3)</li>
<li>Updated to cglib-nodep-3.2.6 (from 3.2.5)</li>
<li>Updated to ph-css 6.0.0 (from 5.0.4)</li>
<li>Updated to ph-commons 9.0.0 (from 8.6.6)</li>
<li>Updated to log4j2 2.10.0 (from 2.8.2)</li>
<li>Updated to httpcore 4.4.9 (from 4.4.7)</li>
<li>Updated to httpclient 4.5.5 (from 4.5.3)</li>
<li>Updated to jodd 4.1.4 (from 3.8.6)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61642">
Bug
61642</a>
-
Improve FTP test coverage</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61641">
Bug
61641</a>
-
Improve JMS test coverage</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61651">
Bug
61651</a>
-
Improve TCP test coverage</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61651">
Bug
61651</a>
-
Improve OS test coverage. Partly contributed by Aleksei Balan (abalanonline at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/319">
Pull request #319</a>
-
Removed commented out code. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/322">
Pull request #322</a>
-
General JavaDoc cleanup. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/323">
Pull request #323</a>
-
Extracted method and used streams to improve readability. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/324">
Pull request #324</a>
-
Save backup refactor. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/327">
Pull request #327</a>
-
Utilising more modern Java, simplifying code and formatting code and comments. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/332">
Pull request #332</a>
-
Add the spock framework for groovy unit tests. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/334">
Pull request #334</a>
-
Enable running of JUnit tests from within IntelliJ with default config. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/335">
Pull request #335</a>
-
Removed <span class="code">functions.util.*</span> as they don't seem to be used (for many years). Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61867">
Bug
61867</a>
-
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/345">
Pull request #345</a>
-
Updated to latest checkstyle (v8.5), Added many more rules to checkstyle, Included checking of test files and more file types. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/350">
Pull request #350</a>
-
Parallelised unit tests. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61966">
Bug
61966</a>
-
Setup Test Results Analyzer in jenkins</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/343">
Pull request #343</a>
-
Reduce the size of some images in the documentation. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61569">
Bug
61569</a>
-
JMS Point-to-Point Test Plan: Synchronization issue when putting reply. Contributed by Igor Panainte (panainte.i at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61698">
Bug
61698</a>
-
Test Action: It stop is selected, samplers following Test Action can run</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61707">
Bug
61707</a>
-
Test Action: Target is ignored when pause is selected, so it should be disabled</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61827">
Bug
61827</a>
-
JMSPublisher: Don't add new line at the end of the file. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61556">
Bug
61556</a>
-
Clarify in documentation performance impacts of <span class="code">${}</span> var usage in IfController and groovy. Contributed by Justin McCartney (be_strew at yahoo.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61713">
Bug
61713</a>
-
Test Fragment has option to Change Controller and Insert Parent. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61965">
Bug
61965</a>
-
Module and Include Controller should not allow to add meaningless elements in their context.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62062">
Bug
62062</a>
-
ThroughputController: StackOverFlowError triggered when throughput=0 (Total Executions or Percentage Executions) Partly implemented by Artem Fedorov (artem.fedorov at blazemeter.com) and contributed by BlazeMeter Ltd.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61742">
Bug
61742</a>
-
BackendListener: fix default value for <span class="code">backend_graphite.send_interval</span>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61878">
Bug
61878</a>
-
BackendListener: NPE if BackendListenerClient#getDefaultParameters returns null</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61950">
Bug
61950</a>
-
View Results Tree: Content-Type <span class="code">audio/mpegurl</span> is wrongly considered as binary</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61716">
Bug
61716</a>
-
Header Manager: When pasting Headers from Firefox or Chrome spaces are introduced as first character of value</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61588">
Bug
61588</a>
-
Better log message for <a href="./usermanual/functions.html#__RandomDate">__RandomDate()</a> function</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61619">
Bug
61619</a>
-
In Function Helper Dialog, the 1<sup>st</sup> function doesn't display default parameters</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61628">
Bug
61628</a>
-
If split string has empty separator default separator is not used</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61752">
Bug
61752</a>
-
<span class="code">__RandomDate</span>: Function does not allow missing last parameter used for variable name</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61807">
Bug
61807</a>
-
Web Report: fix error in <span class="code">getTop5ErrorMetrics</span>. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61900">
Bug
61900</a>
-
Report Generator: Report generation fails if separator is a regex reserved char like <span class="code">|</span>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61925">
Bug
61925</a>
-
CsvSampleReader does not increment row in nextSample(). Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61956">
Bug
61956</a>
-
Report Generation: <span class="code">-f</span> of <span class="code">-forceDeleteResultFile</span> option does not work. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61899">
Bug
61899</a>
-
Report Generation: When <span class="code">jmeter.save.saveservice.print_field_names</span> is false and <span class="code">sample_variables</span> are set report generation fails. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61962">
Bug
61962</a>
-
Latency Vs Request and Response Time Vs Request graphs do not exceed 1000 RPS. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61661">
Bug
61661</a>
-
Avoid startup/shutdown problems due to 3<sup>rd</sup> party Thread Listener plugins throwing RuntimeException</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61625">
Bug
61625</a>
-
File Editor used in BeanInfo behaves strangely under all LAFs with impact on CSVDataSet, JSR223, BSF, Beanshell Element</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61844">
Bug
61844</a>
-
Maven pom.xml: Libraries used in testing should have scope test</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61842">
Bug
61842</a>
-
Saving with no changes causes a save and duplicate, identical backup file</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Thanks">Thanks</h2>
<p>We thank all contributors mentioned in bug and improvement sections above:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Igor Panainte (panainte.i at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Emilian Bold (emi at apache.org)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://ubikloadpack.com">Ubik Load Pack</a>
</li>
<li>Justin McCartney (be_strew at yahoo.co.uk)</li>
<li>Vincent Herilier (https://github.com/vherilier)</li>
<li>Aleksei Balan (abalanonline at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>orimarko at gmail.com</li>
<li>Artem Fedorov (artem at blazemeter.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.blazemeter.com">BlazeMeter Ltd</a>
</li>
<li>Benny van Wijngaarden (benny at smaragd-it.nl)</li>
<li>Matthew Buckett (https://github.com/buckett)</li>
<li>Helly Guo (https://github.com/hellyguo)</li>
<li>Peter Doornbosch (https://bitbucket.org/pjtr/)</li>
<li>Jeremy Arnold (jeremy at arnoldzoo.org)</li>
<li>Vladimir Sitnikov (sitnikov.vladimir at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Konstantin Kalinin (kkalinin at hotmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<p>We also thank bug reporters who helped us improve JMeter. <br>
For this release we want to give special thanks to the following reporters for the clear reports and tests made after our fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>user7294900 on Stackoverflow (orimarko at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<p>
Apologies if we have omitted anyone else.
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</h2>
<ul>
<li>View Results Tree may freeze rendering large response particularly if this response has no spaces, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60816">
Bug
60816</a>.
This is due to an identified Java Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8172336">UI stuck when calling <span class="code">JEditorPane.setText()</span> or <span class="code">JTextArea.setText()</span> with long text without space</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</li>
<li>
The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
the total number of threads only applies to a locally run test, otherwise it will show <span class="code">0</span> (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55510">
Bug
55510</a>).
</li>
<li>
Note that under some windows systems you may have this WARNING:
<pre class="source">
java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0
x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(&hellip;) returned error code 5.
</pre>
The fix is to run JMeter as Administrator, it will create the registry key for you, then you can restart JMeter as a normal user and you won't have the warning anymore.
</li>
<li>
You may encounter the following error:
<pre class="source">java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints</pre>
if you run a HTTPS request on a web site with a SSL certificate (itself or one of SSL certificates in its chain of trust) with a signature
algorithm using MD2 (like <span class="code">md2WithRSAEncryption</span>) or with a SSL certificate with a size lower than 1024 bits.
This error is related to increased security in Java 8+.
<br>
To allow you to perform your HTTPS request, you can downgrade the security of your Java installation by editing
the Java <span class="code">jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms</span> property. Remove the MD2 value or the constraint on size, depending on your case.
<br>
This property is in this file:
<pre class="source">JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security</pre>
See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56357">
Bug
56357</a> for details.
</li>
<li>
Under Mac OSX Aggregate Graph will show wrong values due to mirroring effect on numbers.
This is due to a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065373">JDK-8065373</a>
The fix is to use JDK8_u45 or later.
</li>
<li>
View Results Tree may fail to display some HTML code under HTML renderer, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54586">
Bug
54586</a>.
This is due to a known Java bug which fails to parse "<span class="code">px</span>" units in row/col attributes.
See Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031109">JDK-8031109</a>
The fix is to use JDK9 b65 or later.
</li>
<li>
JTable selection with keyboard (<span class="keycombo"><span class="keysym">SHIFT</span>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<span class="keysym">up/down</span></span>) is totally unusable with Java 7 on Mac OSX.
This is due to a known Java bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025126">JDK-8025126</a>
The fix is to use JDK 8 b132 or later.
</li>
</ul>
<h1>Version 3.3</h1>
<p>
Summary
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Improvements">Improvements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Thanks">Thanks</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="note">JMeter does not yet support JAVA 9, next JMeter version will support it, you can help and follow progress on this item in <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61529">
Bug
61529</a>.</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="note">Using last minor version of JAVA 8 is advised to avoid facing any JDK bug.</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<h3 class="ch_title">Core improvements</h3>
<p>HTTP Sampler now supports Brotli decompression.</p>
<p>CacheManager now completely supports Vary header.</p>
<p>InfluxDB BackendListener now supports sending results to InfluxDB through UDP protocol.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/influxdb_udp.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/influxdb_udp.png" width="825" height="328" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
It has also been enhanced to send number of errors by response code and message for each transaction</p>
<p>TCP Sampler now computes latency, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60156">
Bug
60156</a>
</p>
<p>Upgraded dependencies to last available versions bringing performance improvements and bug fixes</p>
<p>Continued to improve the quality of our code and tests coverage. See <a href="https://builds.apache.org/analysis/overview?id=12927">Quality report</a>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">UX improvements</h3>
<p>More work has been done to better support HiDPI.</p>
<p>Some bugs, that crept in with the work on lowering the memory usage of View Results Tree, were fixed.</p>
<p>The constant <span class="code">DEFAULT_IMPLEMENTATION</span> was removed from CookieManager,
as it lost it purpose with the removal of the alternate HTTP Client implementation in the last release</p>
<p>JDBC Sampler UX has been improved by adding select boxes for drivers and validation queries.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/jdbc_config_validation_driver_url.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/jdbc_config_validation_driver_url.png" width="821" height="543" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/jdbc_config_validation_query.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/jdbc_config_validation_query.png" width="820" height="451" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>If Controller and While Controller UX have been improved
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/jmeter_if_controller.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/jmeter_if_controller.png" width="821" height="348" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Report/Dashboard improvements</h3>
A new Help menu item has been added to simplify configuration of report generation.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/jmeter_export_transactions_menu.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/jmeter_export_transactions_menu.png" width="491" height="455" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/jmeter_export_transactions_result.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/jmeter_export_transactions_result.png" width="609" height="188" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">Documentation improvements</h3>
Incorporated feedback about unclear documentation.
<h3 class="ch_title">Functions</h3>
<p>Function Helper Dialog: a new field that shows execution result has been added.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/jmeter_function_result.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/jmeter_function_result.png" width="693" height="344" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>New functions:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/functions.html#__timeShift">__timeShift</a></span> - return a date in various formats with the specified amount of seconds/minutes/hours/days added.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/jmeter_function_add_time.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/jmeter_function_add_time.png" width="757" height="376" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/functions.html#__RandomDate">__RandomDate</a></span> - generate random date within a specific date range.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/jmeter_function_random_date.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.3/jmeter_function_random_date.png" width="700" height="369" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>In InfluxDbBackendListenerClient, <span class="code">statut</span> property has been renamed to <span class="code">status</span>
</li>
<li>In CookieManager, <span class="code">DEFAULT_POLICY</span> and <span class="code">DEFAULT_IMPLEMENTATION</span> constants are now private.
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="note">If you're using <span class="code">ignorecookies</span> with HC3CookieHandler (&lt; JMeter 3.1) configuration will be reset, ensure you put it back.</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</li>
<li>JMeter will not truncate anymore by default responses exceeding 10 MB. If you want to enable this truncation, see property <span class="code">httpsampler.max_bytes_to_store_per_request</span>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.protocol.tcp.sampler.TCPClient.read(InputStream)</span> has been deprecated in favor or org.apache.jmeter.protocol.tcp.sampler.TCPClient.read(InputStream, SampleResult),
ensure you update your implementation to be able to compute latency, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60156">
Bug
60156</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Removed elements or functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<span class="code">_StringFromFile</span> function has been dropped, use <span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/functions.html#__StringFromFile">__StringFromFile</a></span> instead</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Improvements">Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61056">
Bug
61056</a>
-
HTTP : Support brotli decoding</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61135">
Bug
61135</a>
-
CookieManager : Drop Implementation select box and cleanup class</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61492">
Bug
61492</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder : Add the possibility to change the value of proxy.pause in the GUI</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61320">
Bug
61320</a>
-
Test Action : Set duration to <span class="code">0</span> by default</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61504">
Bug
61504</a>
-
JDBC Connection Configuration : Set Max Number of Connections to <span class="code">0</span> by default</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61505">
Bug
61505</a>
-
JDBC Connection Configuration : Set "Validation Query" to <span class="code">empty</span> by default to use <span class="code">isValid</span> method of JDBC driver</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61506">
Bug
61506</a>
-
JDBC Connection Configuration : Add a list for main databases validation queries for "Validation Query" attribute</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61507">
Bug
61507</a>
-
JDBC Connection Configuration : Add a list for main databases JDBC driver class name for "JDBC Driver class" attribute</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61525">
Bug
61525</a>
-
OS Process Sampler : Add browser button to Command and Working directory fields</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60156">
Bug
60156</a>
-
TCPSampler : Latency is not measured for TCP Sampler. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61039">
Bug
61039</a>
-
CSV data set config : Add browser button to Filename field</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61527">
Bug
61527</a>
-
CSV data set config : Add a list for main file encoding values for File encoding attribute</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61131">
Bug
61131</a>
-
IfController and WhileController : Improve UX</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61167">
Bug
61167</a>
-
InfluxdbBackendListener : add number of errors by response code and message for each transaction</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61068">
Bug
61068</a>
-
Introduce property <span class="code">resultcollector.action_if_file_exists</span> to control the popup "File already exists" when starting a test</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61457">
Bug
61457</a>
-
InfluxDB backend listener client : Support sending result to InfluxDB through UDP protocol. Partly based on <a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/302">
Pull request #302</a>
-
by Junlong Wu (github id mybreeze77)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61176">
Bug
61176</a>
-
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/298">
Pull request #298</a>
-
Cache responses that have <span class="code">vary</span> header in the <span class="code">CacheManager</span>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61040">
Bug
61040</a>
-
Add a time shifting function</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61126">
Bug
61126</a>
-
Function Helper Dialog : Add a field that shows execution result</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61508">
Bug
61508</a>
-
Add a random date within a specific date range function</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61509">
Bug
61509</a>
-
Better label/translation/documentation for labels start and max for Counter element</li>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61481">
Bug
61481</a>
-
Help Menu Item to export transaction for Web report</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>When looking for classes in <span class="code">ActionRouter</span>, fall back to location of the jar,
where <span class="code">ActionRouter</span> is loaded from. Provided by Emilian Bold (emi at apache.org)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61510">
Bug
61510</a>
-
Set 'Max Number of Connections' to <span class="code">0</span> into 'JDBC Connection Configuration' for the 'JDBC Load Test template'</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61399">
Bug
61399</a>
-
Make some bin and extras scripts Shellcheck compatible. Contributed by Wolfgang Wagner (internetwolf2000 at hotmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Updated to groovy 2.4.12 (from 2.4.10)</li>
<li>Updated to caffeine 2.5.5 (from 2.4.0)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-jexl3 3.1 (from 3.0)</li>
<li>Updated to ph-css 5.0.4 (from 5.0.3)</li>
<li>Updated to ph-commons 8.6.6 (from 8.6.0)</li>
<li>Updated to log4j2 2.8.2 (from 2.8.1)</li>
<li>Updated to xmlgraphics-commons 2.2 (from 2.1)</li>
<li>Updated to jodd 3.8.6 (from 3.8.1)</li>
<li>Updated to xstream 1.4.10 (from 1.4.9)</li>
<li>Updated to Apache Tika 1.16 (from 1.14)</li>
<li>Updated to jsoup-1.10.3 (from 1.10.2)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-lang3 3.6 (from 3.5)</li>
<li>Updated to json-path 2.4.0 (from 2.2.0)</li>
<li>Updated to httpcore 4.4.7 (from 4.4.6)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61438">
Bug
61438</a>
-
Change the cryptographic signature of packages from sha-1 to sha-512</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61384">
Bug
61384</a>
-
Don't set the charset on enclosing <span class="code">multipart/form-data</span> header. It irritates some servers.<br>
The charset was added sometime back while refactoring to use a newer API of http client.
See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56141">
Bug
56141</a>
-
for more info.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61456">
Bug
61456</a>
-
<span class="code">java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException</span> when recording with JMeter and weird Basic Auth Authorization header</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61395">
Bug
61395</a>
-
Large server response truncation can impact recording</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60889">
Bug
60889</a>
-
JMeter JDBC sample calls <span class="code">SELECT USER()</span> when testing with MySQL JDBC due to <span class="code">Connection#toString</span> call for response headers.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61259">
Bug
61259</a>
-
JDBC Request : since JMeter 3.0, when JDBC auto-commit is <span class="code">false</span>, a rollback statement happens each time a Request is executed. Partly contributed by Liu XP (liu_xp2003 at sina.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61319">
Bug
61319</a>
-
Fix regression: SMTP Sampler could not send mails, when no attachments were specified.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61375">
Bug
61375</a>
-
Use system DNS resolver as last resort, when resolving entries in the static host table.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61005">
Bug
61005</a>
-
View Results Tree - Browser Response Data is not clearing</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61121">
Bug
61121</a>
-
InfluxdbBackendListenerClient: Only all percentiles are sent, not <span class="code">KO</span> and <span class="code">OK</span>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60961">
Bug
60961</a>
-
Try to keep status of selected and expanded elements in View Results Tree when new elements are added.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61198">
Bug
61198</a>
-
Backend Listener does not work properly in main script when included scripts also contain Backend Listener</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61493">
Bug
61493</a>
-
Max/Min threads are interchanged in Graphite and InfluxDB backend listener</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58743">
Bug
58743</a>
-
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/293">
Pull request #293</a>
-
TableEditor can't be saved, when using two or more instances. Bugfix provided by Emilian Bold (emi at apache.org)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61314">
Bug
61314</a>
-
HTTP URL Re-writing Modifier doesn't replace existing <span class="code">jsessionid</span> in http sampler, but adds it to the end</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61336">
Bug
61336</a>
-
BeanShell Assertion : mistake in Chinese translation</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61258">
Bug
61258</a>
-
StringFromFile function is mentioned twice in the Function helper dialog</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61260">
Bug
61260</a>
-
<span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/functions.html#__XPath">__XPath</a></span> function returns null despite XPath checker founds matches</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58876">
Bug
58876</a>
-
TestPlanName function returns <span class="code">null</span> for a newly saved Test Plan and uses previously opened one for a new one</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61129">
Bug
61129</a>
-
Report/Dashboard : If response code is empty but a <span class="code">failureMessage</span> is present, Errors and Top 5 Errors are not accurate. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61151">
Bug
61151</a>
-
Report/Dashboard : Top 5 Errors by Sampler and Errors : If assertion contains html code, the html part is hidden</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60743">
Bug
60743</a>
-
Stopping / Shutting down Test might create a deadlock due to HTTPCORE-446, fixed by HttpCore upgrade to 4.4.7</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60994">
Bug
60994</a>
-
Fix some typo in comments or log messages. <a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/289">
Pull request #289</a>,
and <a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/290">
Pull request #290</a>
-
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61011">
Bug
61011</a>
-
Replace occurrences count is not correct (Path and Host replacement are counted twice)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61026">
Bug
61026</a>
-
Cannot run program "keytool": CreateProcess error=2 when starting JMeter 3.2 in GUI mode</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61054">
Bug
61054</a>
-
Endless loop in <span class="code">JOrphanUtils#replaceAllWithRegex</span> when regex is contained in replacement</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60995">
Bug
60995</a>
-
HTTP Test Script Recorder: Port field is very small under some L&amp;F</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61073">
Bug
61073</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder panel have some fields with bad size on HiDPI screen or GTK+ L&amp;F on Linux/XWayland</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57958">
Bug
57958</a>
-
Fix transaction sample not generated if thread stops/restarts. Implemented by Artem Fedorov (artem at blazemeter.com) and contributed by BlazeMeter Ltd.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61050">
Bug
61050</a>
-
Handle uninitialized RessourceBundle more gracefully, when calling <span class="code">JMeterUtils#getResString</span>.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61100">
Bug
61100</a>
-
Invalid GC Log Filename on Windows</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57962">
Bug
57962</a>
-
Allow to use variables ( from User Defined Variables only ) in all listeners in slave mode</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61270">
Bug
61270</a>
-
Fixed width fonts too small in text areas to read under HiDPI (user manual bug)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61292">
Bug
61292</a>
-
Make processing of samples in reporter more robust.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61359">
Bug
61359</a>
-
When cutting an element from Tree, Test plan is not marked as dirty</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61380">
Bug
61380</a>
-
JMeter shutdown using timers releases thundering herd of interrupted samplers</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57055">
Bug
57055</a>
-
CheckDirty.doAction should clear previousGuiItems for <span class="code">SUB_TREE_SAVED</span>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Thanks">Thanks</h2>
<p>We thank all contributors mentioned in bug and improvement sections above:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Anass Benomar (abenomar at umanis.com, Mithrandir0407 at github)</li>
<li>Anthony Kearns (anthony.kearns atrightside.co)</li>
<li>Emilian Bold (emi at apache.org)</li>
<li>Liu XP (liu_xp2003 at sina.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="http://ubikloadpack.com">Ubik Load Pack</a>
</li>
<li>Wolfgang Wagner (internetwolf2000 at hotmail.com)</li>
<li>Junlong Wu (github id mybreeze77)</li>
</ul>
<p>We also thank bug reporters who helped us improve JMeter. <br>
For this release we want to give special thanks to the following reporters for the clear reports and tests made after our fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Liu XP (liu_xp2003 at sina.com)</li>
<li>Alexander Podelko (apodelko at yahoo.com)</li>
</ul>
<p>
Apologies if we have omitted anyone else.
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</h2>
<ul>
<li>View Results Tree may freeze rendering large response particularly if this response has no spaces, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60816">
Bug
60816</a>.
This is due to an identified Java Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8172336">UI stuck when calling <span class="code">JEditorPane.setText()</span> or <span class="code">JTextArea.setText()</span> with long text without space</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</li>
<li>
The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
the total number of threads only applies to a locally run test, otherwise it will show <span class="code">0</span> (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55510">
Bug
55510</a>).
</li>
<li>
Note that under some windows systems you may have this WARNING:
<pre class="source">
java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0
x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(&hellip;) returned error code 5.
</pre>
The fix is to run JMeter as Administrator, it will create the registry key for you, then you can restart JMeter as a normal user and you won't have the warning anymore.
</li>
<li>
You may encounter the following error:
<pre class="source">java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints</pre>
if you run a HTTPS request on a web site with a SSL certificate (itself or one of SSL certificates in its chain of trust) with a signature
algorithm using MD2 (like <span class="code">md2WithRSAEncryption</span>) or with a SSL certificate with a size lower than 1024 bits.
This error is related to increased security in Java 8+.
<br>
To allow you to perform your HTTPS request, you can downgrade the security of your Java installation by editing
the Java <span class="code">jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms</span> property. Remove the MD2 value or the constraint on size, depending on your case.
<br>
This property is in this file:
<pre class="source">JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security</pre>
See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56357">
Bug
56357</a> for details.
</li>
<li>
Under Mac OSX Aggregate Graph will show wrong values due to mirroring effect on numbers.
This is due to a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065373">JDK-8065373</a>
The fix is to use JDK8_u45 or later.
</li>
<li>
View Results Tree may fail to display some HTML code under HTML renderer, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54586">
Bug
54586</a>.
This is due to a known Java bug which fails to parse "<span class="code">px</span>" units in row/col attributes.
See Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031109">JDK-8031109</a>
The fix is to use JDK9 b65 or later.
</li>
<li>
JTable selection with keyboard (<span class="keycombo"><span class="keysym">SHIFT</span>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<span class="keysym">up/down</span></span>) is totally unusable with Java 7 on Mac OSX.
This is due to a known Java bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025126">JDK-8025126</a>
The fix is to use JDK 8 b132 or later.
</li>
</ul>
<h1>Version 3.2</h1>
<p>
Summary
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Improvements">Improvements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Thanks">Thanks</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="IMPORTANT CHANGES">IMPORTANT CHANGES</h2>
<p>
JMeter now requires Java 8. Ensure you use the most up to date version.
</p>
<p>
JMeter logging has been migrated to SLF4J and Log4j 2.
This affects configuration and 3<sup>rd</sup> party plugins, see below <b>"Logging changes"</b>.
</p>
<p>
Starting with JMeter version 3.2 the number of results in View Results Tree is
limited by default to 500 entries. If you want more entries, you have to set
the property <span class="code">view.results.tree.max_results</span> to a higher value, or to <span class="code">0</span>, if
you don't want to impose any limit.
You can set the property in bin/user.properties.
More info might be found <a href="usermanual/component_reference.html#View_Results_Tree">here</a>.
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Core improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li>JMeter now provides a new BackendListener implementation that interfaces InfluxDB.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/backend_influxdb.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/backend_influxdb.png" width="813" height="407" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
This implementation sends data using Asynchronous HTTP calls to InfluxDB through its <a href="https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.2/guides/writing_data/">HTTP API</a>
and give you the following graphs with annotations:
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/backend_listener_influxdb_graph.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/backend_listener_influxdb_graph.png" width="934" height="399" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>DNS Cache Manager now has a table to allow static host resolution.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/dns_cache_manager_static_hosts.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/dns_cache_manager_static_hosts.png" width="803" height="561" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>JMS Publisher and Subscriber now allow reconnection on error with pause.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/jms_publisher_reconnect.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/jms_publisher_reconnect.png" width="852" height="738" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/jms_subscriber_reconnect_pause.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/jms_subscriber_reconnect_pause.png" width="716" height="538" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Variables in JMS Publisher are now supported for all types of messages. Add the encoding type of the file to parse its content</li>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/jms_subscriber_content_encoding.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/jms_subscriber_content_encoding.png" width="750" height="743" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<li>XPath Extractor now allows extraction randomly, by index or for all matches.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/xpath_extractor_matchno.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/xpath_extractor_matchno.png" width="823" height="348" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Response Assertion now allows to work on Request Header, provides a "OR" combination and has a better cell renderer
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/response_assertion.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/response_assertion.png" width="1053" height="329" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>JMeter now uses Oracle Nashorn Javascript engine instead of Rhino. This provides a faster execution of Javascript.</li>
<li>HTTP HC4 Implementation now provides preemptive Basic Auth enabled by default</li>
<li>Embedded resources download in CSS has been improved to avoid useless repetitive parsing to find the resources</li>
<li>An important work on code quality and code coverage with tests has been done since Sonar has been setup on the project.
You can see Sonar report <a href="https://builds.apache.org/analysis/overview?id=12927">here</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="ch_title">UX improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li>When running a Test, GUI is now more responsive and less impacting on memory usage thanks to a limitation on the number of Sample Results
listeners hold and a rework of the way GUI is updated</li>
<li>HTTP Request GUI has been simplified and provides more place for parameters and body.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/http_request.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/http_request.png" width="848" height="475" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder has been simplified and clarified.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/http_recorder_1.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/http_recorder_1.png" width="1023" height="494" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/http_recorder_2.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/http_recorder_2.png" width="1021" height="711" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>A <span class="code">replace</span> feature has been added to Search feature to allow replacement in some elements.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/search_replace.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/search_replace.png" width="459" height="196" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="note">
ReplaceAll does not do replacement on all elements, it does it on:<br>
- HeaderManager: Replacement in values <br>
- Http Request: Replacement in Arguments, Path and Host<br>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</li>
<li>View Results Tree now provides a more up to date Browser renderer which requires JavaFX.</li>
<li>You can now add through a contextual menu think times, this will add think times between samplers and Transaction Controllers
of selected node.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/menu_add_think_times.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/menu_add_think_times.png" width="326" height="430" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>You can now apply a naming policy to children of a Transaction Controller. A default policy exists but you can implement your own
through <span class="code"><a href="./api/org/apache/jmeter/gui/action/TreeNodeNamingPolicy.html">org.apache.jmeter.gui.action.TreeNodeNamingPolicy</a></span>
and configuring property <span class="code">naming_policy.impl</span>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/menu_apply_naming_policy.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/menu_apply_naming_policy.png" width="327" height="518" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Sorting per column has been added to View Results in Table, Summary Report, Aggregate Report and Aggregate Graph elements.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/sorting.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.2/sorting.png" width="1065" height="369" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="ch_title">Report/Dashboard improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li>
Statistics have been reorganized to clarify report:
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/dashboard/report_statistics.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/dashboard/report_statistics.png" width="1548" height="366" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>
It is now possible to customize APDEX thresholds per transaction based on regular expression or sample name.
The below example will apply different thresholds for samples sample(\\d+), sampleA and scenarioB
than default ones (500 and 1500 for satisfied and tolerated thresholds) declared:
<pre class="source">
jmeter.reportgenerator.apdex_satisfied_threshold=500
jmeter.reportgenerator.apdex_tolerated_threshold=1500
jmeter.reportgenerator.apdex_per_transaction=sample(\\d+):1000|2000;\
sampleA:3000|4000;\
scenarioB:5000|6000
</pre>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="ch_title">Documentation improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li>PDF Documentations have been migrated and updated to HTML user manual</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>JMeter requires now at least a Java 8 version to run.</li>
<li>JMeter logging has been migrated to SLF4J and Log4j 2, this involves changes in the way configuration is done. JMeter now relies on standard
<a href="https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/manual/configuration.html">Log4j 2 configuration</a> in file <span class="code">log4j2.xml</span>
See <span class="code">Logging changes</span> section below for further details.
</li>
<li>The following jars have been removed after migration from LogKit to SLF4J (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60589">
Bug
60589</a>):
<ul>
<li>ApacheJMeter_slf4j_logkit.jar</li>
<li>avalon-framework-4.1.4.jar</li>
<li>commons-logging-1.2.jar</li>
<li>excalibur-logger-1.1.jar</li>
<li>logkit-2.0.jar</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The <span class="code">commons-httpclient-3.1.jar</span> has been removed after drop of HC3.1 support(see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60727">
Bug
60727</a>)</li>
<li>JMeter now sets through <span class="code">-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom</span> the algorithm for secure random</li>
<li>Process Sampler now returns error code 500 when an error occurs. It previously returned an empty value.</li>
<li>In <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPHCAbstractImpl</span> two protected static fields (<span class="code">localhost</span> and <span class="code">nonProxyHostSuffixSize</span>) have been renamed to (<span class="code">LOCALHOST</span> and <span class="code">NON_PROXY_HOST_SUFFIX_SIZE</span>)
to follow static fields naming convention</li>
<li>JMeter now uses by default Oracle Nashorn engine instead of Mozilla Rhino for better performances. This should not have an impact unless
you use some advanced features. You can revert back to Rhino by settings property <span class="code">javascript.use_rhino=true</span>.
You can read this <a href="https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/Nashorn/Rhino+Migration+Guide">migration guide</a> for more details on Nashorn. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60672">
Bug
60672</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60729">
Bug
60729</a>
-
The Random Variable Config Element now allows minimum==maximum. Previous versions logged an error when minimum==maximum and did not set the configured variable.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60730">
Bug
60730</a>
-
The JSON PostProcessor now sets the <span class="code">_ALL</span> variable (assuming <span class="code">Compute concatenation var</span> was checked)
even if the JSON path matches only once. Previous versions did not set the <span class="code">_ALL</span> variable in this case.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Removed elements or functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>SOAP/XML-RPC Request has been removed as part of <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60727">
Bug
60727</a>. Use HTTP Request element as a replacement.
See <a href="./usermanual/build-ws-test-plan.html">Building a WebService Test Plan</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60423">
Bug
60423</a>
-
Drop Monitor Results listener </li>
<li>Drop deprecated class <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.protocol.system.NativeCommand</span>
</li>
<li>Drop deprecated class <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.config.gui.MultipartUrlConfigGui</span>
</li>
<li>Drop deprecated class <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.testelement.TestListener</span>
</li>
<li>Drop deprecated class <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.reporters.FileReporter</span>
</li>
<li>Drop deprecated class <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.modifier.UserSequence</span>
</li>
<li>Drop deprecated class <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.parser.HTMLParseError</span>
</li>
<li>Drop unused methods <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.control.HeaderManager#getSOAPHeader</span>
and <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.control.HeaderManager#setSOAPHeader(Object)</span>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.util.Base64Encode</span> has been deprecated, you can use <span class="code">java.util.Base64</span> as a replacement</li>
</ul>
<h3>Logging changes</h3>
<p>
JMeter logging has been migrated to SLF4J and Log4j 2.
This affects logging configuration and 3<sup>rd</sup> party plugins (if they use JMeter logging).
The following sections describe what changes need to be made.
</p>
<h4>Setting the logging level and log file</h4>
<p>
The default logging level can be changed on the command-line using the <span class="code">-L</span> parameter.
Likewise the <span class="code">-l</span> parameter can be used to change the name of the log file.
However the <span class="code">log_level</span> properties no longer work.
</p>
<p>
The default logging levels and file name are defined in the <span class="code">log4j2.xml</span> configuration file
in the launch directory (usually <span class="code">JMETER_HOME/bin</span>)
</p>
<p>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="note">If you need to change the level programmatically from Groovy code or Beanshell, you need to do the following:
<pre class="source">
import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.Configurator;
&#8942;
final String loggerName = te.getClass().getName(); // te being a JMeter class
Configurator.setAllLevels(loggerName, Level.DEBUG);
</pre>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</p>
<h4>Changes to 3<sup>rd</sup> party plugin logging</h4>
<p>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="note">3rd party plugins should migrate their logging code from logkit to slf4j. This is fairly easy and can be done by replacing:
<pre class="source">
import org.apache.jorphan.logging.LoggingManager;
import org.apache.log.Logger;
&#8942;
private static final Logger log = LoggingManager.getLoggerForClass();
</pre>
By:
<pre class="source">
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
&#8942;
private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(YourClassName.class);
</pre>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Improvements">Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59934">
Bug
59934</a>
-
Fix race-conditions in CssParser. Based on a patch by Jerome Loisel (loisel.jerome at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60543">
Bug
60543</a>
-
HTTP Request / Http Request Defaults UX: Move to advanced panel Timeouts, Implementation, Proxy. Implemented by Philippe Mouawad (p.mouawad at ubik-ingenierie.com) and contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60548">
Bug
60548</a>
-
HTTP Request : Allow Upper Panel to be collapsed</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57242">
Bug
57242</a>
-
HTTP Authorization is not pre-emptively set with HttpClient4</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60727">
Bug
60727</a>
-
Drop commons-httpclient-3.1 and related elements. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60790">
Bug
60790</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder : Improve information on certificate expiration and have better UX for Start/Stop</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60888">
Bug
60888</a>
-
HttpRequest : Add option to allow retrial of all requests including NON Idempotent HTTP methods</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60896">
Bug
60896</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder : Improve UX by reducing number of properties on screen</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60740">
Bug
60740</a>
-
Support variable for all JMS messages (bytes, object, &hellip;) and sources (file, folder), based on <a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/241">
Pull request #241</a>
-
. Contributed by Maxime Chassagneux (maxime.chassagneux at gmail.com).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60585">
Bug
60585</a>
-
JMS Publisher and JMS Subscriber : Allow reconnection on error and pause between errors. Based on <a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/240">
Pull request #240</a>
-
from by Logan Mauzaize (logan.mauzaize at gmail.com) and Maxime Chassagneux (maxime.chassagneux at gmail.com).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/259">
Pull request #259</a>
-
- Refactored and reformatted SmtpSampler. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60672">
Bug
60672</a>
-
JavaScript function / IfController : use Nashorn engine by default</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60144">
Bug
60144</a>
-
View Results Tree : Add a more up to date Browser Renderer to replace old Render</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60542">
Bug
60542</a>
-
View Results Tree : Allow Upper Panel to be collapsed. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52962">
Bug
52962</a>
-
Allow sorting by columns for View Results in Table, Summary Report, Aggregate Report and Aggregate Graph. Based on a <a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/245">
Pull request #245</a>
-
by Logan Mauzaize (logan.mauzaize at gmail.com) and Maxime Chassagneux (maxime.chassagneux at gmail.com).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60590">
Bug
60590</a>
-
BackendListener : Add Influxdb BackendListenerClient implementation to JMeter. Partly based on <a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/246">
Pull request #246</a>
-
by Logan Mauzaize (logan.mauzaize at gmail.com) and Maxime Chassagneux (maxime.chassagneux at gmail.com).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60591">
Bug
60591</a>
-
BackendListener : Add a time boxed sampling. Based on a <a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/237">
Pull request #237</a>
-
by Logan Mauzaize (logan.mauzaize at gmail.com) and Maxime Chassagneux (maxime.chassagneux at gmail.com).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60678">
Bug
60678</a>
-
View Results Tree : Text renderer, search should not popup "Text Not Found"</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60691">
Bug
60691</a>
-
View Results Tree : In Renderers (XPath, JSON Path Tester, RegExp Tester and CSS/JQuery Tester) lower panel is sometimes not visible as upper panel is too big and cannot be resized</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60687">
Bug
60687</a>
-
Make GUI more responsive when it gets a lot of events.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60791">
Bug
60791</a>
-
View Results Tree: Trigger search on Enter key in Search Feature and display red background if no match</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60822">
Bug
60822</a>
-
ResultCollector does not ensure unique file name entries in files HashMap</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60154">
Bug
60154</a>
-
User Parameters GUI: allow rows to be moved up &amp; down in the list. Contributed by Murdecai777 (https://github.com/Murdecai777).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60507">
Bug
60507</a>
-
Added '<span class="code">Or</span>' Function into ResponseAssertion. Based on a contribution from &#24571;&#38534; (298015902 at qq.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58943">
Bug
58943</a>
-
Create a Better Think Time experience. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60602">
Bug
60602</a>
-
XPath Extractor : Add Match No. to allow extraction randomly, by index or all matches</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60710">
Bug
60710</a>
-
XPath Extractor : When content on which assertion applies is not XML, in View Results Tree the extractor is marked in Red and named SAXParseException. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60712">
Bug
60712</a>
-
Response Assertion : Improve Renderer of Patterns</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59174">
Bug
59174</a>
-
Add a table with static hosts to the DNS Cache Manager. This enables better virtual hosts testing with HttpClient4.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60883">
Bug
60883</a>
-
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/288">
Pull request #288</a>
-
- Add <span class="code">${__escapeXml()}</span> function. Contributed by Michael Osipov (michaelo at apache.org)</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improve translation "<span class="code">save_as</span>" in French. Based on a <a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/252">
Pull request #252</a> by Maxime Chassagneux (maxime.chassagneux at gmail.com).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60785">
Bug
60785</a>
-
Improvement of Japanese translation. Patch by Kimono (kimono.outfit.am at gmail.com).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60637">
Bug
60637</a>
-
Improve Statistics table design <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/dashboard/report_statistics.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/dashboard/report_statistics.png" width="" height="" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60112">
Bug
60112</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Add ability to customize APDEX thresholds per Transaction name. Contributed by Stephane Leplus (s.leplus at ubik-ingenierie.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58164">
Bug
58164</a>
-
Check if file already exists on ResultCollector listener before starting the loadtest</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54525">
Bug
54525</a>
-
Search Feature : Enhance it with ability to replace</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60530">
Bug
60530</a>
-
Add API to create JMeter threads while test is running. Based on a contribution by Logan Mauzaize (logan.mauzaize at gmail.com) and Maxime Chassagneux (maxime.chassagneux at gmail.com).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60514">
Bug
60514</a>
-
Ability to apply a naming convention on Children of a Transaction Controller. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60711">
Bug
60711</a>
-
Improve Delete button behaviour for Assertions / Header Manager / User Parameters GUIs / Exclude, Include in HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60593">
Bug
60593</a>
-
Switch to G1 GC algorithm</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60595">
Bug
60595</a>
-
Add a SplashScreen at the start of JMeter GUI. Contributed by Maxime Chassagneux (maxime.chassagneux at gmail.com).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55258">
Bug
55258</a>
-
Drop "Close" icon from toolbar and add "New" to menu. Partly based on contribution from Sanduni Kanishka (https://github.com/SanduniKanishka)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59995">
Bug
59995</a>
-
Allow user to change font size with two new menu items and use <span class="code">jmeter.hidpi.scale.factor</span> for scaling fonts. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60654">
Bug
60654</a>
-
Validation Feature : Be able to ignore BackendListener. Contributed by Maxime Chassagneux (maxime.chassagneux at gmail.com).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60646">
Bug
60646</a>
-
Workbench : Save it by default</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60684">
Bug
60684</a>
-
Thread Group: Validate ended prematurely by Scheduler with 0 or very short duration. Contributed by Andrew Burton (andrewburtonatwh at gmail.com).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60589">
Bug
60589</a>
-
Migrate LogKit to SLF4J - Drop Avalon, LogKit and Excalibur with backward compatibility for 3<sup>rd</sup> party modules. Contributed by Woonsan Ko (woonsan at apache.org)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60565">
Bug
60565</a>
-
Migrate LogKit to SLF4J - Optimize logging statements. e.g, message format args, throwable args, unnecessary if-enabled-logging in simple ones, etc. Contributed by Woonsan Ko (woonsan at apache.org)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60564">
Bug
60564</a>
-
Migrate LogKit to SLF4J - Replace LogKit loggers with SLF4J ones and keep the current LogKit binding solution for backward compatibility with plugins. Contributed by Woonsan Ko (woonsan at apache.org)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60664">
Bug
60664</a>
-
Add a UI menu to set log level. Contributed by Woonsan Ko (woonsan at apache.org)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/276">
Pull request #276</a>
-
- Added some translations for polish locale. Contributed by Bartosz Siewniak (barteksiewniak at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60792">
Bug
60792</a>
-
Create a new Help menu item to create a thread dump</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60813">
Bug
60813</a>
-
JSR223 Test element : Take into account JMeterStopTestNowException, JMeterStopTestException and JMeterStopThreadException</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60814">
Bug
60814</a>
-
Menu : Add <span class="code">Open Recent</span> menu item to make recent files loading more obvious</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60815">
Bug
60815</a>
-
Drop "Reset GUI" from menu</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60886">
Bug
60886</a>
-
Build improvements to better enable builds in environments that are behind a proxy. Partly contributed by Michael Osipov (michaelo at apache.org)</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60415">
Bug
60415</a>
-
Drop support for Java 7.</li>
<li>Updated to dnsjava-2.1.8.jar (from 2.1.7)</li>
<li>Updated to groovy 2.4.10 (from 2.4.7)</li>
<li>Updated to httpcore 4.4.6 (from 4.4.5)</li>
<li>Updated to httpclient 4.5.3 (from 4.5.2)</li>
<li>Updated to jodd 3.8.1 (from 3.7.1.jar)</li>
<li>Updated to jsoup-1.10.2 (from 1.10.1)</li>
<li>Updated to ph-css 5.0.3 (from 4.1.6)</li>
<li>Updated to ph-commons 8.6.0 (from 6.2.4)</li>
<li>Updated to slf4j-api 1.7.25 (from 1.7.21)</li>
<li>Updated to asm 5.2 (from 5.1)</li>
<li>Updated to rsyntaxtextarea-2.6.1 (from 2.6.0)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-net-3.6 (from 3.5)</li>
<li>Updated to json-smart-2.3 (from 2.2.1)</li>
<li>Updated to accessors-smart-1.2 (from 1.1)</li>
<li>Converted the old pdf tutorials to xml.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/255">
Pull request #255</a>
-
- Utilised Java 8 (and 7) features to tidy up code. Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59435">
Bug
59435</a>
-
JMeterTestCase no longer supports JUnit3</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60531">
Bug
60531</a>
-
HTTP Cookie Manager : changing Implementation does not update Cookie Policy</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60575">
Bug
60575</a>
-
HTTP GET Requests could have a content-type header without a body.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60682">
Bug
60682</a>
-
HTTP Request : Get method may fail on redirect due to Content-Length header being set</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60643">
Bug
60643</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder doesn't correctly handle restart or start after stop. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60652">
Bug
60652</a>
-
HTTP PUT Requests might leak file descriptors.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60689">
Bug
60689</a>
-
<span class="code">httpclient4.validate_after_inactivity</span> has no impact leading to usage of potentially stale/closed connections</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60690">
Bug
60690</a>
-
Default values for "httpclient4.validate_after_inactivity" and "httpclient4.time_to_live" which are equal to each other makes validation useless</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60758">
Bug
60758</a>
-
HTTP(s) Test Script Recorder : Number request may generate duplicate numbers. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56939">
Bug
56939</a>
-
Parameters are not passed with OPTIONS HTTP Request</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60778">
Bug
60778</a>
-
Http Java Impl does not show Authorization header in SampleResult even if it is sent</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60837">
Bug
60837</a>
-
GET with body, PUT are not retried even if <span class="code">httpclient4.retrycount</span> is higher than 0</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60842">
Bug
60842</a>
-
Trim extracted URLs when loading embedded resources using the Lagarto based HTML Parser.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60928">
Bug
60928</a>
-
Http Request : Connection Leak when keepalive is used with Embedded Resources</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=603982">
Bug
603982</a>
-
Guard Exception handler of the <span class="code">JDBCSampler</span> against null messages</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55652">
Bug
55652</a>
-
JavaSampler silently resets classname if class can not be found</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60648">
Bug
60648</a>
-
GraphiteBackendListener can lose some metrics at end of test if test is very short</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60650">
Bug
60650</a>
-
AbstractBackendListenerClient does not reset UserMetric between runs</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60759">
Bug
60759</a>
-
View Results Tree : Search feature does not search in URL. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60859">
Bug
60859</a>
-
Save Responses to a file : 2 elements with different configuration will overlap</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60438">
Bug
60438</a>
-
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/235">
Pull request #235</a>
-
- Clear old variables before extracting new ones in JSON Extractor.
Based on a patch by Qi Chen (qi.chensh at ele.me)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60607">
Bug
60607</a>
-
DNS Cache Manager configuration is ignored</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60729">
Bug
60729</a>
-
The Random Variable Config Element should allow minimum==maximum</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60730">
Bug
60730</a>
-
The JSON PostProcessor should set the <span class="code">_ALL</span> variable even if the JSON path matches only once.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60747">
Bug
60747</a>
-
Response Assertion : Add Request Headers to <span class="code">Field to Test</span>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60763">
Bug
60763</a>
-
XMLAssertion should not leak errors to console</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60797">
Bug
60797</a>
-
TestAction in pause mode can last beyond configured duration of test</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60819">
Bug
60819</a>
-
Function __fileToString does not honor the documentation contract when file is not found</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60726">
Bug
60726</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Top 5 errors by samplers must not take into account the series filtering</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60919">
Bug
60919</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Latency Vs Request and Response Time Vs Request are wrong if granularity is different from 1000 (1 second)</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60775">
Bug
60775</a>
-
NamePanel ctor calls overrideable method</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60428">
Bug
60428</a>
-
JMeter Graphite Backend Listener throws exception when test ends
and <span class="code">useRegexpForSamplersList</span> is set to <span class="code">true</span>.
Based on patch by Liu XP (liu_xp2003 at sina.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60442">
Bug
60442</a>
-
Fix a typo in <span class="code">build.xml</span> (gavin at 16degrees.com.au)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60449">
Bug
60449</a>
-
JMeter Tree : Annoying behaviour when node name is empty</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60494">
Bug
60494</a>
-
Add sonar analysis task to build</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60501">
Bug
60501</a>
-
Search Feature : Performance issue when regexp is checked</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60444">
Bug
60444</a>
-
Intermittent failure of <span class="code">TestHTTPMirrorThread#testSleep()</span>. Contributed by Thomas Schapitz (ts-nospam12 at online.de)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60621">
Bug
60621</a>
-
The "<span class="code">report-template</span>" folder is missing from <span class="code">ApacheJMeter_config-3.1.jar</span> in maven central</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60744">
Bug
60744</a>
-
GUI elements are not cleaned up when reused during load of Test Plan which can lead them to be partially initialized with a previous state for a new Test Element</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60812">
Bug
60812</a>
-
JMeterThread does not honor contract of JMeterStopTestNowException</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60857">
Bug
60857</a>
-
SaveService omits XML header if _file_encoding is not defined in saveservice.properties</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60830">
Bug
60830</a>
-
Timestamps in CSV file could be corrupted due to sharing a SimpleDateFormatter across threads</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Thanks">Thanks</h2>
<p>We thank all contributors mentioned in bug and improvement sections above:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Jerome Loisel (loisel.jerome at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Liu XP (liu_xp2003 at sina.com)</li>
<li>Qi Chen (qi.chensh at ele.me)</li>
<li>(gavin at 16degrees.com.au)</li>
<li>Thomas Schapitz (ts-nospam12 at online.de)</li>
<li>Murdecai777 (https://github.com/Murdecai777)</li>
<li>Logan Mauzaize (logan.mauzaize at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Maxime Chassagneux (maxime.chassagneux at gmail.com)</li>
<li>&#24571;&#38534; (298015902 at qq.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="http://ubikloadpack.com">Ubik Load Pack</a>
</li>
<li>Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>Sanduni Kanishka (https://github.com/SanduniKanishka)</li>
<li>Andrew Burton (andrewburtonatwh at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Woonsan Ko (woonsan at apache.org)</li>
<li>Bartosz Siewniak (barteksiewniak at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Kimono (kimono.outfit.am at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Michael Osipov (michaelo at apache.org)</li>
<li>Stephane Leplus (s.leplus at ubik-ingenierie.com)</li>
</ul>
<p>We also thank bug reporters who helped us improve JMeter. <br>
For this release we want to give special thanks to the following reporters for the clear reports and tests made after our fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Tuukka Mustonen (tuukka.mustonen at gmail.com) who gave us a lot of useful feedback which helped resolve <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60689">
Bug
60689</a> and <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60690">
Bug
60690</a>
</li>
<li>Amar Darisa (amar.darisa at gmail.com) who helped us with his feedback on <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60682">
Bug
60682</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
Apologies if we have omitted anyone else.
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</h2>
<ul>
<li>View Results Tree may freeze rendering large response particularly if this response has no spaces, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60816">
Bug
60816</a>.
This is due to an identified Java Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8172336">UI stuck when calling JEditorPane.setText() or JTextArea.setText() with long text without space</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</li>
<li>
The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
the total number of threads only applies to a locally run test, otherwise it will show <span class="code">0</span> (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55510">
Bug
55510</a>).
</li>
<li>
Note that under some windows systems you may have this WARNING:
<pre class="source">
java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0
x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(&hellip;) returned error code 5.
</pre>
The fix is to run JMeter as Administrator, it will create the registry key for you, then you can restart JMeter as a normal user and you won't have the warning anymore.
</li>
<li>
You may encounter the following error:
<pre class="source">java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints</pre>
if you run a HTTPS request on a web site with a SSL certificate (itself or one of SSL certificates in its chain of trust) with a signature
algorithm using MD2 (like md2WithRSAEncryption) or with a SSL certificate with a size lower than 1024 bits.
This error is related to increased security in Java 8+.
<br>
To allow you to perform your HTTPS request, you can downgrade the security of your Java installation by editing
the Java <span class="code">jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms</span> property. Remove the MD2 value or the constraint on size, depending on your case.
<br>
This property is in this file:
<pre class="source">JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security</pre>
See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56357">
Bug
56357</a> for details.
</li>
<li>
Under Mac OSX Aggregate Graph will show wrong values due to mirroring effect on numbers.
This is due to a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065373">JDK-8065373</a>
The fix is to use JDK8_u45 or later.
</li>
<li>
View Results Tree may fail to display some HTML code under HTML renderer, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54586">
Bug
54586</a>.
This is due to a known Java bug which fails to parse "<span class="code">px</span>" units in row/col attributes.
See Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031109">JDK-8031109</a>
The fix is to use JDK9 b65 or later (but be aware that Java 9 is not certified yet for JMeter).
</li>
<li>
JTable selection with keyboard (<span class="keycombo"><span class="keysym">SHIFT</span>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<span class="keysym">up/down</span></span>) is totally unusable with JAVA 7 on Mac OSX.
This is due to a known Java bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025126">JDK-8025126</a>
The fix is to use JDK 8 b132 or later.
</li>
</ul>
<h1>Version 3.1</h1>
<p>
Summary
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Improvements">Improvements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Thanks">Thanks</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Improve Report/Dashboard">Improve Report/Dashboard</h2>
<p>
The Dashboard has been improved with 3 new graphs and 1 summary table:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Connect Time over Time graph : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/dashboard/report_connect_time_over_time.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/dashboard/report_connect_time_over_time.png" width="1635" height="520" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Response Time Percentiles Over Time (successful responses) graph : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/dashboard/response_time_percentiles_over_time.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/dashboard/response_time_percentiles_over_time.png" width="1640" height="539" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Response Time Overview graph : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/dashboard/response_time_overview.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/dashboard/response_time_overview.png" width="1645" height="562" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Top 5 errors by Sampler table : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/dashboard/top_5_errors_by_sampler.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/dashboard/top_5_errors_by_sampler.png" width="1609" height="508" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>More details on errors in Errors table</li>
<li>Average response time added to Statistics table : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/dashboard/report_statistics.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/dashboard/report_statistics.png" width="1639" height="467" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Active Threads table now stacks threads : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/dashboard/report_active_threads_over_time.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/dashboard/report_active_threads_over_time.png" width="1638" height="544" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="New Metrics">New Metrics</h2>
<p>
A new <span class="code">sent_bytes</span> metric has been introduced which reports the bytes sent to server.<br>
Another metric <span class="code">connect_time</span> has been enabled by default in this version
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Handling Big responses">Handling Big responses</h2>
<p>
JMeter is now able to handle in terms of metrics responses bigger than 2GB, limit has been increased to 9223372 TB.<br>
To handle such big responses, it can also now truncate part of the response to avoid overflooding memory. See <span class="code">httpsampler.max_bytes_to_store_per_request</span> property.
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="New __groovy function">New <span class="code">__groovy</span> function</h2>
<p>
Introduce a new function <span class="code">__groovy</span> that enables Groovy functions. This can be handy, as JavaScript can be quite slow (same for BeanShell), when used in highly concurrent test plans.
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Use Groovy as default for JSR-223 elements">Use Groovy as default for JSR-223 elements</h2>
<p>
Groovy is now set as the default language for JSR-223 elements. If you want to use another of the supported language, you have to make an explicit choice.
</p>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="note">By default <span class="code">Cache compiled script if available</span> is not checked by default although we advise you to check it and ensure you don't use <span class="code">${varName}</span> syntax to access JMeter variables but <span class="code">vars.get("varName")</span> instead.</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Formatted HTML source view in Results Tree View">Formatted HTML source view in Results Tree View</h2>
<p>
The HTML source code in the Results Tree View can now be viewed formatted. This is extremely useful, if the code of the webpage has been stripped of all superfluous whitespace.
</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/html-formatted-tree-view.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/html-formatted-tree-view.png" width="635" height="271" alt="New formatted HTML source view"></a>
<figcaption>New formatted HTML source view</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Ability to update all timers in Test plan with a new property">Ability to update all timers in Test plan with a new property</h2>
<p>
A new property <span class="code">timer.factor=1.0f</span> has been introduced which allows you to multiply pause times computed by Gaussian, Uniform and Poisson Timers by it.
This allows you to update Think Times from one place and let you gain productivity.
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Core improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li>Various GUI and UX fixes</li>
<li>Memory usage improvements</li>
<li>JDBC Request is now able to return Blob/Clob and computes latency and connect time</li>
<li>CSS Parsing introduced in 3.0 has been optimized by introduction of a parsing cache</li>
<li>HTTP Request is now able to handle body in GET request, this is useful for Elastic Search requests for example.</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="ch_title">Documentation improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li>Documentation review and improvements for easier startup</li>
<li>New <a href="usermanual/properties_reference.html">properties reference</a> documentation section</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>A cache for CSS Parsing of URLs has been introduced in this version, it is enabled by default. It is controlled by property <span class="code">css.parser.cache.size</span>. It can be disabled by setting its value to <span class="code">0</span>. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59885">
Bug
59885</a>
</li>
<li>ThroughputController defaults have changed. Now defaults are Percent Executions which is global and no more per user. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60023">
Bug
60023</a>
</li>
<li>Since version 3.1, HTML report ignores empty <span class="code">Transaction Controller</span> (possibly generated by <span class="code">If Controller</span> or <span class="code">Throughput Controller</span>) when computing metrics. This provides more accurate metrics</li>
<li>Since version 3.1, Summariser ignores SampleResults generated by <span class="code">Transaction Controller</span> when computing the live statistics, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60109">
Bug
60109</a>
</li>
<li>Since version 3.1, when using Stripped modes (by default <span class="code">StrippedBatch</span> is used), response will be stripped also for failing SampleResults, you can revert this to previous behaviour by setting <span class="code">sample_sender_strip_also_on_error=false</span> in <span class="code">user.properties</span>, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60137">
Bug
60137</a>
</li>
<li>Since version 3.1, <span class="code">jmeter.save.saveservice.connect_time</span> property value is <span class="code">true</span>, meaning CSV file for results will contain an additional column containing connection time, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60106">
Bug
60106</a>
</li>
<li>Since version 3.1, Random Timer subclasses (Gaussian Random Timer, Uniform Random Timer and Poisson Random Timer) implement interface <span class="code"><a href="./api/org/apache/jmeter/timers/ModifiableTimer.html">org.apache.jmeter.timers.ModifiableTimer</a></span>
</li>
<li>Since version 3.1, if you don't select any language in JSR223 Test Elements, Apache Groovy language will be used. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59945">
Bug
59945</a>
</li>
<li>Since version 3.1, CSV DataSet now trims variable names to avoid issues due to spaces between variables names when configuring CSV DataSet. This should not have any impact for you unless you use space at the beginning or end of your variable names. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60221">
Bug
60221</a>
</li>
<li>Since version 3.1, HTTP Request is able when using HttpClient4 (default) implementation to handle responses bigger than <span class="code">2147483647</span> Bytes, that is 2GB. To allow this two properties have been introduced:
<ul>
<li>
<span class="code">httpsampler.max_bytes_to_store_per_request</span> (defaults to 10MB) will control what is held in memory. By default JMeter will only keep in memory the first 10MB of a response. If you have responses larger than this value and use assertions that are after the first 10MB, then you must increase this value</li>
<li>
<span class="code">httpsampler.max_buffer_size</span> will control the buffer used to read the data. Previously JMeter used a buffer equal to Content-Length header which could lead to failures and make JMeter less resistant to faulty applications, but note this may impact response times and give slightly different results
than previous versions if your application returned a Content-Length header higher than current default value (65KB) </li>
</ul>
See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53039">
Bug
53039</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Deprecated and removed elements or functions</h3>
<p>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="note">These elements do not appear anymore in the menu, if you need them modify <span class="code">not_in_menu</span> property. The JMeter team advises not to use them anymore and migrate to their replacement.</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60222">
Bug
60222</a>
-
Remove deprecated elements Distribution Graph, Spline Visualizer</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60224">
Bug
60224</a>
-
Deprecate <span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/component_reference.html#Monitor_Results_(DEPRECATED)">Monitor Results</a></span> listener. It will be dropped in next version.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60323">
Bug
60323</a>
-
Deprecate BSF Elements (Use JSR223 Elements instead). They will probably be dropped in N+2 version. The following elements are deprecated:
<ul>
<li>
<span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/component_reference.html#BSF_Sampler_(DEPRECATED)">BSF Sampler</a></span>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/component_reference.html#BSF_Listener_(DEPRECATED)">BSF Listener</a></span>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/component_reference.html#BSF_Assertion_(DEPRECATED)">BSF Assertion</a></span>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/component_reference.html#BSF_Timer_(DEPRECATED)">BSF Timer</a></span>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/component_reference.html#BSF_PreProcessor_(DEPRECATED)">BSF PreProcessor</a></span>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/component_reference.html#BSF_PostProcessor_(DEPRECATED)">BSF PostProcessor</a></span>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60225">
Bug
60225</a>
-
Drop deprecated <span class="code">__jexl</span> function, jexl support in BSF and dependency on <span class="code">commons-jexl-1.1.jar</span>. This function can be easily replaced with <span class="code"><a href="./usermanual/functions.html#__jexl3">__jexl3</a></span> function</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60268">
Bug
60268</a>
-
Drop org.apache.jmeter.gui.action.Analyze and deprecate org.apache.jmeter.reporters.FileReporter (will be removed in next version)</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Improvements">Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59882">
Bug
59882</a>
-
Reduce memory allocations for better throughput. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (b.wiart at ubik-ingenierie.com) through <a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/217">
Pull request #217</a>,
and <a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/228">
Pull request #228</a>
-
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59885">
Bug
59885</a>
-
Optimize css parsing for embedded resources download by introducing a cache. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (b.wiart at ubik-ingenierie.com) through <a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/219">
Pull request #219</a>
-
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60092">
Bug
60092</a>
-
View Result Tree: Add shortened version of the PUT body to sampler result.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60229">
Bug
60229</a>
-
Add a new metric : sent_bytes. Implemented by Philippe Mouawad (p.mouawad at ubik-ingenierie.com) and contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53039">
Bug
53039</a>
-
HTTP Request : Be able to handle responses which size exceeds <span class="code">2147483647</span> bytes (that is 2GB)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60265">
Bug
60265</a>
-
HTTP Request : In Files Upload Tab you cannot resize columns</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60318">
Bug
60318</a>
-
Ignore CSS warnings when parsing with ph-css library.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60358">
Bug
60358</a>
-
Http Request : Allow sending Body Data for HTTP GET request</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/211">
Pull request #211</a>
-
Differentiate the timing for JDBC Sampler. Use latency and connect time. Contributed by Thomas Peyrard (thomas.peyrard at murex.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59620">
Bug
59620</a>
-
Fix button action in "JMS Publisher &rarr; Random File from folder specified below" to allow to select a directory</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60066">
Bug
60066</a>
-
Handle CLOBs and BLOBs and limit them if necessary when storing them in result sampler.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59351">
Bug
59351</a>
-
Improve log/error/message for IncludeController. Partly contributed by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60023">
Bug
60023</a>
-
ThroughputController : Make "Percent Executions" and global the default values. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60082">
Bug
60082</a>
-
Validation mode : Be able to force Throughput Controller to run as if it was set to 100%</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59349">
Bug
59349</a>
-
Trim spaces in input filename in IncludeController.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60081">
Bug
60081</a>
-
Interleave Controller : Add an option to alternate across threads</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59953">
Bug
59953</a>
-
GraphiteBackendListener : Add Average metric. Partly contributed by Maxime Chassagneux (maxime.chassagneux at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59975">
Bug
59975</a>
-
View Results Tree : Text renderer annoyingly scrolls down when content is bulky. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60109">
Bug
60109</a>
-
Summariser : Make it ignore TC generated SampleResult in its summary computations</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59948">
Bug
59948</a>
-
Add a formatted and sane HTML source code render to View Results Tree</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60252">
Bug
60252</a>
-
Add sent kbytes/s to Aggregate Report and Summary report</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60267">
Bug
60267</a>
-
UX : In View Results Tree it should be possible to close the Configure popup by typing escape. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59845">
Bug
59845</a>
-
Log messages about JSON Path mismatches at <span class="code">debug</span> level instead of <span class="code">error</span>.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/212">
Pull request #212</a>
-
Allow multiple selection and delete in HTTP Authorization Manager. Based on a patch by Benoit Wiart (b.wiart at ubik-ingenierie.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59816">
Bug
59816</a>
-
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/213">
Pull request #213</a>
-
Allow multiple selection and delete in HTTP Header Manager. Based on a patch by Benoit Wiart (b.wiart at ubik-ingenierie.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59967">
Bug
59967</a>
-
CSS/JQuery Extractor : Allow empty default value. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59974">
Bug
59974</a>
-
Response Assertion : Add button "<span class="code">Add from clipboard</span>". Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60050">
Bug
60050</a>
-
CSV Data Set : Make it clear in the logs when a thread will exit due to this configuration</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59962">
Bug
59962</a>
-
Cache Manager does not update expires date when response code is <span class="code">304</span>.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60018">
Bug
60018</a>
-
Timer : Add a factor to apply on pauses. Partly based on a patch by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60203">
Bug
60203</a>
-
Use more available space for textarea in XPath Assertion.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60220">
Bug
60220</a>
-
Rename JSON Path Post Processor to JSON Extractor</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60221">
Bug
60221</a>
-
CSV DataSet : trim variable names</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59329">
Bug
59329</a>
-
Trim spaces in input filename in CSVDataSet.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59963">
Bug
59963</a>
-
New function <span class="code">__RandomFromMultipleVars</span>: Ability to compute a random value from values of one or more variables. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59991">
Bug
59991</a>
-
New function <span class="code">__groovy</span> to evaluate Groovy Script. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/214">
Pull request #214</a>
-
Add spanish translation for delayed starting of threads. Contributed by Asier Lostal&eacute; (asier.lostale at openbravo.com).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60348">
Bug
60348</a>
-
Change chinese translation for <span class="code">Save as</span>. Contributed by XMeter (support at xmeter.net).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59954">
Bug
59954</a>
-
Web Report/Dashboard : Add average metric</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59956">
Bug
59956</a>
-
Web Report / Dashboard : Add ability to generate a graph for a range of data</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60065">
Bug
60065</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Improve Dashboard Error Summary by adding response message to "Type of error". Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60079">
Bug
60079</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Add a new "Response Time Overview" graph</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60080">
Bug
60080</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Add a new "Connect Time Over Time " graph. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60091">
Bug
60091</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Have a new report containing min/max and percentiles graphs.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60108">
Bug
60108</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : In Requests Summary rounding is too aggressive</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60098">
Bug
60098</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Reduce default value for "<span class="code">jmeter.reportgenerator.statistic_window</span>" to reduce memory impact</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60115">
Bug
60115</a>
-
Add date format property for start/end date filter into Report generator</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60171">
Bug
60171</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Active Threads Over Time should stack lines to give the total amount of threads running</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60250">
Bug
60250</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Need to Add Sent KB/s in Statistics Report of HTML Dashboard</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60287">
Bug
60287</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Have a new Top5 Errors by sampler table in Dashboard. Implemented by Philippe Mouawad (p.mouawad at ubik-ingenierie.com) and contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59803">
Bug
59803</a>
-
Use <span class="code">isValid()</span> method from JDBC driver, if no <span class="code">validationQuery</span>
is given in JDBC Connection Configuration.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57493">
Bug
57493</a>
-
Create a documentation page for properties</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59924">
Bug
59924</a>
-
The log level of <em>XXX</em> package is set to <span class="code">DEBUG</span> if <span class="code">log_level.<em>XXXX</em></span> property value contains spaces, same for <span class="code">__log</span> function</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59777">
Bug
59777</a>
-
Extract SLF4J binding into its own jar and make it a JMeter lib.
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="note">If you get a warning about multiple SLF4J bindings on startup. Remove either the Apache JMeter provided binding
<span class="code">lib/ApacheJMeter_slf4j_logkit.jar</span>, or all of the other reported bindings.
For more information you can have a look at <a href="http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings">SLF4Js own info page.</a>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60085">
Bug
60085</a>
-
Remove cache for prepared statements, as it didn't work with the current JDBC pool implementation and current JDBC drivers should support caching of prepared statements themselves.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60137">
Bug
60137</a>
-
In Distributed testing when using StrippedXXXX modes strip response also on error</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60106">
Bug
60106</a>
-
Settings defaults : Switch "<span class="code">jmeter.save.saveservice.connect_time</span>" to true (after 3.0)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/229">
Pull request #229</a>
-
tiny memory allocation improvements. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (b.wiart at ubik-ingenierie.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59945">
Bug
59945</a>
-
For all JSR223 elements, if script language has not been chosen on the UI, the script will be interpreted as a groovy script.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60266">
Bug
60266</a>
-
Usability/ UX : It should not be possible to close/exit/Revert/Load/Load a recent project or create from template a JMeter plan or open a new one if a test is running</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57305">
Bug
57305</a>
-
Remove dependency of <span class="code">ProxyControl</span> on <span class="code">GuiPackage</span>. Based on patches by jarek102 (jarek102 at gmail.com) and Wyatt Epp (wyatt.epp at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Updated to jsoup-1.10.1 (from 1.8.3)</li>
<li>Updated to ph-css 4.1.6 (from 4.1.4)</li>
<li>Updated to tika-core and tika-parsers 1.14 (from 1.12)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-io 2.5 (from 2.4)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-lang3 3.5 (from 3.4)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-net 3.5 (from 3.4)</li>
<li>Updated to groovy 2.4.7 (from 2.4.6)</li>
<li>Updated to httpcore 4.4.5 (from 4.4.4)</li>
<li>Updated to slf4j-api 1.7.21 (from 1.7.13)</li>
<li>Updated to rsyntaxtextarea-2.6.0 (from 2.5.8)</li>
<li>Updated to xstream 1.4.9 (from 1.4.8)</li>
<li>Updated to jodd 3.7.1 (from 3.6.7.jar)</li>
<li>Updated to xmlgraphics-commons 2.1 (from 2.0.1)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/215">
Pull request #215</a>
-
Reduce duplicated code by using the newly added method <span class="code">GuiUtils#cancelEditing</span>.
Contributed by Benoit Wiart (b.wiart at ubik-ingenierie.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/218">
Pull request #218</a>
-
Misc cleanup. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (b.wiart at ubik-ingenierie.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://github.com/apache/jmeter/pull/216">
Pull request #216</a>
-
Re-use pattern when possible. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (b.wiart at ubik-ingenierie.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60364">
Bug
60364</a>
-
Document Test Coverage. Contributed by Thomas Schapitz (ts-nospam12 at online.de)</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58888">
Bug
58888</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder (ProxyControl) does not add TestElement's returned by <span class="code">SamplerCreator#createChildren()</span>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59902">
Bug
59902</a>
-
Https handshake failure when setting <span class="code">httpclient.socket.https.cps</span> property</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60084">
Bug
60084</a>
-
JMeter 3.0 embedded resource URL is silently encoded</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60376">
Bug
60376</a>
-
Http Test Script Recorder : If deflate is used by server then recording may break application</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59113">
Bug
59113</a>
-
JDBC Connection Configuration : Transaction Isolation level not correctly set if constant used instead of numerical</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60361">
Bug
60361</a>
-
ModuleController : If a Test plan contains a Module Controller which references an unexistant Controller, JMeter in GUI mode will not stop</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59712">
Bug
59712</a>
-
Display original query in RequestView when decoding fails. Based on a patch by
Teemu Vesala (teemu.vesala at qentinel.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60278">
Bug
60278</a>
-
Since 2.13 (and <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57514">
Bug
57514</a>), Aggregate Graph, Summary Report and Aggregate Report lost precision in the Error, Rate and Bandwidth values saved in the saved file csv</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60360">
Bug
60360</a>
-
View Result Tree : Request Tab does not show body of a DELETE request</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59964">
Bug
59964</a>
-
JSR223 Test Element : Cache compiled script if available is not correctly reset. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59609">
Bug
59609</a>
-
Format extracted JSON Objects in JSON Post Processor correctly as JSON.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60332">
Bug
60332</a>
-
View Results Tree : With Windows LAF, JSON Extractor does not show JSON Path Expression and Result panel</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59400">
Bug
59400</a>
-
Get rid of UnmarshalException on stopping when <span class="code">-X</span> option is used.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59607">
Bug
59607</a>
-
JMeter crashes when reading large test plan (greater than 2GB). Based on fix by Felix Draxler (felix.draxler at sap.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59621">
Bug
59621</a>
-
Error count in report dashboard is one off.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59657">
Bug
59657</a>
-
Only set font in JSyntaxTextArea, when property <span class="code">jsyntaxtextarea.font.family</span> is set.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59720">
Bug
59720</a>
-
Batch test file comparisons fail on Windows as XML files are generated as EOL=LF</li>
<li>Code cleanups. Patches by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59722">
Bug
59722</a>
-
Use StandardCharsets to reduce the possibility of misspelling Charset names.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59723">
Bug
59723</a>
-
Use <span class="code">jmeter.properties</span> for testing whenever possible</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59726">
Bug
59726</a>
-
Unit test to check that CSV header text and sample format don't change unexpectedly</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59889">
Bug
59889</a>
-
Change encoding to UTF-8 in reports for dashboard.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60053">
Bug
60053</a>
-
In Non GUI mode, a Stacktrace is shown at end of test while report is being generated</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60049">
Bug
60049</a>
-
When using Timers with high delays or Constant Throughput Timer with low throughput, Scheduler may take a lot of time to exit, same for Shutdown test </li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60089">
Bug
60089</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Bytes throughput Over Time has reversed Sent and Received bytes. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60090">
Bug
60090</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Empty Transaction Controller should not count in metrics</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60103">
Bug
60103</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Requests summary includes Transaction Controller leading to wrong percentage</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60105">
Bug
60105</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Report requires Transaction Controller "<span class="code">generate parent sample</span>" option to be checked, fix related issues</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60107">
Bug
60107</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : In StatisticSummary, TransactionController SampleResult makes Total line wrong</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60110">
Bug
60110</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : In Response Time Percentiles, slider is useless</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60135">
Bug
60135</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Active Threads Over Time should be in OverTime section</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60125">
Bug
60125</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : Dashboard cannot be generated if the default delimiter is <span class="code">\t</span>. Based on a report from Tamas Szabadi (tamas.szabadi at rightside.co)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59439">
Bug
59439</a>
-
Report / Dashboard : AbstractOverTimeGraphConsumer.createGroupInfos() should be abstract</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59918">
Bug
59918</a>
-
Ant generated HTML report is broken (extras folder)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60295">
Bug
60295</a>
-
JSON Extractor doesn't index array elements when only one element is found. Based on a patch by Roberto Braga (roberto.braga at sociale.it)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60299">
Bug
60299</a>
-
Thread Group with Scheduler : Weird behaviour when End-Time is in the past</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Thanks">Thanks</h2>
<p>We thank all contributors mentioned in bug and improvement sections above:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Felix Draxler (felix.draxler at sap.com)</li>
<li>Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>Teemu Vesala (teemu.vesala at qentinel.com)</li>
<li>Asier Lostal&eacute; (asier.lostale at openbravo.com)</li>
<li>Thomas Peyrard (thomas.peyrard at murex.com)</li>
<li>Benoit Wiart (b.wiart at ubik-ingenierie.com)</li>
<li>Maxime Chassagneux (maxime.chassagneux at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="http://ubikloadpack.com">Ubik Load Pack</a>
</li>
<li>Tamas Szabadi (tamas.szabadi at rightside.co)</li>
<li>Roberto Braga (roberto.braga at soziale.it)</li>
<li>jarek102 at gmail.com</li>
<li>Wyatt Epp (wyatt.epp at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Thomas Schapitz (ts-nospam12 at online.de)</li>
</ul>
<p>We also thank bug reporters who helped us improve JMeter. <br>
For this release we want to give special thanks to the following reporters for the clear reports and tests made after our fixes:</p>
<ul>
</ul>
<p>
Apologies if we have omitted anyone else.
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</h2>
<ul>
<li>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</li>
<li>
The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
the total number of threads only applies to a locally run test, otherwise it will show <span class="code">0</span> (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55510">
Bug
55510</a>).
</li>
<li>
Note that there is a <a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6396599 ">bug in Java</a>
on some Linux systems that manifests itself as the following error when running the test cases or JMeter itself:
<pre class="source">
[java] WARNING: Couldn't flush user prefs:
java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not supported: indent-number
</pre>
This does not affect JMeter operation. This issue is fixed since Java 7b05.
</li>
<li>
Note that under some windows systems you may have this WARNING:
<pre class="source">
java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0
x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(&hellip;) returned error code 5.
</pre>
The fix is to run JMeter as Administrator, it will create the registry key for you, then you can restart JMeter as a normal user and you won't have the warning anymore.
</li>
<li>
With Oracle Java 7 and Mac Book Pro Retina Display, the JMeter GUI may look blurry.
This is a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8000629">JDK-8000629</a>.
A workaround is to use a Java 7 update 40 runtime which fixes this issue.
</li>
<li>
You may encounter the following error:
<pre class="source">java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints</pre>
if you run a HTTPS request on a web site with a SSL certificate (itself or one of SSL certificates in its chain of trust) with a signature
algorithm using MD2 (like md2WithRSAEncryption) or with a SSL certificate with a size lower than 1024 bits.
This error is related to increased security in Java 7 version u16 (MD2) and version u40 (Certificate size lower than 1024 bits), and Java 8 too.
<br>
To allow you to perform your HTTPS request, you can downgrade the security of your Java installation by editing
the Java <span class="code">jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms</span> property. Remove the MD2 value or the constraint on size, depending on your case.
<br>
This property is in this file:
<pre class="source">JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security</pre>
See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56357">
Bug
56357</a> for details.
</li>
<li>
Under Mac OSX Aggregate Graph will show wrong values due to mirroring effect on numbers.
This is due to a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065373">JDK-8065373</a>
The fix is to use JDK7_u79, JDK8_u45 or later.
</li>
<li>
View Results Tree may fail to display some HTML code under HTML renderer, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54586">
Bug
54586</a>.
This is due to a known Java bug which fails to parse "<span class="code">px</span>" units in row/col attributes.
See Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031109">JDK-8031109</a>
The fix is to use JDK9 b65 or later.
</li>
<li>
JTable selection with keyboard (<span class="keycombo"><span class="keysym">SHIFT</span>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<span class="keysym">up/down</span></span>) is totally unusable with JAVA 7 on Mac OSX.
This is due to a known Java bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025126">JDK-8025126</a>
The fix is to use JDK 8 b132 or later.
</li>
</ul>
<h1>Version 3.0</h1>
<p>
Summary
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Known bugs">Known bugs</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Improvements">Improvements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Thanks">Thanks</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2>
<h2 class="ch_category">Test plan creation and debugging improvements</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">New Search Feature in View Results Tree to allow searching for text / regexp in Request/Responses/Headers/Cookies/&hellip; This will ease correlation and Test plans creation</h3>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/view_results_tree_search_feature.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/view_results_tree_search_feature.png" width="846" height="613" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">New JSON Post Processor to better extract data from JSON content using user friendly JSON-PATH syntax</h3>
<p>JSON is now a first class citizen in JMeter with the introduction of a new <a href="http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/" target="_blank">JSONPath</a> post processor.
This post processor is very similar to Regular Expression Post Processor but is well suited for JSON code.
It is based on <a href="https://github.com/jayway/JsonPath" target="_blank">Jayway JSON Path library</a>
</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/json_path_extractor.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/json_path_extractor.png" width="829" height="223" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">New validation feature, in one click run a selection of Thread Groups with <span class="code">1</span> user, no pause and <span class="code">1</span> iteration</h3>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/thread_group_validate.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/thread_group_validate.png" width="295" height="629" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">JSR223 Test Elements do not require a Cache Compilation Key anymore</h3>
<p>Just check <span class="code">Cache compiled script if available</span> checkbox and the elements (Pre-Processor, Post-Processor, Assertions, Listeners, &hellip;)
will pre-compile the script and cache the compiled code if the underlying language supports it</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/jsr223_cache_compiled.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/jsr223_cache_compiled.png" width="991" height="606" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">Nashorn can now be used as Javascript engine providing better performance and easier usage</h3>
<p>
To enable <a target="_blank" href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/jf14-nashorn-2126515.html">Nashorn</a>, you need to set in <span class="code">user.properties</span>:
</p>
<pre class="source">javascript.use_rhino=false</pre>
<p>Nashorn can be used with Java 8 in the following elements:
</p>
<ul>
<li>IfController</li>
<li>JSR223 Test elements with <span class="code">javascript</span> language selected</li>
<li>
<span class="code">__javaScript</span> function</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="ch_title">Jexl3 has been integrated. It provides new scripting features and much better documentation</h3>
<p>
<a href="http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-jexl/" target="_blank">JEXL3</a> can now be used thanks to a new function <span class="code">__jexl3</span>.
JEXL is a language very similar to JSTL.
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Simplified HTTP Request UI</h3>
<p>A new "<span class="code">Advanced</span>" tab has been added to HTTP Request to simplify configuration. The file upload feature has been moved into a dedicated tab.
This increases the space available for parameters in UI and simplifies the UX.</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/http_request_basic.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/http_request_basic.png" width="895" height="674" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/http_request_advanced.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/http_request_advanced.png" width="880" height="299" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">HTTP Request Defaults improvements</h3>
<p>You can now configure Source Address (IP Spoofing like feature) and "<span class="code">Save response as MD5 hash</span>" in Advanced Tab
</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/http_request_defaults_advanced.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/http_request_defaults_advanced.png" width="893" height="259" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h2 class="ch_category">Reporting improvements</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">New Reporting Feature generating dynamic Graphs in HTML pages (APDEX, Summary report and Graphs)</h3>
<p>A dynamic HTML report can now be generated either at the end of a load test or from a result file whenever you want.
See <a href="./usermanual/generating-dashboard.html" target="_blank">Generating dashboard</a> for more details.
This report provides the following metrics:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apdex" target="_blank">APDEX</a> (Application Performance Index) table that computes the APDEX based on configurable values for tolerated and satisfied thresholds</li>
<li>A request summary graph showing the Success and failed transaction percentage: <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_apdex_and_summary.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_apdex_and_summary.png" width="1658" height="650" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>A Statistics table providing in one table a summary of all metrics per transaction including 3 configurable percentiles : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_statistics.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_statistics.png" width="1376" height="433" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>An error table providing a summary of all errors and their proportion in the total requests : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_errors.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_errors.png" width="1344" height="455" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Zoomable chart where you can check/uncheck every transaction to show/hide it for:
<ul>
<li>Response times Over Time : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_response_times_over_time.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_response_times_over_time.png" width="1398" height="566" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Bytes throughput Over Time : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_bytes_throughput_over_time.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_bytes_throughput_over_time.png" width="1373" height="543" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Latencies Over Time : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_latencies_over_time.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_latencies_over_time.png" width="1373" height="547" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Hits per second : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_hits_per_second.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_hits_per_second.png" width="1375" height="552" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Response codes per second : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_codes_per_second.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_codes_per_second.png" width="1380" height="558" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Transactions per second : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_transactions_per_second.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_transactions_per_second.png" width="1372" height="577" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Response Time vs Request per second : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_response_time_vs_request.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_response_time_vs_request.png" width="1380" height="545" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Latency vs Request per second : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_latencies_vs_request.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_latencies_vs_request.png" width="1373" height="543" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Response times percentiles : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_response_time_percentiles.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_response_time_percentiles.png" width="1374" height="551" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Active Threads Over Time : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_active_threads_over_time.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_active_threads_over_time.png" width="1370" height="542" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Times vs Threads : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_time_vs_threads.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_time_vs_threads.png" width="1373" height="567" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Response Time Distribution : <figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_response_time_distribution.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/report_response_time_distribution.png" width="1373" height="549" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="ch_title">GraphiteBackendListener has a new Server Hits metric</h3>
<h3 class="ch_title">Summariser displays a more readable duration</h3>
<p>
Now duration are display in the format <span class="code">hours:minutes:seconds</span>
</p>
<pre class="source">
Generate Summary Results + 1 in 00:00:01 = 1.7/s Avg: 1 Min: 1 Max: 1 Err: 0 (0.00%) Active: 1 Started: 1 Finished: 0
Generate Summary Results + 138 in 00:00:09 = 16.2/s Avg: 0 Min: 0 Max: 1 Err: 0 (0.00%) Active: 9 Started: 9 Finished: 0
Generate Summary Results = 139 in 00:00:09 = 15.3/s Avg: 0 Min: 0 Max: 1 Err: 0 (0.00%)
Generate Summary Results + 467 in 00:00:10 = 47.0/s Avg: 0 Min: 0 Max: 1 Err: 0 (0.00%) Active: 19 Started: 19 Finished: 0
Generate Summary Results = 606 in 00:00:19 = 31.9/s Avg: 0 Min: 0 Max: 1 Err: 0 (0.00%)
&#8942;
Generate Summary Results + 1662 in 00:00:10 = 166.1/s Avg: 0 Min: 0 Max: 1 Err: 0 (0.00%) Active: 50 Started: 50 Finished: 0
Generate Summary Results = 28932 in 00:03:19 = 145.4/s Avg: 0 Min: 0 Max: 1 Err: 0 (0.00%)
Generate Summary Results + 1664 in 00:00:10 = 166.4/s Avg: 0 Min: 0 Max: 1 Err: 0 (0.00%) Active: 50 Started: 50 Finished: 0
Generate Summary Results = 30596 in 00:03:29 = 146.4/s Avg: 0 Min: 0 Max: 1 Err: 0 (0.00%)
Generate Summary Results + 1661 in 00:00:10 = 166.1/s Avg: 0 Min: 0 Max: 1 Err: 0 (0.00%) Active: 50 Started: 50 Finished: 0
Generate Summary Results = 32257 in 00:03:39 = 147.3/s Avg: 0 Min: 0 Max: 1 Err: 0 (0.00%)
</pre>
<h3 class="ch_title">BackendListener now allows you to define sampler list as a regular expression</h3>
<p>You can now use a regular expression to select the samplers you want to filter.
Use parameter: <span class="code">useRegexpForSamplersList=true</span> and put a regex in parameter <span class="code">samplersList</span>
</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/graphite_backend_listener_regex.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/graphite_backend_listener_regex.png" width="806" height="380" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h2 class="ch_category">Protocols and Load Testing improvements</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">Migration to HttpClient 4.5.2 has been started. Although not completely finished, it improves many areas in JMeter</h3>
<p>Migration to HttpClient 4.5.2 improves the following fields of JMeter:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Support of recent RFC like <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265" target="_blank">HTTP State Management Mechanism RFC-6265 for Cookies</a>, you should use now <span class="code">HC4CookieHandler</span> in HTTP Cookie Manager component and select <span class="code">standard</span> Cookie policy</li>
<li>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication" target="_blank">Server Name Indication (SNI)</a> support for HttpClient4 implementation</li>
<li>Improved and better performing validation mechanism for Stale connections and Keep-Alive management, see properties <span class="code">httpclient4.validate_after_inactivity</span> and <span class="code">httpclient4.time_to_live</span>
</li>
<li>Many bug fixes since previous version 4.2.6 used in JMeter 2.13, see <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpclient/RELEASE_NOTES-4.5.x.txt" target="_blank">HttpClient 4.5.X release notes</a>
</li>
<li>Better support of HTTP RFC 2616 / RFC 7230 and fixes to issues with <span class="code">deflate</span> compression management</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="ch_title">Parallel Downloads is now realistic and scales much better:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Parsing of CSS imported files (through <span class="code">@import</span>) or embedded resources (background, images, &hellip;)</li>
<li>Lazy initialization of SSL context: For 15 Threads 138% more sampling in 5 minutes for HTTP only tests. Gain increases as number of threads increases</li>
<li>Rework of Connection management for Parallel Download: This better simulates current browser behaviour and improves throughput. For 15 Threads 135% extra samples in 5 minutes.</li>
<li>Reuse of Threads used for Parallel downloads through a ThreadPool: This improves throughput and increases JMeter scalability for such tests</li>
<li>Total of 750% more throughput found on test with 15 threads, the more threads you have the more the gain</li>
<li>You can now compute and store just the MD5 of embedded resources instead of storing the entire response, this can be done by setting the property <span class="code">httpsampler.embedded_resources_use_md5=true</span>
</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="ch_title">Introduction of Sample Timeout feature</h3>
<p>This new <a href="./usermanual/component_reference.html#Sample_Timeout">Sample Timeout</a> Pre-Processor allows you to apply a Timeout on the elements that are in its scope.
In the screenshot below the 10 second timeout applies to the <span class="code">Debug Sampler</span> and <span class="code">HTTP Request</span> elements.
</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/sample_timeout.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/sample_timeout.png" width="828" height="161" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">JDBC request now uses DBCP2 pool</h3>
<p>JDBC Request and JDBC Connection Configuration have been updated to replace old Excalibur Pool by Apache Commons DBCP2 pool. As a consequence properties have been migrated to equivalent
when available and UI has been updated.
Note that unlike Excalibur, Commons DBCP uses the validation query when creating the pool.
So make sure the query is valid.
The default query suits many databases, but not all - for example Oracle requires '<span class="code">SELECT 1 FROM DUAL</span>' or similar.
</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/jdbc_connection_configuration.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/jdbc_connection_configuration.png" width="582" height="434" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h2 class="ch_category">UX Improvements:</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">Better display in HiDPI screens</h3>
<p>See <a href="usermanual/hints_and_tips.html#hidpi">JMeter with a HiDPI screen on Linux or Windows</a> in Hints and Tips section in user manual</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">New Icon look and Logo</h3>
<p>JMeter has a new Logo created by Felix Schumacher. <br>Icons have also been refreshed to give a more modern style and make them more meaningful</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Lots of fixes of annoying little bugs</h3>
<p>Around 40 UI fixes have been made to either fix buggy, confusing behaviour or simplify usage by not allowing incompatible options to be selected</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Improved Thread Group UI and related actions (<span class="code">Start</span>, <span class="code">Start No Timers</span>, <span class="code">Validate</span>)</h3>
<p>
Creating and testing a Test Plan before Load Test has been much simplified by allowing you to only start a selection of Thread Group, start them without applying Timers (thus gaining time)
or start them using a new Validation mode. This validation mode allows you to start a Thread Group (without modifying it) with 1 thread, 1 iteration and without applying timers.
This validation mode can be customized.
</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/thread_group_starters.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/3.0/thread_group_starters.png" width="302" height="235" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">New shortcuts</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add most used elements
(<span class="keycombo"><span class="keysym">Ctrl</span>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<span class="keysym">0</span></span>
&hellip;
<span class="keycombo"><span class="keysym">Ctrl</span>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<span class="keysym">9</span></span>),
configurable through <span class="code">gui.quick_<em>XXX</em></span> properties</li>
<li>Shortcuts to expand nodes</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_category">Core improvements</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">Configuration simplification with better defaults</h3>
<p>Default values for many properties have been modified to make JMeter configuration optimal Out of the box. Read "Incompatible changes" section for more details.</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Apache Groovy bundled with JMeter</h3>
<p>
<a href="http://www.groovy-lang.org/" target="_blank">Apache Groovy</a>, the well-known JVM scripting language, is now bundled with Apache JMeter in lib folder.
This allows you to use it immediately through JSR223 Elements by selecting the Groovy language.</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Superfluous and old properties removed</h3>
<p>Old properties that existed to maintain backward compatibility or to offer some superfluous customization have been removed.
Read "Incompatible changes" section to see which properties have been removed.</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Code and documentation improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li>Migration to Java7 source code and use of its syntactic sugar</li>
<li>Major code cleanups</li>
<li>Full review of documentation and improvement both in content and presentation</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="ch_title">Improvements to unit tests</h3>
<ul>
<li>Migration of many tests to JUnit 4</li>
<li>Better management of Headless tests</li>
<li>More Unit Tests</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="ch_title">Dependencies refresh</h3>
<p>
Deprecated Libraries dropped or replaced by up to date ones:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Excalibur replaced by commons-dbcp</li>
<li>htmllexer, htmlparser removed</li>
<li>soap removed</li>
<li>jdom removed</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="ch_title">Slf4j can now be used within Plugins and core code</h3>
<p>You can now use <a href="http://www.slf4j.org/" target="_blank">SLF4J</a> logging wrapper in your custom plugins or <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.protocol.java.sampler.AbstractJavaSamplerClient</span> subclasses.</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Since version 3.0, Groovy-2.4.6 is bundled with JMeter (<span class="code">lib</span> folder), ensure you remove old version or referenced versions through properties <span class="code">search_paths</span> or <span class="code">user.classpath</span>
</li>
<li>Since version 3.0, <span class="code">jmeter.save.saveservice.assertion_results_failure_message</span> property value is true, meaning CSV file for results will contain an additional column containing assertion result response message, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58978">
Bug
58978</a>
</li>
<li>Since version 3.0, <span class="code">jmeter.save.saveservice.print_field_names</span> property value is true, meaning CSV file for results will contain field names as first line in CSV, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58991">
Bug
58991</a>
</li>
<li>Since version 3.0, <span class="code">jmeter.save.saveservice.idle_time</span> property value is true, meaning CSV/XML result files will contain an additional column containing idle time between samplers, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57182">
Bug
57182</a>
</li>
<li>In RandomTimer class, protected instance <span class="code">timer</span> field has been replaced by <span class="code">getTimer()</span> protected method, this is related to <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58100">
Bug
58100</a>. This may impact 3<sup>rd</sup> party plugins.</li>
<li>Since version 3.0, you can use Nashorn Engine (default javascript engine is Rhino) under Java8 for Elements that use Javascript Engine (<span class="code">__javaScript</span>, <span class="code">IfController</span>). If you want to use it, use property <span class="code">javascript.use_rhino=false</span>, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58406">
Bug
58406</a>.
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="note">Note: in a future version, we will switch to Nashorn by default. Users are encouraged to report any issue related to using Nashorn instead of Rhino.</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</li>
<li>Since version 3.0, JMS Publisher will reload contents of file if Message source is "<span class="code">From File</span>" and the "<span class="code">Filename</span>" field changes (e.g. if it uses a variable that has changed)</li>
<li>
<span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.gui.util.ButtonPanel</span> has been removed, if you use it in your 3<sup>rd</sup> party plugin or custom development ensure you update your code. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58687">
Bug
58687</a>
</li>
<li>Property <span class="code">jmeterthread.startearlier</span> has been removed. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58726">
Bug
58726</a>
</li>
<li>Property <span class="code">jmeterengine.startlistenerslater</span> has been removed. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58728">
Bug
58728</a>
</li>
<li>Property <span class="code">jmeterthread.reversePostProcessors</span> has been removed. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58728">
Bug
58728</a>
</li>
<li>Property <span class="code">jmeter.toolbar.display</span> has been removed, the toolbar is now always displayed. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59236">
Bug
59236</a>
</li>
<li>Property <span class="code">jmeter.errorscounter.display</span> has been removed, the errors/warnings counter is now always displayed. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59236">
Bug
59236</a>
</li>
<li>Property <span class="code">xml.parser</span> has been removed, it is not used anymore as <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.util.JMeterUtils#getXMLParser</span> has been deprecated and is not used either. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59236">
Bug
59236</a>
</li>
<li>Summariser listener now shows the duration in the format <span class="code">HH:mm:ss</span> (Hour:Minute:Second), it previously showed the duration in seconds. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58776">
Bug
58776</a>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.visualizers.RequestViewHTTP.getQueryMap</span> signature has changed, if you use it ensure you update your code. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58845">
Bug
58845</a>
</li>
<li>JMS Subscriber will consider a sample to be an error if the number of received messages is not equal to expected number of messages. It previously considered a sample OK if at least 1 message was received. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58980">
Bug
58980</a>
</li>
<li>Since version 3.0, HTTP(S) Test Script recorder defaults to using port <span class="code">8888</span> (as configured when using Recording Template). See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59006">
Bug
59006</a>
</li>
<li>Since version 3.0, the parser for embedded resources (replaced since 2.10 by Lagarto based implementation) which relied on the htmlparser library (HtmlParserHTMLParser) has been dropped along with its dependencies.</li>
<li>Since version 3.0, support for reading old Avalon format JTL (result) files has been removed, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59064">
Bug
59064</a>
</li>
<li>Since version 3.0, the default property value for <span class="code">http.java.sampler.retries</span> has been changed to <span class="code">0</span> (no retry by default) to align it with the behaviour of HttpClient4.
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="note">Note also that its meaning has changed: before 3.0, <span class="code">http.java.sampler.retries=1</span> meant <span class="code">No Retry</span> (i.e. total tries = 1), since 3.0 <span class="code">http.java.sampler.retries=1</span> means <span class="code">1</span> retry.
(Note: this only applies to the Java HTTP Sampler)</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59103">
Bug
59103</a>
</li>
<li>Since 3.0, the following deprecated classes have been dropped
<ul>
<li>org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.modifier.UserParameterXMLContentHandler</li>
<li>org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.modifier.UserParameterXMLErrorHandler</li>
<li>org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.modifier.UserParameterXMLParser</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code">httpsampler.await_termination_timeout</span> has been replaced by <span class="code">httpsampler.parallel_download_thread_keepalive_inseconds</span> which is now the keep alive time for the parallel download threads (in seconds).</li>
<li>JDBC Request has been updated to use commons-dbcp2, since then the behaviour is slightly different, ensure you have a correct "Validation Query" for your database. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58786">
Bug
58786</a>
</li>
<li>The following jars have been removed:
<ul>
<li>excalibur-datasource-2.1.jar (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59156">
Bug
59156</a>)</li>
<li>excalibur-instrument-1.0.jar (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58786">
Bug
58786</a>)</li>
<li>excalibur-pool-api-2.1.jar (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58786">
Bug
58786</a>)</li>
<li>excalibur-pool-impl-2.1.jar (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58786">
Bug
58786</a>)</li>
<li>excalibur-pool-instrumented-2.1.jar (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58786">
Bug
58786</a>)</li>
<li>htmllexer-2.1.jar (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59037">
Bug
59037</a>)</li>
<li>htmlparser-2.1.jar (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59037">
Bug
59037</a>)</li>
<li>soap-2.3.1.jar</li>
<li>jdom-1.1.3.jar (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59156">
Bug
59156</a>)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Maximum number of redirects allowed by JMeter is now 20, it was previously 5. This can be changed with the property <span class="code">httpsampler.max_redirects</span>. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59382">
Bug
59382</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Deprecated and removed elements</h3>
<ul>
<li>MongoDB elements (MongoDB Source Config, MongoDB Script) have been deprecated and will be removed in the next version of JMeter. They do not appear anymore in the menu, if you need them modify <span class="code">not_in_menu</span> property. The JMeter team advises not to use them anymore. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58772">
Bug
58772</a>
</li>
<li>WebService(SOAP) Request and HTML Parameter Mask which were deprecated in 2.13 version, have now been removed following our <a href="./usermanual/best-practices.html#deprecation">deprecation strategy</a>.
Classes and properties which were only used by those elements have been dropped:
<ul>
<li>
<span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.util.DOMPool</span>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.util.WSDLException</span>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.util.WSDLHelper</span>
</li>
<li>Property <span class="code">soap.document_cache</span>
</li>
<li>JAR soap-2.3.1 has been also removed</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<span class="code">__jexl</span> function (i.e. JEXL 1) has been deprecated and will be removed in next version. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58903">
Bug
58903</a>
</li>
<li>Spline Visualizer listener and Distribution Graph listener have been deprecated and will be removed in the next version of JMeter. They do not appear anymore in the menu, if you need them modify <span class="code">not_in_menu</span> property. JMeter team advises not to use them anymore. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58791">
Bug
58791</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Improvements">Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57696">
Bug
57696</a>
-
HTTP Request : Improve responseMessage when resource download fails. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57995">
Bug
57995</a>
-
Use FileServer for HTTP Request files. Implemented by Andrey Pokhilko (andrey at blazemeter.com) and contributed by BlazeMeter Ltd.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58843">
Bug
58843</a>
-
Improve the usable space in the HTTP sampler GUI. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58852">
Bug
58852</a>
-
Use less memory for <span class="code">PUT</span> requests. The uploaded data will no longer be stored in the Sampler.
This is the same behaviour as with <span class="code">POST</span> requests.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58860">
Bug
58860</a>
-
HTTP Request : Add automatic variable generation in HTTP parameters table by right click. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58923">
Bug
58923</a>
-
normalize URIs when downloading embedded resources.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59005">
Bug
59005</a>
-
HTTP Sampler : Added WebDAV verb (<span class="code">SEARCH</span>).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59006">
Bug
59006</a>
-
Change Default proxy recording port to <span class="code">8888</span> to align it with Recording Template. Contributed by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58099">
Bug
58099</a>
-
Performance : Lazily initialize HttpClient SSL Context to avoid its initialization even for HTTP only scenarios</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57577">
Bug
57577</a>
-
HttpSampler : Retrieve All Embedded Resources, add property "<span class="code">httpsampler.embedded_resources_use_md5</span>" to only compute md5 and not keep response data. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59023">
Bug
59023</a>
-
HttpSampler UI : rework the embedded resources labels and change default number of parallel downloads to <span class="code">6</span>. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59028">
Bug
59028</a>
-
Use <span class="code">SystemDefaultDnsResolver</span> singleton. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59036">
Bug
59036</a>
-
FormCharSetFinder : Use JSoup instead of deprecated HTMLParser</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59034">
Bug
59034</a>
-
Parallel downloads connection management is not realistic. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com) and Philippe Mouawad</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59060">
Bug
59060</a>
-
HTTP Request GUI : Move File Upload to a new Tab to have more space for parameters and prevent incompatible configuration. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59103">
Bug
59103</a>
-
HTTP Request Java Implementation: Change default "<span class="code">http.java.sampler.retries</span>" to align it on HttpClient behaviour and make the name meaningful</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59083">
Bug
59083</a>
-
HTTP Request : Make Method field editable so that additional methods (WebDAV) can be added easily</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59118">
Bug
59118</a>
-
Add comment in recorded think time by proxy recorder. Contributed by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59116">
Bug
59116</a>
-
Add the possibility to setup a prefix to sampler name recorded by proxy. Partly based on a patch by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59129">
Bug
59129</a>
-
HTTP Request : Simplify GUI with simple/advanced Tabs</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59033">
Bug
59033</a>
-
Parallel Download : Rework Parser classes hierarchy to allow plug-in parsers for different mime types</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52073">
Bug
52073</a>
-
Embedded Resources Parallel download : Improve performances by avoiding shutdown of ThreadPoolExecutor at each sample. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59190">
Bug
59190</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder : Suggested excludes should ignore case. Contributed by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59140">
Bug
59140</a>
-
Parallel Download : Add CSS Parsing to extract links from CSS files</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59249">
Bug
59249</a>
-
Http Request Defaults : Add "<span class="code">Source address</span>" and "<span class="code">Save responses as MD5</span>"</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59382">
Bug
59382</a>
-
More realistic default value for <span class="code">httpsampler.max_redirects</span>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57928">
Bug
57928</a>
-
Add ability to define protocol (http/https) to AccessLogSampler GUI. Contributed by J&eacute;r&eacute;mie Lesage (jeremie.lesage at jeci.fr)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58300">
Bug
58300</a>
-
Make existing Java Samplers implement Interruptible</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58160">
Bug
58160</a>
-
JMS Publisher : reload file content if file name changes. Based partly on a patch contributed by Maxime Chassagneux (maxime.chassagneux at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58786">
Bug
58786</a>
-
JDBC Sampler : Replace Excalibur DataSource by more up to date library commons-dbcp2</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59205">
Bug
59205</a>
-
TCP Sampler: Set connect time in sampler when connection is established.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59381">
Bug
59381</a>
-
JMSPublisher : FileChooserDialog filter does not work for browser buttons. Based partly on a patch contributed by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58406">
Bug
58406</a>
-
IfController : Allow use of Nashorn Engine if available for JavaScript evaluation</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58281">
Bug
58281</a>
-
RandomOrderController : Improve randomization algorithm performance. Contributed by Graham Russell (jmeter at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58675">
Bug
58675</a>
-
Module controller : error message can easily be missed. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58673">
Bug
58673</a>
-
Module controller : when the target element is disabled the default jtree icons are displayed. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58674">
Bug
58674</a>
-
Module controller : it should not be possible to select more than one node in the tree. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58680">
Bug
58680</a>
-
Module Controller : ui enhancement. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58989">
Bug
58989</a>
-
Record controller gui : add a button to clear all the recorded samples. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58041">
Bug
58041</a>
-
Tree View Listener should show sample data type</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58122">
Bug
58122</a>
-
GraphiteBackendListener : Add Server Hits metric. Partly based on a patch from Amol Moye (amol.moye at thomsonreuters.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58681">
Bug
58681</a>
-
GraphiteBackendListener : Don't send data if no sampling occurred</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58776">
Bug
58776</a>
-
Summariser should display a more readable duration</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58791">
Bug
58791</a>
-
Deprecate listeners: Distribution Graph (alpha) and Spline Visualizer</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58849">
Bug
58849</a>
-
View Results Tree : Add a search panel to the request http view to be able to search in the parameters table. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58857">
Bug
58857</a>
-
View Results Tree : the request view http does not allow to resize the parameters table first column. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58955">
Bug
58955</a>
-
Request view http does not correctly display http parameters in multipart/form-data. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55597">
Bug
55597</a>
-
View Results Tree: Add a search feature to search in recorded samplers</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59102">
Bug
59102</a>
-
View Results Tree: Better default value for "<span class="code">view.results.tree.max_size</span>"</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59099">
Bug
59099</a>
-
Backend listener : Add the possibility to consider samplersList as a Regular Expression. Contributed by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59424">
Bug
59424</a>
-
Visualizer : Add "Clear" in popup menu</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58303">
Bug
58303</a>
-
Change usage of bouncycastle api in SMIMEAssertion to get rid of deprecation warnings.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58515">
Bug
58515</a>
-
New JSON related components : JSON-PATH Extractor and JSON-PATH Renderer in View Results Tree. Donated by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58698">
Bug
58698</a>
-
Correct parsing of auth-files in HTTP Authorization Manager.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58756">
Bug
58756</a>
-
CookieManager : Cookie Policy select box content must depend on Cookie implementation.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56358">
Bug
56358</a>
-
Cookie manager supports cross port cookies and RFC6265. Thanks to Oleg Kalnichevski (olegk at apache.org)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58773">
Bug
58773</a>
-
TestCacheManager : Add tests for CacheManager that use HttpClient 4</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58742">
Bug
58742</a>
-
CompareAssertion : Reset data in TableEditor when switching between different CompareAssertions in gui.
Based on a patch by Vincent Herilier (vherilier at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59108">
Bug
59108</a>
-
TableEditor: Allow rows to be moved up and down. Contributed by Vincent Herilier (vherilier at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58848">
Bug
58848</a>
-
Argument Panel : when adding an argument (add button or from clipboard) scroll the table to the new line. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58865">
Bug
58865</a>
-
Allow empty default value in the Regular Expression Extractor. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59156">
Bug
59156</a>
-
XMLAssertion : drop jdom dependency by using XMLReader</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59328">
Bug
59328</a>
-
Better tooltip for Variable Names in CSVDataSet. Contributed by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58477">
Bug
58477</a>
-
__javaScript function : Allow use of Nashorn engine for Java8 and later versions</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58903">
Bug
58903</a>
-
Provide __jexl3 function that uses commons-jexl3 and deprecated __jexl (1.1) function</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58736">
Bug
58736</a>
-
Add Sample Timeout support</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57913">
Bug
57913</a>
-
Automated backups of last saved JMX files. Contributed by Benoit Vatan (benoit.vatan at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57988">
Bug
57988</a>
-
Shortcuts (<span class="keycombo"><span class="keysym">Ctrl</span>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<span class="keysym">1</span></span> &hellip;
<span class="keycombo"><span class="keysym">Ctrl</span>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<span class="keysym">9</span></span>) to quickly add elements into test plan.
Implemented by Andrey Pokhilko (andrey at blazemeter.com) and contributed by BlazeMeter Ltd.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58100">
Bug
58100</a>
-
Performance enhancements : Replace Random by ThreadLocalRandom.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58677">
Bug
58677</a>
-
<span class="code">TestSaveService#testLoadAndSave</span> use the wrong set of files. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58689">
Bug
58689</a>
-
Add shortcuts to expand / collapse a part of the tree. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58696">
Bug
58696</a>
-
Create Ant task to setup Eclipse project</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58653">
Bug
58653</a>
-
New JMeter Dashboard/Report with Dynamic Graphs, Tables to help analyzing load test results. Developed by Ubik-Ingenierie and contributed by Decathlon S.A. and Ubik-Ingenierie / UbikLoadPack</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58699">
Bug
58699</a>
-
Workbench changes neither saved nor prompted for saving upon close. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58728">
Bug
58728</a>
-
Drop old behavioural properties</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57319">
Bug
57319</a>
-
Upgrade to HttpClient 4.5.2. With the big help from Oleg Kalnichevski (olegk at apache.org) and Gary Gregory (ggregory at apache.org).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58772">
Bug
58772</a>
-
Deprecate MongoDB related elements</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58782">
Bug
58782</a>
-
ThreadGroup : Improve ergonomy</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58165">
Bug
58165</a>
-
Show the time elapsed since the start of the load test in GUI mode. Partly based on a contribution from Maxime Chassagneux (maxime.chassagneux at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58814">
Bug
58814</a>
-
JVM no longer recognizes option <span class="code">MaxLiveObjectEvacuationRatio</span>; remove from comments</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58810">
Bug
58810</a>
-
Config Element Counter (and others): Check Boxes Toggle Area Too Big</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56554">
Bug
56554</a>
-
JSR223 Test Element : Generate compilation cache key automatically. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58911">
Bug
58911</a>
-
Header Manager : it should be possible to copy/paste between Header Managers. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58864">
Bug
58864</a>
-
Arguments Panel : when moving parameter with up / down, ensure that the selection remains visible. Based on a contribution by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58968">
Bug
58968</a>
-
Add a new template to allow to record script with think time included. Contributed by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58978">
Bug
58978</a>
-
Settings defaults : Switch "<span class="code">jmeter.save.saveservice.assertion_results_failure_message</span>" to true (after 2.13)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58991">
Bug
58991</a>
-
Settings defaults : Switch "<span class="code">jmeter.save.saveservice.print_field_names</span>" to true (after 2.13)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57182">
Bug
57182</a>
-
Settings defaults : Switch "<span class="code">jmeter.save.saveservice.idle_time</span>" to true (after 2.13)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58870">
Bug
58870</a>
-
TableEditor: minimum size is too small. Contributed by Vincent Herilier (vherilier at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58933">
Bug
58933</a>
-
JSyntaxTextArea : Ability to set font. Contributed by Denis Kirpichenkov (denis.kirpichenkov at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58793">
Bug
58793</a>
-
Create developers page explaining how to build and contribute</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59046">
Bug
59046</a>
-
JMeter Gui Replace controller should keep the name and the selection. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59038">
Bug
59038</a>
-
Deprecate HTTPClient 3.1 related elements</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59094">
Bug
59094</a>
-
Drop support of old JMX file format</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59082">
Bug
59082</a>
-
Remove the "<span class="code">TestCompiler.useStaticSet</span>" parameter. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59093">
Bug
59093</a>
-
Option parsing error message can be '<em>lost</em>'</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58715">
Bug
58715</a>
-
Feature request: Bundle <span class="code">groovy-all</span> with JMeter</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58426">
Bug
58426</a>
-
Improve display of JMeter on high resolution devices (HiDPI) (part 1 of enhancement)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59105">
Bug
59105</a>
-
TableEditor : Add ability to paste rows from clipboard and delete multiple selection. Contributed by Vincent Herilier (vherilier at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59197">
Bug
59197</a>
-
Thread Group : it should be possible to only run a single threadgroup or a selection of threadgroups with a popup menu. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59207">
Bug
59207</a>
-
Change the font color of <span class="code">errorsOrFatalsLabel</span> to red when an error occurs. Contributed by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58941">
Bug
58941</a>
-
Create a new Starter that runs thread groups in validation mode (<span class="code">1</span> thread only, <span class="code">1</span> iteration, no pause all customizable)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59236">
Bug
59236</a>
-
JMeter Properties : Make some cleanup</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59240">
Bug
59240</a>
-
Introduce a slf4j adapter for Logkit (this allows using slf4j within plugins and core code)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59153">
Bug
59153</a>
-
Stop test if CSVDataSet is accessing non-existing file. Contributed by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59320">
Bug
59320</a>
-
Better tooltip in GUI with GenericTestBeanCustomizer (CSV Data Set Config, JDBC Connection Configuration, Keystore Configuration, &hellip;) . Based on a patch by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59171">
Bug
59171</a>
-
Sample Result SaveConfig Dialog is generated in random order</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59425">
Bug
59425</a>
-
Display error about missing help page inside the help pane</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Updated to httpclient, httpmime 4.5.2 (from 4.2.6)</li>
<li>Updated to tika-core and tika-parsers 1.12 (from 1.7)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-math3 3.6.1 (from 3.4.1)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-pool2 2.4.2 (from 2.3)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-lang 3.4 (from 3.3.2)</li>
<li>Updated to rhino-1.7.7.1 (from 1.7R5)</li>
<li>Updated to jodd-3.6.7.jar (from 3.6.4)</li>
<li>Updated to jsoup-1.8.3 (from 1.8.1)</li>
<li>Updated to rsyntaxtextarea-2.5.8 (from 2.5.6)</li>
<li>Updated to slf4j-1.7.12 (from 1.7.10)</li>
<li>Updated to xmlgraphics-commons-2.0.1 (from 1.5)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-collections-3.2.2 (from 3.2.1)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-net 3.4 (from 3.3)</li>
<li>Updated to slf4j 1.7.13 (from 1.7.12)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57981">
Bug
57981</a>
-
Require a minimum of Java 7. Partly contributed by Graham Russell (jmeter at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58684">
Bug
58684</a>
-
JMeterColor does not need to extend <span class="code">java.awt.Color</span>. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58687">
Bug
58687</a>
-
ButtonPanel should die. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58705">
Bug
58705</a>
-
Make <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.testelement.property.MultiProperty</span> iterable. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58729">
Bug
58729</a>
-
Cleanup extras folder for maintainability</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57110">
Bug
57110</a>
-
Fixed spelling+grammar, formatting, removed commented out code etc. Contributed by Graham Russell (jmeter at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>Correct instructions on running JMeter in <span class="code">help.txt</span>. Contributed by Pascal Schumacher (pascalschumacher at gmx.net)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58704">
Bug
58704</a>
-
Non regression testing : Ant task batchtest fails if tests and run in a non <span class="code">en_EN</span> locale and use a JMX file that uses a CSV DataSet</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58897">
Bug
58897</a>
-
Improve JUnit Test code. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58949">
Bug
58949</a>
-
Cleanup of LDAP code. Based on a patch by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58897">
Bug
58897</a>
-
Improve JUnit Test code. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58967">
Bug
58967</a>
-
Use JUnit categories to exclude tests that need a gui. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59003">
Bug
59003</a>
-
<span class="code">ClutilTestCase</span> <span class="code">testSingleArg8</span> and <span class="code">testSingleArg9</span> are identical</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59064">
Bug
59064</a>
-
Remove OldSaveService which supported very old Avalon format JTL (result) files</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59165">
Bug
59165</a>
-
RSyntaxTextArea not compatible with headless testing</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59021">
Bug
59021</a>
-
Use <span class="code">Double#compare</span> instead of reimplementing it in <span class="code">NumberProperty#compareTo</span>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59037">
Bug
59037</a>
-
Drop HtmlParserHTMLParser and dependencies on htmlparser and htmllexer</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58465">
Bug
58465</a>
-
JMS Read response field is badly named and documented</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58601">
Bug
58601</a>
-
Change check for modification of <span class="code">saveservice.properties</span> from <span class="code">SVN Revision ID</span> to sha1 sum of the file itself.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58726">
Bug
58726</a>
-
Remove the <span class="code">jmeterthread.startearlier</span> parameter. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58784">
Bug
58784</a>
-
Make <span class="code">JMeterUtils#runSafe</span> sync/async awt invocation configurable and change the visualizers to use the async version.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58790">
Bug
58790</a>
-
Issue in CheckDirty and its relation to ActionRouter</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59095">
Bug
59095</a>
-
Remove UserParameterXMLParser that was deprecated eight years ago. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59262">
Bug
59262</a>
-
Add list of binary jars to LICENSE; use that for unit tests</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59353">
Bug
59353</a>
-
Add "Deprecated and removed elements" in "Incompatible changes" part in changes.xml. Contributed by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57806">
Bug
57806</a>
-
"<span class="code">audio/x-mpegurl</span>" mime type is erroneously considered as binary by ViewResultsTree. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57858">
Bug
57858</a>
-
Don't call <span class="code">sampleEnd</span> twice in HTTPHC4Impl when a <span class="code">RuntimeException</span> or an <span class="code">IOException</span> occurs in the sample method.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57921">
Bug
57921</a>
-
HTTP/1.1 without keep-alive "<span class="code">Connection</span>" response header no longer uses infinite keep-alive.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57956">
Bug
57956</a>
-
The <span class="code">hc.parameters</span> reference in <span class="code">jmeter.properties</span> doesn't work when JMeter is not started in <span class="code">bin</span>.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58137">
Bug
58137</a>
-
JMeter fails to download embedded URLs that contain illegal characters in URL (it does not escape them).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58201">
Bug
58201</a>
-
Make usage of port in the host header more consistent across the different http samplers.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58453">
Bug
58453</a>
-
HTTP Test Script Recorder : <span class="code">NullPointerException</span> when disabling Capture HTTP Headers </li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57804">
Bug
57804</a>
-
HTTP Request doesn't reuse cached SSL context when using Client Certificates in HTTPS (only fixed for HttpClient4 implementation)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58800">
Bug
58800</a>
-
<span class="code">proxy.pause</span> default value: fix documentation</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58844">
Bug
58844</a>
-
Buttons enable / disable is broken in the arguments panel. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58861">
Bug
58861</a>
-
When clicking on up, down or detail while in a cell of the argument panel, newly added content is lost. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57935">
Bug
57935</a>
-
SSL SNI extension not supported by HttpClient 4.2.6</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59044">
Bug
59044</a>
-
Http Sampler : It should not be possible to select the multipart encoding if the method is not <span class="code">POST</span>. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59008">
Bug
59008</a>
-
Http Sampler: Infinite recursion SampleResult on frame depth limit reached</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58881">
Bug
58881</a>
-
HTTP Request : HTTPHC4Impl shows exception when server uses "<span class="code">deflate</span>" compression</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58583">
Bug
58583</a>
-
HTTP client fails to close connection if server misbehaves by not sending "<span class="code">connection: close</span>", violating HTTP RFC 2616 / RFC 7230</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58950">
Bug
58950</a>
-
<span class="code">NoHttpResponseException</span> when Pause between samplers exceeds keepalive sent by server</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59085">
Bug
59085</a>
-
Http file panel : data lost on browse cancellation. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56141">
Bug
56141</a>
-
Application does not behave correctly when using HTTP Recorder. With the help of Dan (java.junkee at yahoo.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59079">
Bug
59079</a>
-
"<span class="code">httpsampler.max_redirects</span>" property is not enforced when "<span class="code">Redirect Automatically</span>" is used</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58811">
Bug
58811</a>
-
When pasting arguments between http samplers the column "Encode" and "Include Equals" are lost. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58013">
Bug
58013</a>
-
Enable all protocols that are enabled on the default SSLContext for usage with the SMTP Sampler.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58209">
Bug
58209</a>
-
JMeter hang when testing javasampler because <span class="code">HashMap.put()</span> is called from multiple threads without sync.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58301">
Bug
58301</a>
-
Use typed methods such as <span class="code">setInt</span>, <span class="code">setDouble</span>, <span class="code">setDate</span>, &hellip; for prepared statement #27</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58851">
Bug
58851</a>
-
Add a dependency on hamcrest-core to allow JUnit tests with annotations to work</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58947">
Bug
58947</a>
-
Connect metric is wrong when <span class="code">ConnectException</span> occurs</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58980">
Bug
58980</a>
-
JMS Subscriber will return successful as long as 1 message is received. Contributed by Harrison Termotto (harrison dot termotto at stonybrook.edu)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59075">
Bug
59075</a>
-
JMS Publisher: <span class="code">NumberFormatException</span> is thrown if priority or expiration field is empty</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59345">
Bug
59345</a>
-
SMTPSampler connection leak. Based on a patch by Luca Maragnani (luca dot maragnani at gmail dot com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58600">
Bug
58600</a>
-
Display correct filenames, when they are searched by IncludeController</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58678">
Bug
58678</a>
-
Module Controller : limit target element selection. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58714">
Bug
58714</a>
-
Module controller : it should not be possible to add a timer as child. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59067">
Bug
59067</a>
-
JMeter fails to iterate over Controllers that are children of a TransactionController having "<span class="code">Generate parent sample</span>" checked after an assertion error occurs on a Thread Group with "<span class="code">Start Next Thread Loop</span>". Contributed by Benoit Wiart(benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59076">
Bug
59076</a>
-
Test should fail if a module controller cannot find its replacement subtree</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58033">
Bug
58033</a>
-
SampleResultConverter should note that it cannot record non-TEXT data</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58845">
Bug
58845</a>
-
Request http view doesn't display all the parameters. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58413">
Bug
58413</a>
-
ViewResultsTree : Request HTTP Renderer does not show correctly parameters that contain ampersand (&amp;). Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59172">
Bug
59172</a>
-
SampleResult SaveConfig does not allow some fields to be disabled</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58329">
Bug
58329</a>
-
Response Time Graph and Aggregate Graph : Save graph to file does not take into account the settings changed since last click on Graph. Contributed by David Coppens (d.l.coppens at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58079">
Bug
58079</a>
-
Do not cache HTTP samples that have a <span class="code">Vary</span> header when using a HTTP CacheManager.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58912">
Bug
58912</a>
-
Response assertion gui : Deleting more than 1 selected row deletes only one row. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57825">
Bug
57825</a>
-
__Random function fails if <span class="code">min</span> value is equal to <span class="code">max</span> value (regression related to <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54453">
Bug
54453</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54826">
Bug
54826</a>
-
Don't fail on long strings in JSON responses when displaying them as JSON in View Results Tree.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57734">
Bug
57734</a>
-
Maven transient dependencies are incorrect for 2.13 (Fixed group ids for Commons Pool and Math)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57731">
Bug
57731</a>
-
<span class="code">TESTSTART.MS</span> has always the value of the first Test started in Server mode in NON GUI Distributed testing</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58016">
Bug
58016</a>
-
Error type casting using external SSL Provider. Contributed by Kirill Yankov (myworkpostbox at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58293">
Bug
58293</a>
-
SOAP/XML-RPC Sampler file browser generates NullPointerException</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58685">
Bug
58685</a>
-
JDatefield : Make the modification of the date with up/down arrow work. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58693">
Bug
58693</a>
-
Fix "Cannot nest output folder 'jmeter/build/components' inside output folder 'jmeter/build'" when setting up eclipse</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58781">
Bug
58781</a>
-
Command line option "<span class="code">-?</span>" shows Unknown option</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57821">
Bug
57821</a>
-
Command-line option "<span class="code">-X --remoteexit</span>" doesn't work since 2.13 (regression related to <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57500">
Bug
57500</a>)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58795">
Bug
58795</a>
-
NPE may occur in <span class="code">GuiPackage#getTestElementCheckSum</span> with some 3<sup>rd</sup> party plugins</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58913">
Bug
58913</a>
-
When closing JMeter should not interpret cancel as "<em>destroy my test plan</em>". Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit dot wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59096">
Bug
59096</a>
-
Search Feature : Case insensitive search is not really case insensitive</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59193">
Bug
59193</a>
-
<span class="code">ant run_gui</span> fails with <span class="code">ClassNotFoundException</span> or <span class="code">IllegalAccessError</span> when accessing classes from dependencies not loaded through <span class="code">Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()</span>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59225">
Bug
59225</a>
-
Bad display of running indicator icon. Contributed by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56927">
Bug
56927</a>
-
Disable language change during a test</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59391">
Bug
59391</a>
-
In Distributed mode, the client exits abnormally at the end of test</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59397">
Bug
59397</a>
-
<span class="code">build.xml</span> does not make dist.executables executable on Unix systems</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Thanks">Thanks</h2>
<p>We thank all contributors mentioned in bug and improvement sections above:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://ubikloadpack.com">Ubik Load Pack</a>
</li>
<li>Benoit Vatan (benoit.vatan at gmail.com)</li>
<li>J&eacute;r&eacute;mie Lesage (jeremie.lesage at jeci.fr)</li>
<li>Kirill Yankov (myworkpostbox at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Amol Moye (amol.moye at thomsonreuters.com)</li>
<li>Samoht-fr (https://github.com/Samoht-fr)</li>
<li>Graham Russell (jmeter at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>Maxime Chassagneux (maxime.chassagneux at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Benoit Wiart (benoit.wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.decathlon.com">Decathlon S.A.</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://www.ubik-ingenierie.com">Ubik-Ingenierie S.A.S.</a>
</li>
<li>Oleg Kalnichevski (olegk at apache.org)</li>
<li>Pascal Schumacher (pascalschumacher at gmx.net)</li>
<li>Vincent Herilier (vherilier at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Florent Sabbe (f dot sabbe at ubik-ingenierie.com)</li>
<li>Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Harrison Termotto (harrison dot termotto at stonybrook.edu</li>
<li>Denis Kirpichenkov (denis.kirpichenkov at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Gary Gregory (ggregory at apache.org)</li>
<li>David Coppens (d.l.coppens at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Luca Maragnani (luca dot maragnani at gmail dot com)</li>
<li>Philip Helger (http://www.helger.com) for his <a href="https://github.com/phax" target="_blank">CSS Parser</a> and for taking into account our bug reports very rapidly</li>
<li>Irek Pastusiak (the.automatic.tester at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<p>We also thank bug reporters who helped us improve JMeter. <br>
For this release we want to give special thanks to the following reporters for the clear reports and tests made after our fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>purnasatyap at gmail dot com for the tests and reports on nightly build</li>
<li>Sergey Batalin (sergey_batalin at mail dot ru) for the tests and reports on nightly build</li>
<li>Vincent Daburon (vdaburon at gmail dot com) for the tests and reports on nightly build</li>
</ul>
<p>
Apologies if we have omitted anyone else.
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</h2>
<ul>
<li>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</li>
<li>
The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
the total number of threads only applies to a locally run test, otherwise it will show <span class="code">0</span> (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55510">
Bug
55510</a>).
</li>
<li>
Note that there is a <a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6396599 ">bug in Java</a>
on some Linux systems that manifests itself as the following error when running the test cases or JMeter itself:
<pre class="source">
[java] WARNING: Couldn't flush user prefs:
java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not supported: indent-number
</pre>
This does not affect JMeter operation. This issue is fixed since Java 7b05.
</li>
<li>
Note that under some windows systems you may have this WARNING:
<pre class="source">
java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0
x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(&hellip;) returned error code 5.
</pre>
The fix is to run JMeter as Administrator, it will create the registry key for you, then you can restart JMeter as a normal user and you won't have the warning anymore.
</li>
<li>
With Oracle Java 7 and Mac Book Pro Retina Display, the JMeter GUI may look blurry.
This is a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="http://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8000629">JDK-8000629</a>.
A workaround is to use a Java 7 update 40 runtime which fixes this issue.
</li>
<li>
You may encounter the following error:
<pre class="source">java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints</pre>
if you run a HTTPS request on a web site with a SSL certificate (itself or one of SSL certificates in its chain of trust) with a signature
algorithm using MD2 (like md2WithRSAEncryption) or with a SSL certificate with a size lower than 1024 bits.
This error is related to increased security in Java 7 version u16 (MD2) and version u40 (Certificate size lower than 1024 bits), and Java 8 too.
<br>
To allow you to perform your HTTPS request, you can downgrade the security of your Java installation by editing
the Java <span class="code">jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms</span> property. Remove the MD2 value or the constraint on size, depending on your case.
<br>
This property is in this file:
<pre class="source">JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security</pre>
See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56357">
Bug
56357</a> for details.
</li>
<li>
Under Mac OSX Aggregate Graph will show wrong values due to mirroring effect on numbers.
This is due to a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065373">JDK-8065373</a>
The fix is to use JDK7_u79, JDK8_u45 or later.
</li>
<li>
View Results Tree may fail to display some HTML code under HTML renderer, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54586">
Bug
54586</a>.
This is due to a known Java bug which fails to parse "<span class="code">px</span>" units in row/col attributes.
See Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031109">JDK-8031109</a>
The fix is to use JDK9 b65 or later.
</li>
<li>
JTable selection with keyboard (<span class="keycombo"><span class="keysym">SHIFT</span>&nbsp;+&nbsp;<span class="keysym">up/down</span></span>) is totally unusable with JAVA 7 on Mac OSX.
This is due to a known Java bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025126">JDK-8025126</a>
The fix is to use JDK 8 b132 or later.
</li>
</ul>
<h1>Version 2.13</h1>
<p>
Summary
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Known bugs">Known bugs</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Improvements">Improvements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Thanks">Thanks</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2>
<h2 class="ch_category">New Elements</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">New Async BackendListener with Graphite implementation</h3>
<p>A new Async BackendListener has been added to allow sending result data to a backend listener.
JMeter ships with a GraphiteBackendListenerClient that allows sending results to a <a href="http://graphite.wikidot.com/" target="_blank">Graphite</a> server using Pickle or Plaintext protocols.
You can implement your own backend by extending <a href="./api/org/apache/jmeter/visualizers/backend/AbstractBackendListenerClient.html">AbstractBackendListenerClient</a>. This backend could be
a database (JDBC), a Message Oriented Middleware (JMS), a Webservice or anything you want.
</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/backend_listener_graphite.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/backend_listener_graphite.png" width="902" height="293" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<p>This is the kind of Live Dashboard you can obtain using <a href="http://grafana.org/" target="_blank">Grafana</a> and <a href="http://influxdb.com/" target="_blank">InfluxDB</a>
<br>
Read <a href="./usermanual/realtime-results.html">this</a> for more details.</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/grafana_dashboard.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/grafana_dashboard.png" width="1265" height="581" alt="Grafana dashboard"></a>
<figcaption>Grafana dashboard</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2 class="ch_category">Core Improvements</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">New connect time metric</h3>
<p>Starting with this version a new metric called connectTime has been added. It represents the time to establish connection.
By default it is not saved to CSV or XML, to have it saved add to user.properties:<br>
<span class="code">
jmeter.save.saveservice.connect_time=true
</span>
</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/connect_time_table.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/connect_time_table.png" width="1058" height="193" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/connect_time_tree.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/connect_time_tree.png" width="665" height="651" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">Aggregate Graph and Report</h3>
<p>The listeners Aggregate Graph and Aggregate Report previously showed only the 90 percentile (historical behavior), the 95 percentile and the 99 percentile have been added and are customizable.
To setup the percentiles value you want, add to user.properties:<br>
<span class="code">
aggregate_rpt_pct1=90<br>
aggregate_rpt_pct2=95<br>
aggregate_rpt_pct3=99
</span>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/aggregate_graph_new_percentile.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/aggregate_graph_new_percentile.png" width="801" height="681" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder</h3>
<p>Now component is able to detect authentication schemes and automatically adds a pre-configured HTTP Authorization Manager with the correct Mechanism.
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">HTTP Request</h3>
<p>The CalDAV verbs (Calendar extensions to WebDAV) REPORT and MKCALENDAR have been added in the HTTP Request sampler.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/new_methods_caldav.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/new_methods_caldav.png" width="716" height="324" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">JDBC Request</h3>
<p>The ResultSet can be get as a object, this allows to handle more easily the results after in BeanShell, JSR223 scripts, &hellip;
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/jdbc_resultset_handler.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/jdbc_resultset_handler.png" width="683" height="628" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Distributed Testing</h3>
<p>To allow better usage of Distributed Testing in the cloud, retry behaviour has been added when starting test on servers.
Read <a href="./usermanual/remote-test.html#retries">this</a> for more details.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/distributed_retry.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/distributed_retry.png" width="669" height="202" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Distributed Testing performance</h3>
<p>Since JMeter 2.13, Stripping modes (StrippingBatch being the default mode) now also strip responses from SubResults improving consumed network bandwidth.
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Documentation refresh</h3>
<p>A new style for website (responsive and more up to date) has been created by Felix Schumacher.
Documentations have been refreshed particularly:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="./usermanual/build-ws-test-plan.html">Building a Webservice Test Plan</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="./usermanual/best-practices.html">Best Practices</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="./usermanual/boss.html">Help! My boss wants me to load test our application!</a>
</li>
</ul>
</p>
<h2 class="ch_category">GUI Improvements</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">Module Controller</h3>
<p>The Module Controller now shows the target controller in a tree view (instead of combo list).
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/module_controller_tree_view.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/module_controller_tree_view.png" width="306" height="372" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Toolbar</h3>
<p>JMeter's toolbar has been refreshed for some icons (start, toggle, etc.). Three sizes are now available for the icons: 22x22, 32x32 and 48x48.<br>
The property to define your preferred size is:
<pre>jmeter.toolbar.icons.size=value</pre>
with the value 22x22 (default size), 32x32 or 48x48.</br>
</p>
<p>The toolbar with 22x22 pixels icons
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/toolbar_22x22.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/toolbar_22x22.png" width="417" height="116" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>The toolbar with 32x32 pixels icons
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/toolbar_32x32.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/toolbar_32x32.png" width="533" height="130" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>The toolbar with 48x48 pixels icons
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/toolbar_48x48.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/toolbar_48x48.png" width="716" height="143" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder</h3>
<p>If your Test Plan does not contains a Recording Controller, a new warning message will appear if the
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder is configured to send the samples into a Recording Controller.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/warning_message_proxy.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.13/warning_message_proxy.png" width="858" height="386" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Since 2.13, Aggregate Graph, Summary Report and Aggregate Report now export percentages to %, before they exported the decimal value which differed from what was shown in GUI</li>
<li>Third party plugins may be impacted by fix of <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57586">
Bug
57586</a>, ensure that your subclass of HttpTestSampleGui implements ItemListener if you relied on parent class doing so.</li>
<li>Report package has been removed, <span class="code">ApacheJMeter_report.jar</span> is not generated anymore as a consequence, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57269">
Bug
57269</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Improvements">Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25430">
Bug
25430</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder : Make it populate HTTP Authorization Manager. Partly based on a patch from Dzmitry Kashlach (dzmitrykashlach at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57381">
Bug
57381</a>
-
HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder should display an error if Target Controller references a Recording Controller and no Recording Controller exists. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57488">
Bug
57488</a>
-
Performance : Improve SSLContext reset for Two-way SSL Authentication</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57565">
Bug
57565</a>
-
SamplerCreator : Add method to allow implementations to add children to created sampler</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57606">
Bug
57606</a>
-
HTTPSamplerBase#errorResult changes the sample label on exception </li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57613">
Bug
57613</a>
-
HTTP Sampler : Added CalDAV verbs (REPORT, MKCALENDAR). Contributed by Richard Brigham (richard.brigham at teamaol.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48799">
Bug
48799</a>
-
Add time to establish connection to available sample metrics. Implemented by Andrey Pokhilko (andrey at blazemeter.com) and contributed by BlazeMeter Ltd. and Pieter Ennes (apache.org at spam.ennes.nl)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57500">
Bug
57500</a>
-
Introduce retry behavior for distributed testing. Implemented by Andrey Pokhilko and Dzimitry Kashlach and contributed by BlazeMeter Ltd.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57322">
Bug
57322</a>
-
JDBC Test elements: add ResultHandler to deal with ResultSets(cursors) returned by callable statements. Contributed by Yngvi &THORN;&oacute;r Sigurj&oacute;nsson (blitzkopf at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57561">
Bug
57561</a>
-
Module controller UI : Replace combobox by tree. Contributed by Maciej Franek (maciej.franek at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57648">
Bug
57648</a>
-
TestFragment should be disabled when created. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55932">
Bug
55932</a>
-
Create a Async BackendListener to allow easy plug of new listener (Graphite, JDBC, Console, &hellip;)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57246">
Bug
57246</a>
-
BackendListener : Create a Graphite implementation</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57217">
Bug
57217</a>
-
Aggregate graph and Aggregate report improvements (3 configurable percentiles, same data in both, factor out code). Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57537">
Bug
57537</a>
-
BackendListener : Allow implementations to drop samples</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54453">
Bug
54453</a>
-
Performance enhancements : Replace Random by ThreadLocalRandom in __Random function</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57518">
Bug
57518</a>
-
Icons for toolbar with several sizes</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57605">
Bug
57605</a>
-
When there is an error loading Test Plan, <span class="code">SaveService.loadTree</span> returns <span class="code">null</span> leading to NPE in callers</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57269">
Bug
57269</a>
-
Drop <span class="code">org.apache.jmeter.reports</span> package</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53764">
Bug
53764</a>
-
Website : Create a new style for website</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Updated to jsoup-1.8.1.jar (from 1.7.3)</li>
<li>Updated to tika-core and tika-parsers 1.7 (from 1.6)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-codec-1.10.jar (from 1.9)</li>
<li>Updated to dnsjava-2.1.7.jar (from 2.1.6)</li>
<li>Updated to jodd-3.6.4.jar (from 3.6.1)</li>
<li>Updated to junit-4.12.jar (from 4.11)</li>
<li>Updated to rhino-1.7R5 (from 1.7R4)</li>
<li>Updated to rsyntaxtextarea-2.5.6 (from 2.5.3)</li>
<li>Updated to slf4j-1.7.10 (from 1.7.5)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57276">
Bug
57276</a>
-
RMIC no longer needed since Java 5</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57310">
Bug
57310</a>
-
Replace <span class="code">System.getProperty("file.separator")</span> with <span class="code">File.separator</span> throughout (Also "<span class="code">path.separator"</span> with <span class="code">File.pathSeparator</span>)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57389">
Bug
57389</a>
-
Fix potential NPE in converters</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57417">
Bug
57417</a>
-
Remove unused method <span class="code">isTemporary</span> from <span class="code">NullProperty</span>. This was a leftover from a refactoring done in 2003.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57418">
Bug
57418</a>
-
Remove unused constructor from Workbench</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57419">
Bug
57419</a>
-
Remove unused interface ModelListener.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57466">
Bug
57466</a>
-
IncludeController : Remove an unneeded set creation. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit.wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Added property <span class="code">loggerpanel.usejsyntaxtext</span> to disable the use of JSyntaxTextArea for the Console Logger (in case of memory or other issues)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57586">
Bug
57586</a>
-
HttpTestSampleGui: Remove interface ItemListener implementation</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57385">
Bug
57385</a>
-
Getting empty thread name in xml result for HTTP requests with "Follow Redirects" set. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57579">
Bug
57579</a>
-
NullPointerException error is raised on main sample if "RETURN_NO_SAMPLE" is used (default) and "Use Cache-Control / Expires header&hellip;" is checked in HTTP Cache Manager</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57447">
Bug
57447</a>
-
Use only the user listed DNS Servers, when "use custom DNS resolver" option is enabled.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57262">
Bug
57262</a>
-
Aggregate Report, Aggregate Graph and Summary Report export : headers use keys instead of labels</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57346">
Bug
57346</a>
-
Summariser : The + (difference) reports show wrong elapsed time and throughput</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57449">
Bug
57449</a>
-
Distributed Testing: Stripped modes do not strip responses from SubResults (affects load tests that use Download of embedded resources). Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57562">
Bug
57562</a>
-
View Results Tree CSS/JQuery Tester : Nothing happens when there is an error in syntax and an exception occurs in jmeter.log</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57514">
Bug
57514</a>
-
Aggregate Graph, Summary Report and Aggregate Report show wrong percentage reporting in saved file</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57607">
Bug
57607</a>
-
Constant Throughput Timer : Wrong throughput computed in shared modes due to rounding error </li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57365">
Bug
57365</a>
-
Selected LAF is not correctly setup due to call of <span class="code">UIManager.setLookAndFeel</span> too late. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57364">
Bug
57364</a>
-
Options &lt; Look And Feel does not update all windows LAF. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57394">
Bug
57394</a>
-
When constructing an instance with ClassTools#construct(String, int) the integer was ignored and the default constructor was used instead.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57440">
Bug
57440</a>
-
OutOfMemoryError after introduction of JSyntaxTextArea in LoggerPanel due to disableUndo not being taken into account.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57569">
Bug
57569</a>
-
FileServer.reserveFile - inconsistent behaviour when hasHeader is true</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57555">
Bug
57555</a>
-
Cannot use JMeter 2.12 as a maven dependency. Contributed by Pascal Schumacher (pascal.schumacher at t-systems.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57608">
Bug
57608</a>
-
Fix start script compatibility with old Unix shells, e.g. on Solaris</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Thanks">Thanks</h2>
<p>We thank all contributors mentioned in bug and improvement sections above:
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://ubikloadpack.com">Ubik Load Pack</a>
</li>
<li>Yngvi &THORN;&oacute;r Sigurj&oacute;nsson (blitzkopf at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Dzmitry Kashlach (dzmitrykashlach at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="http://blazemeter.com">BlazeMeter Ltd.</a>
</li>
<li>Benoit Wiart (benoit.wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Pascal Schumacher (pascal.schumacher at t-systems.com)</li>
<li>Maciej Franek (maciej.franek at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Richard Brigham (richard.brigham at teamaol.com)</li>
<li>Pieter Ennes (apache.org at spam.ennes.nl)</li>
</ul>
<br>
We also thank bug reporters who helped us improve JMeter. <br>
For this release we want to give special thanks to the following reporters for the clear reports and tests made after our fixes:
<ul>
<li>Chaitanya Bhatt (bhatt.chaitanya at gmail.com) for his thorough testing of new BackendListener and Graphite Client implementation.</li>
<li>Marcelo Jara (marcelojara at hotmail.com) for his clear report on <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57607">
Bug
57607</a>.</li>
</ul>
Apologies if we have omitted anyone else.
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Known bugs">Known bugs</h2>
<ul>
<li>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</li>
<li>
The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
the total number of threads only applies to a locally run test, otherwise it will show 0 (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55510">
Bug
55510</a>).
</li>
<li>
Note that there is a <a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6396599 ">bug in Java</a>
on some Linux systems that manifests itself as the following error when running the test cases or JMeter itself:
<pre>
[java] WARNING: Couldn't flush user prefs:
java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not supported: indent-number
</pre>
This does not affect JMeter operation. This issue is fixed since Java 7b05.
</li>
<li>
Note that under some windows systems you may have this WARNING:
<pre class="source">
java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0
x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(&hellip;) returned error code 5.
</pre>
The fix is to run JMeter as Administrator, it will create the registry key for you, then you can restart JMeter as a normal user and you won't have the warning anymore.
</li>
<li>
With Java 1.6 and Gnome 3 on Linux systems, the JMeter menu may not work correctly (shift between mouse's click and the menu).
This is a known Java bug (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54477">
Bug
54477</a>).
A workaround is to use a Java 7 runtime (OpenJDK or Oracle JDK).
</li>
<li>
With Oracle Java 7 and Mac Book Pro Retina Display, the JMeter GUI may look blurry.
This is a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8000629">JDK-8000629</a>.
A workaround is to use a Java 7 update 40 runtime which fixes this issue.
</li>
<li>
You may encounter the following error: <i>java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints</i>
if you run a HTTPS request on a web site with a SSL certificate (itself or one of SSL certificates in its chain of trust) with a signature
algorithm using MD2 (like md2WithRSAEncryption) or with a SSL certificate with a size lower than 1024 bits.
This error is related to increased security in Java 7 version u16 (MD2) and version u40 (Certificate size lower than 1024 bits), and Java 8 too.
<br>
To allow you to perform your HTTPS request, you can downgrade the security of your Java installation by editing
the Java <b>jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms</b> property. Remove the MD2 value or the constraint on size, depending on your case.
<br>
This property is in this file:
<pre>JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security</pre>
See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56357">
Bug
56357</a> for details.
</li>
</ul>
<h1>Version 2.12</h1>
<p>
Summary
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Known bugs">Known bugs</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Improvements">Improvements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Thanks">Thanks</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">Java 8 support</h3>
<p>Now, JMeter 2.12 is compliant with Java 8.</p>
<h2 class="ch_category">New Elements</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">Critical Section Controller</h3>
<p>The Critical Section Controller allow to serialize the execution of a section in your tree.
Only one instance of the section will be executed at the same time during the test.</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/01_critical_section_controller.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/01_critical_section_controller.png" width="683" height="240" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">DNS Cache Manager</h3>
<p>The new configuration element <b>DNS Cache Manager</b>(see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56841">
Bug
56841</a>) improves the testing of:
<ul>
<li>CDN (Content Delivery Network)</li>
<li>DNS load balancing.</li>
<li>Load Balancers like Amazon Elastic Load Balancer</li>
</ul>
</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/02_dns_cache_manager.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/02_dns_cache_manager.png" width="573" height="359" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h2 class="ch_category">Core Improvements</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">Smarter Recording of Http Test Plans</h3>
<p>Test Script Recorder has been improved in many ways</p>
<ul>
<li>Better matching of Variables in Requests, making Test Script Recorder variabilize your sampler during recording more versatile</li>
<li>Ability to filter from View Results Tree the Samples that are excluded from recording, this lets you concentrate on recorded Samplers analysis and not bother with useless Sample Results
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/14_recorder_filter.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/14_recorder_filter.png" width="1094" height="647" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</li>
<li>Better defaults for recording, since this version Recorder will number created Samplers letting you find them much easily in View Results Tree.
Grouping of Samplers under Transaction Controller will be smarter making all requests emitted by a web page be children as new Transaction Controller</li>
</ul>
<h3 class="ch_title">Support of Webdav requests</h3>
<p>You can now test against WebDav server using HttpClient4 Implementation of Http Request</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/13_webdav.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/13_webdav.png" width="989" height="406" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">Better handling of embedded resources</h3>
<p>When download embedded resources is checked, JMeter now uses User Agent header to download or not resources embedded within conditional comments as per <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512%28v=vs.85%29.aspx" target="_blank">About conditional comments</a>.</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Ability to customize Cache Manager (Browser cache simulation) handling of cached resources</h3>
<p>You can now configure the behaviour of JMeter when a resource is found in Cache, this can be controlled with <i>cache_manager.cached_resource_mode</i> property</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/12_cache_resource_mode.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/12_cache_resource_mode.png" width="1024" height="314" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">JMS Publisher / JMS Point-to-Point</h3>
<p> Add JMSPriority and JMSExpiration fields for these samplers.</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/04_jms_publisher.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/04_jms_publisher.png" width="877" height="314" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/05_jms_point_to_point.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/05_jms_point_to_point.png" width="877" height="293" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">Mail Reader Sampler</h3>
<p>You can now specify the number of messages that want you retrieve (before all messages were retrieved).
In addition, you can fetch only the message header now.</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/03_mail_reader_sampler.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/03_mail_reader_sampler.png" width="814" height="416" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">SMTP Sampler</h3>
<p>Adding the Connection timeout and the Read timeout to the <b>SMTP Sampler.</b>
</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/06_smtp_sampler.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/06_smtp_sampler.png" width="796" height="192" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">Synchronizing Timer </h3>
<p>Adding a timeout to define the maximum time to waiting of the group of virtual users.</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/09_synchronizing_timer.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/09_synchronizing_timer.png" width="546" height="144" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">Performance improvements</h3>
<p>A big improvement in performances of Functions has been made by lifting useless synchronization. It concerns all functions except __StringFromFile, __XPath and __BeanShell, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57114">
Bug
57114</a>
</p>
<p>__jexl2 performances have been improved to avoid contention point, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56708">
Bug
56708</a>
</p>
<h2 class="ch_category">GUI Improvements</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">Undo/Redo support</h3>
<p>Undo / Redo has been introduced and allows user to undo/redo changes made on Test Plan Tree. This feature (ALPHA MODE) is disabled by default, to enable it set property <b>undo.history.size=25</b>
</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/10_undo_redo.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/10_undo_redo.png" width="1024" height="56" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">View Results Tree</h3>
<p>Improve the ergonomics of View Results Tree by changing placement of Renderers and allowing custom ordering
(with the property <i>view.results.tree.renderers_order</i>).</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/07_view_results_tree.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/07_view_results_tree.png" width="900" height="329" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">Response Time Graph</h3>
<p>Adding the ability for the <b>Response Time Graph</b> listener to save/restore format its settings in/from the jmx file.</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/08_response_time_graph.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/08_response_time_graph.png" width="997" height="574" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">Log Viewer</h3>
<p>Starting with this version, the last lines of JMeter's log file (jmeter.log) can be viewed directly in GUI by clicking on Warning icon in the upper right corner.
This will unfold the Log Viewer panel and show logs.</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/11_log_viewer.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/11_log_viewer.png" width="1024" height="437" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h3 class="ch_title">File Opening</h3>
<p>Now, "Open File dialog" uses last opened file folder as start folder, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52707">
Bug
52707</a>
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Known bugs">Known bugs</h2>
<ul>
<li>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</li>
<li>
The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
the total number of threads only applies to a locally run test, otherwise it will show 0 (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55510">
Bug
55510</a>).
</li>
<li>
Note that there is a <a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6396599 ">bug in Java</a>
on some Linux systems that manifests itself as the following error when running the test cases or JMeter itself:
<pre>
[java] WARNING: Couldn't flush user prefs:
java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not supported: indent-number
</pre>
This does not affect JMeter operation. This issue is fixed since Java 7b05.
</li>
<li>
Note that under some windows systems you may have this WARNING:
<pre class="source">
java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0
x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(&hellip;) returned error code 5.
</pre>
The fix is to run JMeter as Administrator, it will create the registry key for you, then you can restart JMeter as a normal user and you won't have the warning anymore.
</li>
<li>
With Java 1.6 and Gnome 3 on Linux systems, the JMeter menu may not work correctly (shift between mouse's click and the menu).
This is a known Java bug (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54477 ">
Bug
54477 </a>).
A workaround is to use a Java 7 runtime (OpenJDK or Oracle JDK).
</li>
<li>
With Oracle Java 7 and Mac Book Pro Retina Display, the JMeter GUI may look blurry.
This is a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8000629">JDK-8000629</a>.
A workaround is to use a Java 7 update 40 runtime which fixes this issue.
</li>
<li>
You may encounter the following error: <i>java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints</i>
if you run a HTTPS request on a web site with a SSL certificate (itself or one of SSL certificates in its chain of trust) with a signature
algorithm using MD2 (like md2WithRSAEncryption) or with a SSL certificate with a size lower than 1024 bits.
This error is related to increased security in Java 7 version u16 (MD2) and version u40 (Certificate size lower than 1024 bits), and Java 8 too.
<br>
To allow you to perform your HTTPS request, you can downgrade the security of your Java installation by editing
the Java <b>jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms</b> property. Remove the MD2 value or the constraint on size, depending on your case.
<br>
This property is in this file:
<pre>JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security</pre>
See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56357">
Bug
56357</a> for details.
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Since JMeter 2.12, active threads in all thread groups and active threads in current thread group are saved by default to CSV or XML results, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57025">
Bug
57025</a>.
This is usually the expected behaviour as you want to have the number of running threads during the test. But if you want to revert to previous behaviour, set property <b>jmeter.save.saveservice.thread_counts=false</b>
</li>
<li>Since JMeter 2.12, Mail Reader Sampler will show 1 for number of samples instead of number of messages retrieved, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56539">
Bug
56539</a>
</li>
<li>Since JMeter 2.12, when using Cache Manager, if resource is found in cache no SampleResult will be created, in previous version a SampleResult with empty content and 204 return code was returned, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54778">
Bug
54778</a>.
You can choose between different ways to handle this case, see <span class="code">cache_manager.cached_resource_mode</span> in <span class="code">jmeter.properties</span>.</li>
<li>Since JMeter 2.12, Log Viewer will no more clear logs when closed and will have logs available even if closed. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56920">
Bug
56920</a>. Read <a href="./usermanual/hints_and_tips.html#debug_logging">Hints and Tips &gt; Enabling Debug logging</a>
for details on configuring this component.</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55998">
Bug
55998</a> - HTTP recording &ndash; Replacing port value by user defined variable does not work</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56178">
Bug
56178</a> - keytool error: Invalid escaped character in AVA: - some characters must be escaped</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56222">
Bug
56222</a> - NPE if jmeter.httpclient.strict_rfc2616=true and location is not absolute</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56263">
Bug
56263</a> - DefaultSamplerCreator should set BrowserCompatible Multipart true</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56231">
Bug
56231</a> - Move redirect location processing from HC3/HC4 samplers to HTTPSamplerBase#followRedirects()</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56207">
Bug
56207</a> - URLs get encoded on redirects in HC3.1 &amp; HC4 samplers</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56303">
Bug
56303</a> - The width of target controller's combo list should be set to the current panel size, not on label size of the controllers</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54778">
Bug
54778</a> - HTTP Sampler should not return 204 when resource is found in Cache, make it configurable with new property cache_manager.cached_resource_mode</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55977">
Bug
55977</a> - JDBC pool keepalive flooding</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55999">
Bug
55999</a> - Scroll bar on jms point-to-point sampler does not work when content exceeds display</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56198">
Bug
56198</a> - JMSSampler : NullPointerException is thrown when JNDI underlying implementation of JMS provider does not comply with <span class="code">Context.getEnvironment</span> contract</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56428">
Bug
56428</a> - MailReaderSampler - should it use mail.pop3s.* properties?</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46932">
Bug
46932</a> - Alias given in select statement is not used as column header in response data for a JDBC request. Based on report and analysis of Nicola Ambrosetti</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56539">
Bug
56539</a> - Mail reader sampler: When Number of messages to retrieve is superior to 1, Number of samples should only show 1 not the number of messages retrieved</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56809">
Bug
56809</a> - JMSSampler closes InitialContext too early. Contributed by Bradford Hovinen (hovinen at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56761">
Bug
56761</a> - JMeter tries to stop already stopped JMS connection and displays "The connection is closed"</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57068">
Bug
57068</a> - No error thrown when negative duration is entered in Test Action</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57078">
Bug
57078</a> - LagartoBasedHTMLParser fails to parse page that contains input with no type</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57183">
Bug
57183</a> - JMSSampler: For input string: "" java.lang.NumberFormatException (for Expiration or Priority fields)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56243">
Bug
56243</a> - Foreach works incorrectly with indexes on subsequent iterations </li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56276">
Bug
56276</a> - Loop controller becomes broken once loop count evaluates to zero </li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56160">
Bug
56160</a> - StackOverflowError when using WhileController within IfController</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56811">
Bug
56811</a> - "Start Next Thread Loop" in Result Status Action Handler or on Thread Group and "Go to next Loop iteration" in Test Action behave incorrectly with TransactionController that has "Generate Parent Sampler" checked</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56706">
Bug
56706</a> - SampleResult#getResponseDataAsString() does not use encoding in response body impacting PostProcessors and ViewResultsTree. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57052">
Bug
57052</a> - ArithmeticException: / by zero when sampleCount is equal to 0</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56162">
Bug
56162</a> - HTTP Cache Manager should not cache PUT/POST etc.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56227">
Bug
56227</a> - AssertionGUI : NPE in assertion on mouse selection</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41319">
Bug
41319</a> - URLRewritingModifier : Allow Parameter value to be url encoded</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56111">
Bug
56111</a> - "comments" in german translation is not correct</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56059">
Bug
56059</a> - Older TestBeans incompatible with 2.11 when using TextAreaEditor</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56080">
Bug
56080</a> - Conversion error com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.ConversionException with Java 8 Early Access Build</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56182">
Bug
56182</a> - Can't trigger bsh script using bshclient.jar; socket is closed unexpectedly </li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56360">
Bug
56360</a> - HashTree and ListedHashTree fail to compile with Java 8</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56419">
Bug
56419</a> - JMeter silently fails to save results</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56662">
Bug
56662</a> - Save as xml in a listener is not remembered</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56367">
Bug
56367</a> - JMeter 2.11 on maven central triggers a not existing dependency rsyntaxtextarea 2.5.1, upgrade to 2.5.3</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56743">
Bug
56743</a> - Wrong mailing list archives on mail2.xml. Contributed by Felix Schumacher (felix.schumacher at internetallee.de)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56763">
Bug
56763</a> - Removing the Oracle icons, not used by JMeter (and missing license)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54100">
Bug
54100</a> - Switching languages fails to preserve toolbar button states (enabled/disabled)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54648">
Bug
54648</a> - JMeter GUI on OS X crashes when using CMD+C (keyboard shortcut or UI menu entry) on an element from the tree</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56962">
Bug
56962</a> - JMS GUIs should disable all fields affected by jndi.properties checkbox</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57061">
Bug
57061</a> - Save as Test Fragment fails to clone deeply selected node. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57075">
Bug
57075</a> - BeanInfoSupport.MULTILINE attribute is not processed</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57076">
Bug
57076</a> - BooleanPropertyEditor#getAsText() must return a value that is in getTags()</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57088">
Bug
57088</a> - NPE in ResultCollector.testEnded</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Improvements">Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55959">
Bug
55959</a> - Improve error message when Test Script Recorder fails due to I/O problem</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52013">
Bug
52013</a> - Test Script Recorder's Child View Results Tree does not take into account Test Script Recorder excluded/included URLs. Based on report and analysis of James Liang</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56119">
Bug
56119</a> - File uploads fail every other attempt using timers. Enable idle timeouts for servers that don't send Keep-Alive headers.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56272">
Bug
56272</a> - MirrorServer should support query parameters for status and redirects</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56772">
Bug
56772</a> - Handle IE Conditional comments when parsing embedded resources</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57026">
Bug
57026</a> - HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder : Better default settings. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57107">
Bug
57107</a> - Patch proposal: Add DAV verbs to HTTP Sampler. Contributed by Philippe Jung (apache at famille-jung.fr)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56357">
Bug
56357</a> - Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints: Adding a note to indicate how to remove of the Java installation these new security constraints</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56033">
Bug
56033</a> - Add Connection timeout and Read timeout to SMTP Sampler</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56429">
Bug
56429</a> - MailReaderSampler - no need to fetch all Messages if not all wanted</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56427">
Bug
56427</a> - MailReaderSampler enhancement: read message header only</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56510">
Bug
56510</a> - JMS Publisher/Point to Point: Add JMSPriority and JMSExpiration</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56728">
Bug
56728</a> - New Critical Section Controller to serialize blocks of a Test. Based partly on a patch contributed by Mikhail Epikhin(epihin-m at yandex.ru)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57145">
Bug
57145</a> - RandomController : Use ThreadLocalRandom instead of Random for better performances</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56228">
Bug
56228</a> - View Results Tree : Improve ergonomy by changing placement of Renderers and allowing custom ordering</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56349">
Bug
56349</a> - "summary" is a bad name for a Generate Summary Results component, documentation clarified</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56769">
Bug
56769</a> - Adds the ability for the Response Time Graph listener to save/restore format settings in/from the jmx file</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57025">
Bug
57025</a> - SaveService : Better defaults, save thread counts by default</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56691">
Bug
56691</a> - Synchronizing Timer : Add timeout on waiting</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56701">
Bug
56701</a> - HTTP Authorization Manager/ Kerberos Authentication: add port to SPN when server port is neither 80 nor 443. Based on patches from Dan Haughey (dan.haughey at swinton.co.uk) and Felix Schumacher (felix.schumacher at internetallee.de)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56841">
Bug
56841</a> - New configuration element: DNS Cache Manager to improve the testing of CDN. Based on patch from Dzmitry Kashlach (dzmitrykashlach at gmail.com), and contributed by BlazeMeter Ltd.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52061">
Bug
52061</a> - Allow access to Request Headers in Regex Extractor. Based on patch from Dzmitry Kashlach (dzmitrykashlach at gmail.com), and contributed by BlazeMeter Ltd.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56708">
Bug
56708</a> - __jexl2 doesn't scale with multiple CPU cores. Based on analysis and patch contributed by Mikhail Epikhin(epihin-m at yandex.ru)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57114">
Bug
57114</a> - Performance : Functions that only have values as instance variable should not synchronize execute. Based on analysis by Ubik Load Pack support and Vladimir Sitnikov, patch contributed by Vladimir Sitnikov (sitnikov.vladimir at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21695">
Bug
21695</a> - Unix jmeter start script assumes it is on PATH, not a link</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56292">
Bug
56292</a> - Add the check of the Java's version in startup files and disable some options when is Java v8 engine</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56298">
Bug
56298</a> - JSR223 language display does not show which engine will be used</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56455">
Bug
56455</a> - Batch files: drop support for non-NT Windows shell scripts</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52707">
Bug
52707</a> - Make Open File dialog use last opened file folder as start folder. Based on patch from Dzmitry Kashlach (dzmitrykashlach at gmail.com), and contributed by BlazeMeter Ltd.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56807">
Bug
56807</a> - Ability to force flush of ResultCollector file. Contributed by Andrey Pohilko (apc4 at ya.ru)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56921">
Bug
56921</a> - Templates : Improve Recording template to ignore embedded resources case and URL parameters. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42248">
Bug
42248</a> - Undo-redo support on Test Plan tree modification. Developed by Andrey Pohilko (apc4 at ya.ru) and contributed by BlazeMeter Ltd. Additional contribution by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56920">
Bug
56920</a> - LogViewer : Make it receive all log events even when it is closed. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57083">
Bug
57083</a> - simplified the CachedResourceMode enum. Contributed by Graham Russel (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57082">
Bug
57082</a> - ComboStringEditor : Added hashCode to an inner class which overwrote equals. Contributed by Graham Russel (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57081">
Bug
57081</a> - Updating checkstyle to only check for tabs in java, xml, xsd, dtd, htm, html and txt files (not images!). Contributed by Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56178">
Bug
56178</a> - Really replace backslashes in user name before generating proxy certificate. Contributed by Graham Russel (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57084">
Bug
57084</a> - Close socket after usage in BeanShellClient. Contributed by Graham Russel (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57117">
Bug
57117</a> - Increase the default cipher for HTTPS Test Script Recorder from SSLv3 to TLS</li>
<li>Updated to commons-lang3 3.3.2 (from 3.1)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-codec 1.9 (from 1.8)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-logging 1.2 (from 1.1.3)</li>
<li>Updated to tika 1.6 (from 1.4)</li>
<li>Updated to xercesImpl 2.11.0 (from 2.9.1)</li>
<li>Updated to xml-apis 1.4.01 (from 1.3.04)</li>
<li>Updated to xstream 1.4.8 (from 1.4.4)</li>
<li>Updated to jodd 3.6.1 (from 3.4.10)</li>
<li>Updated to rsyntaxtextarea 2.5.3 (from 2.5.1)</li>
<li>Updated xalan and serializer to 2.7.2 (from 2.7.1)</li>
<li>Updated to jsoup-1.8.1.jar (from 1.7.3)</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Thanks">Thanks</h2>
<p>We thank all contributors mentioned in bug and improvement sections above:
<ul>
<li>James Liang (jliang at andera.com)</li>
<li>Emmanuel Bourg (ebourg at apache.org)</li>
<li>Nicola Ambrosetti (ambrosetti.nicola at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="http://ubikloadpack.com">Ubik Load Pack</a>
</li>
<li>Mikhail Epikhin (epihin-m at yandex.ru)</li>
<li>Dan Haughey (dan.haughey at swinton.co.uk)</li>
<li>Felix Schumacher (felix.schumacher at internetallee.de)</li>
<li>Dzmitry Kashlach (dzmitrykashlach at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Andrey Pohilko (apc4 at ya.ru)</li>
<li>Bradford Hovinen (hovinen at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="http://blazemeter.com">BlazeMeter Ltd.</a>
</li>
<li>Graham Russell (graham at ham1.co.uk)</li>
<li>Philippe Jung (apache at famille-jung.fr)</li>
<li>Vladimir Sitnikov (sitnikov.vladimir at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<br>
We also thank bug reporters who helped us improve JMeter. <br>
For this release we want to give special thanks to the following reporters for the clear reports and tests made after our fixes:
<ul>
<li>Oliver LLoyd (email at oliverlloyd.com) for his help on <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56119">
Bug
56119</a>
</li>
<li>Vladimir Ryabtsev (greatvovan at gmail.com) for his help on <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56243">
Bug
56243</a> and <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56276">
Bug
56276</a>
</li>
<li>Adrian Speteanu (asp.adieu at gmail.com) and Matt Kilbride (matt.kilbride at gmail.com) for their feedback and tests on <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54648">
Bug
54648</a>
</li>
<li>Shmuel Krakower (shmulikk at gmail.com) for his tests and reports on Undo/Redo feature</li>
</ul>
Apologies if we have omitted anyone else.
</p>
<h1>Version 2.11</h1>
<p>
Summary
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Known bugs">Known bugs</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Improvements">Improvements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Thanks">Thanks</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder improvements</h3>
<p>
Following improvements have been made since major changes introduced in JMeter 2.10 on HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder:
<ul>
<li>Better detection of missing or invalid configuration of keytool utility</li>
<li>New system property <span class="code">keytool.directory</span> (see <span class="code">system.properties</span>) lets you configure directory containing keytool in case on non-standard installation</li>
</ul>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">JMS Publisher/Point to Point : Add ability to set typed values in JMS header properties</h3>
<p>In the samplers JMS Publisher and JMS Point-to-Point, you can now set up the class of values for the JMS header properties. Previously only String was possible.</p>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.11/01_jms_properties_typed_values.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.11/01_jms_properties_typed_values.png" width="928" height="796" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">View Results Tree : Add an XPath Tester </h3>
<p>In View Results Tree listener, a new XPath tester can be used to test XPATH expressions.</p>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.11/03_xpath_tester.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.11/03_xpath_tester.png" width="990" height="765" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Ability to choose the client alias for the cert key in JsseSslManager such that Mutual SSL auth testing can be made more flexible</h3>
<p>When testing client based certificate authentications you have now better control on certificate you use through a new field "Variable name holding certificate alias", this
field lets you select the certificate you want to send to server to authenticate. You can use a CSV Data Set as a holder for the variable value.</p>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.11/07_keystore_config.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.11/07_keystore_config.png" width="471" height="189" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Add a "Save as Test Fragment" option </h3>
<p>In the file menu, a new option allow to save a group of elements as a Test fragment.</p>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.11/05_save_as_fragement.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.11/05_save_as_fragement.png" width="295" height="242" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Summariser is be enabled by default in Non GUI mode</h3>
<p>When you run JMeter from command line, now JMeter displays some statistics from the Summariser mode.</p>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.11/06_summariser.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.11/06_summariser.png" width="1287" height="386" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Transaction Controller:Change default property "Include duration of timer&hellip;" for newly created element</h3>
<p>Starting from 2.11, Transaction Controller is configured by default to exclude processing time of pre/post processors as long as timers pause.</p>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.11/02_transaction_controller.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.11/02_transaction_controller.png" width="628" height="140" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Known bugs">Known bugs</h2>
<ul>
<li>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</li>
<li>Listeners don't show iteration counts when a If Controller has a condition which is always false from the first iteration (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52496">
Bug
52496</a>).
A workaround is to add a sampler at the same level as (or superior to) the If Controller.
For example a Test Action sampler with 0 wait time (which doesn't generate a sample),
or a Debug Sampler with all fields set to False (to reduce the sample size).
</li>
<li>
The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
the total number of threads only applies to a locally run test, otherwise it will show 0 (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55510">
Bug
55510</a>).
</li>
<li>
Note that there is a <a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6396599 ">bug in Java</a>
on some Linux systems that manifests itself as the following error when running the test cases or JMeter itself:
<pre>
[java] WARNING: Couldn't flush user prefs:
java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not supported: indent-number
</pre>
This does not affect JMeter operation. This issue is fixed since Java 7b05.
</li>
<li>
With Java 1.6 and Gnome 3 on Linux systems, the JMeter menu may not work correctly (shift between mouse's click and the menu).
This is a known Java bug (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54477 ">
Bug
54477 </a>).
A workaround is to use a Java 7 runtime (OpenJDK or Oracle JDK).
</li>
<li>
With Oracle Java 7 and Mac Book Pro Retina Display, the JMeter GUI may look blurry.
This is a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8000629">JDK-8000629</a>.
A workaround is to use a Java 7 update 40 runtime which fixes this issue.
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>When creating a new Transaction Controller, property "Include duration of timer and pre-post processors in generated sample" will be unchecked starting from version 2.11</li>
<li>In Non GUI mode, since 2.11 summariser is enabled with a 30 seconds frequency</li>
<li>JMeter is more lenient with redirect handling and relaxes on RFC2616 by allowing relative locations. See property "<span class="code">jmeter.httpclient.strict_rfc2616</span>" in <span class="code">jmeter.properties</span> to change this behaviour, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55717">
Bug
55717</a>
</li>
<li>When creating a new Response Assertion, property "Pattern Matching Rules" now defaults to Substring starting from version 2.11</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55815">
Bug
55815</a> - Proxy#getDomainMatch does not handle wildcards correctly</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55717">
Bug
55717</a> - Bad handling of Redirect when URLs are in relative format by HttpClient4 and HttpClient3.1</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55685">
Bug
55685</a> - OS Sampler: timeout option don't save and restore correctly value and don't init correctly timeout</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55816">
Bug
55816</a> - Transaction Controller with "Include duration of timer&hellip;" unchecked does not ignore processing time of last child sampler</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55826">
Bug
55826</a> - Unsynchronised concurrent accesses to list in field RespTimeGraphVisualizer.internalList </li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55694">
Bug
55694</a> - Assertions and Extractors : Avoid NullPointerException when scope is variable and variable is missing</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55721">
Bug
55721</a> - HTTP Cache Manager - no-store directive is wrongly interpreted</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55871">
Bug
55871</a> - Wrong result with intSum() function when a space character is present before/after the number. Contributed by Milamber based on a proposal by James Liang.</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55739">
Bug
55739</a> - Remote Test : Total threads in GUI mode shows invalid total number of threads</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Improvements">Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Proxy</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55589">
Bug
55589</a> - JMS Publisher/Point to Point : Add ability to set typed values in JMS header properties.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55854">
Bug
55854</a> - Transaction Controller:Change default property "Include duration of timer&hellip;" for newly created element</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55610">
Bug
55610</a> - View Results Tree : Add an XPath Tester</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55908">
Bug
55908</a> - Response assertion : Change Pattern Matching Rules default to Substring on creation for better performances</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54977">
Bug
54977</a> - Ability to choose the client alias for the cert key in JsseSslManager such that Mutual SSL auth testing can be made more flexible. Contributed by UBIK Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55693">
Bug
55693</a> - Add a "Save as Test Fragment" option</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55753">
Bug
55753</a> - Improve FilePanel behaviour to start from the value set in Filename field if any. Contributed by UBIK Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55756">
Bug
55756</a> - HTTP Mirror Server : Add ability to set Headers</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55852">
Bug
55852</a> - Be more lenient in parsing when charset value is surrounded with single quotes</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55857">
Bug
55857</a> - Performance : AbstractProperty should test for emptiness to avoid Exception throwing</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55858">
Bug
55858</a> - Startup Performance : On Startup, BeanInfoSupport should test for key availability instead of throwing</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55865">
Bug
55865</a> - Performance :Disable stale check by default in HttpClient 4 and 3.1</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55512">
Bug
55512</a> - Summariser should be enabled by default in Non GUI mode</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Updated to rsyntaxtextarea-2.5.1.jar (from 2.5.0)</li>
<li>Updated to jodd-core-3.4.9.jar from (3.4.8) and jodd-lagarto-3.4.9.jar (from 3.4.9)</li>
<li>Updated to jsoup-1.7.3.jar (from 1.7.2)</li>
<li>Updated to mail-1.5.0-b01 (from 1.4.4)</li>
<li>Updated to mongo-java-driver-2.11.3 (from 2.11.2)</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Thanks">Thanks</h2>
<p>We thank all contributors mentioned in bug and improvement sections above:
<ul>
<li>James Liang (jliang at andera.com)</li>
<li>UBIK Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
</ul>
<br>
We also thank bug reporters who helped us improve JMeter. <br>
For this release we want to give special thanks to the following reporters for the clear reports and tests made after our fixes:
<ul>
<li>John Natsioulas (john_natsioulas at yahoo.com.au)</li>
<li>Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
Apologies if we have omitted anyone else.
</p>
<h1>Version 2.10</h1>
<p>
Summary
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Known bugs">Known bugs</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Improvements">Improvements</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#Thanks">Thanks</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2>
<h2 class="ch_category">Core Improvements</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">New Performance improvements</h3>
<p>
<ul>
<li>A Huge performance improvement has been made on High Throughput Tests (no pause), see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54777">
Bug
54777</a>
</li>
<li>An issue with unnecessary SSL Context reset has been fixed which improves performances of pure HTTP tests, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55023">
Bug
55023</a>
</li>
<li>Important performance improvement in parsing of Embedded resource in HTML pages thanks to a switch to JODD/Lagarto HTML Parser, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55632">
Bug
55632</a>
</li>
</ul>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">New CSS/JQuery Tester in View Tree Results</h3>
<p>A new CSS/JQuery Tester in View Tree Results that makes CSS/JQuery Extractor a first class
citizen in JMeter, you can now test your expressions very easily</p>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/01_css_jquery_tester.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/01_css_jquery_tester.png" width="1144" height="638" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Many improvements in HTTP(S) Recording have been made</h3>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/18_https_test_script_recorder.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/18_https_test_script_recorder.png" width="691" height="215" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<div class="clear"></div>
<div class="note">
The "HTTP Proxy Server" test element has been renamed as "HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder".
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
<ul>
<li>Better recording of HTTPS sites, embedded resources using subdomains will more easily be recorded when using JDK 7. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55507">
Bug
55507</a>.
See updated documentation: <a href="./usermanual/component_reference.html#HTTP(S)_Test_Script_Recorder">HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder</a>
</li>
<li>Redirection are now more smartly detected by HTTP Proxy Server, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55531">
Bug
55531</a>
</li>
<li>Many fixes on edge cases with HTTPS have been made, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55502">
Bug
55502</a>, <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55504">
Bug
55504</a>, <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55506">
Bug
55506</a>
</li>
<li>Many encoding fixes have been made, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54482">
Bug
54482</a>, <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54142">
Bug
54142</a>, <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54293">
Bug
54293</a>
</li>
</ul>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">You can now load test MongoDB through new MongoDB Source Config</h3>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/02_mongodb_source_config.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/02_mongodb_source_config.png" width="912" height="486" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/14_mongodb_jsr223.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/14_mongodb_jsr223.png" width="850" height="687" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Kerberos authentication has been added to Auth Manager</h3>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/15_kerberos.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/15_kerberos.png" width="1005" height="364" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Device can now be used in addition to source IP address</h3>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/16_device.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/16_device.png" width="1087" height="699" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">You can now do functional testing of MongoDB scripts through new MongoDB Script</h3>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/03_mongodb_script_alpha.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/03_mongodb_script_alpha.png" width="906" height="313" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Timeout has been added to OS Process Sampler</h3>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/17_os_process_timeout.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/17_os_process_timeout.png" width="684" height="586" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Query timeout has been added to JDBC Request</h3>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/04_jdbc_request_timeout.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/04_jdbc_request_timeout.png" width="540" height="600" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">New functions (__urlencode and __urldecode) are now available to encode/decode URL encoded chars</h3>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/05_urlencode_function.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/05_urlencode_function.png" width="512" height="240" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Continuous Integration is now eased by addition of a new flag that forces NON-GUI JVM to exit after test end</h3>
<p>See jmeter property:</p>
<span class="code">jmeterengine.force.system.exit</span>
<p></p>
<h3 class="ch_title">HttpSampler now allows DELETE Http Method to have a body (works for HC4 and HC31 implementations). This allows for example to test Elastic Search APIs</h3>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/06_http_request_delete_method.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/06_http_request_delete_method.png" width="573" height="444" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">2 implementations of HtmlParser have been added to improve Embedded resources parsing</h3>
<p>
You can choose the implementation to use for parsing Embedded resources in HTML pages:
See jmeter.properties and look at property "htmlParser.className".
<ul>
<li>org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.parser.LagartoBasedHtmlParser for optimal performances</li>
<li>org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.parser.JSoupBasedHtmlParser for most accurate parsing and functional testing</li>
</ul>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Distributed testing has been improved</h3>
<p>
<ul>
<li>
Number of threads on each node are now reported to controller.
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/17_threads_summariser.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/17_threads_summariser.png" width="988" height="355" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/17_threads_gui.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/17_threads_gui.png" width="125" height="33" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
</li>
<li>Performance improvement on BatchSampleSender(<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55423">
Bug
55423</a>)</li>
<li>Addition of 2 SampleSender modes (StrippedAsynch and StrippedDiskStore), see jmeter.properties</li>
</ul>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">ModuleController has been improved to better handle changes to referenced controllers</h3>
<h3 class="ch_title">Improved class loader configuration, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55503">
Bug
55503</a>
</h3>
<p>
<ul>
<li>New property "plugin_dependency_paths" for plugin dependencies</li>
<li>Properties "search_paths", "user.classpath" and "plugin_dependency_paths"
now automatically add all jars from configured directories</li>
</ul>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Best-practices section has been improved, ensure you read it to get the most out of JMeter</h3>
<p>See <a href="usermanual/best-practices.html">Best Practices</a>
</p>
<h2 class="ch_category">GUI and ergonomy Improvements</h2>
<h3 class="ch_title">New Templates feature that allows you to create test plan from existing template or merge
template into your Test Plan</h3>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/07_jmeter_templates_icon.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/07_jmeter_templates_icon.png" width="428" height="130" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/08_jmeter_templates_box.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/08_jmeter_templates_box.png" width="781" height="472" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Workbench can now be saved</h3>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/09_save_workbench.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/09_save_workbench.png" width="489" height="198" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Syntax color has been added to scripts elements (BeanShell, BSF, and JSR223), MongoDB and JDBC elements making code much more readable and allowing UNDO/REDO through CTRL+Z/CTRL+Y</h3>
<p>BSF Sampler with syntax color
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/10_color_syntax_bsf_sampler.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/10_color_syntax_bsf_sampler.png" width="915" height="620" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>JSR223 Pre Processor with syntax color
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/11_color_syntax_jsr223_preprocessor.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/11_color_syntax_jsr223_preprocessor.png" width="911" height="614" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Better editors are now available for Test Elements with large text content, like HTTP Sampler, and JMS related Test Element providing line numbering and allowing UNDO/REDO through CTRL+Z/CTRL+Y</h3>
<h3 class="ch_title">JMeter GUI can now be fully Internationalized, all remaining issues have been fixed</h3>
<h5>Currently French has all its labels translated. Other languages are partly translated, feel free to
contribute translations by reading <a href="localising/index.html">Localisation (Translator's Guide)</a>
</h5>
<h3 class="ch_title">Moving elements in Test plan has been improved in many ways</h3>
<h5>Drag and drop of elements in Test Plan tree is now much easier and possible on multiple nodes</h5>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/12_drap_n-drop_multiple.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/12_drap_n-drop_multiple.png" width="894" height="236" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>
<b>Note that due to this <a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6560955">bug in Java</a>,
you cannot drop a node after last node. The workaround is to drop it before this last node and then Drag and Drop the last node
before the one you just dropped.</b>
</p>
<h5>New shortcuts have been added to move elements in the tree. </h5>
<p>(alt + Arrow Up) and (alt + Arrow Down) move the element within the parent node<br>
(alt + Arrow Left) and (alt + Arrow Right) move the element up and down in the tree depth</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">Response Time Graph Y axis can now be scaled</h3>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/13_response_time_graph_y_scale.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.10/13_response_time_graph_y_scale.png" width="947" height="596" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3 class="ch_title">JUnit Sampler gives now more details on configuration errors</h3>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Known bugs">Known bugs</h2>
<ul>
<li>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</li>
<li>Listeners don't show iteration counts when a If Controller has a condition which is always false from the first iteration (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52496">
Bug
52496</a>).
A workaround is to add a sampler at the same level as (or superior to) the If Controller.
For example a Test Action sampler with 0 wait time (which doesn't generate a sample),
or a Debug Sampler with all fields set to False (to reduce the sample size).
</li>
<li>Webservice sampler does not consider the HTTP response status to compute the status of a response, thus a response 500 containing a non empty body will be considered as successful, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54006">
Bug
54006</a>.
To workaround this issue, ensure you always read the response and add a Response Assertion checking text inside the response.
</li>
<li>
The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
these only apply to a locally run test; they do not include any threads started on remote systems when using client-server mode, (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54152">
Bug
54152</a>).
</li>
<li>
Note that there is a <a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6396599 ">bug in Java</a>
on some Linux systems that manifests itself as the following error when running the test cases or JMeter itself:
<pre>
[java] WARNING: Couldn't flush user prefs:
java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not supported: indent-number
</pre>
This does not affect JMeter operation. This issue is fixed since Java 7b05.
</li>
<li>
With Java 1.6 and Gnome 3 on Linux systems, the JMeter menu may not work correctly (shift between mouse's click and the menu).
This is a known Java bug (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54477 ">
Bug
54477 </a>).
A workaround is to use a Java 7 runtime (OpenJDK or Oracle JDK).
</li>
<li>
With Oracle Java 7 and Mac Book Pro Retina Display, the JMeter GUI may look blurry.
This is a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8000629">JDK-8000629</a>.
A workaround is to use a Java 7 update 40 runtime which fixes this issue.
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<b>SMTP Sampler</b> now uses eml file subject if subject field is empty</li>
<li>With this version autoFlush has been turned off on PrintWriter in charge of writing test results.
This results in improved throughput for intensive tests but can result in more test data loss in case
of JMeter crash (extremely rare). To revert to previous behaviour set <span class="code">jmeter.save.saveservice.autoflush</span> property to <span class="code">true</span>.</li>
<li>
Shortcut for <b>Function Helper Dialog</b> is now <i>CTRL+SHIFT+F1 (CMD + SHIFT + F1 for Mac OS)</i>.
The original key sequence <i>(Ctrl+F1)</i> did not work in some locations (it is consumed by the Java Swing ToolTipManager).
It was therefore necessary to change the shortcut.
</li>
<li>
<b>Webservice (SOAP) Request</b> has been removed by default from GUI as Element is deprecated. (Use <b>HTTP Request</b>
with <i>Body Data</i>, see also the Template <i>Building a SOAP Webservice Test Plan</i>), if you need to show it, see property <span class="code">not_in_menu</span> in <i>jmeter.properties</i>
</li>
<li>
<b>Transaction Controller</b> now sets <i>Response Code</i> of <i>Generated Parent Sampler</i>
(if <i>Generated Parent Sampler</i> is checked) to response code of first failing child in case of failure of one of the children, in previous versions <i>Response Code</i> was empty.
</li>
<li>
In previous versions, <b>IncludeController</b> could run Test Elements located inside a <b>Thread Group</b>, this behaviour (<i>which was not documented</i>)
could result in weird behaviour, it has been removed in this version (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55464">
Bug
55464</a>).
The correct way to include Test Elements is to use <b>Test Fragment</b> as stated in documentation of <b>Include Controller</b>.
</li>
<li>
The retry count for the HttpClient 3.1 and HttpClient 4.x samplers has been changed to <b>0</b>.
Previously the default was 1, which could cause unexpected additional traffic.
</li>
<li>Starting with this version, the <b>HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder</b> tries to detect when a sample is the result of a previous
redirect. If the current response is a redirect, JMeter will save the redirect URL. When the next request is received,
it is compared with the saved redirect URL and if there is a match, JMeter will disable the generated sample.
To revert to previous behaviour, set the property <span class="code">proxy.redirect.disabling=false</span>
</li>
<li>Starting with this version, in <b>HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder</b> if Grouping is set to <i>Put each group in a new Transaction Controller</i>,
the Recorder will create <b>Transaction Controller</b> instances with <i>Include duration of timer and pre-post processors in generated sample</i> set
to false. This default value reflect more accurately response time.
</li>
<li>
<span class="code">__escapeOroRegexpChars</span> function (which escapes ORO reserved characters) no longer trims the value (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55328">
Bug
55328</a>)
</li>
<li>The <i>commons-lang-2.6.jar</i> has been removed from embedded libraries in <span class="code">jmeter/lib</span> folder as it is not needed by JMeter at run-time
(it is only used by Apache Velocity for generating documentation).
If you use any plugin or third-party code that depends on it, you need to add it in <span class="code">jmeter/lib</span> folder
</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Proxy</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54627">
Bug
54627</a> - JMeter Proxy GUI: Type of sampler setting takes the whole screen when there are samplers with long names.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54629">
Bug
54629</a> - HTMLParser does not extract &lt;object&gt; tag urls.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55023">
Bug
55023</a> - SSL Context reuse feature (51380) adversely affects non-ssl request performance/throughput. based on analysis by Brent Cromarty (brent.cromarty at yahoo.ca)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55092">
Bug
55092</a> - Log message "WARN - jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase: Null URL detected (should not happen)" displayed when embedded resource URL is malformed.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55161">
Bug
55161</a> - Useless processing in SoapSampler.setPostHeaders. Contributed by Adrian Nistor (nistor1 at illinois.edu)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54482">
Bug
54482</a> - HC fails to follow redirects with non-encoded chars.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54142">
Bug
54142</a> - HTTP Proxy Server throws an exception when path contains "|" character.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55388">
Bug
55388</a> - HC3 does not allow IP Source field to override httpclient.localaddress.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55450">
Bug
55450</a> - HEAD redirects should remain as HEAD</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55455">
Bug
55455</a> - HTTPS with HTTPClient4 ignores cps setting</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55502">
Bug
55502</a> - Proxy generates empty http:/ entries when recording</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55504">
Bug
55504</a> - Proxy incorrectly issues CONNECT requests when browser prompts for certificate override</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55506">
Bug
55506</a> - Proxy should deliver failed requests to any configured Listeners</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55545">
Bug
55545</a> - HTTP Proxy Server GUI should not allow both Follow and Auto redirect to be selected</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54913">
Bug
54913</a> - JMSPublisherGui incorrectly restores its state. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit.wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55027">
Bug
55027</a> - Test Action regression, duration value is not recorded (nightly build).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55163">
Bug
55163</a> - BeanShellTestElement fails to quote string when calling testStarted(String)/testEnded(String).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55349">
Bug
55349</a> - NativeCommand hangs if no input file is specified and the application requests input.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55462">
Bug
55462</a> - System Sampler should not change the sampler label if a sample fails</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54467">
Bug
54467</a> - Loop Controller: compute loop value only once per parent iteration.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54985">
Bug
54985</a> - Make Transaction Controller set Response Code of Generated Parent Sampler to response code of first failing child in case of failure of one of its children. Contributed by Mikhail Epikhin (epihin-m at yandex.ru)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54950">
Bug
54950</a> - ModuleController : Changes to referenced Module are not taken into account if changes occur after first run and referenced node is disabled.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55201">
Bug
55201</a> - ForEach controller excludes start index and includes end index (clarified documentation).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55334">
Bug
55334</a> - Adding Include Controller to test plan (made of Include Controllers) without saving TestPlan leads to included code not being taken into account until save.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55375">
Bug
55375</a> - StackOverflowError with ModuleController in Non-GUI mode if its name is the same as the target node.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55464">
Bug
55464</a> - Include Controller running included thread group</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54589">
Bug
54589</a> - View Results Tree have a lot of Garbage characters if html page uses double-byte charset.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54753">
Bug
54753</a> - StringIndexOutOfBoundsException at SampleResult.getSampleLabel() if key_on_threadname=false when using Statistical mode.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54685">
Bug
54685</a> - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if "sample_variable" is set in client but not server.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55111">
Bug
55111</a> - ViewResultsTree: text not refitted if vertical scrollbar is required. Contributed by Milamber</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54540">
Bug
54540</a> - "HTML Parameter Mask" are not marked deprecated in the IHM.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54575">
Bug
54575</a> - CSS/JQuery Extractor : Choosing JODD Implementation always uses JSOUP.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54901">
Bug
54901</a> - Response Assertion GUI behaves weirdly.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54924">
Bug
54924</a> - XMLAssertion uses JMeter JVM file.encoding instead of response encoding and does not clean threadlocal variable.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53679">
Bug
53679</a> - Constant Throughput Timer bug with localization. Reported by Ludovic Garcia</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55328">
Bug
55328</a> - __escapeOroRegexpChars trims spaces.</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55437">
Bug
55437</a> - ComboStringEditor does not translate EDIT and UNDEFINED strings on language change</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55501">
Bug
55501</a> - Incorrect encoding for French description of __char function. Contributed by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54504">
Bug
54504</a> - Resource string not found: [clipboard_node_read_error].</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54538">
Bug
54538</a> - GUI: context menu is too big.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54847">
Bug
54847</a> - Cut &amp; Paste is broken with tree multi-selection. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit.wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54870">
Bug
54870</a> - Tree drag and drop may lose leaf nodes (affected nightly build). Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit.wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55056">
Bug
55056</a> - wasted work in Data.append(). Contributed by Adrian Nistor (nistor1 at illinois.edu)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55129">
Bug
55129</a> - Change Javadoc generation per CVE-2013-1571, VU#225657.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55187">
Bug
55187</a> - Integer overflow when computing ONE_YEAR_MS in HTTP CacheManager.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55208">
Bug
55208</a> - JSR223 language entries are duplicated; fold to lower case.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55203">
Bug
55203</a> - TestBeanGUI - wrong language settings found.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55065">
Bug
55065</a> - Useless processing in Spline3.converge(). Contributed by Adrian Nistor (nistor1 at illinois.edu)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55064">
Bug
55064</a> - Useless processing in ReportTreeListener.isValidDragAction(). Contributed by Adrian Nistor (nistor1 at illinois.edu)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55242">
Bug
55242</a> - BeanShell Client jar throws exceptions after upgrading to 2.8.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55288">
Bug
55288</a> - JMeter should default to 0 retries for HTTP requests.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55405">
Bug
55405</a> - ant download_jars task fails if lib/api or lib/doc are missing. Contributed by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55427">
Bug
55427</a> - TestBeanHelper should ignore properties not supported by GenericTestBeanCustomizer</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55459">
Bug
55459</a> - Elements using ComboStringEditor lose the input value if user selects another Test Element</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54152">
Bug
54152</a> - In distributed testing : activeThreads always show 0 in GUI and Summariser</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55509">
Bug
55509</a> - Allow Plugins to be notified of remote thread number progression</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55572">
Bug
55572</a> - Detail popup of parameter does not show a Scrollbar when content exceeds display</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55580">
Bug
55580</a> - Help pane does not scroll to start for &lt;a href="#"&gt; links</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55600">
Bug
55600</a> - JSyntaxTextArea : Strange behaviour on first undo</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55655">
Bug
55655</a> - NullPointerException when Remote stopping /shutdown all if one engine did not start correctly. Contributed by UBIK Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55657">
Bug
55657</a> - Remote and Local Stop/Shutdown buttons state does not take into account local / remote status </li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Improvements">Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Proxy</h3>
<ul>
<li>HTTP Request: Small user interaction improvements in Row parameter Detail Box. Contributed by Milamber</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55255">
Bug
55255</a> - Allow Body in HTTP DELETE method to support API that use it (like ElasticSearch).</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53480">
Bug
53480</a> - Add Kerberos support to Http Sampler (HttpClient4). Based on patch by Felix Schumacher (felix.schumacher at internetallee.de)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54874">
Bug
54874</a> - Support device in addition to source IP address. Based on patch by Dan Fruehauf (malkodan at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55488">
Bug
55488</a> - Add .ico and .woff file extension to default suggested exclusions in proxy recorder. Contributed by Antonio Gomes Rodrigues</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55525">
Bug
55525</a> - Proxy should support alias for keyserver entry</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55531">
Bug
55531</a> - Proxy recording and redirects. Added code to disable redirected samples.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55507">
Bug
55507</a> - Proxy SSL recording does not handle external embedded resources well</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55632">
Bug
55632</a> - Have a new implementation of htmlParser for embedded resources parsing with better performances</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55653">
Bug
55653</a> - HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder should set TransactionController property "Include duration of timer and pre-post processors in generated sample" to false</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54788">
Bug
54788</a> - JMS Point-to-Point Sampler - GUI enhancements to increase readability and ease of use. Contributed by Bruno Antunes (b.m.antunes at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54798">
Bug
54798</a> - Using subject from EML-file for SMTP Sampler. Contributed by Mikhail Epikhin (epihin-m at yandex.ru)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54759">
Bug
54759</a> - SSLPeerUnverifiedException using HTTPS , property documented.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54896">
Bug
54896</a> - JUnit sampler gives only "failed to create an instance of the class" message with constructor problems.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55084">
Bug
55084</a> - Add timeout support for JDBC Request. Contributed by Mikhail Epikhin (epihin-m at yandex.ru)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55403">
Bug
55403</a> - Enhancement to OS sampler: Support for timeout</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55518">
Bug
55518</a> - Add ability to limit number of cached PreparedStatements per connection when "Prepared Select Statement", "Prepared Update Statement" or "Callable Statement" query type is selected</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54271">
Bug
54271</a> - Module Controller breaks if test plan is renamed.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54532">
Bug
54532</a> - Improve Response Time Graph Y axis scale with huge values or small values (&lt; 1000ms). Add a new field to define increment scale. Contributed by Milamber based on patch by Luca Maragnani (luca.maragnani at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54576">
Bug
54576</a> - View Results Tree : Add a CSS/JQuery Tester.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54777">
Bug
54777</a> - Improve Performance of default ResultCollector. Based on patch by Mikhail Epikhin (epihin-m at yandex.ru)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55389">
Bug
55389</a> - Show IP source address in request data</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54789">
Bug
54789</a> - XPath Assertion - GUI enhancements to increase readability and ease of use.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54991">
Bug
54991</a> - Add functions to encode/decode URL encoded chars (__urlencode and __urldecode). Contributed by Milamber.</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55241">
Bug
55241</a> - Need GUI Editor to process fields which are based on Enums with localised display strings</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55440">
Bug
55440</a> - ComboStringEditor should allow tags to be language dependent</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55432">
Bug
55432</a> - CSV Dataset Config loses sharing mode when switching languages</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54584">
Bug
54584</a> - MongoDB plugin. Based on patch by Jan Paul Ettles (janpaulettles at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54669">
Bug
54669</a> - Add flag forcing non-GUI JVM to exit after test. Contributed by Scott Emmons</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42428">
Bug
42428</a> - Workbench not saved with Test Plan. Contributed by Dzmitry Kashlach (dzmitrykashlach at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54825">
Bug
54825</a> - Add shortcuts to move elements in the tree. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit.wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54834">
Bug
54834</a> - Improve Drag &amp; Drop in the jmeter tree. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit.wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54839">
Bug
54839</a> - Set the application name on Mac. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit.wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54841">
Bug
54841</a> - Correctly handle the quit shortcut on Mac Os (CMD-Q). Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit.wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54844">
Bug
54844</a> - Set the application icon on Mac Os. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit.wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54864">
Bug
54864</a> - Enable multi selection drag &amp; drop in the tree without having to start dragging before releasing Shift or Control. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit.wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54945">
Bug
54945</a> - Add Shutdown Hook to enable trapping kill or CTRL+C signals.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54990">
Bug
54990</a> - Download large files avoiding outOfMemory.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55085">
Bug
55085</a> - UX Improvement : Ability to create New Test Plan from Templates. Contributed by UBIK Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55172">
Bug
55172</a> - Provide plugins a way to add Top Menu and menu items.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55202">
Bug
55202</a> - Add syntax color for scripts elements (BeanShell, BSF, and JSR223) and JDBC elements with RSyntaxTextArea. Contributed by Milamber based on patch by Marko Vlahovic (vlahovic74 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55175">
Bug
55175</a> - HTTPHC4Impl refactoring to allow better inheritance.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55236">
Bug
55236</a> - Templates - provide button to reload template details.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55237">
Bug
55237</a> - Template system should support relative fileName entries.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55423">
Bug
55423</a> - BatchSampleSender: Reduce locking granularity by moving listener.processBatch outside of synchronized block</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55424">
Bug
55424</a> - Add Stripping to existing SampleSenders</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55451">
Bug
55451</a> - Test Element GUI with JSyntaxTextArea scroll down when text content is long enough to add a Scrollbar</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55513">
Bug
55513</a> - StreamCopier cannot be used with System.err or System.out as it closes the output stream</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55514">
Bug
55514</a> - SystemCommand should support arbitrary input and output streams</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55515">
Bug
55515</a> - SystemCommand should support chaining of commands</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55606">
Bug
55606</a> - Use JSyntaxtTextArea for Http Request, JMS Test Elements</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55651">
Bug
55651</a> - Change JMeter application icon to Apache plume icon</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Updated to jsoup-1.7.2</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54776">
Bug
54776</a> - Update the dependency on Bouncy Castle to 1.48. Contributed by Emmanuel Bourg (ebourg at apache.org)</li>
<li>Updated to HttpComponents Client 4.2.6 (from 4.2.3)</li>
<li>Updated to HttpComponents Core 4.2.5 (from 4.2.3)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-codec 1.8 (from 1.6)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-io 2.4 (from 2.2)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-logging 1.1.3 (from 1.1.1)</li>
<li>Updated to commons-net 3.3 (from 3.1)</li>
<li>Updated to jdom-1.1.3 (from 1.1.2)</li>
<li>Updated to jodd-lagarto and jodd-core 3.4.8 (from 3.4.1)</li>
<li>Updated to junit 4.11 (from 4.10)</li>
<li>Updated to slf4j-api 1.7.5 (from 1.7.2)</li>
<li>Updated to tika 1.4 (from 1.3)</li>
<li>Updated to xmlgraphics-commons 1.5 (from 1.3.1)</li>
<li>Updated to xstream 1.4.4 (from 1.4.2)</li>
<li>Updated to BouncyCastle 1.49 (from 1.48)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54912">
Bug
54912</a> - JMeterTreeListener should use constants. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit.wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54903">
Bug
54903</a> - Remove the dependency on the Activation Framework. Contributed by Emmanuel Bourg (ebourg at apache.org)</li>
<li>Moved commons-lang (2.6) to lib/doc as it's only needed by Velocity.</li>
<li>Re-organised and simplified NOTICE and LICENSE files.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55411">
Bug
55411</a> - NativeCommand could be useful elsewhere. Copied code to o.a.jorphan.exec.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55435">
Bug
55435</a> - ComboStringEditor could be simplified to make most settings final</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55436">
Bug
55436</a> - ComboStringEditor should implement ClearGui</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55463">
Bug
55463</a> - Component.requestFocus() is discouraged; use requestFocusInWindow() instead</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55486">
Bug
55486</a> - New JMeter Logo. Contributed by UBIK Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55548">
Bug
55548</a> - Tidy up use of TestElement.ENABLED; use TestElement.isEnabled()/setEnabled() throughout</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55617">
Bug
55617</a> - Improvements to jorphan collection. Contributed by Benoit Wiart (benoit.wiart at gmail.com)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55623">
Bug
55623</a> - Invalid/unexpected configuration values should not be silently ignored</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55626">
Bug
55626</a> - Rename HTTP Proxy Server as HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="ch_section" id="Thanks">Thanks</h2>
<p>We thank all contributors mentioned in bug and improvement sections above:
<ul>
<li>Bruno Antunes (b.m.antunes at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Emmanuel Bourg (ebourg at apache.org)</li>
<li>Scott Emmons</li>
<li>Mikhail Epikhin (epihin-m at yandex.ru)</li>
<li>Dzmitry Kashlach (dzmitrykashlach at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Luca Maragnani (luca.maragnani at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Milamber</li>
<li>Adrian Nistor (nistor1 at illinois.edu)</li>
<li>Antonio Gomes Rodrigues (ra0077 at gmail.com)</li>
<li>UBIK Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
<li>Benoit Wiart (benoit.wiart at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
<br>
We also thank bug reporters who helped us improve JMeter. <br>
For this release we want to give special thanks to the following reporters for the clear reports and tests made after our fixes:
<ul>
<li>Immanuel Hayden (immanuel.hayden at gmail.com)</li>
<li>Danny Lade (dlade at web.de)</li>
<li>Brent Cromarty (brent.cromarty at yahoo.ca)</li>
<li>Wolfgang Heider (wolfgang.heider at racon.at)</li>
<li>Shmuel Krakower (shmulikk at gmail.com)</li>
</ul>
Apologies if we have omitted anyone else.
</p>
<h1>Version 2.9</h1>
<h2>New and Noteworthy</h2>
<h3>
<u>Core Improvements:</u>
</h3>
<h4>* A new Extractor that uses CSS or jquery-like selector syntax has been introduced,
it allows using either JODD or JSOUP implementations</h4>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/01_css_jquery_extractor.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/01_css_jquery_extractor.png" width="762" height="277" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>Result: the title of the page in a JMeter variable
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/01_css_jquery_extractor_resul.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/01_css_jquery_extractor_resul.png" width="719" height="171" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>* JMeter can now handle different types of documents (PDF, MsOffice files, Apache OpenOffice's files, &hellip;)
within different elements </h4>
<ul>
<li>Regular Expression Extractor, extract text from documents</li>
<li>Assertion Response, check text in documents</li>
<li>View Results Tree, view as a text the documents</li>
</ul>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/02_document_render_view_results_tree.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/02_document_render_view_results_tree.png" width="761" height="345" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>* A new Regex User Parameters Pre-Processor that enables injecting input parameter names and values
using a reference extracted by Regular Expression Extractor from a previous response</h4>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/13_regex_user_params.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/13_regex_user_params.png" width="727" height="138" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>* TCP Sampler: new options</h4>
<p>TCP Sampler has been enhanced with new options to allow setting <b>Close Connection</b>,
<b>SO_LINGER</b> and <b>End of line(EOL) byte value</b>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/03_new_options_tcp_sampler.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/03_new_options_tcp_sampler.png" width="1147" height="302" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>* A new function <i>__escapeOroRegexpChars(,)</i> has been introduced quote ORO regexp meta characters</h4>
<h4>* ForEach Controller: new fields</h4>
<p>ForEach Controller has now 2 new fields to control start and end of loop
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/04_for_each_new_fields.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/04_for_each_new_fields.png" width="320" height="203" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>* Result Status Action Handler now has a new option to "Start next thread loop"</h4>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/05_result_status_action_handler.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/05_result_status_action_handler.png" width="722" height="132" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>* JMS Publisher: new option</h4>
<p>JMS Publisher can now send Bytes Messages</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/11_jms_publisher_bytes.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/11_jms_publisher_bytes.png" width="833" height="701" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<h4>* Memory and performance improvements</h4>
<p>Significant improvements have been done in this version on memory usage per Thread and CPU when more
than one Post Processor is used as child of a Sampler</p>
<p>JSR223 Elements (enable using Groovy, Scala, &hellip; as scripting languages) have been improved to enable caching
of Compilation results when scripts are passed in Text area</p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/12_jsr223_sampler.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/12_jsr223_sampler.png" width="841" height="470" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
<p>Some configuration defaults have changed to improve performances by default(see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54412">
Bug
54412</a>),
see description in New and Noteworthy section.
<ul>
<li>Distributed testing now uses MODE_STRIPPED_BATCH, which returns samples in batch mode (every 100 samples
or every minute by default). Note also that MODE_STRIPPED_BATCH strips response data from SampleResult,
so if you need it change to another mode (mode property in jmeter.properties)</li>
<li>Result data are now saved to CSV by default (jmeter.save.saveservice.output_format in jmeter.properties)</li>
</ul>
</p>
<h4>* XPath Assertion now enables using a JMeter variable as input</h4>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/14_xpath_assertion.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/14_xpath_assertion.png" width="800" height="317" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>
<u>GUI and ergonomy Improvements:</u>
</h3>
<h4>* Search feature has been improved to search within more internal fields of elements and expand search results</h4>
<h4>* Copy/paste is now possible between 2 JMeter instances &gt;= 2.9 version</h4>
<p>Copy element(s) from one JMeter instance:
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/06_copy_paste_between_2_jmeter1.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/06_copy_paste_between_2_jmeter1.png" width="618" height="262" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>Paste element(s) into a second JMeter instance:
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/06_copy_paste_between_2_jmeter2.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/06_copy_paste_between_2_jmeter2.png" width="617" height="278" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>* HTTP Header Manager</h4>
<p>Allow copy from clipboard to HeaderPanel, headers are supposed to be separated by new line
and have the following form <i>name:value</i>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/07_header_panel_add_from_clipboard.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/07_header_panel_add_from_clipboard.png" width="661" height="263" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>* Module Controller</h4>
<p>Module Controller has been improved to better render referenced controller and expand it by clicking on a new button
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/08_module_controller_improvements.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/08_module_controller_improvements.png" width="832" height="274" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>* HTTP Proxy Server</h4>
<p>HTTP Proxy Server now has a button to add a set of default exclusions for URL patterns,
this list can be configured through property : <i>proxy.excludes.suggested</i>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/09_proxy_excludes_suggested.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/09_proxy_excludes_suggested.png" width="811" height="214" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>* Rendering of target controller has been improved in HTTP Proxy Server</h4>
<h3>
<u>HTTP Proxy Server recording:</u>
</h3>
<p>* HTTP Proxy Server now automatically uses HTTP Request with Raw Post Body mode for
samples that only have one unnamed argument (JSON, XML, GWT, &hellip;)</p>
<p>* HTTP Proxy Server does not force user to select the type of Sampler in HTTP Sampler Settings,
this allows easier switch between implementations as Sampler do not have this information set anymore</p>
<p>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/10_http_proxy_dont_force_http_type.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.9/10_http_proxy_dont_force_http_type.png" width="484" height="307" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>* SamplerCreator interface has been enriched to meet new requirements for plug-in providers</p>
<p>* It is now possible to create binary sampler for x-www-form-urlencoded POST request by
modifying <i>proxy.binary.types</i> property to add application/x-www-form-urlencoded </p>
<p>* Improved timestamp format auto-detection when reading CSV files</p>
<h2>Known bugs</h2>
<p>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</p>
<p>Listeners don't show iteration counts when a If Controller has a condition which is always false from the first iteration (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52496">
Bug
52496</a>).
A workaround is to add a sampler at the same level as (or superior to) the If Controller.
For example a Test Action sampler with 0 wait time (which doesn't generate a sample),
or a Debug Sampler with all fields set to False (to reduce the sample size).
</p>
<p>Webservice sampler does not consider the HTTP response status to compute the status of a response, thus a response 500 containing a non empty body will be considered as successful, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54006">
Bug
54006</a>.
To workaround this issue, ensure you always read the response and add a Response Assertion checking text inside the response.
</p>
<p>
Changing language can break part of the configuration of the following elements (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53679">
Bug
53679</a>):
<ul>
<li>CSV Data Set Config (sharing mode will be lost)</li>
<li>Constant Throughput Timer (Calculate throughput based on will be lost)</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>
The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
these only apply to a locally run test; they do not include any threads started on remote systems when using client-server mode, (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54152">
Bug
54152</a>).
</p>
<p>
Note that there is a bug in Java on some Linux systems that manifests
itself as the following error when running the test cases or JMeter itself:
<pre>
[java] WARNING: Couldn't flush user prefs:
java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not supported: indent-number
</pre>
This does not affect JMeter operation.
</p>
<h2>Incompatible changes</h2>
<p>
<b>JMeter requires now a Java 6 runtime or higher.</b>
</p>
<p>Some configuration defaults have changed to improve performances by default (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54412">
Bug
54412</a>),
see description in New and Noteworthy section.</p>
<p>Webservice sampler now adds to request the headers that are set through Header Manager, these were previously ignored</p>
<p>
<i>jdbcsampler.cachesize</i> property has been removed, it previously limited the size of a per connection cache of Map &lt; String,
PreparedStatement &gt; , it also limited the size of this
map which held the PreparedStatement for SQL queries. This limitation provoked a bug <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53995">
Bug
53995</a>.
It has been removed so now size of these 2 maps is not limited anymore. This change changes behaviour as starting from
this version no PreparedStatement will be closed during the test.</p>
<p>Starting with this version, there are some important changes on JSR223 Test Elements:
<ul>
<li>JSR223 Test Elements that have an invalid filename (not existing or unreadable) will make test fail instead of
making the element silently work</li>
<li>In JSR223 Test Elements: responseCodeOk, responseMessageOK and successful are set before
script is executed, if responseData is set it will not be overridden anymore by a toString() on script return value</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>View Results Tree now considers response with missing content type as text.</p>
<p>In remote Test mode, JMeter now exits in error if one of the remote engines cannot be configured,
previously it started the test with available engines.</p>
<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Proxy</h3>
<ul>
<li>Don't log spurious warning messages when using concurrent pool embedded downloads with Cache Manager or CookieManager</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54057">
Bug
54057</a>- Proxy option to set user and password at startup (-u and -a) not working with HTTPClient 4</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54187">
Bug
54187</a> - Request tab does not show headers if request fails</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53840">
Bug
53840</a> - Proxy Recording : Response message: URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in escape (%) pattern - For input string: "" "</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54351">
Bug
54351</a> - HC4 and URI fragments is failing</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53997">
Bug
53997</a> - LDAP Extended Request: Escape ampersand (&amp;), left angle bracket (&lt;)
and right angle bracket (&gt;) in search filter tag in XML response data</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53995">
Bug
53995</a> - AbstractJDBCTestElement shares PreparedStatement between multi-threads</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54119">
Bug
54119</a> - HTTP 307 response is not redirected</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54326">
Bug
54326</a> - AjpSampler send file in post throws FileNotFoundException</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54331">
Bug
54331</a> - AjpSampler throws null pointer on GET request that are protected</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54088">
Bug
54088</a> - The type video/f4m is text, not binary</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54166">
Bug
54166</a> - ViewResultsTree could not render the HTML response: handle failure to parse HTML</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54287">
Bug
54287</a> - Incorrect Timestamp in Response Time Graph when using a date with time in Date format field</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54451">
Bug
54451</a> - Response Time Graph reports wrong times when the are many samples for same time</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54459">
Bug
54459</a> - CSVSaveService does not handle date parsing very well</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54058">
Bug
54058</a> - In HTTP Request Defaults, the value of field "Embedded URLs must match: is not saved if the check box "Retrieve All Embedded Resources" is not checked.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54375">
Bug
54375</a> - Regular Expression Extractor : When regex syntax is wrong, post processing is stopped</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53975">
Bug
53975</a> - Variables replacement doesn't work with option "Delay thread creation until needed"</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54055">
Bug
54055</a> - View Results tree: = signs are stripped from parameter values at HTTP tab</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54129">
Bug
54129</a> - Search Feature does not find text although existing in elements </li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54023">
Bug
54023</a> - Unable to start JMeter from a root directory and if the full path of JMeter installation contains one or more spaces (Unix/linux)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54172">
Bug
54172</a> - Duplicate shortcut key not working and CTRL+C / CTRL+V / CTRL+V do not cancel default event</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54057">
Bug
54057</a> - Proxy option to set user and password at startup (-u and -a) not working with HTTPClient 4</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54267">
Bug
54267</a> - Start Next Thread Loop setting doesn't work in custom thread groups</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54413">
Bug
54413</a> - DataStrippingSampleSender returns 0 for number of bytes of any response</li>
</ul>
<h2>Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54185">
Bug
54185</a> - Allow query strings in paths that start with HTTP or HTTPS</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54004">
Bug
54004</a> - Webservice Sampler : Allow adding headers to request with Header Manager</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54106">
Bug
54106</a> - JSR223TestElement should check for file existence when a filename is set instead of using Text Area content </li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54107">
Bug
54107</a> - JSR223TestElement : Enable compilation and caching of Script Text</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54109">
Bug
54109</a> - JSR223TestElement : SampleResult properties should be set before entering script to allow user setting different code</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54230">
Bug
54230</a> - TCP Sampler, additions of "Close Connection", "SO_LINGER" and "End of line(EOL) byte value" options</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54182">
Bug
54182</a> - Support sending of ByteMessage for JMS Publisher.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54131">
Bug
54131</a> - ForEach Controller : Add start and end index for looping over variables</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54132">
Bug
54132</a> - Module Controller GUI : Improve rendering of referenced controller</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54155">
Bug
54155</a> - ModuleController : Add a shortcut button to unfold the tree up to referenced controller and highlight it</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54200">
Bug
54200</a> - Add support of several document types (like Apache OpenOffice's files, MS Office's files, PDF's files, etc.)
to the elements View Results Tree, Assertion Response and Regular Expression Extractor (using Apache Tika)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54226">
Bug
54226</a> - View Results Tree : Show response even when server does not return ContentType header</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54259">
Bug
54259</a> - Introduce a new Extractor that uses CSS or jquery-like selector syntax</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45772">
Bug
45772</a> - RegEx User Parameters Post Processor</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54160">
Bug
54160</a> - Add support for xpath assertion to apply to a JMeter variable.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54189">
Bug
54189</a> - Add a function to quote ORO regexp meta characters</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54418">
Bug
54418</a> - UUID Function</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54005">
Bug
54005</a> - HTTP Mirror Server : Add special headers "X-" to control Response status and response content</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53875">
Bug
53875</a> - Include suggested defaults for URL filters on HTTP Proxy</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54031">
Bug
54031</a> - Add tooltip to running/total threads indicator </li>
<li>Webservice (SOAP) Request has been deprecated</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54161">
Bug
54161</a> - Proxy : be able to create binary sampler for x-www-form-urlencoded POST request</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54154">
Bug
54154</a> - HTTP Proxy Server should not force user to select the type of Sampler in HTTP Sampler Settings</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54165">
Bug
54165</a> - Proxy Server: Improve rendering of target controller</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46677">
Bug
46677</a> - Copying Test Elements between test plans</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54204">
Bug
54204</a> - Result Status Action Handler : Add start next thread loop option</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54232">
Bug
54232</a> - Search Feature : Add a button to search and expand results</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54251">
Bug
54251</a> - Add tristate checkbox implementation</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54257">
Bug
54257</a> - Enhance SamplerCreator interface to meet new requirements</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54258">
Bug
54258</a> - Proxy : Use Raw Post Body when Sampler has one unnamed argument, useful for Samplers using POST method by of type JSON, XML, GWT body</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54268">
Bug
54268</a> - Improve CPU and memory usage</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54376">
Bug
54376</a> - ScopePanel : Allow configuring more precisely scopes</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54412">
Bug
54412</a> - Changing JMeter defaults to ensure better performances by default</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54414">
Bug
54414</a> - Remote Test should not start if one of the engines fails to start correctly</li>
</ul>
<h2>Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53956">
Bug
53956</a> - Add ability to paste (a list of values) from clipboard for Header Manager</li>
<li>Updated to HttpComponents Client 4.2.3 (from 4.2.1)</li>
<li>Updated to HttpComponents Core 4.2.3 (from 4.2.2)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54110">
Bug
54110</a> - BSFTestElement and JSR223TestElement should use shared super-class for common fields</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54199">
Bug
54199</a> - Move to Java 6</li>
<li>Upgraded to rhino 1.7R4</li>
</ul>
<h1>Version 2.8</h1>
<h2>New and Noteworthy</h2>
<h3>Core Improvements:</h3>
<h4>Thread Group: New Option <i>Delay thread creation until needed</i>
</h4>
<p>New Option "Delay thread creation until needed" that will create and start threads when needed instead of creating them on Test startup<br>
<b>This new feature allows running tests with a huge number of short lived threads.</b>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/12_delay_thread_creation.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/12_delay_thread_creation.png" width="817" height="296" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>HTTP Cookie Manager (IPv6 support)</h4>
<p>Add HTTPClient 4 cookie implementation in JMeter. <br>
Cookie Manager has now the default HC3.1 implementation and a new choice HC4 implementation (compliant with IPv6 address)
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/11_hc4_cookie.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/11_hc4_cookie.png" width="635" height="239" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>Memory and performance improvements</h4>
<p>Significant improvements have been done in this version on memory usage of JMeterThread</p>
<p>JSR223 Elements (enable using Groovy, scala, &hellip; as scripting languages) have been improved to enable:
<ul>
<li>usage of Compilable interface when available to boost CPU usage</li>
<li>caching of Compilation when scripts are used as Files</li>
</ul>
See <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/JMETER/JMeterPerformance">JMeter Performances across versions</a>
</p>
<h4>OS Process Sampler</h4>
<p>Allow defining files for stdout/stderr/stdin.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/06_os_sampler_stdout-err-in.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/06_os_sampler_stdout-err-in.png" width="820" height="531" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>HTTP Request: PATCH verb</h4>
<p>Add PATCH verb to HTTP sampler
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/01_http_patch_verb.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/01_http_patch_verb.png" width="615" height="340" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>HTTP Request: HTTPClient 4 is now the default implementation</h4>
<p>HTTPClient 4 is now the default HTTP Request implementation (and for Proxy element when generating HTTP requests).<br>
Previously the default was the HTTP Java implementation (i.e. the implementation provided by the JVM)
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/02_http_default_hc4.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/02_http_default_hc4.png" width="558" height="288" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>HTTP Request</h4>
<p>Add Embedded URL Filter to HTTP Request Defaults Control (it was already present for HTTP Requests)
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/05_http_defaults_url_filter.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/05_http_defaults_url_filter.png" width="586" height="682" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>Miscellaneous</h4>
<ul>
<li>CSV Dataset : Embedded new lines are now supported in quoted data</li>
<li>JMX files now contain the version of JMeter that created the file</li>
<li>JMeter Version is now available as property "jmeter.version"</li>
</ul>
<h3>Reporting Improvements:</h3>
<h4>Response Time Graph</h4>
<p>Add a new visualizer Response Time Graph to draw a line graph showing the evolution of response time for a test
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/09_resp_time_graph.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/09_resp_time_graph.png" width="993" height="549" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>Settings for Response Time Graph
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/08_resp_time_graph_settings.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/08_resp_time_graph_settings.png" width="989" height="602" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>View Results in Table</h4>
<p>Add latency to View Result in Table listener
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/10_latency_view_results_table.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/10_latency_view_results_table.png" width="998" height="324" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>Aggregate Graph</h4>
<p>Small improvements: legend at left or right is now on 1 column (instead of 1 large line), &hellip;
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/07_aggregate_graph_legend_left_right.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/07_aggregate_graph_legend_left_right.png" width="989" height="418" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>GUI and ergonomy Improvements:</h3>
<h4>HTTP Proxy Server simplifications</h4>
<p>HTTPS Spoofing options have been removed from Proxy as HTTPS recording is directly available since JMeter 2.4.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/03_remove_https_spoofing1.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/03_remove_https_spoofing1.png" width="940" height="277" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>HTTP Proxy Server</h4>
<p>Allow URL Filters to be pasted from clipboard
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/15_add_from_clipboard_filter.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/15_add_from_clipboard_filter.png" width="707" height="614" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h4>Find in JMeter</h4>
<p>CTRL + F for the new Find feature
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/14_ctrl_F_shortcut.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/14_ctrl_F_shortcut.png" width="477" height="157" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
ESC key now closes popups.
</p>
<h4>User Interface in GNOME 3</h4>
<p>Display 'Apache JMeter' title in app title bar in Gnome 3
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/13_gnome3_title.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.8/13_gnome3_title.png" width="441" height="253" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h2>Known bugs</h2>
<p>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</p>
<p>Listeners don't show iteration counts when a If Controller has a condition which is always false from the first iteration (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52496">
Bug
52496</a>).
A workaround is to add a sampler at the same level as (or superior to) the If Controller.
For example a Test Action sampler with 0 wait time (which doesn't generate a sample),
or a Debug Sampler with all fields set to False (to reduce the sample size).
</p>
<p>
Changing language can break part of the configuration of the following elements (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53679">
Bug
53679</a>):
<ul>
<li>CSV Data Set Config (sharing mode will be lost)</li>
<li>Constant Throughput Timer (Calculate throughput based on will be lost)</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p>
Note that there is a bug in Java on some Linux systems that manifests
itself as the following error when running the test cases or JMeter itself:
<pre>
[java] WARNING: Couldn't flush user prefs:
java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not supported: indent-number
</pre>
This does not affect JMeter operation.
</p>
<h2>Incompatible changes</h2>
<p>
When using CacheManager, JMeter now caches responses for GET queries provided header Cache-Control is different from "no-cache" as described in specification.
Furthermore it doesn't put anymore in Cache deprecated entries for "no-cache" responses. See <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53521">
Bug
53521</a> and <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53522">
Bug
53522</a>
</p>
<p>
A major change has occurred on JSR223 Test Elements, previously variables set up before script execution where stored in ScriptEngineManager which was created once per execution,
now ScriptEngineManager is a singleton shared by all JSR223 elements and only ScriptEngine is created once per execution, variables set up before script execution are now stored
in Bindings created on each execution, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53365">
Bug
53365</a>.
</p>
<p>
JSR223 Test Elements using Script file are now Compiled if ScriptEngine supports this feature, see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53520">
Bug
53520</a>.
</p>
<p>
Shortcut for Function Helper Dialog is now CTRL+F1 (CMD + F1 for Mac OS), CTRL+F (CMD+F1 for Mac OS) now opens Search Dialog.
</p>
<p>
By default, the TestCompiler now stores details of which pairs it has seen in Controller instances rather than in a static Set.
[<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53796">
Bug
53796</a>]
This gives much better memory behaviour for delayed start test plans, as memory used is proportional to the number of concurrent threads.
With the static Set memory usage was proportional to the total thread count.
This change is very unlikely to cause a problem.
The original behaviour can be restored by setting the property <span class="code">TestCompiler.useStaticSet=true</span>
</p>
<p>
HTTPS Spoofing options have been removed from Proxy as HTTPS recording is directly available since JMeter 2.4.
</p>
<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Proxy</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53521">
Bug
53521</a> - Cache Manager should cache content with Cache-control=private</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53522">
Bug
53522</a> - Cache Manager should not store at all response with header "no-cache" and store other types of Cache-Control having max-age value</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53838">
Bug
53838</a> - Pressing "Stop" does not interrupt the TCP sampler</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53911">
Bug
53911</a> - JmeterKeystore does not allow for key down the list of certificate</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53348">
Bug
53348</a> - JMeter JMS Point-to-Point Request-Response sampler doesn't work when Request-queue and Receive-queue are different</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53357">
Bug
53357</a> - JMS Point to Point reports too high response times in Request Response Mode</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53440">
Bug
53440</a> - SSL connection leads to ArrayStoreException on JDK 6 with some KeyManagerFactory SPI</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53511">
Bug
53511</a> - access log sampler SessionFilter throws NullPointerException - cookie manager not initialized properly</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53715">
Bug
53715</a> - JMeter does not load WSDL</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53742">
Bug
53742</a> - When jmeter.save.saveservice.sample_count is set to true, elapsed time read by listener is always equal to 0</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53774">
Bug
53774</a> - RequestViewRaw does not show headers unless samplerData is non-null</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53802">
Bug
53802</a> - IdleTime values are not saved to CSV log</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53874">
Bug
53874</a> - View Results Tree : If some parameter containing special characters like % is not encoded, RequestViewHTTP fails with java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in escape (%) pattern and Response is not displayed</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51512">
Bug
51512</a> - Cookies aren't inserted into HTTP request with IPv6 Host header</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53365">
Bug
53365</a> - JSR223TestElement should cache ScriptEngineManager</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53520">
Bug
53520</a> - JSR223 Elements : Use Compilable interface to improve performances on File scripts</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53501">
Bug
53501</a> - Synchronization timer blocks test end.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53750">
Bug
53750</a> - TestCompiler saves unnecessary entries in pairing collection</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52266">
Bug
52266</a> - Code:Inconsistent synchronization</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53841">
Bug
53841</a> - CSVSaveService reads file using JVM default file encoding instead of using the one configured in saveservice.properties</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53953">
Bug
53953</a> New: Typo in monitor test plan documentation</li>
</ul>
<h2>Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53675">
Bug
53675</a> - Add PATCH verb to HTTP sampler</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53931">
Bug
53931</a> - Define HTTPClient 4 for the default HTTP Request (and Proxy element to generate the HTTP requests). Before the default, it was the HTTP Java Sampler</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53934">
Bug
53934</a> - Removes HTTPS spoofing options in JMeter HTTP Proxy Server. Since JMeter 2.4, the HTTPS protocol is directly supported by the proxy</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55310">
Bug
55310</a> - TestAction should implement Interruptible</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53318">
Bug
53318</a> - Add Embedded URL Filter to HTTP Request Defaults Control </li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53782">
Bug
53782</a> - Enhance JavaSampler handling of JavaSamplerClient cleanup to use less memory</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53168">
Bug
53168</a> - OS Process - allow specification of stdout/stderr/stdin</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53844">
Bug
53844</a> - JDBC related elements should check class of Variable Name supposed to contain JDBC Connection Configuration to avoid ClassCastException </li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53671">
Bug
53671</a> - tearDown thread group to run even if shutdown test happens</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53566">
Bug
53566</a> - Don't log partial responses to the jmeter log</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53716">
Bug
53716</a> - Small improvements in aggregate graph: legend at left or right is now on 1 column (instead of 1 large line), no border to the reference's square color, reduce width on some fields</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53718">
Bug
53718</a> - Add a new visualizer 'Response Time Graph' to draw a line graph showing the evolution of response time for a test</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53738">
Bug
53738</a> - Keep track of number of threads started and finished</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53753">
Bug
53753</a> - Summariser: no point displaying fractional time in most cases</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53749">
Bug
53749</a> - TestListener interface could perhaps be split up.
This should reduce per-thread memory requirements and processing,
as only test elements that actually use testIterationStart functionality now need to be handled.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53941">
Bug
53941</a> - Add latency to View Result table listener</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53755">
Bug
53755</a> - Adding a HttpClient 4 cookie implementation in JMeter.
Cookie Manager has now the default HC3.1 implementation and a new choice HC4 implementation (compliant with IPv6 address)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51527">
Bug
51527</a> - __time() function : add another option to __time() to provide *seconds* since epoch</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53364">
Bug
53364</a> - Sort list of Functions in Function Helper Dialog</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53418">
Bug
53418</a> - New Option "Delay thread creation until needed" that will create and start threads when needed instead of creating them on Test startup</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42245">
Bug
42245</a> - Show clear passwords in HTTP Authorization Manager</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53616">
Bug
53616</a> - Display 'Apache JMeter' title in app title bar in Gnome 3</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53759">
Bug
53759</a> - ClientJMeterEngine performs unnecessary traverse using SearchByClass(TestListener)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52601">
Bug
52601</a> - CTRL + F for the new Find feature</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53796">
Bug
53796</a> - TestCompiler uses static Set which can grow huge</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53673">
Bug
53673</a> - Add JMeter version in the jmx file</li>
<li>Add support for HeapDump to the JMeter non-GUI and GUI client</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53862">
Bug
53862</a> - Would be nice to have the JMeter Version available as a property</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53806">
Bug
53806</a> - FileServer should provide thread-safe parsing</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53807">
Bug
53807</a> - CSV Dataset does not handle embedded new lines in quoted data</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53879">
Bug
53879</a> - GUI : Allow Popups to be closed with ESC key</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53876">
Bug
53876</a> - Allow URL Filters (HTTP Proxy) to be pasted from clipboard</li>
</ul>
<h2>Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53311">
Bug
53311</a> - JMeterUtils#runSafe should not throw Error when interrupted</li>
<li>Updated to commons-net-3.1 (from 3.0.1)</li>
<li>Updated to HttpComponents Core 4.2.2 (from 4.1.4) and HttpComponents Client 4.2.1 (from 4.1.3)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53765">
Bug
53765</a> - Switch to commons-lang3-3.1</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53884">
Bug
53884</a> - wrong Maven groupId for commons-lang</li>
</ul>
<h1>Version 2.7</h1>
<h2>New and Noteworthy</h2>
<h3>OS Process Sampler</h3>
<p>A new System Sampler that can be used to execute commands on the local machine.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/01_os_process_sampler.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/01_os_process_sampler.png" width="629" height="497" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>OS Process Sampler results example with DNS lookup command 'dig'
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/02_os_process_example_results.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/02_os_process_example_results.png" width="877" height="470" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>JMS Samplers improvements</h3>
<p>Addition of a "Non Persistent Delivery" option to send "Non-Persistent" (Guaranteed to be delivered at most once. Message loss is not a concern.) JMS messages
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/11_jms_non_persistent_delivery_mode.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/11_jms_non_persistent_delivery_mode.png" width="953" height="336" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>Support sending of JMS Object Messages to enable sending Objects unmarshalled from XML by XStream
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/12_jms_sending_objects.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/12_jms_sending_objects.png" width="808" height="726" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>Enable setting JMS Properties through JMS Publisher sampler
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/13_jms_properties.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/13_jms_properties.png" width="1029" height="470" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>Test Action sampler</h3>
<p>Allow premature exit from a loop
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/07_test_action_next_iter.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/07_test_action_next_iter.png" width="862" height="167" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>Webservice Sampler improvements</h3>
<p>Add a jmeter property soap.document_cache to control size of Document Cache
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/14_ws_document_cache.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/14_ws_document_cache.png" width="270" height="59" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>Make Maintain HTTP Session configurable
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/15_ws_maintain_session.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/15_ws_maintain_session.png" width="833" height="505" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>Aggregate graph: Clustered Bar char with average, median, 90% line, min and max columns</h3>
<p>Aggregate graph changes to Clustered Bar chart, add more columns (median, 90% line, min, max) and options, fixed some bugs
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/03_aggregate_graph_with_new_cols.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/03_aggregate_graph_with_new_cols.png" width="1177" height="503" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>New settings for aggregate graph
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/04_aggregate_graph_parameters.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/04_aggregate_graph_parameters.png" width="1173" height="433" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>Improvements of HTML report design generated by JMeter Ant task in extras folder</h3>
<p>HTML report example
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/05_jmeter_ant_task_report_success.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/05_jmeter_ant_task_report_success.png" width="1264" height="506" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>HTML report example with some assertion errors
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/06_jmeter_ant_task_report_errors.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/06_jmeter_ant_task_report_errors.png" width="1267" height="550" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>Mailer Visualizer</h3>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Enable authentication, and connection security with SSL or TLS</li>
<li>Improve GUI design</li>
<li>Add internationalisation (i18n) support</li>
</ul>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/10_mailer_visualizer_gui.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/10_mailer_visualizer_gui.png" width="860" height="403" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>New Visual Indicator of number of ERROR/FATAL messages in logs</h3>
<p>Indicator shows number of ERROR/FATAL messages in logs, it can be clicked to toggle Log Viewer panel
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/16_log_errors_counter.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/16_log_errors_counter.png" width="815" height="633" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>Dialog box to show detail of a parameter row</h3>
<p>Add a detail button on parameters table to show detail of a Row
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/08_param_button_detail.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/08_param_button_detail.png" width="824" height="165" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>Detail box example
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/09_detail_box.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.7/09_detail_box.png" width="702" height="454" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>Plugin writers</h3>
<p>
New interface org.apache.jmeter.engine.util.ConfigMergabilityIndicator has been introduced to tell whether a ConfigTestElement can be merged in Sampler (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53042">
Bug
53042</a>):<br>
<pre>public boolean applies(ConfigTestElement configElement);</pre>
</p>
<p>New interface org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.proxy.SamplerCreator to allow plugging HTTP based samplers that differ from default HTTP Samplers through Proxy during Recording Phase (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52674">
Bug
52674</a>):<br>
<pre>public String[] getManagedContentTypes();</pre>
<pre>public HTTPSamplerBase createSampler(HttpRequestHdr request, Map&lt;String, String&gt; pageEncodings, Map&lt;String, String&gt; formEncodings);</pre>
<pre>public void populateSampler(HTTPSamplerBase sampler, HttpRequestHdr request, Map&lt;String, String&gt; pageEncodings, Map&lt;String, String&gt; formEncodings) throws Exception;</pre>
</p>
<h2>Known bugs</h2>
<p>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</p>
<p>Listeners don't show iteration counts when a If Controller has a condition which is always false from the first iteration (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52496">
Bug
52496</a>).
A workaround is to add a sampler at the same level as (or superior to) the If Controller.
For example a Test Action sampler with 0 wait time (which doesn't generate a sample),
or a Debug Sampler with all fields set to False (to reduce the sample size).
</p>
<h2>Incompatible changes</h2>
<p>
When doing replacement of User Defined Variables, Proxy will not substitute partial values anymore when "Regexp matching" is used. It will use Perl 5 word matching ("\b")
</p>
<p>
In User Defined Variables, Test Plan, HTTP Sampler Arguments Table, Java Request Defaults, JMS Sampler and Publisher, LDAP Request Defaults and LDAP Extended Request Defaults, rows with
empty Name and Value are no more saved.
</p>
<p>
JMeter now expands the Test Plan tree to the testplan level and no further and selects the root of the tree. Furthermore default value of onload.expandtree is false.
</p>
<p>
Graph Full Results Listener has been removed.
</p>
<p>
When calling "Clear All" command, if Log Viewer is displayed its content will be cleared.
</p>
<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Proxy</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52613">
Bug
52613</a> - Using Raw Post Body option, text gets encoded</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52781">
Bug
52781</a> - Content-Disposition header garbled even if browser compatible headers is checked (HC4) </li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52796">
Bug
52796</a> - MonitorHandler fails to clear variables when starting a new parse</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52871">
Bug
52871</a> - Multiple Certificates not working with HTTP Client 4</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52885">
Bug
52885</a> - Proxy : Recording issues with HTTPS, cookies starting with secure are partly truncated</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52886">
Bug
52886</a> - Proxy : Recording issues with HTTPS when spoofing is on, secure cookies are not always changed</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52897">
Bug
52897</a> - HTTPSampler : Using PUT method with HTTPClient4 and empty Content Encoding and sending files leads to NullPointerException</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53145">
Bug
53145</a> - HTTP Sampler - function in path evaluated too early</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51737">
Bug
51737</a> - TCPSampler : Packet gets converted/corrupted</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52868">
Bug
52868</a> - BSF language list should be sorted</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52869">
Bug
52869</a> - JSR223 language list currently uses BSF list which is wrong</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52932">
Bug
52932</a> - JDBC Sampler : Sampler is not marked in error in an Exception which is not of class IOException, SQLException, IOException occurs</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52916">
Bug
52916</a> - JDBC Exception if there is an empty user defined variable</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52937">
Bug
52937</a> - Webservice Sampler : Clear Soap Documents Cache at end of Test </li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53027">
Bug
53027</a> - JMeter starts throwing exceptions while using SMTP Sample in a test plan with HTTP Cookie Mngr or HTTP Request Defaults</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53072">
Bug
53072</a> - JDBC PREPARED SELECT statements should return results in variables like non prepared SELECT</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52968">
Bug
52968</a> - Option Start Next Loop in Thread Group does not mark parent Transaction Sampler in error when an error occurs</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50898">
Bug
50898</a> - IncludeController : NullPointerException loading script in non-GUI mode if Includers use same element name</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43450">
Bug
43450</a> - Listeners/Savers assume SampleResult count is always 1; fixed Generate Summary Results</li>
</ul>
<h3>Assertions</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52848">
Bug
52848</a> - NullPointer in "XPath Assertion"</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52551">
Bug
52551</a> - Function Helper Dialog does not switch language correctly</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52552">
Bug
52552</a> - Help reference only works in English</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52639">
Bug
52639</a> - JSplitPane divider for log panel should be hidden if log is not activated</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52672">
Bug
52672</a> - Change Controller action deletes all but one child samplers</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52694">
Bug
52694</a> - Deadlock in GUI related to non AWT Threads updating GUI</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52678">
Bug
52678</a> - Proxy : When doing replacement of UserDefinedVariables, partial values should not be substituted</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52728">
Bug
52728</a> - CSV Data Set Config element cannot coexist with BSF Sampler in same Thread Plan</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52762">
Bug
52762</a> - Problem with multiples certificates: first index not used until indexes are restarted</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52741">
Bug
52741</a> - TestBeanGUI default values do not work at second time or later</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52783">
Bug
52783</a> - oro.patterncache.size property never used due to early init</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52789">
Bug
52789</a> - Proxy with Regexp Matching can fail with NullPointerException in Value Replacement if value is null</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52645">
Bug
52645</a> - Recording with Proxy leads to OutOfMemory</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52679">
Bug
52679</a> - User Parameters columns narrow</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52843">
Bug
52843</a> - Sample headerSize and bodySize not being accumulated for subsamples</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52967">
Bug
52967</a> - The function __P() couldn't use default value when running with remote server in GUI mode.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50799">
Bug
50799</a> - Having a non-HTTP sampler in a http test plan prevents multiple header managers from working</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52997">
Bug
52997</a> - JMeter should not exit without saving Test Plan if saving before exit fails</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53136">
Bug
53136</a> - Catching Throwable needs to be carefully handled</li>
</ul>
<h2>Improvements</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52775">
Bug
52775</a> - JMS Publisher : Add Non Persistent Delivery option</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52810">
Bug
52810</a> - Enable setting JMS Properties through JMS Publisher sampler</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52938">
Bug
52938</a> - Webservice Sampler : Add a jmeter property soap.document_cache to control size of Document Cache</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52939">
Bug
52939</a> - Webservice Sampler : Make MaintainSession configurable</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53073">
Bug
53073</a> - Allow to assign the OUT result of a JDBC CALLABLE to JMeter variables</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53164">
Bug
53164</a> - New System Sampler</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53172">
Bug
53172</a> - OS Process Sampler - allow specification of Environment Variables</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52936">
Bug
52936</a> - JMS Publisher : Support sending of JMS Object Messages</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52603">
Bug
52603</a> - MailerVisualizer : Enable SSL , TLS and Authentication</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52698">
Bug
52698</a> - Remove Graph Full Results Listener</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53070">
Bug
53070</a> - Change Aggregate graph to Clustered Bar chart, add more columns (median, 90% line, min, max) and options, fixed some bugs</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53246">
Bug
53246</a> - Mailer Visualizer: improve GUI design and I18N</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
<li>Mailer Visualizer has been internationalized. French translation added. (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53246">
Bug
53246</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45839">
Bug
45839</a> - Test Action : Allow premature exit from a loop</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52614">
Bug
52614</a> - MailerModel.sendMail has strange way to calculate debug setting</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52782">
Bug
52782</a> - Add a detail button on parameters table to show detail of a Row</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52674">
Bug
52674</a> - Proxy : Add a Sampler Creator to allow plugging HTTP based samplers using potentially non textual POST Body (AMF, Silverlight, &hellip;) and customizing them for others</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52934">
Bug
52934</a> - GUI : Open Test plan with the tree expanded to the testplan level and no further and select the root of the tree</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52941">
Bug
52941</a> - Improvements of HTML report design generated by JMeter Ant task extra</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53042">
Bug
53042</a> - Introduce a new method in Sampler interface to allow Sampler to decide whether a config element applies to Sampler</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52771">
Bug
52771</a> - Documentation : Added RSS feed on JMeter Home page under link "Subscribe to What's New"</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42784">
Bug
42784</a> - Show the number of errors logged in the GUI</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53256">
Bug
53256</a> - Make Clear All command clean LogViewer content</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53261">
Bug
53261</a> - Make "Error/fatal" counter added in <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42784">
Bug
42784</a> open Log Viewer panel when Warn Indicator is clicked</li>
</ul>
<h2>Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Upgraded to rhino 1.7R3 (was js-1.7R2.jar).
Note: the Maven coordinates for the jar were changed from rhino:js to org.mozilla:rhino.
This does not affect JMeter directly, but might cause problems if using JMeter in a Maven project
with other code that depends on an earlier version of the Rhino Javascript jar.
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52675">
Bug
52675</a> - Refactor Proxy and HttpRequestHdr to allow Sampler Creation by Proxy</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52680">
Bug
52680</a> - Mention version in which function was introduced</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52788">
Bug
52788</a> - HttpRequestHdr : Optimize code to avoid useless work</li>
<li>JMeter Ant (ant-jmeter-1.1.1.jar) task was upgraded from 1.0.9 to 1.1.1</li>
<li>Updated to commons-io 2.2 (from 2.1)</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53129">
Bug
53129</a> - Upgrade XStream from 1.3.1 to 1.4.2</li>
<li>Updated to httpcomponents-client 4.1.3 (from 4.1.2)</li>
<li>Updated JMeter distributed testing guide (jmeter_distributed_testing_step_by_step.pdf). Changes source format to OpenOffice odt (from sxw)</li>
</ul>
<h1>Version 2.6</h1>
<h2>New and Noteworthy</h2>
<h3>Toolbar</h3>
<p>A new toolbar on JMeter's main window
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/01_toolbar.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/01_toolbar.png" width="986" height="91" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>JMeter start test button</h3>
<p>A new menu option and button allow to start a test ignoring the Pause Timers
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/02_ignore_pause_timers.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/02_ignore_pause_timers.png" width="201" height="58" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>JMeter GUI Look and Feel</h3>
<p>Allow System or CrossPlatform LAF to be set from options menu
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/03_look_and_feel.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/03_look_and_feel.png" width="373" height="162" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>JMeter GUI - duplicate node</h3>
<p>Add "duplicate node" in context menu
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/04_duplicate_context_menu.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/04_duplicate_context_menu.png" width="323" height="136" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>JMeter tree view - search facility</h3>
<p>Functionality to search by keyword in Samplers Tree View
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/05_search_tree.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/05_search_tree.png" width="554" height="219" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>HTTP Request - raw request pane</h3>
<p>Improve HTTP Request GUI to better show parameters without name (GWT RPC request or SOAP request for example)
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/06_post_data.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/06_post_data.png" width="759" height="461" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>HTTP Request - other changes</h3>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Allow multiple selection in arguments panel</li>
<li>Allow to add (paste) entries from the clipboard to an arguments list</li>
<li>Ability to move variables up or down in HTTP Request</li>
</ul>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/07_multiple_selection_params.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/07_multiple_selection_params.png" width="875" height="218" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>HTTP Request - file protocol</h3>
<p>Better support for file: protocol in HTTP sampler
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/08_file_protocol.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/08_file_protocol.png" width="489" height="662" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>Retrieve embedded resources with file: protocol
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/09_file_protocol_embedded.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/09_file_protocol_embedded.png" width="700" height="138" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>HTTP Request - Ignore embedded resources failed</h3>
<p>Enable "ignore failed" for embedded resources
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/26_ignore_child_failed.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/26_ignore_child_failed.png" width="820" height="246" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>Parent success with a embedded resource failed
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/27_succes_with_child_failed.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/27_succes_with_child_failed.png" width="590" height="214" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>View Results in Table - child sample display</h3>
<p>Add option to TableVisualiser to display child samples instead of parent
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/10_child_sampler.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/10_child_sampler.png" width="911" height="619" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>Key Store - multiple certificates</h3>
<p>Allowing multiple certificates (JKS)
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/11_jks_keystore.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/11_jks_keystore.png" width="324" height="166" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>Aggregate graph improvements</h3>
<p>Some improvements on Aggregate Graph Listener:
<ul>
<li>new GUI for settings</li>
<li>dynamic graph size</li>
<li>allow to change fonts for title graph and legend</li>
<li>allow to change bar color (background and text values)</li>
<li>allow to draw or not bars outlines</li>
<li>allow to select only some samplers by a regexp filter</li>
<li>allow to define Y axis maximum scale</li>
</ul>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/12_aggregate_graph_settings.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/12_aggregate_graph_settings.png" width="850" height="411" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>Aggregate Graph bar
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/13_aggregate_graph_bar.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/13_aggregate_graph_bar.png" width="851" height="506" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>Counter - new reset option</h3>
<p>Add an option to reset counter on each Thread Group iteration
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/14_reset_counter.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/14_reset_counter.png" width="345" height="257" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Add a new function __RandomString to generate random Strings</li>
<li>Add a new function __TestPlanName returning the name of the current "Test Plan"</li>
<li>Add a new function __machineIP returning IP address</li>
<li>Add a new function __jexl2 to support Jexl2</li>
</ul>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/15_random_string.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/15_random_string.png" width="697" height="236" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>User Defined Variable improvements</h3>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Add a comment field in User Defined Variables</li>
<li>Allow to add (paste) entries from the clipboard to an arguments list</li>
<li>Ability to move up or down variables in User Defined Variables</li>
</ul>
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/16_udv_comments.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/16_udv_comments.png" width="543" height="237" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>View Results Tree</h3>
<p>In View Results Tree rather than showing just a message if the results are to big, show as much of the result as are configured
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/17_vrt_max_size_display.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/17_vrt_max_size_display.png" width="953" height="98" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>Controllers - change elements</h3>
<p>Add ability to Change Controller elements
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/18_change_ctl_type.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/18_change_ctl_type.png" width="643" height="112" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>JDBC pre- and post-processor</h3>
<p>Add JDBC pre- and post-processor
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/19_jdbc_pre_post_proc.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/19_jdbc_pre_post_proc.png" width="535" height="217" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>JDBC transaction isolation option</h3>
<p>Allow to set the transaction isolation in the JDBC Connection Configuration
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/20_jdbc_trans_isolation.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/20_jdbc_trans_isolation.png" width="437" height="351" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>Poisson Timer</h3>
<p>Add a Poisson based timer
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/21_poisson_timer.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/21_poisson_timer.png" width="358" height="156" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>GUI and OS interaction</h3>
<p>Support for file Drag and Drop.
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/22_drag_and_drop.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/22_drag_and_drop.png" width="776" height="508" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>Confirm Remove Dialog box</h3>
<p>Add a dialog box to confirm removing the element(s) when Remove action is called
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/23_confirm_remove.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/23_confirm_remove.png" width="583" height="210" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
The dialogue can be skipped by setting the JMeter property <span class="code">confirm.delete.skip=true</span>
</p>
<h3>Remote batching support</h3>
<p>Use external store to hold samples during distributed testing,
Added DiskStore remote sample sender: like Hold, but saves samples to disk until end of test
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/24_diskstore.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/24_diskstore.png" width="998" height="273" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>JMS Subscriber sampler</h3>
<p>With JMS Subscriber, ability to use Selectors
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/25_selector.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/25_selector.png" width="705" height="297" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>New Logger Panel</h3>
<p>A new Log Viewer has been added to the GUI and can be enabled from menu Options &rarr; Log Viewer:
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/28_loggerpanel_option.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/28_loggerpanel_option.png" width="326" height="147" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<p>This Log Viewer shows the jmeter.log file, and useful (for example) to debug BeanShell/BSF scripts:
<figure>
<a href="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/28_loggerpanel.png"><img src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.6/28_loggerpanel.png" width="953" height="466" alt=""></a>
<figcaption></figcaption>
</figure>
</p>
<h3>The menu item Options / Choose Language is now fully functional</h3>
<p>
The menu item Options / Choose Language now changes all the displayed text to the new language provided
all messages are translated. You can help on this by translating into your language.
</p>
<h3>Legacy JMX and JTL Avalon format support restored</h3>
<p>
Support for reading/writing the original Avalon XML format of JMX (script) and JTL (sample result) files was dropped in JMeter version 2.4.
JMeter can now read the Avalon format files again, however there is no support for saving files in the old format.
</p>
<h3>JMeter jars available from Maven repository</h3>
<p>
JMeter jars are now available from Maven repository.
</p>
<h2>Known bugs</h2>
<p>
The Include Controller has some problems in non-GUI mode (see Bugs 40671, 41286, 44973, 50898).
In particular, it can cause a NullPointerException if there are two include controllers with the same name.
</p>
<p>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</p>
<p>Listeners don't show iteration counts when a If Controller has a condition which is always false from the first iteration (see <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52496">
Bug
52496</a>).
A workaround is to add a sampler at the same level as (or superior to) the If Controller.
For example a Test Action sampler with 0 wait time (which doesn't generate a sample),
or a Debug Sampler with all fields set to False (to reduce the sample size).
</p>
<h2>Incompatible changes</h2>
<p>
JMeter versions since 2.1 failed to create a container sample when loading embedded resources.
This has been corrected; can still revert to the <a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51939">
Bug
51939</a> behaviour by setting the following property:
<span class="code">httpsampler.separate.container=false</span>
</p>
<p>
Mirror server now uses default port 8081, was 8080 before 2.5.1.
</p>
<p>
TCP Sampler handles SocketTimeoutException, SocketException and InterruptedIOException differently since 2.6, when
these occurs, Sampler is marked as failed.
</p>
<p>
Sample Sender implementations now resolve their configuration on Client side since 2.6.
This behaviour can be changed with property sample_sender_client_configured (set it to false).
</p>
<p>
The HTTP User Parameter Modifier test element has been removed; it has been deprecated for a long time.
</p>
<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Proxy</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51932">
Bug
51932</a> - CacheManager does not handle cache-control header with any attributes after max-age</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51918">
Bug
51918</a> - GZIP compressed traffic produces errors, when multiple connections allowed</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51939">
Bug
51939</a> - Should generate new parent sample if necessary when retrieving embedded resources</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51942">
Bug
51942</a> - Synchronisation issue on CacheManager when Concurrent Download is used</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51957">
Bug
51957</a> - Concurrent get can hang if a task does not complete</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51925">
Bug
51925</a> - Calling Stop on Test leaks executor threads when concurrent download of resources is on</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51980">
Bug
51980</a> - HtmlParserHTMLParser double-counts images used in links</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52064">
Bug
52064</a> - OutOfMemory Risk in CacheManager</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51919">
Bug
51919</a> - Random ConcurrentModificationException or NoSuchElementException in CookieManager#removeMatchingCookies when using Concurrent Download</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52126">
Bug
52126</a> - HttpClient4 does not clear cookies between iterations</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52129">
Bug
52129</a> - Reported Body Size is wrong when using HTTP Client 4 and Keep Alive connection</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52137">
Bug
52137</a> - Problems with HTTP Cache Manager</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52221">
Bug
52221</a> - Nullpointer Exception with use Retrieve Embedded Resource without HTTP Cache Manager</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52310">
Bug
52310</a> - variable in IPSource failed HTTP request if "Concurrent Pool Size" is enabled</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52371">
Bug
52371</a> - API Incompatibility - Methods in HTTPSampler2 now require PostMethod instead of HttpMethod[Base]. Reverted to original types.</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49950">
Bug
49950</a> - Proxy : IndexOutOfBoundsException when recording with Proxy server</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52409">
Bug
52409</a> - HttpSamplerBase#errorResult modifies sampleResult passed as parameter;
fix code which assumes that a new instance is created (i.e. when adding a sub-sample)
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52507">
Bug
52507</a> - Delete Http User Parameters modifier (deprecated, obsolete)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51996">
Bug
51996</a> - JMS Initial Context leak newly created Context when Multiple Thread enter InitialContextFactory#lookupContext at the same time</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51691">