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-<a href="#Incompatible changes"> -Incompatible changes -</a> -</li> - - -<li> -<a href="#Bug fixes"> -Bug fixes -</a> -</li> - - -<li> -<a href="#Improvements"> -Improvements -</a> -</li> - +<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2> -<li> -<a href="#Non-functional changes"> -Non-functional changes -</a> -</li> -<li> -<a href="#Thanks"> -Thanks -</a> -</li> +<h2 class="ch_title">Java 8 support</h2> +<p>Now, JMeter 2.12 is compliant with Java 8.</p> +<h2 class="ch_category">New Elements</h2> +<h2 class="ch_title">Critical Section Controller</h2> +<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> +<h2 class="ch_title">DNS Cache Manager</h2> +<p>The new configuration element <b>DNS Cache Manager</b>(see <a href="http://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> -<br/><br/><table width="100%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#525D76" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><big><big><a name="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a></big></big></b></font></td></tr></table><br/> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Java 8 support</font></td></tr></table> -<p> -Now, JMeter 2.12 is compliant with Java 8. -</p> -<br/><br/><table width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><big>New Elements</big></b></font></td></tr></table><br/> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Critical Section Controller</font></td></tr></table> -<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> -<p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img width='683' height='240' src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/01_critical_section_controller.png"/><br> -<font size="-1"></font></td></tr></table></p> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">DNS Cache Manager</font></td></tr></table> -<p> -The new configuration element -<b> -DNS Cache Manager -</b> -(see -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56841";>Bug 56841</a> -) improves the testing of: +</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> +<h2 class="ch_title">Smarter Recording of Http Test Plans</h2> +<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> +<h2 class="ch_title">Support of Webdav requests</h2> +<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> -<li> -CDN (Content Delivery Network) -</li> - +<h2 class="ch_title">Better handling of embedded resources</h2> +<p>When download embedded resources is checked, JMeter now uses User Agent header to download or not resources embedded within conditionnal 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> -<li> -DNS load balancing. -</li> +<h2 class="ch_title">Ability to customize Cache Manager (Browser cache simulation) handling of cached resources</h2> +<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> -<li> -Load Balancers like Amazon Elastic Load Balancer -</li> +<h2 class="ch_title">JMS Publisher / JMS Point-to-Point</h2> +<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> -</ul> +<h2 class="ch_title">Mail Reader Sampler</h2> +<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> +<h2 class="ch_title">SMTP Sampler</h2> +<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> -</p> -<p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img width='573' height='359' src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/02_dns_cache_manager.png"/><br> -<font size="-1"></font></td></tr></table></p> -<br/><br/><table width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><big>Core Improvements</big></b></font></td></tr></table><br/> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Smarter Recording of Http Test Plans</font></td></tr></table> -<p> -Test Script Recorder has been improved in many ways -</p> -<ul> +<h2 class="ch_title">Synchronizing Timer </h2> +<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> - -<li> -Better matching of Variables in Requests, making Test Script Recorder variabilize your sampler during recording more versatile -</li> +<h2 class="ch_title">Performance improvements</h2> +<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="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56708";> + Bug + 56708</a></p> - -<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 - -<p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img width='1094' height='647' src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/14_recorder_filter.png"/><br> -<font size="-1"></font></td></tr></table></p> +<h2 class="ch_category">GUI Improvements</h2> - -</li> +<h2 class="ch_title">Undo/Redo support</h2> +<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> - -<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> +<h2 class="ch_title">View Results Tree</h2> +<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> +<h2 class="ch_title">Response Time Graph</h2> +<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> -</ul> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Support of Webdav requests</font></td></tr></table> -<p> -You can now test against WebDav server using HttpClient4 Implementation of Http Request -</p> -<p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img width='989' height='406' src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/13_webdav.png"/><br> -<font size="-1"></font></td></tr></table></p> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Better handling of embedded resources</font></td></tr></table> -<p> -When download embedded resources is checked, JMeter now uses User Agent header to download or not resources embedded within conditionnal 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> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Ability to customize Cache Manager (Browser cache simulation) handling of cached resources</font></td></tr></table> -<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> -<p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img width='1024' height='314' src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/12_cache_resource_mode.png"/><br> -<font size="-1"></font></td></tr></table></p> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">JMS Publisher / JMS Point-to-Point</font></td></tr></table> -<p> - Add JMSPriority and JMSExpiration fields for these samplers. -</p> -<p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img width='877' height='314' src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/04_jms_publisher.png"/><br> -<font size="-1"></font></td></tr></table></p> -<p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img width='877' height='293' src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/05_jms_point_to_point.png"/><br> -<font size="-1"></font></td></tr></table></p> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Mail Reader Sampler</font></td></tr></table> -<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> -<p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img width='814' height='416' src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/03_mail_reader_sampler.png"/><br> -<font size="-1"></font></td></tr></table></p> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">SMTP Sampler</font></td></tr></table> -<p> -Adding the Connection timeout and the Read timeout to the -<b> -SMTP Sampler. -</b> -</p> -<p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img width='796' height='192' src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/06_smtp_sampler.png"/><br> -<font size="-1"></font></td></tr></table></p> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Synchronizing Timer </font></td></tr></table> -<p> -Adding a timeout to define the maximum time to waiting of the group of virtual users. -</p> -<p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img width='546' height='144' src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/09_synchronizing_timer.png"/><br> -<font size="-1"></font></td></tr></table></p> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Performance improvements</font></td></tr></table> -<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://issues.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://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56708";>Bug 56708</a> -</p> -<br/><br/><table width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><big>GUI Improvements</big></b></font></td></tr></table><br/> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Undo/Redo support</font></td></tr></table> -<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> -<p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img width='1024' height='56' src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/10_undo_redo.png"/><br> -<font size="-1"></font></td></tr></table></p> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">View Results Tree</font></td></tr></table> -<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> -<p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img width='900' height='329' src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/07_view_results_tree.png"/><br> -<font size="-1"></font></td></tr></table></p> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Response Time Graph</font></td></tr></table> -<p> -Adding the ability for the -<b> -Response Time Graph -</b> - listener to save/restore format its settings in/from the jmx file. -</p> -<p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img width='997' height='574' src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/08_response_time_graph.png"/><br> -<font size="-1"></font></td></tr></table></p> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Log Viewer</font></td></tr></table> -<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> -<p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td><img width='1024' height='437' src="./images/screenshots/changes/2.12/11_log_viewer.png"/><br> -<font size="-1"></font></td></tr></table></p> -<br/><table width="80%" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#828DA6" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">File Opening</font></td></tr></table> -<p> -Now, "Open File dialog" uses last opened file folder as start folder, see -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52707";>Bug 52707</a> -</p> -<br/><br/><table width="100%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#525D76" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><big><big><a name="Known bugs">Known bugs</a></big></big></b></font></td></tr></table><br/> -<ul> +<h2 class="ch_title">Log Viewer</h2> +<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> +<h2 class="ch_title">File Opening</h2> +<p>Now, "Open File dialog" uses last opened file folder as start folder, see <a href="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52707";> + Bug + 52707</a></p> -<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> +<h2 class="ch_section" id="Known bugs">Known bugs</h2> -<li> +<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://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55510";>Bug 55510</a> -). - +the total number of threads only applies to a locally run test, otherwise it will show 0 (see <a href="http://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> - +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> - java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0 x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(...) 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://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54477 ">Bug 54477 </a> -). +This is a known Java bug (see <a href="http://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> -. +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> - +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. - +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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54778";> + Bug + 54778</a>. +You can choose between different ways to handle this case, see cache_manager.cached_resource_mode in jmeter.properties.</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="http://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 > 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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55998";> + Bug + 55998</a> - HTTP recording – Replacing port value by user defined variable does not work</li> +<li><a href="http://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="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56263";> + Bug + 56263</a> - DefaultSamplerCreator should set BrowserCompatible Multipart true</li> +<li><a href="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56207";> + Bug + 56207</a> - URLs get encoded on redirects in HC3.1 & HC4 samplers</li> +<li><a href="http://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="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55977";> + Bug + 55977</a> - JDBC pool keepalive flooding</li> +<li><a href="http://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="http://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 Context.getEnvironment contract</li> +<li><a href="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56428";> + Bug + 56428</a> - MailReaderSampler - should it use mail.pop3s.* properties?</li> +<li><a href="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56243";> + Bug + 56243</a> - Foreach works incorrectly with indexes on subsequent iterations </li> +<li><a href="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56160";> + Bug + 56160</a> - StackOverflowError when using WhileController within IfController</li> +<li><a href="http://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="http://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="http://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- & Post-Processors</h3> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56227";> + Bug + 56227</a> - AssertionGUI : NPE in assertion on mouse selection</li> +<li><a href="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56419";> + Bug + 56419</a> - JMeter silently fails to save results</li> +<li><a href="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57075";> + Bug + 57075</a> - BeanInfoSupport.MULTILINE attribute is not processed</li> +<li><a href="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56772";> + Bug + 56772</a> - Handle IE Conditional comments when parsing embedded resources</li> +<li><a href="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56427";> + Bug + 56427</a> - MailReaderSampler enhancement: read message header only</li> +<li><a href="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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- & Post-Processors</h3> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56691";> + Bug + 56691</a> - Synchronizing Timer : Add timeout on waiting</li> +<li><a href="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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> -<pre> -JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security -</pre> - -See -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56357";>Bug 56357</a> - for details. +<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="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56243";> + Bug + 56243</a> and <a href="http://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="http://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> -</li> +Apologies if we have omitted anyone else. + </p> + +<h1>Version 2.11</h1> -</ul> -<br/><br/><table width="100%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#525D76" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><big><big><a name="Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</a></big></big></b></font></td></tr></table><br/> +Summary <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> -<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://issues.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> +<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2> -<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://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56539";>Bug 56539</a> -</li> +<h2 class="ch_title">HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder improvements</h2> +<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 keytool.directory (see system.properties) lets you configure directory containing keytool in case on non-standard installation</li> +</ul> +</p> +<h2 class="ch_title">JMS Publisher/Point to Point : Add ability to set typed values in JMS header properties</h2> +<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> -<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://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54778";>Bug 54778</a> -. -You can choose between different ways to handle this case, see cache_manager.cached_resource_mode in jmeter.properties. -</li> +<h2 class="ch_title">View Results Tree : Add an XPath Tester </h2> +<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> +<h2 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</h2> +<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> -<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://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56920";>Bug 56920</a> -. Read -<a href="./usermanual/hints_and_tips.html#debug_logging"> -Hints and Tips > Enabling Debug logging -</a> +<h2 class="ch_title">Add a "Save as Test Fragment" option </h2> +<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> -for details on configuring this component. -</li> +<h2 class="ch_title">Summariser is be enabled by default in Non GUI mode</h2> +<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> +<h2 class="ch_title">Transaction Controller:Change default property "Include duration of timer..." for newly created element</h2> +<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> -</ul> -<br/><br/><table width="100%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="2" bgcolor="#525D76" border="0"> -<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><big><big><a name="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a></big></big></b></font></td></tr></table><br/> -<h3> -HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder -</h3> -<ul> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55998";>Bug 55998</a> - - HTTP recording ? Replacing port value by user defined variable does not work -</li> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.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://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56222";>Bug 56222</a> - - NPE if jmeter.httpclient.strict_rfc2616=true and location is not absolute -</li> +<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> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56263";>Bug 56263</a> - - DefaultSamplerCreator should set BrowserCompatible Multipart true +<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="http://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> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56231";>Bug 56231</a> - - Move redirect location processing from HC3/HC4 samplers to HTTPSamplerBase#followRedirects() +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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55510";> + Bug + 55510</a>). </li> - <li> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56207";>Bug 56207</a> - - URLs get encoded on redirects in HC3.1 & HC4 samplers +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> -<a href="https://issues.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 +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="http://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> -<a href="https://issues.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 +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> -<h3> -Other Samplers -</h3> -<ul> - - -<li> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55977";>Bug 55977</a> - - JDBC pool keepalive flooding -</li> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.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> +<h2 class="ch_section" id="Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</h2> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.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 Context.getEnvironment contract -</li> +<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 "jmeter.httpclient.strict_rfc2616" in jmeter.properties to change this behaviour, see <a href="http://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> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56428";>Bug 56428</a> - - MailReaderSampler - should it use mail.pop3s.* properties? -</li> +<h2 class="ch_section" id="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</h2> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.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> +<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55815";> + Bug + 55815</a> - Proxy#getDomainMatch does not handle wildcards correctly</li> +<li><a href="http://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="http://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> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.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> +<h3>Controllers</h3> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55816";> + Bug + 55816</a> - Transaction Controller with "Include duration of timer..." unchecked does not ignore processing time of last child sampler</li> +</ul> +<h3>Listeners</h3> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55826";> + Bug + 55826</a> - Unsynchronised concurrent accesses to list in field RespTimeGraphVisualizer.internalList </li> +</ul> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.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> +<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- & Post-Processors</h3> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://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="http://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="http://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> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.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> +<h3>I18N</h3> +<ul> +</ul> +<h3>General</h3> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://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> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.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://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57078";>Bug 57078</a> - - LagartoBasedHTMLParser fails to parse page that contains input with no type -</li> +<h2 class="ch_section" id="Improvements">Improvements</h2> +<h3>HTTP Samplers and Proxy</h3> +<ul> +</ul> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57183";>Bug 57183</a> - - JMSSampler: For input string: "" java.lang.NumberFormatException (for Expiration or Priority fields) -</li> +<h3>Other samplers</h3> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55854";> + Bug + 55854</a> - Transaction Controller:Change default property "Include duration of timer..." for newly created element</li> +</ul> +<h3>Listeners</h3> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55610";> + Bug + 55610</a> - View Results Tree : Add an XPath Tester</li> </ul> -<h3> -Controllers -</h3> + +<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- & Post-Processors</h3> <ul> +<li><a href="http://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="http://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> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56243";>Bug 56243</a> - - Foreach works incorrectly with indexes on subsequent iterations -</li> - - -<li> -<a href="https://issues.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://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56160";>Bug 56160</a> - - StackOverflowError when using WhileController within IfController -</li> - +<h3>I18N</h3> +<ul> +</ul> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.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> +<h3>General</h3> +<ul> +<li><a href="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55693";> + Bug + 55693</a> - Add a "Save as Test Fragment" option</li> +<li><a href="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55756";> + Bug + 55756</a> - HTTP Mirror Server : Add ability to set Headers</li> +<li><a href="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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="http://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> -<h3> -Listeners -</h3> +<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> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.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://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57052";>Bug 57052</a> - - ArithmeticException: / by zero when sampleCount is equal to 0 -</li> +<h1>Version 2.10</h1> -</ul> -<h3> -Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- & Post-Processors -</h3> +Summary <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> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56162";>Bug 56162</a> - - HTTP Cache Manager should not cache PUT/POST etc. -</li> +<h2 class="ch_section" id="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</h2> +<h2 class="ch_category">Core Improvements</h2> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56227";>Bug 56227</a> - - AssertionGUI : NPE in assertion on mouse selection -</li> +<h2 class="ch_title">New Performance improvements</h2> +<p> +<ul> +<li>A Huge performance improvement has been made on High Throughput Tests (no pause), see <a href="http://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="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55632";> + Bug + 55632</a></li> +</ul> +</p> +<h2 class="ch_title">New CSS/JQuery Tester in View Tree Results</h2> +<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> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41319";>Bug 41319</a> - - URLRewritingModifier : Allow Parameter value to be url encoded +<h2 class="ch_title">Many improvements in HTTP(S) Recording have been made</h2> +<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="http://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="http://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="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55502";> + Bug + 55502</a>, <a href="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55504";> + Bug + 55504</a>, <a href="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55506";> + Bug + 55506</a></li> +<li>Many encoding fixes have been made, see <a href="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54482";> + Bug + 54482</a>, <a href="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54142";> + Bug + 54142</a>, <a href="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54293";> + Bug + 54293</a></li> +</ul> +</p> +<h2 class="ch_title">You can now load test MongoDB through new MongoDB Source Config</h2> +<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> -</ul> -<h3> -Functions -</h3> -<ul> +<h2 class="ch_title">Kerberos authentication has been added to Auth Manager</h2> +<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> +<h2 class="ch_title">Device can now be used in addition to source IP address</h2> -</ul> -<h3> -I18N -</h3> -<ul> +<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> +<h2 class="ch_title">You can now do functional testing of MongoDB scripts through new MongoDB Script</h2> +<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> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56111";>Bug 56111</a> - - "comments" in german translation is not correct -</li> +<h2 class="ch_title">Timeout has been added to OS Process Sampler</h2> +<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> +<h2 class="ch_title">Query timeout has been added to JDBC Request</h2> +<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> -</ul> -<h3> -General -</h3> -<ul> +<h2 class="ch_title">New functions (__urlencode and __urldecode) are now available to encode/decode URL encoded chars</h2> +<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> +<h2 class="ch_title">Continuous Integration is now eased by addition of a new flag that forces NON-GUI JVM to exit after test end</h2> +<p>See jmeter property:</p> +<span class="code">jmeterengine.force.system.exit</span> +<p></p> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56059";>Bug 56059</a> - - Older TestBeans incompatible with 2.11 when using TextAreaEditor -</li> +<h2 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</h2> +<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> +<h2 class="ch_title">2 implementations of HtmlParser have been added to improve Embedded resources parsing</h2> +<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> +<h2 class="ch_title">Distributed testing has been improved</h2> +<p> +<ul> <li> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56080";>Bug 56080</a> - - Conversion error com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.ConversionException with Java 8 Early Access Build +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="http://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> +<h2 class="ch_title">ModuleController has been improved to better handle changes to referenced controllers</h2> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56182";>Bug 56182</a> - - Can't trigger bsh script using bshclient.jar; socket is closed unexpectedly -</li> +<h2 class="ch_title">Improved class loader configuration, see <a href="http://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55503";> + Bug + 55503</a></h2> +<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> +<h2 class="ch_title">Best-practices section has been improved, ensure you read it to get the most out of JMeter</h2> +<p>See <a href="usermanual/best-practices.html">Best Practices</a> +</p> +<h2 class="ch_category">GUI and ergonomy Improvements</h2> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56360";>Bug 56360</a> - - HashTree and ListedHashTree fail to compile with Java 8 -</li> +<h2 class="ch_title">New Templates feature that allows you to create test plan from existing template or merge +template into your Test Plan</h2> +<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> -<li> -<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56419";>Bug 56419</a> - - JMeter silently fails to save results -</li> +<h2 class="ch_title">Workbench can now be saved</h2> +<p>
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