Changelog for year 2016

1.7.5 ^{29 dec 2016}

• add actions into selenium to perform clicks, type keys and wait for items
• result processing optimization: add limitation of response time list size to cumulative KPISets
• bump up auto-installed JMeter to 3.1 and pmgr to 0.11
• add public-report option to BlazeMeter reporter and cloud provisioning
• add retrieve-resources-regex scenario-level option to JMeter
• allow controling JMeter HTTP redirects with follow-redirects option
• alter loop block to JMX compilation scheme to better reflect JMeter defaults (kudos to @rogerbramon)
• add labels, concurrency and error messages to reporting from Grinder
• add throughput ability to Gatling when building scripts from YAML
• fix Gatling path lookup for JARs from execution's files
• error logging improvements
• fix a few minor issues with the Windows installer
• fix public cloud reporting (unauthorised notes sending)
• add test for paths of resource files
• fix the crash when multiple BM reporters are in use
• add warning message for concurrency setting in Selenium config
• disable console if stdout isn't a tty (no need to do modules.console.disable=1 anymore)
• add creating of new stringProp ability to jmx modifications
• support unicode labels for aggregator's ignore-labels and JMeter

1.7.4 ^{11 nov 2016}

• fix Locust crash when used with 'requests'-style scenario and cloud provisioning
• fix JSR223 block handling when using cloud/remote provisioning
• allow sequential executions with -sequential alias
• do not generate Selenium scripts for cloud tests
• add a tool installer service and an -install-tools CLI alias
• fix cloud Gatling crash related to script template

1.7.3 ^{1 nov 2016}

• add TestNG-based runner for Selenium tests
• add content-encoding request- and scenario-level option to JMeter
• send additional-classpath jars into cloud when preparing a cloud test
• add the ability to specify path to Ruby binary
• jmx2yaml: use HTTPSampler.path even when there's no HTTPSampler.domain set
• make Taurus shortcut (Windows) open command line
• fix assertion disappearance in nose_plugin
• improve exception logging in Engine/CLI
• fix unicode issues in jmx2yaml
• handle the absence of backtrace in RSpec
• fix cumulative part of BlazeMeter reporting
• remove MirrorsManager from Gatling
• add final stats reporting for functional mode
• change routing part for BlazeMeter reports opened in browser
• fix log verbosity for HTTPError
• fix proxy2jmx proxy settings for Chrome
• fix issue when user has too many tests and test is not found in BZA
• fix gatling adding jar to classpath mistake
• bring ab, aggregator, console, gatling, grinder, chrome to own exceptions style
• query tests list from BZA more efficiently
• fix list item deleting via cli overrides
• use vanilla Chrome in Docker image

1.7.2 ^{13 oct 2016}

• fix keep-alive processing in Gatling
• add ability of JMeter variables usage in data-sources path options
• add jsr223 blocks support for JMeter
• fix problem with jmx twins

1.7.1 ^{10 oct 2016}

• fix Mocha runner race condition
• support more scenario options for Grinder script generation
• add move check for executor results availability to provisioning
• add common run-at option for services
• fix CPU monitoring when multiple monitoring modules are used
• fix timeout handling in Locust script generator
• fix Locust crash when concurrency isn't specified
• support scenario-level headers in Locust script generator
• add exception throw to tools downloader
• add Mocha autoinstallation for Selenium tests
• add selenium-webdriver npm package installation for Mocha runner
• make -locations respect use-deprecated-api flag
• fix relative path processing in find_file()
• don't exclude executable nose scripts for Selenium
• add setup of global additional-classpath ability to SeleniumExecutor
• support keepalive flag for Locust and Grinder
• make assertion messages of nose shorter and more informative
• track bytes received KPI and attach it to BZA report

1.7.0 ^{2 oct 2016}

• add RSpec tests runner for Selenium
• add Mocha-based tests runner for Selenium
• introduce language option for Selenium tests
• add action blocks to JMeter's requests
• fix JAR building for selenium projects with several folders
• migrate to new online reporting format
• add LocustIO script generation feature
• support collection-based cloud tests
• do not copy Selenium scripts in artifacts dir before running them
• fix KPI merging error
• fix nose plugin crash when setUp/setUpClass raises an exception
• fix percentiles values for cloud-based tests
• add stubs for screenshoter and capturehar services
• fix artifact upload in the cloud
• Docker image now has all executors pre-installed
• introduce check-interval option for cloud provisioning
• rename generated Grinder script to avoid clashes with Locust

1.6.8 ^{1 sep 2016}

• fix hamcrest installation for Java-based Selenium tests
• fix Jmeter fail with unusual jmx property type
• add variable sending example into Gatling documentation
• fix results time and add widget for ApacheBenchmark
• add script: <jar-file> capability to Gatling executor
• handle JMeter functions in default-address option

1.6.7 ^{23 aug 2016}

• add cloud and local aliases
• add detach mode to Cloud Provisioning
• add worker id to cloud log file names
• fix delay trouble in provisioning
• fix Gatling keepalive type cast bug
• fix grinder in the cloud with requests scenario
• add xml-jtl-flags option for tuning of logging verbosity
• add waiting for data... into titles of console blocks
• fix SSL error handling for cloud provisioning
• add Chrome profiler service and reporter
• add webdriver.log for requests-based Selenium tests
• make Selenim test labels clearer

1.6.6 ^{08 aug 2016}

• optimize aggregator by removing excessive calls to BetterDict.get()
• use JMeter Plugins Manager for installation of plugins
• build installer for Windows to simplify installation process
• add Proxy2JMX service to convert tests from Selenium to JMeter format
• fix occasional crash from inconsistent API result for cloud test KPIs
• prefer user-supplied download-link over default download link for JMeter

1.6.5 ^{12 jul 2016}

• fix master_id choosing for cloud reporting
• fix non-graceful shutdown on GUI window close
• restructure reporting and services docs
• do not crash when attempting to open browser in browserless env
• update Gatling script sample in docs
• solve slow post-processing by making reading speed of kpi.jtl adaptive

1.6.4 ^{05 jul 2016}

• add short script syntax (<scenario>: <script>)
• rely on Gatling simulation auto-detection mechanism when simulation field is not set
• fix 'non-existent scenario' error case
• fix config cleanup in cloud provisioning
• fix Selenium crash when used in multi-execution with a shared scenario
• add default-address scenario option to Selenium
• add custom gatling launcher for jar usage ability
• fix gatling path fail on Windows
• automatically rename Selenium Python script if it has undiscoverable name
• fix null global headers failure
• add upload-files option to JMeter requests for multipart/form-data uploads
• loop: false in JMeter data source now means 'stop thread after CSV is exhausted'
• force str for env vars in all shellexecs

1.6.3 ^{17 jun 2016}

• fix percentile value handling in passfail criteria
• add setting up of CWD on server side
• fix problem with sending included configs into cloud
• fix cumulative fail criteria processing order
• limit the amount of monitoring data BlazeMeter uploader accumulates
• fix passfail criteria with no last datapoint available
• force str for env vars in all shellexecs

1.6.2 ^{8 jun 2016}

• fix passfail-related regression crash

1.6.1 ^{1 jun 2016}

• add run-at option for unpacker module

1.6.0 ^{31 may 2016}

• add logic blocks to scenario.requests syntax for JMeter
• add default-location option for cloud provisioning
• delete test files before uploading new ones to the cloud
• add delete-test-files option to cloud provisioning
• fix reading piped config from stdin
• don't trap KeyboardInterrupt in tool install
• remove default xmx set for JMeter
• add zipping folders treatment for remote execution
• add check for resources overlap (data loss danger) for remote execution
• add raise for JSON body without corresponding header
• cleanup config from null values before sending it to the cloud
• pull cumulative percentiles from cloud provisioning
• replace 'criterias' with 'criteria', add backward compatibility
• fix double blazemeter reporting in cloud
• make ui type configurable with screen option of console reporter
• fix console reporter crash under Windows when curses is installed
• add subject setting to regexp extractor (similar to assertions)
• send some monitoring data into BlazeMeter reporting service
• do not clear cloud test files when using Blazemeter reporting

1.5.1 ^{30 may 2016}

• fix JMeter 3.0 installation issues
• make JMeter 3.0 the default installed version
• fix downloading older JMeter versions from Apache archives

1.5.0 ^{4 may 2016}

• add Tsung executor
• support Gatling 2.2.0
• fix Gatling download-link option handling
• fix browser-open regression
• allow CLI overrides to be arbitrary YAML values
• make log widget in console reporter smaller to leave more space for sidebar widgets
• order sidebar widgets by their priority
• fix "junit xml reporter + passfail + monitoring" bug

1.4.4 ^{25 apr 2016}

• fix enhanced PBench schedule generation crash on Python 3
• ensure that script option for PBench is looked at scenario level
• do not CWD into artifacts directory when running PBench
• fix PBench script lookup when using cloud/remote provisioning
• do not change CWD when running JMeter
• add forgotten Gatling script template to python egg
• fix PassFail condition flaw with few datapoints
• explicitly write default values in jmx2yaml
• recognize JMX variables in jmx2yaml
• don't fail execution because of web browser
• fix schedule size estimation and progress reporting in PBench
• fix PBench schedule reading crashes in Python3
• fix empty jxm error listener when write-xml-jtl=none

1.4.3 ^{14 apr 2016}

• bump up version for jmeter plugins installation to 1.4.0
• javac presence check fixed for selenium
• deeper fix detection of resource files for full-form data-sources items

1.4.2 ^{11 apr 2016}

• fix detection of resource files for full-form data-sources items
• fix body-file and data-sources not being detected in cloud environment

1.4.1 ^{7 apr 2016}

• improve slave id analysis for JMeter distributed test
• do not append extra \r\n to files sent to cloud/remote prov

1.4.0 ^{5 apr 2016}

• add XPath extractors and assertions for JMeter
• show warning if no element matched set-prop modification
• do not create hostaliases file when aliases are not specified
• add force-parent-sample option to JMeter executor
• add compile-target-java option for Selenium
• add dynamic buffer scaling ability to ResultsReader
• add scheduling ability with start-at parameter
• apply overrides and cli-aliases before creating artifacts-dir
• fix multiple JMeter warnings when CSV delimiter isn't set
• add memory-xmx option to JMeter to configure JVM heap size

1.3.3 ^{24 mar 2016}

• add new hostaliases setting for all executors
• add delay capability to engine

1.3.2 ^{23 mar 2016}

• fix lowercase hostname for JMeter HTTP request
• fix binary varname crash for JMeter HTTP request

1.3.1 ^{22 mar 2016}

• fix JMeter crash when data-sources value is not a list
• fix non-integer port in HTTP request
• fix Selenium crash with when using cloud/remote provisioning

1.3.0 ^{16 mar 2016}

• add Gatling script generation
• fix Gatling metric parsing
• remove explicitly cwd setting for Gatling
• add detection of Gatling simulation request in case of several simulations are found
• set unique output dir for every Gatling execution
• add output buffer size control to Gatling executor
• fix Grinder crash
• join JMeter and its plugins installation procedures
• fix unicode handling in JMeter's jmx script
• add Apache Benchmark executor
• extend script path recognition for JMeter
• fix PBench not working with cloud provisioning
• fix schedule generation in original PBench

1.2.0 ^{19 feb 16}

• maximize browser window in Selenium test, when possible
• add graphite support to monitoring service
• add local monitoring service
• create Docker image with Taurus inside
• one virtual display for all selenium executions
• add link for cloud provisioning results into JUnit xml
• add interface between Taurus and Gatling test script (scala)
• fix selenium resource files list for cloud
• fix forced delimiter detection for JMeter (failed for single-column csv)

1.1.0 ^{11 jan 16}

• support iterations and hold-for options for Selenium
• add concurrency-driven load support for PBench
• add -locations command alias to dump available locations for Cloud tests
• support variables in time fields for JMeter
• support POST body in application/json format for JMeter
• ability to set JMeter log verbosity with write-xml-jtl

1.0.0 ^{4 jan 16}

• support cloud provisioning
• parse URLs for JMeter a bit better
• add Siege executor
• add command line option -n to skip loading system and user configs

Changelog for Year 2015