Changelog - mathieuboniface/gatling GitHub Wiki

v2.0.0-M3a #

This version fixes several major bugs in 2.0.0-M3, users are recommended to upgrade (transparent from M3)

Fixes

#1281 Core: XPath check fails, ByteBufferInputStream buffer overflow
#1282 Core: Simulation doesn't terminate properly
#1283 HTTP: Wrong time out
#1286 HTTP: Header regex check fails with NPE

v2.0.0-M3 #

This version also contains all the fixes and features from 1.5.1 and 1.5.2.

Beware of the breaking changes since 2.0.0-M2, like protocol set up and HTTP request bodies, see Gatling 2 page.

Fixes

#1140 Core: Fix during loop
#1148 Core: Remove Expression type alias that messes up with implicit conversions
#1153 Recorder: Bug with URI parsing
#1154 Recorder: Protect headers
#1183 Charts: Incorrect OK/KO counts on groups
#1207 HTTP: Additional CRLF when no Content-Disposition in multipart
#1219 Recorder: Protected values in HAR files
#1224 Core: Don't eagerly fetch resources from classpath
#1243 Core: Div by 0 in ramp injection
#1244 Charts: Percentage round up
#1257 Core: TryMax exit condition
#1259 Core: Wrong behavior when existASAP = false (repeat, foreach)
#1266 Core: TryMax doesn't log inner groups
#1270 App: Wrong behavior when simulation compiled class already exists

Features

#62 and #1142 JDBC: Store stats in RDBMS, contributed by Jay Patel (@jaypatel512)
#1141 Core: Simulation set up refactoring
#1083, #1084 and #1208 Core: Support loading resources (feeder, bodies) from classpath
#1163 and #1166 HTTP: Multipart support
#1176 Recorder: Generate inline queries instead of queryParams
#1181 Charts: Display KO percentages
#1182 and #1265 Recorder: Handle pauses around tags, contributed by Sébastien Keller (@Skeebl)
#1185 Core: Expose XML parser config in gatling.conf
#1211 HTTP: Drop Scalate's SSP
#1226 HTTP: Make SSL store type optional
#1237 HTTP: Make request bodies cache configurable
#1252 Charts: Add errors distribution table
#1269 HTTP: Support Grizzly as HTTP provider

v1.5.2 #

Fixes

#1203 Recorder: Recorder doesn't record binary bodies correctly
#1204 Core: CSV parser escapeChar doesn't work properly
#1213 Maven: When skipping, maven plugin shouldn't parse args
#1214 Core: Race condition in DataWriter.uninitialized
#1216 HTTP: Have query param support both "foo=" and "foo" forms
#1223 Core: JsonPath with array element NPE when the array is actually null
#1225 Charts: Dots in javascript variable names make jQuery crash

Features

#1209 HTTP: Gatling doesn't honor RFC6265 cookie encoding style
#1217 HTTP: Support AHC maxConnectionLifeTime
#1221 HTTP: HEAD verb can have a body
#1222 HTTP: Add OPTIONS verb support
#1235 HTTP: Expose Virtual Host configuration
#1240 HTTP: Add HttpProtocol.baseHeaders(headers)

Features

v1.5.1 #

From this version, one can:

use -Dgatling.test.skip in order to disable the gatling maven plugin
chose between jodd and jsoup in gatling.conf for the CSS Selector engine
display multiple Simulations (launched in multiple maven plugin executions for example) in the Jenkins plugin

Fixes

#1139 Core: Round-Robin feeder memory leak
#1146 HTTP: Set AHC maxRetry to 0 by default
#1155 Recorder: Recorder doesn't dump with selected encoding
#1157 Recorder: Recorder doesn't properly extract bodies

Features

#1063 Maven: Allow one to skip gatling tests
#1138 HTTP: Backport support for poorly encoded Location header
#1145 Core: Let exec take a Scenario
#1160 HTTP: Add session to log triggered by request failure
#1162 Jenkins: Multiple gatling runs in single jenkins job, thanks to @cprice-puppet
#1170 Core: Revive Jodd support, make it default implementation
#1171 Core: Backport extractors caching to 1.5

v2.0.0-M2 #

This version also contains all the fixes and features from 1.5.0.

Fixes

#1093 Charts: Broken link if request name contains #
#1098 App: Fix regex for scala-compiler jar, thanks to @nap-stig
#1124 Charts: Invalid JSON file
#1136 Core: else branch of ifOrElse always ignored

Features

#827 and #1085 Recorder: Generate Simulation from HAR file
#966 and #1090 Output final stats to console, thanks to @jaypatel512
#1091 Core: dirac renamed into heaviside
#1105 and #1113 Add an exitASAP to during and asLongAs loops so that exit condition is evaluated on every action instead of once per iteration

v1.5.0 #

Fixes

#1094 HTTP: JsonPath and XPath checks consume the response body
#1095 Charts: Charts names encoding problem
#1116 Core: DataWriter race condition
#1127 Recorder: Invalid dot in chains
#1133 HTTP: Don't drop query params inlined in the URL

Features

#1055 Core: Reorganize gatling.conf
#1099 Core: Override gatling.data.writers from System properties
#1101 and #1102 Recorder: Override default keystore, thanks to @cprice-puppet
#1114 Core: Switch from Jodd to Jsoup as CSS selectors implementation
#1115 Drop custom JsonPath in favor of Jayway one
#1117 HTTP: Add HttpProtocolConfiguration.shareClient to have one http client per user (disabled by default)
#1119 HTTP: Add HttpProtocolConfiguration.shareConnections to have one http client per user (enabled by default)
#1121 HTTP: Add Session attributes for setting SSL Engine per user
#1125 Core: Add a light mode for ConsoleDataWriter
#1126 Graphite: Add a light mode for GraphiteDataWriter
#1134 and (https://github.com/excilys/gatling/issues/) App: Allow simulation description to be configurable via conf file / CLI, thanks to @cprice-puppet
#1137 Refactor doIfOrElse(String, String) into doIfEqualsOfElse(Expression[String], Expression[String])

Note: Beware that the configuration file has changed, so the System property names to override it too! Please check the new file.

v2.0.0-M1 #

See full milestone content and Gatling 2 page.

v1.4.7 #

Fixes

#1047 and #1049 Maven: Forked JVM might not exit on Windows, thanks to alvinlin123!
#1066 Maven: System properties propagation still not working under Windows
#1074 Charts: Broken records cause generation to fail
#1080 Charts: Javascript error when request name starts with a number

Features

#1050 Core: Upgrade Slf4j 1.7.5
#1051 Core: Upgrade Logback 1.0.11
#1070 Charts: Long request names break the menu
#1072 HTTP: Upgrade AsyncHttpClient 1.7.13
#1073 HTTP: Upgrade Netty 3.6.5

v1.4.6 #

Fixes

#1018 and #1019 Core: Possible race condition on initialization
#1020 HTTP: Warm up done twice, slowing down start up
#1037 Maven: Renaming property simulation into simulationClass in order to avoid clash when passing as System property
#1042 Recorder: Invalid generated simulation when first element is a tag
#1044 Maven: Fails when propagating a System property with a space

Features

#1046 Core: Drop attribute axis support in JsonPath, introduce magic value _ to target root array

Note: Be aware of the 2 breaking changes:

Maven plugin property simulation renamed into simulationClass
JsonPath not longer supports attribute axis (didn't really make sense and was equivalent to child element one).

v1.4.5 #

Fixes

#995 and #1013 Core: Can't use assertions with "manual scaling" procedure, see wiki
#1003 Maven: line.separator disappears when propagation System properties
#1009 Core: config doesn't get overridden with System properties

Features

#1017 HTTP: Upgrade to async-http-client 1.7.12

v1.4.4 #

Fixes

#971 Maven: Plugin broken, wrong Scala version resolved
#974 HTTP: XPath and JsonPath checks crash on empty body
#984 and #993 Charts: stats.tsv file broken

Features

#906, * #911 and * #972 Core: add new foreach DSL, see doc
#960 Core: Make user ids unique
#977 Maven: Propagate System properties in fork mode
#983 Charts: Make Graphite root configurable, defaulting to gatling
#996 HTTP: Make SslContext configurable

tons of optimizations, see full issues list for details

v1.4.3 #

Fixes

#914, #915, #918, #919 Charts: Charts not rendering when request/group name contains special characters
#922 Core: Fix pause shift computation
#926 HTTP: Improve domain matching in cookie handling
#942 Recorder: Handle poorly encoded queries
#944 Core: NPE when running a simulation with 2 scenarios with the same name
#954 and #956 HTTP: Filtered out multiple cookies with the same name/path (support PHP bug)

Features

#913 HTTP: Upgrade Netty 3.6.2
#934 HTTP: Upgrade async-http-client 2.10
#941 Core: Loops clean up
#957 HTTP: Add Connection to possible common headers

v1.4.2 #

Fixes

#881 and #910 Core: Fix Zinc incremental compiler NPE
#898 Charts: invalid group OK/KO stats
#899 HTTP: Cookies are not propagated from HTTP to HTTPS
#907 JDBC: JdbcFeeder SQLException with Oracle

v1.4.1 #

Fixes

#882 Core: Possible SOE when too many requests
#884 Recorder: Not working with HTTPS
#886 Charts: Wrong statistics for groups
#893 Maven: reportsOnly not work with maven plugin

Features

#889 Core: Upgrade Scala 2.9.3-RC1
#892 Core: Upgrade Akka 2.0.5
#894 HTTP: Upgrade Netty 3.6.1

v1.4.0 #

Fixes

#844 Charts: Handle parentheses in request names
#846 Core: Fix possible NPE in FileDataWriter.sanitize
#866 #867 Charts: Fix stats.tsv file header, thanks to @caps (Pete Capra)

Features

#170 #322 Charts: New API for grouping requests
#560 Core: New API for acceptance criteria
#594 Maven: New Jenkins plugin
#772 Charts: Reorganize description
#782 Core: 1.3.X deprecated APIs removed
#788 #810 Core: Jackson fully configurable through gatling.conf
#802 HTTP: Host header doesn't have to be specified as AHC computes it
#829 Core: Feeder is now Iterator[Map[String, T]]
#832 Charts: Upgrade jQuery 1.8.3
#838 #840 Core: Breaking change in Simulation structure: remove apply and configure, introduce setUp
#839 Maven: maven plugin now use src/test/scala and src/test/resources folders
#841 Core: New .size EL function
#847 Core: Make extraResponseInfoExtractor take an ExtendedResponse
#848 #879 HTTP: Better tracing/debugging of requests and responses
#849 HTTP: Upgrade Netty 3.6.0.Final
#857 Core: Stop engine nicely instead of System.exit on feeder starvation
#860 Core: Upgrade Logback 1.0.9
#861 Core: Upgrade Jackson 2.1.2
#864 #872 Maven: maven-gatling-plugin refactoring
#870 HTTP: Make fileBody dynamic
#874 Core: Fix Zinc when Gatling path contains special characters
#876 App: Rename deb package name into gatling-tool
#877 HTTP: Upgrade AHC 1.7.9, fix bug when no headers
#880 Charts: Upgrade Highcharts 2.3.5 and Highstock 1.2.5

Note: This release introduce a breaking change in the Simulation classes format. Deprecated methods in 1.3.X have been removed. See migration guide

v1.3.5 #

Fixes

#799 Maven: src/test/scala directory missing in projects generated with the archetype
#800 Core: Fix debig logger in logback.xml
#808 HTTP: Original ContentType header shouldn't be propagated when redirecting
#813 HTTP: followRedirect not working properly when Location contains a query
#816 HTTP: CookieStore not accounting for port number in domain computation
#820 Core: JsonPath not supporting wildcards

Features

#765 and #814 HTTP: Print HTTP params in debug
#792 Core: Make request names dynamic
#817 HTTP: Authorization header can now be declared as a common header in HttpProtocolConfiguration
#818 HTTP: Support for non UTF-8 encoded cookies (value containing an "=" character)

v1.3.4 #

Fixes

#785 Recorder: Fix followRedirect support
#786 Core: Fix during loop timer
#787 Core: Fix JsonPath

v1.3.3 #

Features

#754 Core: Use Zinc incremental compiler
#763 and #769 Charts: Redesign statistic summary table
#775 HTTP/Recorder: DNT common header support
#779 Core: Loop index is now directly exposed as Session attribute

Fixes

#755 Charts: Square and curly braces in request names mess up with javascript
#756 HTTP: Fix abusing caching
#759 Core: Fix check when forcing Simulation
#760 Maven: add missing logback.xml file
#762 HTTP: Support Expires headers numerical values
#766 Metrics: Max and count should be reseted along with the buckets
#770 Charts: Run description is not properly printed
#777 Core: Fix unrecoverable crash on while condition evaluation
#778 Core: Counter should be incremented before the loop content
#780 Recorder: Fix pauses shift

v1.3.2 #

Features

#750 HTTP: better support of multivalued params and queryParams with multiValuedParam and multiValueQueryParam, see wiki

Fixes

#753 HTTP: regression: params were being sent as query params

v1.3.1 #

Features

#743 Checks: Add new bodyString check, see wiki
#744 HTTP: Upgrade Netty to 3.5.8.Final, critical performance fixes
#752 Config: Add aliases for built-ins data readers and writers: console, file and graphite

Fixes

#732 HTTP: responseChunksDiscardingEnabled was not working properly
#734 HTTP: Host header was being ignored, fixed thanks to @dustinbarnes
#735 Core: NPE when using chain
#736 Charts: Drop Scalding/Cascading, considerably reduce memory footprint, introduce accuracy config parameter defaulting to 10ms
#745 Recorder: Tags were not dumped in the generated Simulation
#747 Charts: Some charts disappear. This is due to a Highstock bug that has been fixed yet, so a workaround was introduced
#751 Feeders and Charts: File streams were not properly closed

Note: Due to the new accuracy parameter, you will experience less precise values in the charts. You can get the old behavior by setting a 1 ms value, at the cost of a higher memory usage.

v1.3.0 #

Warning: Migration required, see migration guide

API changes:

#669 Core: Config file format change
#698 Core: Durations expressed as (value, unit) are deprecated
#699 Core: Loops refactoring, old ones are deprecated
#705 Core: insertChain deprecated, use exec
#711 Core: Feeders are now Iterators
#730 Core: doIf refactoring

Features

#592 Charts: Display mean number of requests/sec in global chart page
#593 Charts: Generate a csv file with global stats
#604 and #672 Charts: Response time and latency charts now display (min, max) ranges instead of a max values line
#606 HTTP: New byteArrayBody(Session => Array[Byte]), see wiki
#607 HTTP: New baseUrls for round-robin, thanks to @israel, see wiki
#607 and #683 Charts: New summary table on global page
#621 Checks: Css checks underlying parser now supports browser conditional tests
#623 HTTP: New caching support, see wiki
#624 Core: New console dashboard
#627 Checks: New currentLocation check, see wiki
#628 Core: New pauseCustom(() => Long), see wiki
#641 and #658 HTTP: Log requests and responses on failure
#644 HTTP: paramKey and fileName upload parameters are now dynamic
#646 HTTP: Multi file upload support, thanks to @codemnky
#647 and #690 Core: New randomSwitch, see wiki
#652 HTTP: New disableResponseChunksDiscarding, see wiki
#652 Checks: Css checks now support attribute node selection, see wiki
#674 and #675 Graphite: Gatling can now report to Graphite, see wiki
#685 Project: Continuous Integration now on Cloudbees
#688 Charts: New polar chart with request counts
#701 Core: New exitBlockOnFail and exitHereIfFailed, see wiki
#702 Core: New tryMax, see wiki
#703 Core: Remove bootstrapping from chain, see wiki
#706 Core: new randomRoundRobin, see wiki
#712 Core: Let exec take a chain vararg, see wiki
#714 Core: Better simulations compilation warnings

Fixes

#571 HTTP: Better cookies support
#609 HTTP: NPE when Location header missing
#615 HTTP: Url is encoded twice on redirect
#630 Charts: Fix percentiles
#639 and #687 Recorder: should ask before overwriting
#651 Check: responseTime and latency checks mustn't cause body to be stored
#653 HTTP: Duration computation problems
#664 Core: Don't display Abstract simulations
#665 Core: LinkageError when using inheritance
#709 Recorder: support empty valued parameters
#713 and #715 Charts: support quotes in request names

v1.2.5 #

Features

#596 Better live informations

Fixes

#597 Fix cookie handling regression
#599 Time measurement is intrinsically imprecise, ensure that it can't cause negative response times
#600 Fix response time distribution chart, max value wasn't properly displayed
#601 Fix gatling-maven-plugin JVM arguments

v1.2.4 #

Features

#446 Add the ability to dump custom data in the logs, thanks to Stephen Kuenzli, see wiki
#569 New reponseTimeInMillis and latencyInMillis checks, see wiki
#576 new headerRegex check, see wiki
#591 Location header is now automatically decoded when checked, see wiki
#595 New simple feeder, see wiki

Fixes

#572 Fix a bug where cookies with the same name could be sent both under certain conditions
#573 Fix script variables scope under Windows, thanks to Henri Tremblay
#574 Fix logger in logback.conf, thanks to Henri Tremblay
#583 Fix engine encoding handling
#586 Fix recorder class name and package generation
#587 Fix recorder encoding handling

v1.2.3 #

Fixes

#566 Fix body checks regression in 1.2.2

v1.2.2 #

Warning: due to #566, 1.2.2 users are recommended to upgrade to 1.2.3

Features

#543 Make charts generation consume multiple simulation(.*).log files, ease multiple instances testing, see wiki
#548 New Redis Feeder, thanks to @krishnenc (Krishnen Chedambarum), see wiki
#548 New byteArrayBody, thanks to @krishnenc (Krishnen Chedambarum), see wiki
#552 Gatling modules can now be built independantly, thanks to @nire (Nicolas Rémond)
#553 New checksum checks, see wiki
#555 Run name can now be set on gatling-maven-plugin, see wiki
#557 Gatling now ships Grizzly to ease switching NIO provider (Gatling still uses Netty by default)

Fixes

#562 Fix gatling-maven-plugin crash when setting no-reports or run-name options, thanks to @skuenzli (Stephen Kuenzli)
#558 Ensure IfAction and WhileAction don't lose messages on crash

v1.2.1 #

Warning: Due to #545, 1.2.0 users are highly recommended to upgrade!

Features

#539 much better reports generation memory footprint

Fixes

#536 HttpProtocolConfiguration DSL wouldn't compile when proxy was defined in the middle of the chain
#537 Warm up request would break the run when target url cannot be reached
#538 Fix scatter plot chart
#540 Fix percentile ordinal suffix, thanks to Nicolas Rémond
#544 Fix times computation at very high throughput
#545 Fix pause duration
#546 Fix launch script when path contains special characters, thanks to Jean-François Bilger

v1.2.0 #

Warning: Migration required, see migration guide

Features

#376 loop times condition can now be dynamic
#432 & #523 Referer header can now be automatically computed
#435 & #518 CSS Selector extractors are now supported, thanks to Nicolas Rémond (@nire)
#493 & #531 HEAD HTTP word is now supported, thanks to Nicolas Rémond (@nire)
#501 Reports global page has been refactored
#509 Recorder has been migrated to Scala
#514 Common HTTP Headers can be configured on ProtocolConfiguration
#522 Outgoing proxy credentials can now be configured in the Recorder
#527 Percentiles have been reworked to make more sense
#530 New exponentially distributed pauses, thanks to Stephen Kuenzli (@skuenzli)
#532 Add automatic request to compensate for engine warm up
#535 Calling check() several times will now append them instead of overriding them

Fixes

#512 & #528 Fix class name resolution in gatling-maven-plugin, thanks to Cyril Couturi (@ccouturi) and Stephen Kuenzli (@skuenzli)
#520 Add protection from SimpleAction crashes
#534 Handle empty lines in CSV files

v1.1.6 - Bug fix #

Fixes

#498 Recorder: fix NPE on request body
#507 gatling-maven-plugin: fix simulation package on Windows
#508 Charts: fix encoding
#510 Recorder: fix request bodies folder name

v1.1.5 - Bug fix #

Fixes

#489 Make recorder use relative URIs once connection established
#490 Handle 303 redirect status code
#491 Fix status code check when using non default one
#497 Fix reports when request name contains "'"
#498 Fix NPE in recorder when dumping request bodies
#499 Fix latency chart

Features

#484 - Remove check logic from the AHC handler in order to reduce pressure on IO threads
#486 - Charts: all session series is computed once for all
#492 - Add a "maybe" check strategy when one want to capture an optional value
#500 - Document transactions/sec chart
#502 - Expose AHC configuration in Gatling conf

v1.1.4 - Bug fix #

Fixes

#481 Fix http client start up
#483 Fix multiple simulations launching

Features

#485 - Charts: add new response time distribution
#487 - EL: let occurrence be dynamic

v1.1.3 - Bug fix #

Fixes

#459 - Upgrade Netty 3.4.0.Final that fixes a compression bug.
#460 - Fix recorder SSL certificate.
#466 - Support relative Location headers
#469 - Regression: the recorder shouldn't record Cookie and Content-Length headers
#470 - Fix statistics displayed in the CLI while running

Features

#465 - Charts: display percentiles

v1.1.2 - Bug fix #

Fixes

#450 - Properly fixes cookie expiration
#453 - Make XPathExtractor threadsafe
#455 - Fix global statistics

Features

#327 - Akka 2 migration, wouhou!!!

v1.1.1 - Bug fix #

Fixes

#442 - Fixes fileBody templating
#444 - Fixes cookie deletion

Features

#447 - Log at debug level the response on failed check

v1.1.0 #

Warning: Migration required, see migration guide

Features

Engine
- configurable run id and run description, see #416
- periodic statistic display while running, see #384
- link to generated reports, see #383
Check API
- Check API is now type safe
- optional transform step on extraction result
- new JSONPath, see #433
- xpath namespaces support, see #434
Feeder API
- new JDBC feeders for retrieving data from a SGBDR, see #37
- escape character support on CSV based feeders, see #105
- circular feeders, see #321
HTTP API
- follow redirect support, see #105
- clean cookie handling, see #396
Charts API
- configurable time window, see #323
- new active transactions/sec over time chart
- new response latency over time chart
Recorder
- no longer an ubber jar, now to be launched from a script
- follow redirect support
- configurable generated Simulation package and class name, see #438
- configurable encoding, see #386
Extensions
- new gatling-maven-plugin, contributed by @nhuray
- new gatling debian package, contributed by @nhuray

And tons of bug fixes and performance enhancements!

v1.0.3 - Bug fix #

Fixes

Fix a bug in the recorder introduced in 1.0.2 that prevent from recording scenarios with less than 100 requests

v1.0.2 - Bug fix #

Features

#345, #348 & #330 - Better support for long scenarios (via manual splitting)
#347 - Recorder splits long scenarios so they can be run with no extra configuration.