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Author: pmouawad
Date: Tue Jan 29 21:49:47 2013
New Revision: 1440161
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Modified: jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml?rev=1440161&r1=1440160&r2=1440161&view=diff
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--- jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml (original)
+++ jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes.xml Tue Jan 29 21:49:47 2013
@@ -39,112 +39,6 @@ Earlier changes are detailed in the <a h
<h2>New and Noteworthy</h2>
-<h3><u>Core Improvements:</u></h3>
-
-<h4>* A new Extractor that uses CSS or jquery-like selector syntax has been introduced,
-it allows using either JODD or JSOUP implementations</h4>
-<p>
-<figure width="762" height="277" image="changes/2.9/01_css_jquery_extractor.png"></figure>
-</p>
-<p>Result: the title of the page in a JMeter variable
-<figure width="719" height="171" image="changes/2.9/01_css_jquery_extractor_resul.png"></figure>
-</p>
-<h4>* JMeter can now handle different types of documents (PDF, MsOffice files, Apache OpenOffice's files...)
- within different elements </h4>
-<ul>
- <li>Regular Expression Extractor, extract text from documents</li>
- <li>Assertion Response, check text in documents</li>
- <li>View Results Tree, view as a text the documents</li>
-</ul>
-<p>
-<figure width="761" height="345" image="changes/2.9/02_document_render_view_results_tree.png"></figure>
-</p>
-
-<h4>* A new Regex User Parameters Pre-Processor that enables injecting input parameter names and values
-using a reference extracted by Regular Expression Extractor from a previous response</h4>
-<p>
-<figure width="727" height="138" image="changes/2.9/13_regex_user_params.png"></figure>
-</p>
-
-<h4>* TCP Sampler: new options</h4>
-<p>TCP Sampler has been enhanced with new options to allow setting <b>Close Connection</b>,
- <b>SO_LINGER</b> and <b>End of line(EOL) byte value</b>
-<figure width="1147" height="302" image="changes/2.9/03_new_options_tcp_sampler.png"></figure>
-</p>
-<h4>* A new function <i>__escapeOroRegexpChars(,)</i> has been introduced quote ORO regexp meta characters</h4>
-<h4>* ForEach Controller: new fields</h4>
-<p>ForEach Controller has now 2 new fields to control start and end of loop
-<figure width="320" height="203" image="changes/2.9/04_for_each_new_fields.png"></figure>
-</p>
-<h4>* Result Status Action Handler now has a new option to "Start next thread loop"</h4>
-<p>
-<figure width="722" height="132" image="changes/2.9/05_result_status_action_handler.png"></figure>
-</p>
-
-<h4>* JMS Publisher: new option</h4>
-<p>JMS Publisher can now send Bytes Messages</p>
-<figure width="833" height="701" image="changes/2.9/11_jms_publisher_bytes.png"></figure>
-
-<h4>* Memory and performance improvements</h4>
-<p>Significant improvements have been done in this version on memory usage per Thread and CPU when more
-than one Post Processor is used as child of a Sampler</p>
-<p>JSR223 Elements (enable using Groovy, Scala... as scripting languages) have been improved to enable caching
-of Compilation results when scripts are passed in Text area</p>
-<figure width="841" height="470" image="changes/2.9/12_jsr223_sampler.png"></figure>
-
-<p>Some configuration defaults have changed to improve performances by default(see <bugzilla>54412</bugzilla>),
-see description in New and Noteworthy section.
-<ul>
- <li>Distributed testing now uses MODE_STRIPPED_BATCH, which returns samples in batch mode (every 100 samples
- or every minute by default). Note also that MODE_STRIPPED_BATCH strips response data from SampleResult,
- so if you need it change to another mode (mode property in jmeter.properties)</li>
- <li>Result data are now saved to CSV by default (jmeter.save.saveservice.output_format in jmeter.properties)</li>
-</ul>
-</p>
-
-<h4>* XPath Assertion now enables using a JMeter variable as input</h4>
-<p>
-<figure width="800" height="317" image="changes/2.9/14_xpath_assertion.png"></figure>
-</p>
-
-<h3><u>GUI and ergonomy Improvements:</u></h3>
-<h4>* Search feature has been improved to search within more internal fields of elements and expand search results</h4>
-<h4>* Copy/paste is now possible between 2 JMeter instances >= 2.9 version</h4>
-<p>Copy element(s) from one JMeter instance:
-<figure width="618" height="262" image="changes/2.9/06_copy_paste_between_2_jmeter1.png"></figure>
-</p>
-<p>Paste element(s) into a second JMeter instance:
-<figure width="617" height="278" image="changes/2.9/06_copy_paste_between_2_jmeter2.png"></figure>
-</p>
-<h4>* HTTP Header Manager</h4>
-<p>Allow copy from clipboard to HeaderPanel, headers are supposed to be separated by new line
- and have the following form <i>name:value</i>
-<figure width="661" height="263" image="changes/2.9/07_header_panel_add_from_clipboard.png"></figure>
-</p>
-<h4>* Module Controller</h4>
-<p>Module Controller has been improved to better render referenced controller and expand it by clicking on a new button
-<figure width="832" height="274" image="changes/2.9/08_module_controller_improvements.png"></figure>
-</p>
-<h4>* HTTP Proxy Server</h4>
-<p>HTTP Proxy Server now has a button to add a set of default exclusions for URL patterns,
-this list can be configured through property : <i>proxy.excludes.suggested</i>
-<figure width="811" height="214" image="changes/2.9/09_proxy_excludes_suggested.png"></figure>
-</p>
-<h4>* Rendering of target controller has been improved in HTTP Proxy Server</h4>
-
-<h3><u>HTTP Proxy Server recording:</u></h3>
-<p>* HTTP Proxy Server now automatically uses HTTP Request with Raw Post Body mode for
-samples that only have one unnamed argument (JSON, XML, GWT...)</p>
-<p>* HTTP Proxy Server does not force user to select the type of Sampler in HTTP Sampler Settings,
- this allows easier switch between implementations as Sampler do not have this information set anymore</p>
- <p>
-<figure width="484" height="307" image="changes/2.9/10_http_proxy_dont_force_http_type.png"></figure>
-</p>
-<p>* SamplerCreator interface has been enriched to meet new requirements for plug-in providers</p>
-<p>* It is now possible to create binary sampler for x-www-form-urlencoded POST request by
-modifying <i>proxy.binary.types</i> property to add application/x-www-form-urlencoded </p>
-<p>* Improved timestamp format auto-detection when reading CSV files</p>
-
<!-- =================== Known bugs =================== -->
<h2>Known bugs</h2>
@@ -190,54 +84,16 @@ This does not affect JMeter operation.
<h2>Incompatible changes</h2>
-<p><b>JMeter requires now a Java 6 runtime or higher.</b></p>
-
-<p>Some configuration defaults have changed to improve performances by default (see <bugzilla>54412</bugzilla>),
-see description in New and Noteworthy section.</p>
-
-<p>Webservice sampler now adds to request the headers that are set through Header Manager, these were previously ignored</p>
-
-<p><i>jdbcsampler.cachesize</i> property has been removed, it previously limited the size of a per connection cache of Map < String,
-PreparedStatement > , it also limited the size of this
-map which held the PreparedStatement for SQL queries. This limitation provoked a bug <bugzilla>53995</bugzilla>.
-It has been removed so now size of these 2 maps is not limited anymore. This change changes behaviour as starting from
-this version no PreparedStatement will be closed during the test.</p>
-
-<p>Starting with this version, there are some important changes on JSR223 Test Elements:
-<ul>
- <li>JSR223 Test Elements that have an invalid filename (not existing or unreadable) will make test fail instead of
- making the element silently work</li>
- <li>In JSR223 Test Elements: responseCodeOk, responseMessageOK and successful are set before
- script is executed, if responseData is set it will not be overriden anymore by a toString() on script return value</li>
-</ul>
-</p>
-
-<p>View Results Tree now considers response with missing content type as text.</p>
-
-<p>In remote Test mode, JMeter now exits in error if one of the remote engines cannot be configured,
-previously it started the test with available engines.</p>
-
<!-- =================== Bug fixes =================== -->
<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
<h3>HTTP Samplers and Proxy</h3>
<ul>
-<li>Don't log spurious warning messages when using concurrent pool embedded downloads with Cache Manager or CookieManager</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54057</bugzilla>- Proxy option to set user and password at startup (-u and -a) not working with HTTPClient 4</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54187</bugzilla> - Request tab does not show headers if request fails</li>
-<li><bugzilla>53840</bugzilla> - Proxy Recording : Response message: URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in escape (%) pattern - For input string: "" "</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54351</bugzilla> - HC4 and URI fragments is failing</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
-<li><bugzilla>53997</bugzilla> - LDAP Extended Request: Escape ampersand (&), left angle bracket (<)
-and right angle bracket (>) in search filter tag in XML response data</li>
-<li><bugzilla>53995</bugzilla> - AbstractJDBCTestElement shares PreparedStatement between multi-threads</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54119</bugzilla> - HTTP 307 response is not redirected</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54326</bugzilla> - AjpSampler send file in post throws FileNotFoundException</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54331</bugzilla> - AjpSampler throws null pointer on GET request that are protected</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
@@ -246,17 +102,10 @@ and right angle bracket (>) in search
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
-<li><bugzilla>54088</bugzilla> - The type video/f4m is text, not binary</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54166</bugzilla> - ViewResultsTree could not render the HTML response: handle failure to parse HTML</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54287</bugzilla> - Incorrect Timestamp in Response Time Graph when using a date with time in Date format field</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54451</bugzilla> - Response Time Graph reports wrong times when the are many samples for same time</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54459</bugzilla> - CSVSaveService does not handle date parsing very well</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- & Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
-<li><bugzilla>54058</bugzilla> - In HTTP Request Defaults, the value of field "Embedded URLs must match: is not saved if the check box "Retrieve All Embedded Resources" is not checked.</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54375</bugzilla> - Regular Expression Extractor : When regex syntax is wrong, post processing is stopped</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
@@ -269,14 +118,6 @@ and right angle bracket (>) in search
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
-<li><bugzilla>53975</bugzilla> - Variables replacement doesn't work with option "Delay thread creation until needed"</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54055</bugzilla> - View Results tree: = signs are stripped from parameter values at HTTP tab</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54129</bugzilla> - Search Feature does not find text although existing in elements </li>
-<li><bugzilla>54023</bugzilla> - Unable to start JMeter from a root directory and if the full path of JMeter installation contains one or more spaces (Unix/linux)</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54172</bugzilla> - Duplicate shortcut key not working and CTRL+C / CTRL+V / CTRL+V do not cancel default event</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54057</bugzilla> - Proxy option to set user and password at startup (-u and -a) not working with HTTPClient 4</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54267</bugzilla> - Start Next Thread Loop setting doesn't work in custom thread groups</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54413</bugzilla> - DataStrippingSampleSender returns 0 for number of bytes of any response</li>
</ul>
<!-- =================== Improvements =================== -->
@@ -285,44 +126,26 @@ and right angle bracket (>) in search
<h3>HTTP Samplers</h3>
<ul>
-<li><bugzilla>54185</bugzilla> - Allow query strings in paths that start with HTTP or HTTPS</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
-<li><bugzilla>54004</bugzilla> - Webservice Sampler : Allow adding headers to request with Header Manager</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54106</bugzilla> - JSR223TestElement should check for file existence when a filename is set instead of using Text Area content </li>
-<li><bugzilla>54107</bugzilla> - JSR223TestElement : Enable compilation and caching of Script Text</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54109</bugzilla> - JSR223TestElement : SampleResult properties should be set before entering script to allow user setting different code</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54230</bugzilla> - TCP Sampler, additions of "Close Connection", "SO_LINGER" and "End of line(EOL) byte value" options</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54182</bugzilla> - Support sending of ByteMessage for JMS Publisher.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
-<li><bugzilla>54131</bugzilla> - ForEach Controller : Add start and end index for looping over variables</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54132</bugzilla> - Module Controller GUI : Improve rendering of referenced controller</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54155</bugzilla> - ModuleController : Add a shortcut button to unfold the tree up to referenced controller and highlight it</li>
</ul>
<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
-<li><bugzilla>54200</bugzilla> - Add support of several document types (like Apache OpenOffice's files, MS Office's files, PDF's files, etc.)
-to the elements View Results Tree, Assertion Response and Regular Expression Extractor (using Apache Tika)</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54226</bugzilla> - View Results Tree : Show response even when server does not return ContentType header</li>
</ul>
<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- & Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
-<li><bugzilla>54259</bugzilla> - Introduce a new Extractor that uses CSS or jquery-like selector syntax</li>
-<li><bugzilla>45772</bugzilla> - RegEx User Parameters Post Processor</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54160</bugzilla> - Add support for xpath assertion to apply to a JMeter variable.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
-<li><bugzilla>54189</bugzilla> - Add a function to quote ORO regexp meta characters</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54418</bugzilla> - UUID Function</li>
</ul>
<h3>I18N</h3>
@@ -331,33 +154,10 @@ to the elements View Results Tree, Asser
<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
-<li><bugzilla>54005</bugzilla> - HTTP Mirror Server : Add special headers "X-" to control Response status and response content</li>
-<li><bugzilla>53875</bugzilla> - Include suggested defaults for URL filters on HTTP Proxy</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54031</bugzilla> - Add tooltip to running/total threads indicator </li>
-<li>Webservice (SOAP) Request has been deprecated</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54161</bugzilla> - Proxy : be able to create binary sampler for x-www-form-urlencoded POST request</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54154</bugzilla> - HTTP Proxy Server should not force user to select the type of Sampler in HTTP Sampler Settings</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54165</bugzilla> - Proxy Server: Improve rendering of target controller</li>
-<li><bugzilla>46677</bugzilla> - Copying Test Elements between test plans</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54204</bugzilla> - Result Status Action Handler : Add start next thread loop option</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54232</bugzilla> - Search Feature : Add a button to search and expand results</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54251</bugzilla> - Add tristate checkbox implementation</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54257</bugzilla> - Enhance SamplerCreator interface to meet new requirements</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54258</bugzilla> - Proxy : Use Raw Post Body when Sampler has one unnamed argument, useful for Samplers using POST method by of type JSON, XML, GWT body</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54268</bugzilla> - Improve CPU and memory usage</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54376</bugzilla> - ScopePanel : Allow configuring more precisely scopes</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54412</bugzilla> - Changing JMeter defaults to ensure better performances by default</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54414</bugzilla> - Remote Test should not start if one of the engines fails to start correctly</li>
</ul>
<h2>Non-functional changes</h2>
<ul>
-<li><bugzilla>53956</bugzilla> - Add ability to paste (a list of values) from clipboard for Header Manager</li>
-<li>Updated to HttpComponents Client 4.2.3 (from 4.2.1)</li>
-<li>Updated to HttpComponents Core 4.2.3 (from 4.2.2)</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54110</bugzilla> - BSFTestElement and JSR223TestElement should use shared super-class for common fields</li>
-<li><bugzilla>54199</bugzilla> - Move to Java 6</li>
-<li>Upgraded to rhino 1.7R4</li>
</ul>
</section>
Modified: jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes_history.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes_history.xml?rev=1440161&r1=1440160&r2=1440161&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes_history.xml (original)
+++ jmeter/trunk/xdocs/changes_history.xml Tue Jan 29 21:49:47 2013
@@ -30,6 +30,333 @@ Current changes are detailed in <a href=
<p><b>Changes sections are chronologically ordered from top (most recent) to bottom
(least recent)</b></p>
+<!-- =================== 2.9 =================== -->
+
+<h1>Version 2.9</h1>
+
+<h2>New and Noteworthy</h2>
+
+<h3><u>Core Improvements:</u></h3>
+
+<h4>* A new Extractor that uses CSS or jquery-like selector syntax has been introduced,
+it allows using either JODD or JSOUP implementations</h4>
+<p>
+<figure width="762" height="277" image="changes/2.9/01_css_jquery_extractor.png"></figure>
+</p>
+<p>Result: the title of the page in a JMeter variable
+<figure width="719" height="171" image="changes/2.9/01_css_jquery_extractor_resul.png"></figure>
+</p>
+<h4>* JMeter can now handle different types of documents (PDF, MsOffice files, Apache OpenOffice's files...)
+ within different elements </h4>
+<ul>
+ <li>Regular Expression Extractor, extract text from documents</li>
+ <li>Assertion Response, check text in documents</li>
+ <li>View Results Tree, view as a text the documents</li>
+</ul>
+<p>
+<figure width="761" height="345" image="changes/2.9/02_document_render_view_results_tree.png"></figure>
+</p>
+
+<h4>* A new Regex User Parameters Pre-Processor that enables injecting input parameter names and values
+using a reference extracted by Regular Expression Extractor from a previous response</h4>
+<p>
+<figure width="727" height="138" image="changes/2.9/13_regex_user_params.png"></figure>
+</p>
+
+<h4>* TCP Sampler: new options</h4>
+<p>TCP Sampler has been enhanced with new options to allow setting <b>Close Connection</b>,
+ <b>SO_LINGER</b> and <b>End of line(EOL) byte value</b>
+<figure width="1147" height="302" image="changes/2.9/03_new_options_tcp_sampler.png"></figure>
+</p>
+<h4>* A new function <i>__escapeOroRegexpChars(,)</i> has been introduced quote ORO regexp meta characters</h4>
+<h4>* ForEach Controller: new fields</h4>
+<p>ForEach Controller has now 2 new fields to control start and end of loop
+<figure width="320" height="203" image="changes/2.9/04_for_each_new_fields.png"></figure>
+</p>
+<h4>* Result Status Action Handler now has a new option to "Start next thread loop"</h4>
+<p>
+<figure width="722" height="132" image="changes/2.9/05_result_status_action_handler.png"></figure>
+</p>
+
+<h4>* JMS Publisher: new option</h4>
+<p>JMS Publisher can now send Bytes Messages</p>
+<figure width="833" height="701" image="changes/2.9/11_jms_publisher_bytes.png"></figure>
+
+<h4>* Memory and performance improvements</h4>
+<p>Significant improvements have been done in this version on memory usage per Thread and CPU when more
+than one Post Processor is used as child of a Sampler</p>
+<p>JSR223 Elements (enable using Groovy, Scala... as scripting languages) have been improved to enable caching
+of Compilation results when scripts are passed in Text area</p>
+<figure width="841" height="470" image="changes/2.9/12_jsr223_sampler.png"></figure>
+
+<p>Some configuration defaults have changed to improve performances by default(see <bugzilla>54412</bugzilla>),
+see description in New and Noteworthy section.
+<ul>
+ <li>Distributed testing now uses MODE_STRIPPED_BATCH, which returns samples in batch mode (every 100 samples
+ or every minute by default). Note also that MODE_STRIPPED_BATCH strips response data from SampleResult,
+ so if you need it change to another mode (mode property in jmeter.properties)</li>
+ <li>Result data are now saved to CSV by default (jmeter.save.saveservice.output_format in jmeter.properties)</li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+
+<h4>* XPath Assertion now enables using a JMeter variable as input</h4>
+<p>
+<figure width="800" height="317" image="changes/2.9/14_xpath_assertion.png"></figure>
+</p>
+
+<h3><u>GUI and ergonomy Improvements:</u></h3>
+<h4>* Search feature has been improved to search within more internal fields of elements and expand search results</h4>
+<h4>* Copy/paste is now possible between 2 JMeter instances >= 2.9 version</h4>
+<p>Copy element(s) from one JMeter instance:
+<figure width="618" height="262" image="changes/2.9/06_copy_paste_between_2_jmeter1.png"></figure>
+</p>
+<p>Paste element(s) into a second JMeter instance:
+<figure width="617" height="278" image="changes/2.9/06_copy_paste_between_2_jmeter2.png"></figure>
+</p>
+<h4>* HTTP Header Manager</h4>
+<p>Allow copy from clipboard to HeaderPanel, headers are supposed to be separated by new line
+ and have the following form <i>name:value</i>
+<figure width="661" height="263" image="changes/2.9/07_header_panel_add_from_clipboard.png"></figure>
+</p>
+<h4>* Module Controller</h4>
+<p>Module Controller has been improved to better render referenced controller and expand it by clicking on a new button
+<figure width="832" height="274" image="changes/2.9/08_module_controller_improvements.png"></figure>
+</p>
+<h4>* HTTP Proxy Server</h4>
+<p>HTTP Proxy Server now has a button to add a set of default exclusions for URL patterns,
+this list can be configured through property : <i>proxy.excludes.suggested</i>
+<figure width="811" height="214" image="changes/2.9/09_proxy_excludes_suggested.png"></figure>
+</p>
+<h4>* Rendering of target controller has been improved in HTTP Proxy Server</h4>
+
+<h3><u>HTTP Proxy Server recording:</u></h3>
+<p>* HTTP Proxy Server now automatically uses HTTP Request with Raw Post Body mode for
+samples that only have one unnamed argument (JSON, XML, GWT...)</p>
+<p>* HTTP Proxy Server does not force user to select the type of Sampler in HTTP Sampler Settings,
+ this allows easier switch between implementations as Sampler do not have this information set anymore</p>
+ <p>
+<figure width="484" height="307" image="changes/2.9/10_http_proxy_dont_force_http_type.png"></figure>
+</p>
+<p>* SamplerCreator interface has been enriched to meet new requirements for plug-in providers</p>
+<p>* It is now possible to create binary sampler for x-www-form-urlencoded POST request by
+modifying <i>proxy.binary.types</i> property to add application/x-www-form-urlencoded </p>
+<p>* Improved timestamp format auto-detection when reading CSV files</p>
+
+<!-- =================== Known bugs =================== -->
+
+<h2>Known bugs</h2>
+
+<p>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
+but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</p>
+
+<p>Listeners don't show iteration counts when a If Controller has a condition which is always false from the first iteration (see <bugzilla>52496</bugzilla>).
+A workaround is to add a sampler at the same level as (or superior to) the If Controller.
+For example a Test Action sampler with 0 wait time (which doesn't generate a sample),
+or a Debug Sampler with all fields set to False (to reduce the sample size).
+</p>
+
+<p>Webservice sampler does not consider the HTTP response status to compute the status of a response, thus a response 500 containing a non empty body will be considered as successful, see <bugzilla>54006</bugzilla>.
+To workaround this issue, ensure you always read the response and add a Response Assertion checking text inside the response.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Changing language can break part of the configuration of the following elements (see <bugzilla>53679</bugzilla>):
+<ul>
+ <li>CSV Data Set Config (sharing mode will be lost)</li>
+ <li>Constant Throughput Timer (Calculate throughput based on will be lost)</li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
+these only apply to a locally run test; they do not include any threads started on remote systems when using client-server mode, (see <bugzilla>54152</bugzilla>).
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Note that there is a bug in Java on some Linux systems that manifests
+itself as the following error when running the test cases or JMeter itself:
+<pre>
+ [java] WARNING: Couldn't flush user prefs:
+ java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException:
+ java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not supported: indent-number
+</pre>
+This does not affect JMeter operation.
+</p>
+
+<!-- =================== Incompatible changes =================== -->
+
+<h2>Incompatible changes</h2>
+
+<p><b>JMeter requires now a Java 6 runtime or higher.</b></p>
+
+<p>Some configuration defaults have changed to improve performances by default (see <bugzilla>54412</bugzilla>),
+see description in New and Noteworthy section.</p>
+
+<p>Webservice sampler now adds to request the headers that are set through Header Manager, these were previously ignored</p>
+
+<p><i>jdbcsampler.cachesize</i> property has been removed, it previously limited the size of a per connection cache of Map < String,
+PreparedStatement > , it also limited the size of this
+map which held the PreparedStatement for SQL queries. This limitation provoked a bug <bugzilla>53995</bugzilla>.
+It has been removed so now size of these 2 maps is not limited anymore. This change changes behaviour as starting from
+this version no PreparedStatement will be closed during the test.</p>
+
+<p>Starting with this version, there are some important changes on JSR223 Test Elements:
+<ul>
+ <li>JSR223 Test Elements that have an invalid filename (not existing or unreadable) will make test fail instead of
+ making the element silently work</li>
+ <li>In JSR223 Test Elements: responseCodeOk, responseMessageOK and successful are set before
+ script is executed, if responseData is set it will not be overriden anymore by a toString() on script return value</li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+
+<p>View Results Tree now considers response with missing content type as text.</p>
+
+<p>In remote Test mode, JMeter now exits in error if one of the remote engines cannot be configured,
+previously it started the test with available engines.</p>
+
+<!-- =================== Bug fixes =================== -->
+
+<h2>Bug fixes</h2>
+
+<h3>HTTP Samplers and Proxy</h3>
+<ul>
+<li>Don't log spurious warning messages when using concurrent pool embedded downloads with Cache Manager or CookieManager</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54057</bugzilla>- Proxy option to set user and password at startup (-u and -a) not working with HTTPClient 4</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54187</bugzilla> - Request tab does not show headers if request fails</li>
+<li><bugzilla>53840</bugzilla> - Proxy Recording : Response message: URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in escape (%) pattern - For input string: "" "</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54351</bugzilla> - HC4 and URI fragments is failing</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><bugzilla>53997</bugzilla> - LDAP Extended Request: Escape ampersand (&), left angle bracket (<)
+and right angle bracket (>) in search filter tag in XML response data</li>
+<li><bugzilla>53995</bugzilla> - AbstractJDBCTestElement shares PreparedStatement between multi-threads</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54119</bugzilla> - HTTP 307 response is not redirected</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54326</bugzilla> - AjpSampler send file in post throws FileNotFoundException</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54331</bugzilla> - AjpSampler throws null pointer on GET request that are protected</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Controllers</h3>
+<ul>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Listeners</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><bugzilla>54088</bugzilla> - The type video/f4m is text, not binary</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54166</bugzilla> - ViewResultsTree could not render the HTML response: handle failure to parse HTML</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54287</bugzilla> - Incorrect Timestamp in Response Time Graph when using a date with time in Date format field</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54451</bugzilla> - Response Time Graph reports wrong times when the are many samples for same time</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54459</bugzilla> - CSVSaveService does not handle date parsing very well</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- & Post-Processors</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><bugzilla>54058</bugzilla> - In HTTP Request Defaults, the value of field "Embedded URLs must match: is not saved if the check box "Retrieve All Embedded Resources" is not checked.</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54375</bugzilla> - Regular Expression Extractor : When regex syntax is wrong, post processing is stopped</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Functions</h3>
+<ul>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>I18N</h3>
+<ul>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>General</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><bugzilla>53975</bugzilla> - Variables replacement doesn't work with option "Delay thread creation until needed"</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54055</bugzilla> - View Results tree: = signs are stripped from parameter values at HTTP tab</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54129</bugzilla> - Search Feature does not find text although existing in elements </li>
+<li><bugzilla>54023</bugzilla> - Unable to start JMeter from a root directory and if the full path of JMeter installation contains one or more spaces (Unix/linux)</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54172</bugzilla> - Duplicate shortcut key not working and CTRL+C / CTRL+V / CTRL+V do not cancel default event</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54057</bugzilla> - Proxy option to set user and password at startup (-u and -a) not working with HTTPClient 4</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54267</bugzilla> - Start Next Thread Loop setting doesn't work in custom thread groups</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54413</bugzilla> - DataStrippingSampleSender returns 0 for number of bytes of any response</li>
+</ul>
+
+<!-- =================== Improvements =================== -->
+
+<h2>Improvements</h2>
+
+<h3>HTTP Samplers</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><bugzilla>54185</bugzilla> - Allow query strings in paths that start with HTTP or HTTPS</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Other samplers</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><bugzilla>54004</bugzilla> - Webservice Sampler : Allow adding headers to request with Header Manager</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54106</bugzilla> - JSR223TestElement should check for file existence when a filename is set instead of using Text Area content </li>
+<li><bugzilla>54107</bugzilla> - JSR223TestElement : Enable compilation and caching of Script Text</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54109</bugzilla> - JSR223TestElement : SampleResult properties should be set before entering script to allow user setting different code</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54230</bugzilla> - TCP Sampler, additions of "Close Connection", "SO_LINGER" and "End of line(EOL) byte value" options</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54182</bugzilla> - Support sending of ByteMessage for JMS Publisher.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Controllers</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><bugzilla>54131</bugzilla> - ForEach Controller : Add start and end index for looping over variables</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54132</bugzilla> - Module Controller GUI : Improve rendering of referenced controller</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54155</bugzilla> - ModuleController : Add a shortcut button to unfold the tree up to referenced controller and highlight it</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Listeners</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><bugzilla>54200</bugzilla> - Add support of several document types (like Apache OpenOffice's files, MS Office's files, PDF's files, etc.)
+to the elements View Results Tree, Assertion Response and Regular Expression Extractor (using Apache Tika)</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54226</bugzilla> - View Results Tree : Show response even when server does not return ContentType header</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- & Post-Processors</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><bugzilla>54259</bugzilla> - Introduce a new Extractor that uses CSS or jquery-like selector syntax</li>
+<li><bugzilla>45772</bugzilla> - RegEx User Parameters Post Processor</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54160</bugzilla> - Add support for xpath assertion to apply to a JMeter variable.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>Functions</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><bugzilla>54189</bugzilla> - Add a function to quote ORO regexp meta characters</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54418</bugzilla> - UUID Function</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>I18N</h3>
+<ul>
+</ul>
+
+<h3>General</h3>
+<ul>
+<li><bugzilla>54005</bugzilla> - HTTP Mirror Server : Add special headers "X-" to control Response status and response content</li>
+<li><bugzilla>53875</bugzilla> - Include suggested defaults for URL filters on HTTP Proxy</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54031</bugzilla> - Add tooltip to running/total threads indicator </li>
+<li>Webservice (SOAP) Request has been deprecated</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54161</bugzilla> - Proxy : be able to create binary sampler for x-www-form-urlencoded POST request</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54154</bugzilla> - HTTP Proxy Server should not force user to select the type of Sampler in HTTP Sampler Settings</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54165</bugzilla> - Proxy Server: Improve rendering of target controller</li>
+<li><bugzilla>46677</bugzilla> - Copying Test Elements between test plans</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54204</bugzilla> - Result Status Action Handler : Add start next thread loop option</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54232</bugzilla> - Search Feature : Add a button to search and expand results</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54251</bugzilla> - Add tristate checkbox implementation</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54257</bugzilla> - Enhance SamplerCreator interface to meet new requirements</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54258</bugzilla> - Proxy : Use Raw Post Body when Sampler has one unnamed argument, useful for Samplers using POST method by of type JSON, XML, GWT body</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54268</bugzilla> - Improve CPU and memory usage</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54376</bugzilla> - ScopePanel : Allow configuring more precisely scopes</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54412</bugzilla> - Changing JMeter defaults to ensure better performances by default</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54414</bugzilla> - Remote Test should not start if one of the engines fails to start correctly</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Non-functional changes</h2>
+<ul>
+<li><bugzilla>53956</bugzilla> - Add ability to paste (a list of values) from clipboard for Header Manager</li>
+<li>Updated to HttpComponents Client 4.2.3 (from 4.2.1)</li>
+<li>Updated to HttpComponents Core 4.2.3 (from 4.2.2)</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54110</bugzilla> - BSFTestElement and JSR223TestElement should use shared super-class for common fields</li>
+<li><bugzilla>54199</bugzilla> - Move to Java 6</li>
+<li>Upgraded to rhino 1.7R4</li>
+</ul>
+
<!-- =================== 2.8 =================== -->
<h1>Version 2.8</h1>