[ANNOUNCE] Apache JMeter 5.0 released

[Milamber <mi...@apache.org>]

The Apache JMeter team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache 
JMeter 5.0 (r1840935).

This release brings a lot of new features and improvements, and also 
fixes bugs.

You can read the New and Noteworthy section with some screenshots to
illustrate improvements and full list of changes at:
http://jmeter.apache.org/changes.html

JMeter 5.0 requires Java 8+ to run.

== All users are highly recommended to upgrade  ==

The Apache JMeter application is a 100% pure Java application designed 
to test server applications.
It can be used to:
    * generate test loads
    * measure performance.
    * test functional behavior
It includes support for protocols such as HTTP(S), JDBC, JMS, FTP, LDAP, 
TCP, native calls and others.
It can also be easily extended with user-written code.

See http://jmeter.apache.org/

Users are highly encouraged to read the JMeter Best Practices section:
http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/best-practices.html

The release can be downloaded from:
http://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi

When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file:
https://www.apache.org/dist/jmeter/KEYS


Only the binary archive is needed to run JMeter - there is no need to
download the source archive.

However there are some optional libraries which are not included.
See the "Getting Started" page for details:
http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/get-started.html

JMeter artifacts can be downloaded on Maven Central :
       <groupId>org.apache.jmeter</groupId>
       <artifactId>ApacheJMeter</artifactId>
       <version>5.0</version>


Enjoy!
The JMeter team

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