A new Apache JMeter Version 5.0 was released this week.
Below are some of the important updates that are available in JMeter 5.0.
Core improvements
Rest support has been improved in many fields
- Multipart/form-data requests now work for PUT, DELETE …
- It is now also possible to send a JSON Body with attached file
- Parameters entered in Parameters Tab are now used in body instead of being ignored
In distributed testing, JMeter now automatically prefixes thread names with engine host and port, this makes the counting of threads correct in the HTML report without any other configuration as it was required before
XPath 2.0 is supported in a new element called XPath2 extractor providing easier XML namespaces handling, up to date XPath syntax and better performances
Upgrade to HTTP Components 4.6 last APIs has been completed and JMeter does not rely anymore on deprecated APIs of this library
It is now possible to control in an easier way Loop breaking and Loop switching to next iteration. This is available in Flow Control Action and Result Status Action Handler elements
While Controller now exports a variable containing its current index named __jm__<Name of your element>__idx. So for example, if your While Controller is named WC, then you can access the looping index through ${__jm__WC__idx}
Scripting / Debugging enhancements
Search feature has been improved to allow you to iterate in the tree over search results and do necessary replacements through Next/Previous/Replace/Replace/Find buttons
In View Results Tree, the request and response headers/body are clearly separated to allow you to better inspect requests and responses. You can also search in all those tabs for a particular value
Recording feature has been improved to provide a popup that is always on top when you navigate in browser allowing you to name transactions while you navigate in your application.
You can now restart JMeter from menu
Live Reporting and Web Report
Reporting feature has been enhanced
A new Graph Total Transactions per second has been added to the HTML Web Report
It is now possible to graph over time custom metrics available as JMeter Variables through sample_variables. Those custom metrics graphs will be available in the HTML Report in Custom Graphs section
Hits per second graph now takes into account the embedded resources
In Live reporting, the sent and received bytes are now sent to Backends (InfluxDB or Graphite)
