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<b>
This page details the changes made in the current version only.
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Earlier changes are detailed in the 
<a href="changes_history.html">
History of Previous Changes
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<h1>
Version 2.11
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<li>
<a href="#New and Noteworthy">
New and Noteworthy
</a>
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<li>
<a href="#Known bugs">
Known bugs
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<li>
<a href="#Incompatible changes">
Incompatible changes
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<a href="#Bug fixes">
Bug fixes
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<li>
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Improvements
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Non-functional changes
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Thanks
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<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><big><big><a name="New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a></big></big></b></font></td></tr></table><br/>
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<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><big>Core Improvements</big></b></font></td></tr></table><br/>
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<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><big><big><a name="Known bugs">Known bugs</a></big></big></b></font></td></tr></table><br/>
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<li>
The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).
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<li>
Listeners don't show iteration counts when a If Controller has a condition which is always false from the first iteration (see 
<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52496">Bug 52496</a>
).  
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).

</li>


<li>
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 
<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54006">Bug 54006</a>
.
To workaround this issue, ensure you always read the response and add a Response Assertion checking text inside the response.

</li>


<li>

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 
<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54152">Bug 54152</a>
).

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<li>

Note that there is a 
<a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6396599 ">
bug in Java
</a>

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

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This does not affect JMeter operation. This issue is fixed since Java 7b05.

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With Java 1.6 and Gnome 3 on Linux systems, the JMeter menu may not work correctly (shift between mouse's click and the menu). 
This is a known Java bug (see  
<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54477 ">Bug 54477 </a>
). 
A workaround is to use a Java 7 runtime (OpenJDK or Oracle JDK).

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With Oracle Java 7 and Mac Book Pro Retina Display, the JMeter GUI may look blurry. 
This is a known Java bug, see Bug 
<a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8000629">
JDK-8000629
</a>
.
A workaround is to use a Java 7 update 40 runtime which fixes this issue.

</li>


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<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><big><big><a name="Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a></big></big></b></font></td></tr></table><br/>
<h3>
HTTP Samplers and Proxy
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<h3>
Other Samplers
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<li>
<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55685">Bug 55685</a>
 - OS Sampler: timeout option don't save and restore correctly value and don't init correctly timeout
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Controllers
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Listeners
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Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- & Post-Processors
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<li>
<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55694">Bug 55694</a>
 - java.lang.NullPointerException if Apply to is set to a missing JMeter variable
</li>


<li>
<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55721">Bug 55721</a>
 - HTTP Cache Manager - no-store directive is wrongly interpreted
</li>


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Functions
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<ul>


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<h3>
I18N
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<h3>
General
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<ul>


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<tr><td><font color="white" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><big><big><a name="Improvements">Improvements</a></big></big></b></font></td></tr></table><br/>
<h3>
HTTP Samplers and Proxy
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<h3>
Other samplers
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<h3>
Controllers
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Listeners
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<h3>
Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- & Post-Processors
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<h3>
Functions
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<h3>
I18N
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<ul>


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<h3>
General
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<li>
<a href="https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55693">Bug 55693</a>
 - Add a "Save as Test Fragment" option
</li>


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We thank all contributors mentioned in bug and improvement sections above.
<br>


We also thank bug reporters who helped us improve JMeter. 
<br>


For this release we want to give special thanks to the following reporters for the clear reports and tests made after our fixes:

<ul>


<li>
Firstname Name (email at gmail.com)
</li>


</ul>


Apologies if we have omitted anyone else.
 
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