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    <title>Changes</title>
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<b>This page details the changes made in the current version only.</b>
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Earlier changes are detailed in the <a href="changes_history.html">History of Previous Changes</a>.
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<h1>Version 3.3</h1>
<p>
Summary
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#New and Noteworthy">New and Noteworthy</a></li>
<li><a href="#Incompatible changes">Incompatible changes</a></li>
<li><a href="#Bug fixes">Bug fixes</a></li>
<li><a href="#Improvements">Improvements</a></li>
<li><a href="#Non-functional changes">Non-functional changes</a></li>
<li><a href="#Known problems and workarounds">Known problems and workarounds</a></li>
<li><a href="#Thanks">Thanks</a></li>

</ul>

<ch_section>New and Noteworthy</ch_section>

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<ch_section>IMPORTANT CHANGES</ch_section>

<ch_title>Core improvements</ch_title>

<ch_title>UX improvements</ch_title>

<ch_title>Report/Dashboard improvements</ch_title>

<ch_title>Documentation improvements</ch_title>

<!-- =================== Incompatible changes =================== -->

<ch_section>Incompatible changes</ch_section>

<li>In InfluxDbBackendListenerClient, statut property has been renamed to status</li>
<li>In CookieManager, DEFAULT_IMPLEMENTATION and DEFAULT_IMPLEMENTATION constants are now private.
<note>If you're using ignorecookies with HC3CookieHandler (&lt; JMeter 3.1)  configuration will be reset, ensure you put it back </note></li>
<h3>Removed elements or functions</h3>

<h3>Logging changes</h3>

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<ch_section>Improvements</ch_section>

<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
    <li><bug>61056</bug>HTTP : Support brotli decoding</li>
    <li><bug>61135</bug>CookieManager : Drop Implementation select box and cleanup class</li>
</ul>

<h3>Other samplers</h3>
<ul>
</ul>

<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
    <li><bug>61131</bug>IfController and WhileController : Improve UX</li>
</ul>

<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
    <li><bug>61167</bug>InfluxdbBackendListener : add number of errors by response code and message for each transaction</li> 
</ul>

<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
    <li><bug>61176</bug><pr>298</pr>Cache responses that have <code>vary</code> header in the <code>CacheManager</code>.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
    <li><bug>61040</bug>Add a time shifting function</li>
    <li><bug>61126</bug>Function Helper Dialog : Add a field that shows execution result</li>
</ul>

<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>

<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
</ul>

<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
    <li>When looking for classes in <code>ActionRouter</code>, fall back to location of the jar,
       where <code>ActionRouter</code> is loaded from. Provided by Emilian Bold (emi at apache.org)</li>
</ul>

<ch_section>Non-functional changes</ch_section>
<ul>
    <li>Updated to groovy 2.4.12 (from 2.4.10)</li>
    <li>Updated to caffeine 2.5.3 (from 2.4.0)</li>
    <li>Updated to commons-jexl3 3.1 (from 3.0)</li>
    <li>Updated to ph-css 5.0.4 (from 5.0.3)</li>
    <li>Updated to ph-commons 8.6.6 (from 8.6.0)</li>
    <li>Updated to log4j2 2.8.2 (from 2.8.1)</li>
    <li>Updated to xmlgraphics-commons 2.2 (from 2.1)</li>
    <li>Updated to jodd 3.8.6 (from 3.8.1)</li>
    <li>Updated to xstream 1.4.10 (from 1.4.9)</li>
    <li>Updated to Apache Tika 1.15 (from 1.14)</li>
    <li>Updated to jsoup-1.10.3 (from 1.10.2)</li>
    <li>Updated to commons-lang3 3.6 (from 3.5)</li>
    <li>Updated to json-path 2.4.0 (from 2.2.0)</li>
</ul>

 <!-- =================== Bug fixes =================== -->

<ch_section>Bug fixes</ch_section>

<h3>HTTP Samplers and Test Script Recorder</h3>
<ul>
</ul>

<h3>Other Samplers</h3>
<ul>
    <li><bug>60889</bug>JMeter JDBC sample calls SELECT USER() when testing with MySQL JDBC due to Connection#toString call for response headers.</li>
</ul>

<h3>Controllers</h3>
<ul>
</ul>

<h3>Listeners</h3>
<ul>
    <li><bug>61005</bug>View Results Tree - Browser Response Data is not clearing</li>
    <li><bug>61121</bug>InfluxdbBackendListenerClient: Only all percentiles are sent, not KO and OK</li>
</ul>

<h3>Timers, Assertions, Config, Pre- &amp; Post-Processors</h3>
<ul>
    <li><bug>58743</bug><pr>293</pr>TableEditor can't be saved, when using two or more instances. Bugfix provided by Emilian Bold (emi at apache.org)</li>
</ul>

<h3>Functions</h3>
<ul>
</ul>

<h3>I18N</h3>
<ul>
</ul>

<h3>Report / Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
    <li><bug>61129</bug>Report/Dashboard : If response code is empty but a failureMessage is present, Errors and Top 5 Errors are not accurate. Contributed by Ubik Load Pack (support at ubikloadpack.com)</li>
    <li><bug>61151</bug>Report/Dashboard : Top 5 Errors by Sampler and Errors : If assertion contains html code, the html part is hidden</li>
</ul>

<h3>General</h3>
<ul>
    <li><bug>60994</bug>Fix some typo in comments or log messages. <pr>289</pr> and <pr>290</pr></li>
    <li><bug>61011</bug>Replace occurrences count is not correct (Path and Host replacement are counted twice)</li>
    <li><bug>61026</bug>Cannot run program "keytool": CreateProcess error=2 when starting JMeter 3.2 in gui mode</li>
    <li><bug>61054</bug>Endless loop in JOrphanUtils#replaceAllWithRegex when regex is contained in replacement</li>
    <li><bug>60995</bug>HTTP Test Script Recorder: Port field is very small under some LAF</li>
    <li><bug>61073</bug>HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder panel have some fields with bad size on HiDPI screen or GTK+ L&amp;F on Linux/XWayland</li>
    <li><bug>57958</bug>Fix transaction sample not generated if thread stops/restarts. Implemented by Artem Fedorov (artem at blazemeter.com) and contributed by BlazeMeter Ltd.</li>
    <li><bug>61050</bug>Handle uninitialized RessourceBundle more gracefully, when calling <code>JMeterUtils#getResString</code>.</li>
    <li><bug>61100</bug>Invalid GC Log Filename on Windows</li>
    <li><bug>57962</bug>Allow to use variables ( from User Defined Variables only ) in all listeners in slave mode</li>
    <li><bug>61270</bug>Fixed width fonts too small in text areas to read under hidpi (user manual bug)</li>
    <li><bug>61292</bug>Make processing of samples in reporter more robust.</li>
</ul>

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<ch_section>Thanks</ch_section>
<p>We thank all contributors mentioned in bug and improvement sections above:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Anass Benomar (abenomar at umanis.com, Mithrandir0407 @ github)</li>
<li>Anthony Kearns (anthony.kearns atrightside.co)</li>
<li>Emilian Bold (emi @ apache.org)</li>
<li><a href="http://ubikloadpack.com">Ubik Load Pack</a></li>
</ul>
<p>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:</p>
<ul>
<li>Liu XP (liu_xp2003 at sina.com)</li>
</ul>
<p>
Apologies if we have omitted anyone else.
 </p>
 <!--  =================== Known bugs or issues related to JAVA Bugs =================== -->

<ch_section>Known problems and workarounds</ch_section>
<ul>
<li>View Results Tree may freeze rendering large response particularly if this response has no spaces, see <bugzilla>60816</bugzilla>.
This is due to an identified Java Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8172336">UI stuck when calling JEditorPane.setText() or JTextArea.setText() with long text without space</a>.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The Once Only controller behaves correctly under a Thread Group or Loop Controller,
but otherwise its behaviour is not consistent (or clearly specified).</li>

<li>
The numbers that appear to the left of the green box are the number of active threads / total number of threads,
the total number of threads only applies to a locally run test, otherwise it will show <code>0</code> (see <bugzilla>55510</bugzilla>).
</li>

<li>
Note that under some windows systems you may have this WARNING:
<source>
java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences
WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0
x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(&hellip;) returned error code 5.
</source>
The fix is to run JMeter as Administrator, it will create the registry key for you, then you can restart JMeter as a normal user and you won't have the warning anymore.
</li>

<li>
You may encounter the following error:
<source>java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints</source>
 if you run a HTTPS request on a web site with a SSL certificate (itself or one of SSL certificates in its chain of trust) with a signature
 algorithm using MD2 (like md2WithRSAEncryption) or with a SSL certificate with a size lower than 1024 bits.
This error is related to increased security in Java 8+.
<br></br>
To allow you to perform your HTTPS request, you can downgrade the security of your Java installation by editing
the Java <code>jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms</code> property. Remove the MD2 value or the constraint on size, depending on your case.
<br></br>
This property is in this file:
<source>JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security</source>
See  <bugzilla>56357</bugzilla> for details.
</li>

<li>
Under Mac OSX Aggregate Graph will show wrong values due to mirroring effect on numbers.
This is due to a known Java bug, see Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065373" >JDK-8065373</a>
The fix is to use JDK8_u45 or later.
</li>

<li>
View Results Tree may fail to display some HTML code under HTML renderer, see <bugzilla>54586</bugzilla>.
This is due to a known Java bug which fails to parse "<code>px</code>" units in row/col attributes.
See Bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8031109" >JDK-8031109</a>
The fix is to use JDK9 b65 or later (but be aware that Java 9 is not certified yet for JMeter).
</li>

<li>
JTable selection with keyboard (<keycombo><keysym>SHIFT</keysym><keysym>up/down</keysym></keycombo>) is totally unusable with JAVA 7 on Mac OSX.
This is due to a known Java bug <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8025126" >JDK-8025126</a>
The fix is to use JDK 8 b132 or later.
</li>
</ul>

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