Hello, The first release candidate for JMeter 2.7 has been prepared, and your votes are solicited.
This release brings some valuable improvements and fixes some bugs. If you can, some tests of this release candidate (load tests and/or functional tests) with Java 5/6/7 on Linux/Windows/Mac OS on changes are welcome. New and Noteworthy with some screenshots to illustrate improvements and list of changes: http://people.apache.org/~milamber/jmeter-2.7RC1/docs/changes.html JMeter is a Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. The current version is targeted at Java 1.5+. Archives/hashes/sigs and RAT report: http://people.apache.org/~milamber/jmeter-2.7RC1/dist/ MD5 hashes of archives for this vote: 8dab93abe521d5d6f5916880cc060993 *apache-jmeter-2.7.zip 7b74d8ae058521d33341878c6b4c2c8f *apache-jmeter-2.7_src.tgz c4509ebaa44c60fe1b31f644f070e4ef *apache-jmeter-2.7_src.zip 543a32cd6472c7ac7eb89f99a79c71cb *apache-jmeter-2.7.tgz Site Docs are here: http://people.apache.org/~milamber/jmeter-2.7RC1/docs/ Maven staging repo is accessible here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachejmeter-103/org/apache/jmeter/ Tag: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jmeter/tags/v2_7_RC1 (r1340508) Keys are here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jmeter/dist/ also http://people.apache.org/~milamber/ N.B. To download the dependencies: "ant download_jars" To create the jars and test JMeter: "ant package test". JMeter 2.7 requires Java 1.5 or later. 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: [java] WARNING: Couldn't flush user prefs: java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not supported: indent-number This does not affect JMeter operation. All feedback (and votes!) welcome. [ ] +1 I support this release [ ] +0 I am OK with this release [ ] -0 OK, but.... [ ] -1 I do not support this release (please indicate why) The vote will remain open for at least 72 hours. Note: If the vote passes, the intention is to release the archive files and rename the RC tag as the release tag. Thanks in advance! Milamber