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Deprecated features and technologies
This section provides information about features, protocols, and technologies whose support was partially or fully discontinued, or will be discontinued in future versions of LoadRunner Professional and VuGen.
Removed features
- TruClient coded scripts feature is deprecated, starting from version 2022.
- J2EE/.NET Diagnostics integration with LoadRunner Professional is deprecated, starting from version 2020 SP2.
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TruClient Lite is discontinued, starting from version 12.63.
TruClient Lite 12.62 is still available in the Chrome Web Store for a period of time, but will be removed in the future. We recommend using TruClient in VuGen instead.
Removed support for technologies
LoadRunner Professional and VuGen no longer support these product technology versions:
| OS/browser/protocol | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows XP | All versions |
| OS | Windows 7 | All versions |
| OS | Windows 10 |
1507, 1511 (November), 1607, 1703 (Creators), 1709 (Fall Creators), 1803, 1809, 1903, 2004 Deprecated from 2022 R1: 1909 |
| OS | Windows Server | 2008, 2008 R2 |
| Distribution | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 7.7 and all earlier versions |
| Distribution | SUSE Linux Server Enterprise (SLES) | 12.1 64-bit |
| Distribution | Ubuntu | 16.04 |
| Browser | Microsoft Internet Explorer | IE 10 |
| .NET | .NET Framework |
4.5, 4.5.1 Deprecated from 2022 R1: 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1 |
| Citrix ICA | Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop |
5.x, 6.x, 7.18, 7.6 Deprecated from 2022 R2: 7.15 LTSR |
| Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 |
1811, 1903, 1906 Deprecated from 2022 R1: 2009 Deprecated from 2022 R2: 2103 |
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| Citrix Receiver | 4.9 | |
| Dynatrace | Dynatrace AppMon | All versions |
| Eclipse | Eclipse IDE | Neon, Mars, Luna, Oxygen, Photon |
| Java | Java | 6, 7, 9, 10 |
| Java Vuser for Continuous Delivery (Eclipse Add-in for Developers) | Selenium | 2.24.1 to 3.11.0 |
| JUnit | JUnit |
4.0 to 4.9.1 |
| MAPI | Microsoft Messaging Application Programming Interface | 2007, 2010 |
| NUnit | NUnit | 3.2, 3.4 |
| Oracle 2-Tier | Oracle Database | 9i R2, 10g R1, 11g R1 & R2 |
| Oracle NCA | Oracle Forms | 4.5.10.8 and 6i+ |
| SAP GUI | SAP GUI Client |
7.40, 7.50 Deprecated from 2022 R1: 7.60 |
| Siebel Web | Oracle Siebel CRM | 7.5.2, 7.5.3, 7.7, 7.8 |
| Teradici PCoIP | Teradici PCoIP Agent | 2.7 to 2.13 |
| Teradici PCoIP Connection Manager | 1.5 to 1.8.0 | |
| Teradici PCoIP Security Gateway | 1.11 to 1.13 | |
| Teradici PCoIP - VMware Horizon | 6.2.1 | |
| VTS-Client | VTC for Java functions | All functions |
Protocols supported for replay only
If a protocol is supported for replay only, you can no longer create scripts based on that protocol.
| Protocol | Supported for replay only |
|---|---|
|
Ajax Click & Script |
From version 12.60 Tip: Migrate your existing Ajax Click & Script scripts to another Web protocol such as TruClient - Web or Web - HTTP/HTML |
| COM/DCOM | From version 12.60 |
| EJB (Enterprise Java Beans) | From version 12.00 |
| Java Record Replay with CORBA | From version 12.60 |
| Java Record Replay with Jacada | From version 2022 |
| JavaScript Vuser | From version 12.00 |
| MMS (Media Player) | From version 12.53 |
| MMS (Multimedia messaging service) | From version 12.53 |
| VBScript Vuser | From version 12.00 |
| Web - Click and Script | From version 12.00 |
Fully removed protocol support
There is no record or replay support for the following protocols:
| Protocol | Supported for replay only | No support |
|---|---|---|
| Flex | -- | From version 2021 |
| MQTester (IBM WebSphere MQ) | -- | From version 2021 |
| DB2 CLI | From version 11.00 | From version 12.55 |
| i-mode | From version 11.00 | From version 12.55 |
| Informix | From version 11.00 | From version 12.55 |
| PeopleSoft Enterprise | From version 12.00 | From version 12.55 |
| PeopleSoft -Tuxedo | From version 12.00 | From version 12.55 |
| Real | From version 11.50 | From version 12.55 |
| SAP - Click & Script | From version 12.53 | From version 12.55 |
| Siebel - DB2 CLI | From version 11.00 | From version 12.55 |
| Siebel MSSQL | -- | From version 12.55 |
| Siebel Oracle | -- | From version 12.55 |
| Silverlight | From version 12.55 | From version 2022 R1 |
| SQL Server | From version 11.50 | From version 12.55 |
| Sybase Ctlib | From version 11.00 | From version 12.55 |
| Sybase Dblib | From version 11.00 | From version 12.55 |
| VB Vuser | -- | From version 11.50 |
| VoiceXML (VXML) | From version 11.00 | From version 12.55 |
| WAP | From version 11.50 | From version 12.55 |
Planned future removal of technologies
The following product technology versions are no longer supported by their vendors. To align with this, support for these technologies will be discontinued in a future version:
| OS/browser/protocol | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 8.1 | All versions |
| OS | Windows 10 | 20H2, 21H1 |
| OS | Windows Server | 2012, 2012 R2 |
| Distribution | Ubuntu | 18.04 |
| Distribution | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 8 (64-bit) |
| Browser | Microsoft Internet Explorer | All versions |
| Browser | Microsoft Edge (legacy version) | All versions |
| Java | Java | 8 |
| MAPI | Microsoft MAPI | 2013 |
| Teradici PCoIP | Leostream Connection Broker | 8.2 |
| Teradici PCoIP | Teradici PCoIP - VMware Horizon | 7.0 |
Planned future removal of functionality
The following information provides advance notice of functionality that will be removed in a future version of TruClient:
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TruClient Standalone. We recommend using TruClient in VuGen instead.
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TruClient - Mobile Web protocol. We recommend using the TruClient - Web protocol instead.
- Using synchronous APIs in JavaScript code. We recommend using asynchronous APIs instead.
- Connections measurement for TruClient.
- Configuring start and end events for a transaction in TruClient.
For details on these features, see the TruClient Help Center (select the relevant version)
See also:
