Usage Analytics includes the following changes:

• The app is now accessed through the License Utility.
• You can export your usage analytics data as a CSV file.

For details, see Usage analytics.

The Service Level Agreement (SLA) Report now includes information regarding the Transaction Response Time (APDEX) rule.

For details, see SLA Report.

For manual scenarios in Vuser group mode (using the By Number option), you can now distribute load generators in the same way as for percentage mode.

You can choose to use All load generators for your Vuser groups, or select multiple load generators from the list of machines. You can also set the loading method, so that the load generators are distributed sequentially, or in round-robin format.

For details, see Configure Vuser runtime settings.

Full support is now provided for Linux load generator installation on Ubuntu Server Linux 22.04 LTS 64-bit.

For details, see the LoadRunner Professional Installation Guide.

Load generators can now be installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

RHEL 9 is supported for Web, JMeter, and Gatling tests.

For details, see the LoadRunner Professional Installation Guide.

Chaos testing now includes an option to continue on error. This directs the scenario to continue running when there is an issue with a scheduled disruption event.

For details, see Chaos testing for scenarios.

This release includes various improvements and defect fixes for the Controller monitor graphs.

For details, see Online monitor graphs.

LoadRunner Professional now supports automatic reconnection to a load generator during a load test, if the load generator becomes disconnected from the network for a short period of time.

After reconnecting, LoadRunner Professional continues running the load test.

For details, see Load generators.

Installation of Gatling and JMeter is now optional during load generator deployment.

During load generator installation (using wizard or silent installation, or Dockerized load generator setup), you can choose whether to install Gatling and/or JMeter.

For details, see the LoadRunner Professional Installation Guide.

VTS now supports LDAPS connection to the domain controller for NTLM authentication.

TruClient protocols include the following updates:

• Upgraded browser version support:

  • Chromium: Version 113
  • TruClient Browser: Equivalent to Firefox version 110
• Support for Internet Explorer is fully deprecated, for both record and replay.

Note: From version 2023 R1, TruClient help is part of the VuGen Help Center. Earlier TruClient versions remain in the previous help.

This release introduces the new Cloud for AWS protocol. With this protocol, you can create Vuser scripts to monitor the usage of Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS).

The collected data is available in dedicated graphs in LoadRunner Controller and Analysis.

Recording is now supported for Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.9 and 2.10.

The SAP GUI protocol includes the following enhancements:

• You can now configure the SAP client to remain open after encountering an error during script execution in VuGen.

• If the SAP client crashes during script replay, you can configure it to relaunch automatically, to enable the continued replay of any remaining iterations in the script.

The Multiple IP feature is now supported for DevWeb tests. This feature enables the simulation of multiple Vusers using different IP addresses, originating from a single load generator.

In Controller, the Multiple IP functionality works as for other protocols. For details, see Multiple IP addresses.

In addition, there are new DevWeb API functions that give you more control over IP address management. For details, see Assign IP addresses to Vusers in the LoadRunner Developer Help Center.

This release includes improved functionality for parsing HTML responses, reducing the noise and complexity in your scripts:

• HTML resources can be excluded from the web request step during script generation.

• For replay, you can enable downloading of the resources discovered at runtime from the HTML body, without including the resources in the script.

This release includes enhanced DevWeb script creation with Visual Studio Code:

• You can now download a VS Code extension for DevWeb scripts, and install it directly from VS Code. You can then create a DevWeb script in VS Code, with all editing functionality available.

• Correlate selection functionality is now available for your scripts when using the VS Code extension. This enables you to manually select the text you want to correlate, and then use the Correlate Selection option to add extractors.

Note: The new VS Code extension features are provided as tech preview.

The randomString utils now includes a hex option, so that the generated string will use only hexadecimal characters.

gRPC communication now automatically uses default ports, when the host port has not been defined.