The user interface is updated to reflect that Micro Focus is now OpenText.

In a Controller online graph, you can now set the scale for multiple measurements at once.

For details, see Configuring measurement settings.

You can now export the output messages from a scenario run.

For details, see Output Messages window.

The Analysis Summary Report now displays the start and end time for the scenario, and the time zone.

For details, see Summary Report.

The collection of data for web page diagnostics is now disabled by default. To view data in the Web Page Diagnostics graphs in Analysis, enable data collection in Controller.

For details, see Web page diagnostics.

Controller and Analysis include a new Web Resources graph for server requests per second. This graph displays hits per host statistics (based on server hostname) for a DevWeb script.

For details, see Web Resource monitoring.

You can now push real-time data from a Controller scenario run to the Datadog platform. The sent data includes performance metrics and scenario details from the run.

For details, see Integration with Datadog.

The Controller Transactions dialog box has a modernized UI, and now includes Search functionality.

For details, see Transactions dialog box.

There is now full protocol support for Linux and Linux Docker load generators installed on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x 64-bit distribution.

For details, see Installation.

The load generator images in the Docker hub repository have been renamed.

For details, see Configure Dockerized load generators.

The Chrome V8 JavaScript engine used by VuGen and load generators is now upgraded to work with the ECMAScript 2022 language specification.

You can now install a LoadRunner Web Recorder extension in Chrome to record events for a Vuser script. This allows you to create scripts in cases where the security policy blocks the standard VuGen recorder.

SSO/browser-based authentication is now supported for the integration between VuGen and LoadRunner Cloud.

This release includes an integration with CyberArk, providing support for use of CyberArk identity security for privileged accounts. A new LoadRunner API enables you to connect to the CyberArk vault and query for passwords.

VuGen contains a new script designer for creating AWS protocol scripts. Using the script designer, you can generate an SQS script without having to manually insert code.

The following updates are included for TruClient scripts:

• Chromium browser support: For version 120

• TruClient Browser: Now equivalent to Firefox version 118

• Security updates

Upgraded .NET version support for .NET+ protocol:

• Support for .NET 8.

• If you are unable to use .NET 6 or 8, there is now capability to use other .NET versions.

  Caution: .NET versions other than 6 and 8 are not officially supported by LoadRunner Professional and the .NET+ protocol.

The following new APIs to handle window events are available for the Citrix protocol:

• ctrx_execute_on_window_activation
• ctrx_execute_on_window_destroy
• ctrx_execute_on_window_name_change

LoadRunner Professional now supports JRE/JDK version 21 64-bit for record and replay of all relevant protocols.

This release includes additional correlation rules for SAP_NWBC application.

DevWeb scripts now support testing for server-sent events (SSE).

SSE is a server push technology, enabling the client to receive automatic updates from a server using an HTTP connection. You can use the new SSE API to establish a connection to the AUT, and receive server-sent event notifications.

You can add the new saveResponseBodyToFile option to your web requests, enabling you to save specific web response bodies in the specified files.

The extractors include a new converter, evalString. This converter changes hexadecimal and Unicode characters (\xNN and \uNNNN) to plain strings.

The SDK includes a new API, thinkTimeAsync, that does not block asynchronous background activities.

The replay summary for your script now includes data on the hits per host (based on hostname).

This data is available for DevWeb scripts in all LoadRunner products.

The mask and encrypt functionality is now available for whole folders. This enables you to mask or encrypt confidential data in all files in a folder.

LoadRunner Developer now supports working on a FIPS-enabled environment. It is compliant with the FIPS 140-2 standard, for the protection of sensitive or valuable data.

You can obtain the IP address for the current Vuser using the getIP function.

You can now customize the delimiter used for HTTP query strings.