What's new

This topic introduces the new features and improvements in OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Enterprise) CE 25.3. To view enhancements for prior releases, see What's new in earlier versions.

Note: The Help Centers for 25.1 and 25.3 are streamlined into a single Help Center. Any version specific changes are indicated where relevant.

What's New video

Learn about some of the new features included in this version:

Performance Engineering Aviator (Beta)

This release includes the launch of a new advanced, AI-powered, virtual assistant for Performance Engineering solutions.

Area	Enhancement
VuGen	Aviator for Scripting in VuGen provides assistance with many aspects of the scripting process. Using AI assistance before, during, and after the scripting process can help to save time and simplify script creation. Aviator can assist with tasks such as selecting the best protocol for an application scripting session, error analysis and remediation, function and coding assistance, script optimization, and script summarizing. When combined, these assisted actions can yield significant time savings, while also reducing required scripting skill sets. All users, from new to experienced performance engineers, will welcome Aviator's partnership in the scripting process.
OpenText Core Performance Engineering Analysis	Aviator for Analysis in OpenText Core Performance Engineering Analysis redefines how teams approach performance analysis. It helps accelerate investigations, increase productivity, and streamlines the onboarding of new team members. Through conversational analysis, performance engineers can interact with Aviator using natural language directly within the dashboard environment. When you ask for summaries, trends, anomalies, or detailed insights, Aviator delivers clear, contextual answers about critical metrics. By leveraging Aviator’s capabilities, teams can significantly reduce the time spent diagnosing errors, and move faster from detection to resolution with actionable guidance. For details, see OpenText Core Performance Engineering Analysis integration.

Area

Enhancement

VuGen

Aviator for Scripting in VuGen provides assistance with many aspects of the scripting process. Using AI assistance before, during, and after the scripting process can help to save time and simplify script creation.

Aviator can assist with tasks such as selecting the best protocol for an application scripting session, error analysis and remediation, function and coding assistance, script optimization, and script summarizing. When combined, these assisted actions can yield significant time savings, while also reducing required scripting skill sets.

All users, from new to experienced performance engineers, will welcome Aviator's partnership in the scripting process.

OpenText Core Performance Engineering Analysis

Aviator for Analysis in OpenText Core Performance Engineering Analysis redefines how teams approach performance analysis. It helps accelerate investigations, increase productivity, and streamlines the onboarding of new team members.

Through conversational analysis, performance engineers can interact with Aviator using natural language directly within the dashboard environment. When you ask for summaries, trends, anomalies, or detailed insights, Aviator delivers clear, contextual answers about critical metrics.

By leveraging Aviator’s capabilities, teams can significantly reduce the time spent diagnosing errors, and move faster from detection to resolution with actionable guidance.

For details, see OpenText Core Performance Engineering Analysis integration.

User experience

This release includes the following enhancements to the user experience and user interface.

Area	Enhancement
Landing page URL	The OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering landing page URL has changed. Make sure to update your bookmarks to the new address. For details, see Sign in and Sign in to Admin area.
Accessibility	Additional platform elements have been updated to meet VPAT standards. These enhancements include improved keyboard navigation and screen reader support for dropdown menus, dialogs, and data-grid filters.

Area

Enhancement

Landing page URL

The OpenText Enterprise Performance Engineering landing page URL has changed. Make sure to update your bookmarks to the new address.

For details, see Sign in and Sign in to Admin area.

Accessibility

Additional platform elements have been updated to meet VPAT standards. These enhancements include improved keyboard navigation and screen reader support for dropdown menus, dialogs, and data-grid filters.

Data and analytics

This release includes the following data and analytics updates.

Area	Enhancement
Observability support	This release introduces an integration with OpenTelemetry, providing observability support. The integration enables you to push telemetry data to an OpenTelemetry Collector when running performance tests. For details, see Observability support.
Splunk integration	This release introduces an integration with Cisco Splunk APM. This enables you to receive monitoring metrics collected by Splunk, and display them in both online and offline graphs and Analysis. For details, see Splunk monitor.

Area

Enhancement

Observability support

This release introduces an integration with OpenTelemetry, providing observability support. The integration enables you to push telemetry data to an OpenTelemetry Collector when running performance tests.

For details, see Observability support.

Splunk integration

This release introduces an integration with Cisco Splunk APM. This enables you to receive monitoring metrics collected by Splunk, and display them in both online and offline graphs and Analysis.

For details, see Splunk monitor.

Cloud and SaaS

This release includes the following cloud and SaaS updates.

Area	Enhancement
AWS cloud templates	Added support for defining multiple subnets and instance types in AWS cloud host templates to address resource shortages in availability zones. For details, see Provision using Auto Scaling Group and Launch Template.

Area

Enhancement

AWS cloud templates

Added support for defining multiple subnets and instance types in AWS cloud host templates to address resource shortages in availability zones.

For details, see Provision using Auto Scaling Group and Launch Template.

Modernization

This release includes the following modernization updates.

Area	Enhancement
Dashboard	The online and offline dashboard was modernized with a new look and feel, and more streamlined functionality. For details, see Run Dashboard.
Runtime activity	The Add Vusers, Run Vusers, and Rendezvous dialog boxes were modernized with a new look and feel, and more streamlined functionality. For details, see Manage Vusers during a run and Set rendezvous policies.

Area

Enhancement

Dashboard

The online and offline dashboard was modernized with a new look and feel, and more streamlined functionality.

For details, see Run Dashboard.

Runtime activity

The Add Vusers, Run Vusers, and Rendezvous dialog boxes were modernized with a new look and feel, and more streamlined functionality.

For details, see Manage Vusers during a run and Set rendezvous policies.

Security and infrastructure

This release includes the following security and infrastructure updates.

Area	Enhancement
New Password Policy Setting	Added a new security setting that enforces a password change at the next login after an administrator sets or resets a user's password. For details, see Set the password policy.

Area

Enhancement

New Password Policy Setting

Added a new security setting that enforces a password change at the next login after an administrator sets or resets a user's password.

For details, see Set the password policy.

OpenText VuGen and protocols

Virtual User Generator (VuGen) includes the following enhancements. For details, see the OpenText Virtual User Generator What's New.

Area	Enhancement
HashiCorp Vault support	You can now use API functions to access HashiCorp Vault secrets directly from your Vuser script.
Port mapping	When defining a new server entry for port mapping, you can now set a range for the SSL versions, for example from SSL 3.x to TLS 1.3.

VuGen protocols include the following enhancements. For details, see the OpenText Virtual User Generator What's New.

Area	Enhancement
LLM	A new LLM (Large Language Model) protocol lets you create scripts for testing LLMs, such as OpenAI and Gemini.
TruClient 2.0 - Web	The following updates are included for TruClient 2.0 - Web scripts: You can convert TruClient 2.0 - Web scripts to Web - HTTP/HTML format. In the Runtime Settings > Log page, you can now specify the MIME types to log for the HTTP response body. This can reduce overhead that may impact performance. Search functionality added, enabling you to search for text in the current view or the whole script. You can also use the Go to button to jump to a specified step. Steps can be marked as optional, so that they are skipped if the target object is not found. You can save steps in the Steps box as favorites, and quickly access them from the Favorites tab.
TruClient - Web	The following updates are included for TruClient - Web scripts: TruClient scripts support Chromium browser version 137. In the Runtime Settings > Log page, you can now specify the MIME types to log for the HTTP response body. This can reduce overhead that may impact performance.
DevWeb	The following updates are included for DevWeb: You can configure DNS resolution to be performed per Vuser. The Replay summary includes an additional column for Hits per IP.
Oracle	The Oracle - 2 Tier protocol now supports record and replay on Oracle Database 23ai.
Web - HTTP/HTML	An enhancement to the Chrome Recording extension allows you to indicate whether to capture HTTP authentication. You can disable this option to only record requests and responses without the login page.
Java	You can now experiment and run Java Vusers with unsupported versions of Java. You can also enable the scripting engine to use an unsupported Java version when generating Java code.

OpenText Performance Engineering for Developers (LoadRunner Developer) includes the following enhancements. For details, see the OpenText Performance Engineering for Developers What's new.

Area	Enhancement
Trace-level logs	When using trace-level logging, you can choose to include or exclude the HTTP headers and/or HTTP body from the log. This provides control over the amount of detail included in the log.
InfluxDB	Support added for InfluxDB 3 database.
Trend Report	You can now view a report comparing test runs of your script. The Trend Report enables you to compare results for different data types, in bar or line format.
DNS resolution per Vuser	You can configure DNS resolution to be performed per Vuser. The obtained IP address is stored in the internal Vuser cache according to the defined Time to Live (TTL) policy. It is resolved again either when expired, or between iterations.
Postman Collection	You can now use the Offline Script Generator to generate a DevWeb script from a Postman Collection file. (Beta)
Observability with OpenTelemetry	This release introduces an integration with OpenTelemetry, providing observability support. The integration enables you to push telemetry data to an OpenTelemetry Collector when replaying scripts. (Beta)
gRPC code generation	This release includes the following improvements for gRPC protobuf code generation: Improved information for payload structure. A separate connect function for connecting to the server.
Unhide API	The new unhide enables the retrieval of hidden data in your script, for example, a user name or password..