What's New for VuGen and VuGen protocols
This topic introduces the new features and enhancements for VuGen
Note: The Help Centers for VuGen 24.1 and 24.3 versions are streamlined into a single Help Center. Any version specific changes are indicated where relevant within the help.
To view enhancements for the 24.1 version, see What's New in 24.1.
What's New video
Learn about some of the new features included in VuGen version 24.3:
User experience
This release includes the following enhancements to the user experience and user interface:
Area | Enhancement |
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Recorder extension for Chrome |
The LoadRunner Web Recorder is now integrated into VuGen. You can run the LoadRunner Web Recorder process from the Start Recording dialog box, to automatically install the Chrome extension, record the HAR file, and then generate the end Vuser script. For details, see Record a script with the LoadRunner Web Recorder. Note: This feature is provided as tech preview. |
Runtime Settings |
The Search tool is now available in the Runtime Settings tab, enabling you to search for a term in the runtime settings for a script. For details, see Navigate and configure the runtime settings. |
Protocols
This release includes the following protocol enhancements:
Area | Enhancement |
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New protocol - TruClient 2.0 - Web |
TruClient 2.0 is the next generation tool for TruClient, using an improved and modernized user interface for developing scripts. The new TruClient 2.0 - Web protocol supports your locally installed edition of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers, up to the latest versions. The protocol is supported on both Windows and Linux Ubuntu load generators. For details, see TruClient 2.0 - Web protocol In addition, there is a new conversion tool to convert TruClient - Web scripts to TruClient 2.0 - Web format. For details, see Convert scripts to TruClient 2.0 - Web format. Note: This feature is provided as tech preview. |
New protocol - Finance ISO |
The Finance ISO protocol enables you to create a Vuser script to monitor financial transactions using the ISO-8583 standard. The protocol provides metrics on the send and receive messages between the server and the client. For details, see Finance ISO protocol. |
TruClient protocol |
TruClient scripts now support Chromium browser version 122. |
DevWeb protocol |
HTTP/3 is now supported for replay of DevWeb scripts. For details, see DevWeb runtime settings. Note: This feature is provided as tech preview. |
Web protocols |
The following updates are included for the web protocols:
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SAP protocols |
The following updates are included for SAP protocols:
For details, see SAP protocols. |
Oracle protocols |
The Oracle protocols include the following updates:
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RDP protocol |
The RDP protocol now supports recording when using a Windows 11 client. For details, see RDP protocol. |
Modernization
This release includes the following modernization enhancement:
Area | Enhancement |
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VTS |
You can now specify a connection to a VTS instance using the instance name instead of the port number. For details, see lrvtc_connect_ex in the Function Reference documentation. |
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