What's New for VuGen and VuGen protocols

This topic introduces the new features and enhancements for VuGen and the VuGen protocols, version 24.3.

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.

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Learn about some of the new features included in VuGen version 24.3:

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User experience

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

Area Enhancement
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.

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Protocols

This release includes the following protocol enhancements:

Area Enhancement
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:

  • The Web - HTTP/HTML protocol now supports replay on 64-bit architecture. For details, see Web - HTTP/HTML protocol overview.

  • The ability to select an alternative listening connection when recording. For details, see Start Recording dialog box.

  • The ability to open the target browser in private or non-private mode when recording on a web browser. For details, see Start Recording dialog box.

  • Integration of the OpenSSL Cryptographic Next Generation (CNG) Engine for both recording and replay. This provides support for the CNG private key when processing certificates in Windows Certificate Store.

    For recording details, see HTTP properties > Advanced recording options.

    For replay details, see Web settings.

  • When recording through a proxy, you can choose whether to record all traffic, or only traffic for the selected application. For details, see HTTP properties > Advanced recording options.

  • New Duration argument for streaming videos. This enables you to set the total video duration manually, eliminating decoding and reducing CPU usage. For details, see web_stream_open in the Function Reference.

SAP protocols

The following updates are included for SAP protocols:

  • Support for SAP client version 8.0, patch 6 and later.

  • Support for SAP GUI protocol recording and replay on 64-bit architecture, in addition to 32-bit.

For details, see SAP protocols.

Oracle protocols

The Oracle protocols include the following updates:

  • Support for Oracle Forms 12c.

  • Updated automatic correlation rules for Oracle - Web protocol scripts, and for multi-protocol scripts that include Oracle NCA + web protocols. For details, see Automatic correlation configuration.

RDP protocol

The RDP protocol now supports recording when using a Windows 11 client.

For details, see RDP protocol.

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Modernization

This release includes the following modernization enhancement:

Area Enhancement
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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