Release Notes

0.26 (2024-05-31)

• Remove java.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
• Disable automatic report opening with –silent option
• Throw exception for misconfigured multi-host HTTP benchmark
• Add agent property to configure the ssh key used
• Set CPU Request in Benchmark
• s390x: Define utf-8 encoding in compiler plugin
• Dependecies upgrades, e.g., infinispan and vertx

0.25.2 (2023-08-03)

• Bug fix: Version command not working

0.25.1 (2023-08-02)

• Update dependencies

0.25 (2023-06-28)

• startWith: Delay feature
• Enhancements
• Bug fixes

0.24.2 (2023-05-02)

• Bug fix and enhancements

0.24.1 (2023-02-02)

• Return correct protocol
• Validate wrk benchmark before running simulation

0.24 (2022-12-15)

• Initial support for Mac OS/x86_64
• Fix serialization for Timestamp
• Dependency updates

0.23 (2022-10-31)

• Fix for HTTP2 requests not flushing request body
• Reimplemented randomCsvRow CSV parsing and quotes handling
• Command upload in CLI/WebCLI now accepts URL

0.22 (2022-09-19)

• Fixes and output synchronization in wrk/wrk2 commands
• Fixes for aarch-64
• Formatting in timestamp step
• When a template is missing referenced file CLI asks user to provide it
• One-key switch for interactive statistics in CLI

0.21 (2022-07-12)

• Minor bugfix-only release.

0.20 (2022-05-26)

• Vert.x 4.3 and Infinispan 13 for clustering
• Bugfixes in templating and documentation

0.19 (2022-02-22)

• Minor release with bugfixes
• Generic HTML tag parser: parseHtml.onTagAttribute

0.18 (2021-12-16)

• New benchmark templating system: !param, !concat and !foreach
• Mechanisms for storing global, agent-wide and thread-wide data
• Improved error reporting and logging
• HTTP endpoints can be referred to using a name rather than authority (host:port combination)
• Custom SLAs: Tests that have external statistics can place SLAs on these.
• Closed-model phases can be configured with .usersPerAgent and .usersPerThread
• New actions for manipulating collections
• New step and action for restarting current sequence
• New action for marking request as invalid manually
• Other utility processors and added properties on existings steps/actions
• Fix various issues with statistics from auxiliary verticles.

0.17 (2021-10-21)

• More options for configuration of agent pods (resources, labels…) - courtesy of Stephen Connolly
• Upgrade of Apache MINA

0.16 (2021-06-11)

• This release removes some code-bloat for extension developers, using reflection to scan the scenario:
  • Session variables do not need to be explicitly reserved in ResourceUtilizer.reserve() method.
  • Components owning another components do not have to propagate the resource resevation calls.
• Automatic check for reading from a variable that’s never written to.
• Controller can loads statistics from old runs (therefore CLI can show stats from runs before reboot)
  • Statistics from old runs are unloaded in order to prevent running out-of-memory in constrained environments.
• Phases can now be marked with isWarmup: true - reporting can hide data from these phases by default
• Agents deployed via SSH can set list of cpus on which to run (using taskset).
• Self-checks for excessive CPU usage on agents, record CPU usage in each phase.
• Various fixes and improvements in WebCLI.

0.15 (2021-04-09)

• Introduced statistics for connections (#connections by type, active connections and in-flight requests…)
• New connection strategies: Open connections for each session/request
  • ergonomics.privatePools replaced by http.connectionStrategy
• http.sharedConnections can be set using sub-properties core, max, buffer and keepAliveTime.
• Dropped RequestProcessorBuilder and HttpRequestProcessorBuilder in favor of Processor.Builder
  • If the processor is used in an incompatible context it should cause a runtime error
• POC support for Hot Rod protocol connecting to Infinispan clusters.
• k8s deployer: agent labels and tolerations
• Many improvements to WebCLI, notably automatic reconnect and plot command
• Statistics rework: HTTP-related statistics are separated into extensions, some fields were dropped or renamed
  • Report schema changed to v3.0 to reflect this (+piggybacked agent address/name changes)
• Upgrade to Vert.x 4.0

0.14 (2021-02-22)

• Significant refactoring of HTTP-related code into its own module
  • Programmatic configuration requires some changes but there were no changes for YAML definitions
• Hyperfoil Controller now serves WebCLI at root path
  • OpenAPI definition moved to /openapi

0.13 (2021-01-28)

This is mostly a bugfix release with minor convenience improvements.

• Run CLI in container simply using docker/podman run -it --rm --network=host quay.io/hyperfoil/hyperfoil cli

0.12 (2020-12-16)

• Hyperfoil now requires JDK 11
• BREAKING CHANGE: extra files are now loaded relative to benchmark YAML file, not working directory
• CLI improvements:
  • Upload benchmarks in text-mode (lower chance of serialization issues)
  • Ask for re-upload of extra files
  • inspect command to reveal detailed structure of the benchmark
• Status 4xx and 5xx is not counted as error for purposes of SLA.errorRatio (use SLA.invalidRatio)
• Hyperfoil controller can be exposed using HTTPS and offers Basic authentication scheme.
• Mode with coordinated-omission compensation: see httpRequest.compensation.
• Support for GZIP compression of responses: see httpRequest.compression.
• New generator step: randomFile
• Image build now can be done using podman

0.11 (2020-11-18)

• Fix a critical memory leak in the use of Netty’s direct buffers.
• Fix problems in HTML redirect.

0.10 (2020-11-13)

• Explicit concurrency limits on sequences, e.g mySequence[6].
  • maxSequences on scenario is not used anymore.
• Concurrent sequences have its own copy of each resource by default.
• Reworked loop step.
• Renamed simple recorder (processor) to store.
• Step httpRequest now implements handler.followRedirect, automatically sending another request(s) upon 3xx status or <meta http-equiv=“refresh” …> in HTML.
• HTTP 1.1 is now implemented without relying on Netty’s parser - saving allocations (HTTP 2.0 is still TODO).
• Reworked ways to modify other parts of the benchmark from withing the builder (Locator).
• Reduced need for boilerplate code in builders.
• Many bugfixes and small improvements.

0.9 (2020-05-28)

This is a bugfix-release.

0.8 (2020-04-24)

• Renamed phase types:
  • constantPerSec → constantRate
  • rampPerSec → increasingRate/decreasingRate
• Change meaning of SLA.blockedRatio: the value should be between 0 and 1 (inclusively) where 1 allows blocking without limits.
• New SLA check invalidRatio.
• 4xx and 5xx responses mark the request as invalid by default (configurable through ergonomics.autoRangeCheck).
• When a response is marked as invalid session execution stops immediately (configurable through ergonomics.stopOnInvalid).
• Implemented replace and delete operation in the json step and processor.
• responseSizeRecorder replaced with transferSizeRecorder, calculating uploaded bytes as well.
• Agents now host a default section where you can define common configuration.
• Each agent can have different number of threads, using the threads property.
• Report schema changed, now using schema http://hyperfoil.io/run-schema/v2.0

0.7.1 (2020-02-26)

Bugfix-only release.

• Fixed threading model when using wrk command
• Fixed HTTP parsing for rawBytesHandlers
• Fixed stop used either as step or in a handler

Please see git log for info about older releases.