Release Notes

1.13.4 (2021-03-18)#

FrontLine#

Fixes#

• FL-404: UI: link in the Error page to the Service Desk is sometimes wrong
• FL-406: Repositories: Test admin cannot create a S3 repository
• FL-450: Reports: top navigator go hover side navigator
• FL-459: Reports: wrong hidden Group* entry in Groups tab’s select field
• FL-462: AWS: save button is enabled while there’s no private key
• FL-463: Pools: warn when there is no private key configured
• FL-464: Reports: UI shouldn’t stats when select is empty
• FL-471: Reports: going from requests to groups tab with no group shows an empty graph
• FL-480: Users: can’t save when editing from scoped user to system admin
• FL-481: frontline-gradle-plugin: random crashes
• FL-492: GCE: updating an existing pool is broken
• FL-500: GCE: trying to connect too fast over SSH can result in “access denied” failure
• FL-501: Azure: force usage of Premium SSD with a minimum size of 256GB when running certified images
• FL-505: Trends: no toastr error on run delete failure
• FL-507: Azure: display correct exception on SDK crash
• FL-508: frontline-gradle-plugin: transitive dependencies are not filtered out
• FL-511: frontline-gradle-plugin: runtime dependencies are not included
• FL-516: Azure: crash on tests with multiple pools because ResourceGroup names are not unique
• FL-523: sbt: Upgrade sbt sample and plugins to cope with jCenter and Bintray incoming termination
• FL-526: Private Keys: superAdmin doesn’t have access to private keys page

1.13.3 (2021-02-24)#

FrontLine#

Fixes#

• FL-390: Runs: No data displayed + broken css after deleting runs and current page no longer exists
• FL-393: Runs: Delete option doesn’t disappear after deleting a run so no run is selected
• FL-394: Runs: Trends are not refreshed after deleting a run
• FL-395: Runs: Page number go over the Navbar
• FL-397: Runs: Redux store misusage after deleting simulations
• FL-399: Security: Tampered payload can be used to take control of an entity of another team
• FL-427: API Token: Name is not modified on update
• FL-430: Pipeline doesn’t delay deployment retries, causing deploying issues in particular on AWS Virginia
• FL-434: Simulations: Sort by team does not work

1.13.2 (2021-02-01)#

Gatling 3.5.1#

See full release note: https://github.com/gatling/gatling/milestone/96?closed=1

FrontLine#

Fixes#

• FL-348: Dashboard: Hovering on requests and responses counts induces redux state mutation
• FL-349: Public link permissions flawed
• FL-350: CleanUpService scheduler does not execute cleanup
• FL-351: Doc: Installation guide chapter 7 is missing
• FL-357: Cassandra: Don’t require keyspace create permission once schema is created (so users can restrict permissions)
• FL-365: CI Plugins: retry requests before considering a build is failed/unstable to cope with temporary failures
• FL-383: maven/gradle/sbt Packager Plugins: forcefully filter out netty-all fatjar
• FL-384: maven/gradle/sbt Packager Plugins: filter out META-INF/versions/ (broken Selenium 3 jars)
• FL-385: Cassandra: Migration 96 crashes when remote name doesn’t contain an IP address
• FL-387: Runs History: pagination breaks when going to last page
• FL-391: Installer: should download FrontLine bundle from downloads.repository.io instead of repository.gatling.io

1.13.1 (2020-12-24)#

Fixes#

• FL-344: Summary: Request summary page blinks every 5 seconds
• FL-345: Team Test admins can no longer use global resources (pools, repositories), only resources belonging to their own team
• FL-347: Assertions stopped working

1.13.0 (2020-12-16)#

Gatling 3.5.0#

See full release note: https://github.com/gatling/gatling/milestone/94?closed=1

FrontLine#

Features#

• FL-13: Reports: Limit the number of errors message to avoid flooding
• FL-22: Reports: Limit the number of (scenario, group, request) to avoid flooding
• FL-36: Reports: Duration stats are now aggregated by end timestamp
• FL-86: Reports: Limit the number of remote addresses to avoid flooding

Fixes#

• FL-12: Runs: Introduce paging on run history to avoid flooding when history is huge
• FL-14: Simulation: delete System prop button should be visible when there is only one defined
• FL-153: Forms: Click on a label should select its associated input
• FL-208: Runs: DNS resolution counts are not deleted when deleting a run
• FL-252: Security: Only global admins should be able to update simulation quotas
• FL-293: AWS: AMI toggle is always certified when editing
• FL-323: Repositories: Can’t use a https repo without credentials
• FL-332: Runs: Fix possible desynchronization between injectors and FrontLine

1.12.5 (2020-12-04)#

FrontLine#

Fixes#

• FL-289: Misc: Run clean up crashes on date formatting
• FL-298: Pipeline: Kill signal_name should not be SIG prefixed
• FL-296: Azure: Update Azure certificates verification on Marketplace init

1.12.4 (2020-11-24)#

Gatling 3.4.2#

See full release note: https://github.com/gatling/gatling/milestone/95?closed=1

FrontLine#

Features#

• FL-231: App: Revisited logging. Existing users are advised to add <logger name="io.gatling.frontline" level="INFO"/> in their logback.xml file.

Fixes#

• FL-176: Repositories: Document permissions required to use S3 buckets as repositories
• FL-199: Boot: License prompt shows up again on reboot
• FL-214: Reports: Fix crash when run is ongoing and run is longer than 5 minutes (no problem once run is done)
• FL-233: sbt: remove io.gatling.frontline organization from sbt sample config as it removes user provided extra libraries
• FL-242: Pipeline: Fix logs when killing remote process on on-prems injectors
• FL-248: Pipeline: Fix stdout and logback conflict in injector logs retrieved on test crash
• FL-255: Reports: Received resets series missing from TCP connections chart
• FL-260: Reports: Fix stats not displayed when request names contains heading or trailing white spaces
• FL-268: Boot: Don’t overwrite super admin password and security key when updating expired license key
• FL-274: Security: It shouldn’t be possible a save a simulation after hitting number of simulations limit

1.12.3 (2020-10-28)#

FrontLine#

Fixes#

• FL-164: AWS, S3: form is not properly saved when using environment variables
• FL-175: Private Key: form can’t be saved after uploading file without editing other fields
• FL-185: Boot: confusing error message when booting with an empty frontline.conf but schema already exists
• FL-186: Cassandra: Migration 77 still crashes on humongous databases
• FL-188: Git: url validation rejects valid AWS CodeCommit urls

1.12.2 (2020-10-13)#

Gatling 3.4.1#

See full release note: https://github.com/gatling/gatling/milestone/93?closed=1

FrontLine#

Features#

• FL-115: AWS: Support AMD based instance types

Fixes#

• FL-1: Repositories: Fix sort by name
• FL-56: Private Keys: Reset file name field when closing the modal
• FL-112: Cassandra: Improve memory footprint when cleaning up orphan data during FrontLine 1.12 upgrade
• FL-113: AWS: Document required permissions for using spot instances
• FL-114: AWS: Terminate successful instances when only a part of the spot instance request is successful
• FL-199: AWS: Use retry when tagging spot instances to cope with API being async/racy
• FL-130: AWS: On-demand instances tagging should be performed in RunCreate to allow tag based control
• FL-131: AWS: Spot instance requests should be tagged to allow tag based control
• FL-132: Pipeline: Retries process retry once too much
• FL-133: Pipeline: Retries process shouldn’t delay first tentative

1.12.1 (2020-09-29)#

FrontLine#

Fixes#

• DEV-1418: AWS: Saving a new pool with Elastic IPs fails
• DEV-1419: HTTP: Missing request path when using Gatling 3.3
• DEV-1421: HTTP: Injector crash when traffic goes through a proxy

1.12.0 (2020-09-24)#

Gatling 3.4.0#

See full release note: https://github.com/gatling/gatling/milestone/92?closed=1

FrontLine#

Features#

• DEV-359: GCE: Provide certified images
• DEV-553: Core: FrontLine should log on console when running inside a container or under systemd
• DEV-581: Pools: Provide a button to duplicate a pool
• DEV-585: GCE: Support static IPs
• DEV-621: Charts: Revisit mouse over in sum cards
• DEV-676: AWS: Support spot instances
• DEV-782: Security: Support OpenID Connect authentication
• DEV-806: GCE: Introduce image and instance type support and deprecate instance templates usage
• DEV-844: GCE: Support service accounts
• DEV-948: Core: Prevent updating frontline.conf and reset some fields automatically when Cassandra schema already exists
• DEV-870: Misc: Add mouse hovers and titles on SideNav modal
• DEV-872: Security: Revamp FrontLine roles: viewer, tester, test admin, system admin, superAdmin
• DEV-877: Security: Scope Private keys on repository or pool
• DEV-883: Security: Revoke all cookies on FrontLine reboot
• DEV-888: Core: Introduce simulation quotas on teams
• DEV-948: Core: Prevent from resetting frontline.conf if Cassandra schema already exists
• DEV-955: AWS: Display a message instead of disabling checkbox when there’s no Elastic IP
• DEV-1055: GCE: Support preemptible instances
• DEV-1079: Pipeline: Detect incompatible Gatling version before deploying (requires latest build plugins)
• DEV-1138: Swagger: Public API series content is not documented
• DEV-1173: Simulation: Update default global JVM options for better performance
• DEV-1184: Pools: Update all certified images to JRE 8u265 and 11.0.8
• DEV-1229: Security: Provide a tool for bulk migrating users from LDAP to OIDC
• DEV-1241: PDF Export: remove deprecated load JSON template feature. Please use the regular load from database instead. This feature was deprecated since 1.8.0.
• DEV-1289: OpenStack: Drop Keystone v2 support
• DEV-1296: Gradle: Switch project layout to src/gatling/scala (aligned with new official Gatling OSS plugin)
• DEV-1337: Pipeline: Support deploying projects compiled against Gatling 3.3 as well as Gatling 3.4
• DEV-1346: Pipeline: Increase run duration hard limit to 1 week

Fixes#

• DEV-208: PDF Export: legend should not be displaying disabled percentiles
• DEV-209: PDF Export: Component title should be more visible
• DEV-296: PDF Export: scenarios dropdown behavior is inconsistent
• DEV-363: Users: Mandatory fields should not be red when loading form
• DEV-365: Pools: Simulation launch button should be disabled when the simulation’s single pool is the Local one and it’s disabled
• DEV-496: Gradle: frontLine-gradle-plugin does not properly prune dependency tree
• DEV-498: PDF Export: Don’t crop summary request name when it’s too long
• DEV-506: Users: Password reset button should be disabled while resetting
• DEV-592: Pools: Pages shouldn’t load all pools when creating/editing a pool
• DEV-615: Public links: Fix 403 caused by useless Grafana URL request
• DEV-711: Pools & Repositories: Private keys dropdown list should be filtered according to pool or repository’s owner team
• DEV-715: Cassandra: Some Network stats were not cleaned up when deleting a run
• DEV-788: Dashboard: Fix error handling not displaying all errors
• DEV-819: Private Keys: Private key still uploaded in case of a unique name conflict
• DEV-889: Kubernetes: Client uses a hardcoded HTTP port instead of the configuration option
• DEV-999: Repositories: Password shouldn’t be mandatory when cloning a git repository over https
• DEV-1003: Grafana: Time window doesnt get reset when changing run
• DEV-1060: Cassandra: Trends are not deleted when deleting a run
• DEV-1083: Pipeline: Fix thread safety issue on native processes (git, mvn, etc) completion
• DEV-1085: Pipeline: Fix AWS API blocking calls from caller thread
• DEV-1086: Dashboard: Fix percentile series legends on MacOS 1440px
• DEV-1089: Pools: Fix truncated AWS instance profiles list
• DEV-1089: HTTP Server: Don’t log “Connection reset by peer” exceptions
• DEV-1096: HTTP Server: Possible memory leak when response can’t be written on the socket
• DEV-1113: Dashboard: Pie chart tooltip appears just under the mouse
• DEV-1120: PDF Export: page can be blank because of a race condition
• DEV-1123: Pipeline: DNS stats are not properly aggregated
• DEV-1127: Dashboard: Invalidate web cache on new release
• DEV-1131: Simulation: Cannot associate simulation with Default team
• DEV-1157: Dashboard: Invalid menu behavior with nested groups
• DEV-1158: Series API: Can’t query data for single root group with child
• DEV-1171: Pipeline: Infrequent UnsatisfiedLinkError on sigar loading
• DEV-1192: Users: Crash when username contains spaces
• DEV-1193: Users: Don’t persists username in lower case
• DEV-1202: Dashboard: Tooltip on bar charts is inconsistent with the one on pie charts
• DEV-1206: Dashboard: Summary stats miss right bound second stats when changing time window
• DEV-1212: Dashboard: Requests and responses counts should not be stacked
• DEV-1227: Jenkins plugin: Deserialization issue on users series
• DEV-1232: All CI plugins: Summary doesn’t display nested groups
• DEV-1233: All CI plugins: Total number of users don’t get displayed, only the ones for the first scenario
• DEV-1238: Pipeline: FrontLine reports JavaNotFound instead of WrongJavaVersion
• DEV-1246: Pools: Invalid message when deleting a pool fails because it’s still used
• DEV-1255: Kubernetes: Connection crash when k8s API server is on HTTPS and FrontLine runs on standard Java 8
• DEV-1304: Dashboard: Runs comparison should make use of the configured time window, just like trends
• DEV-1317: Dashboard: Don’t use time window if rampup + rampdown > run duration
• DEV-1321: Security: Repository list API shouldn’t expose all repositories data
• DEV-1323: Security: Repository credentials should not be sent back to frontend on edition
• DEV-1350: Gatling: Feeder files are not properly sharded (off by one error)
• DEV-1352: Dashboard: Can’t display dashboard when hard limit test duration is reached
• DEV-1361: Dashboard: Groups summary’s button to switch to duration / cumulative response time doesn’t work
• DEV-1362: HTTP Server: Don’t spam server logs with “Trying to write response on a closed channel” errors
• DEV-1363: HTTP Server: Protect against channel actually closed when trying to close idle channel
• DEV-1365: HTTP Server: Close socket on response body allocation failure

1.11.1 (2020-05-26)#

FrontLine#

Fixes#

• DEV-997: WebSocket: unmatched inbound messages are not visible in dropdown menu and summary
• DEV-998: Repositories: don’t require Git repository url to end with “.git” (eg: Azure Repos)
• DEV-1013: Azure: take secret change into account when querying the networks and sizes
• DEV-1019: Simulation: enlarge pool name dropdown to 50 chars
• DEV-1022: Pipeline: ssh connect timeout’s default value should be 10 seconds, not 5
• DEV-1023: WebSocket: dashboard crashes when displaying check stats
• DEV-1031: Pipeline: crash and can’t be aborted when the local repository points to a non existing directory
• DEV-1056: Upgrade jQuery from 3.4.1 to 3.5.1, fix security vulnerability
• DEV-1061: Repositories & Kubernetes: fix invalid URL validation and allow valid chars such as -

1.11.0 (2020-04-20)#

FrontLine#

Features#

• DEV-485: Ansible Playbook: add parameters for Cassandra and FrontLine home directories
• DEV-684: CI plugins: rename jvmProperties to jvmOptions
• DEV-731: Jenkins Plugin: use “unstable/failed tests” status when assertions are failing
• DEV-756: Azure: provide certified injector images
• DEV-854: Azure: use User Assigned Managed Identity if any
• DEV-862: Conf: document some fields in frontline.conf should not be modified manually
• DEV-882: Git: document we require git 2.3+
• DEV-900: Teams: display in the teams table the linked repositories / private keys / api tokens
• DEV-904: AWS: make c5n instance type available
• DEV-912: Bamboo plugin: support deployment process
• DEV-933: Conf: document options for Cassandra storage
• DEV-938: About: display license limits in “About” modal
• DEV-939: MarketPlaces: display a reminder on MarketPlace billing during initial set up
• DEV-943: sbt: recommend disabling sbt’s coursier backend for now
• DEV-949: Conf: advertise secretKey criticality
• DEV-950: MarketPlaces: display support address on boot screen

Fixes#

• DEV-468: Web: protect against 502 errors when FrontLine is behind a reverse proxy
• DEV-549: Teams: verify team permission on private key by id endpoint
• DEV-678: AWS/Docker/Azure: ship a JRE instead of a JDK on certified injector images
• DEV-801: PDF Export: selected run is not saved when saving report
• DEV-803: Trends: fix broken trends when coming back from export
• DEV-857: Don’t allow git repository on http
• DEV-860: PDF Export: runs list is corrupted after loading a saved report
• DEV-861: Trends: in hover box, ko count is always the value of the first run
• DEV-863: PDF Export: first chart is empty after loading a saved report
• DEV-866: Jenkins: plugin doesn’t stop when run failed to launch
• DEV-867: Private key: overwrite never triggers
• DEV-869: On-premise hosts: private key not updated if connectivity check is run
• DEV-886: Bamboo: plugin fails to install on modern Bamboo versions
• DEV-887: Bamboo/TeamCity: plugins crash at the end of the test if there was no injection
• DEV-894: PDF export: assertions are missing
• DEV-895: PDF export: request names in summary are truncated when they are too long
• DEV-897: PDF Export: missing assertions color
• DEV-898: Team: prevent team deletion if there is a linked repository
• DEV-902: Conf: fix improper JVM options hurting performance
• DEV-905: PDF Export: display assertion status
• DEV-906: Jenkins plugin: persist summary and assertions after system restart
• DEV-917: Swagger: can’t send requests with parameters
• DEV-921: Pools: combo boxes in pool creation form needs to be clicked twice on Google Chrome
• DEV-922: Azure: handle gracefully managed identities errors
• DEV-925: Conf: logback.xml instructions for logging Cassandra requests are outdated
• DEV-926: Stats: fix stats engine thread safety issue
• DEV-927: Charts: make sure percentiles legends fit on a 1440px screen
• DEV-929: Core: reduce Cassandra queries concurrency
• DEV-930: Trends: don’t duplicate requests in payload for trends dropdown
• DEV-931: Core: incorrect CQL batch size
• DEV-940: Trends: x axis is inverted
• DEV-941: Conf: unhelpful message when you enter a new license key when relaunching FrontLine
• DEV-944: sbt: upgrade sbt-frontline 1.1.2 with sbt coursier backend bug workaround

1.10.1 (2020-01-31)#

FrontLine#

Features#

• DEV-794: Update certified AWS AMI and docker images with JRE 11.0.6 and 8u242
• DEV-840: Display default git branch next to the override box

Fixes#

• DEV-759: Don’t redirect to login page when Cassandra is shut down
• DEV-774: Kubernetes NodePort Prefer Internal IP checkbox is broken
• DEV-785: Migration 45 was pretty ineffective with non obvious git command
• DEV-786: Let users use environment defined SSH keys for cloning git repositories
• DEV-787: Check for associated private keys when deleting a team
• DEV-789: GCE user is always empty
• DEV-796: Don’t close AWS pool modal when private key doesn’t match keypair fingerprint
• DEV-805: Response time percentiles tooltip in trends only contains 0
• DEV-807: Can’t switch from P12 to JSON conf in GCE pool
• DEV-810: Kubernetes Local cluster checkbox state is reversed
• DEV-811: AWS MarketPlace offer doesn’t work on Hong Kong and Bahrain
• DEV-812: Public API /run messes up chars in scenarios/groups/requests
• DEV-813: Certified AMI are not deployed on Hong Kong and Bahrain
• DEV-814: Hong Kong and Bahrain are missing from AWS regions list
• DEV-825: Modals lose state on props change
• DEV-827: Can’t abort run while waiting for HTTP (deployed state)
• DEV-832: In Export, different runs summaries share the same data
• DEV-833: Missing documentation that we support cloning a git tag
• DEV-834: Don’t let save an Uploaded private key with selecting a file to upload
• DEV-836: Can’t edit graph param in Grafana

1.10.0 (2019-12-18)#

FrontLine#

Features#

• DEV-261: Provide links for downloading FrontLine extensions (CI plugins and Grafana datasource) from Web UI
• DEV-484: Document how to use Ansible playbook locally
• DEV-489: Distribute FrontLine extensions (CI plugins and Grafana datasource) on a public server
• DEV-672: Let managers override git repository default branch in Simulation configuration
• DEV-707: Introduce per team admin permission
• DEV-725: Log PATH env var when launching native process fails with “program not found”

Fixes#

• DEV-719: Git repository username cannot contain ‘@’ and ‘:’ characters
• DEV-722: Reduce memory usage of pipeline actor’s mailbox
• DEV-723: Logs shouldn’t mention port 22 when using kubectl
• DEV-724: slf4j j.u.l bridge not properly installed
• DEV-726: User with manager permission can see pool metadata in the JSON payload
• DEV-732: Don’t disable Cassandra metadata while performing migrations
• DEV-733: Kubernetes pools broken if accessed directly after configuring the dashboard
• DEV-734: Don’t let users to delete themselves
• DEV-735: FrontLine is slow to redirect to login screen when unauthenticated
• DEV-736: LDAP users shouldn’t be able to update their profile
• DEV-743: Opening Simulation model, Build tab, shouldn’t triggers a request for the list of AWS regions
• DEV-747: Uploaded private keys shouldn’t be stored in Cassandra, only on filesystem
• DEV-748: Uploaded private keys are visible in the JSON payload
• DEV-749: Sort System properties by name
• DEV-750: Multiple highlights abscissas are off when hovering timeline after zooming in
• DEV-765: Delete obsolete file when updating an uploaded private key

1.9.2 (2019-11-20)#

FrontLine#

Fixes#

• DEV-640: Groups counts are no longer recorded and break group assertions
• DEV-668: Azure networks should be filtered by region
• DEV-673: OpenStack metadata credentials are not encrypted
• DEV-683: Grafana datasource is broken
• DEV-685: Jenkins plugin: link to the reports in the Build sidenav disappeared (old style job only)
• DEV-686: Grafana datasource should enable “no group” drop-down option
• DEV-688: Mig 32 should update data after dropping materialized view
• DEV-689: Cannot delete private key
• DEV-691: Various Ansible playbook fixes
• DEV-692: Map /tmp on an emptyDir volume when spawning injectors on Kubernetes
• DEV-694: Public API: /series endpoint doesn’t work when the metric is a percentile
• DEV-695: Grafana: Display every exception messages
• DEV-700: DigitalOcean deployment failure cause droplet to not be deleted
• DEV-701: DigitalOcean deployment failure on public IP only networks
• DEV-703: Can’t edit private key
• DEV-708: Fix OpenStack credentials encryption
• DEV-709: It shouldn’t be possible to associate to a git repository a private key that belongs to a different team
• DEV-710: Can’t change private key team to Global
• DEV-768: Creating a new on-prem host edits last open one instead

1.9.1 (2019-11-07)#

Gatling 3.3.1#

Gatling 3.3.1 is binary compatible with 3.3.0 so you are not required to upgrade if you’re already compiling against 3.3.0.

See full release note: https://github.com/gatling/gatling/milestone/91?closed=1

FrontLine#

Fixes#

• DEV-634: Some behavior change on the GCP API server causes a Google Cloud Java SDK known bug to happen way more frequently. We’re implementing a workaround.
• DEV-635: Digital Ocean modal: remove misleading mention of username being admin by default
• DEV-636: OpenStack region form field should be mono-valued
• DEV-641: Profile name should be optional when configuring an AWS S3 bucket binary repository
• DEV-642: Fix AWS S3 bucket validation
• DEV-643: Creating an S3 bucket repository requires either profile or env vars
• DEV-647: Fix default team being blocked
• DEV-648: temporary directory should be cleaned up even if injectors termination fails
• DEV-649: Saved Azure instance size is not displayed when editing
• DEV-657: Support open-ssh new format on AWS pools
• DEV-661: Prevent conflicting duplicate private key names
• DEV-663: Fix AWS S3 bucket env variables profile name
• DEV-670: S3 is regionless, remove region field

1.9.0 (2019-10-23)#

Gatling 3.3.0#

See full release note: https://github.com/gatling/gatling/milestone/90?closed=1

FrontLine#

Features#

• DEV-24: Simulation search now takes for team name into account
• DEV-285: AWS pool configuration now filters configuration by VPC
• DEV-350: Revamp errors chart colors
• DEV-476: Extract out of simulation and centralize source and binaries repositories configuration
• DEV-482: Split git command into multiple fields, isolate and encrypt credentials when cloning over https
• DEV-515: MQTT plugin module now has stubs in Gatling OSS and is to be used like other modules
• DEV-520: Provide public certified plug-and-play Docker images for the injectors with JDK8 and JDK11
• DEV-544: Revamp response by status chart colors
• DEV-551: Injector Kubernetes pods are now tagged with recommended labels (https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/common-labels/)
• DEV-558: Search in lists is now case insensitive
• DEV-561: Support Routes for routing traffic to injectors when deploying on OpenShift pools
• DEV-564: Correlate groups by end date instead of start date to avoid OutOfMemoryErrors
• DEV-584: Introduce option for preferring private IP over public one when deploying on Azure, DigitalOcean and GCE pools
• DEV-588: Replace text field with a dropdown for instance profile when configuring AWS pool
• DEV-594: Don’t loads file in memory when downloading from S3 bucket
• DEV-597: Js error during on a live reports on Chrome
• DEV-601: Prevent a repository to be deleted if it’s being used in a simulation
• DEV-602: Improve injectors' JVM JIT inlining settings for better performance
• DEV-604: Incomplete trends when navigating from the reports to the trends
• DEV-607: Prevent a private key to be deleted if it’s being used in a repository
• DEV-612: HTTP request timeout one fetching preferences because of missing content-length
• DEV-617: Lock creating simulation when no repository exists
• DEV-556: Support Ingresses for routing traffic to injectors when deploying on Kubernetes pools
• DEV-560: Introduce gatling.frontline.groupedDomains System property to group network stats and prevent OutOfMemoryErrors when testing against large fleet of subdomains
• DEV-624: Initialize new database with a Default team

Fixes#

• DEV-508: Incorrect redirect from link in CI plugins when not authenticated
• DEV-554: Change stacked charts colors when the legend is hovered
• DEV-555: Fix confusing messages about SSH when using Kubernetes pools
• DEV-557: Fix charts and legends colors not matching
• DEV-563: Fix FrontLine injectors trying to generate OSS HTML reports and crashing
• DEV-569: Don’t try to compute forAll assertions for silent requests
• DEV-570: Fix performance issue in stats aggregation engine when running very large clusters
• DEV-571: Optimize histograms merging performance
• DEV-583: Don’t require public IP for Azure, DigitalOcean and GCE pools
• DEV-590: Fix dashboard freeze when simulation didn’t execute any request
• DEV-594: Fix S3 binary download memory usage and timeout
• DEV-596: Make use of all cores when processing stats from large injectors clusters
• DEV-599: Don’t record a DNS resolution event when url domain is not a hostname but an IP

1.8.2 (2019-09-10)#

FrontLine#

NOTE: Kubernetes users are advised to upgrade to injectors' Docker image to gatlingcorp/frontline-injector:8u222

Fixes#

• DEV-455: API for checking if FrontLine is deployed on Kubernetes shouldn’t require authentication
• DEV-507: Make sure time window doesn’t grow when moving it
• DEV-509: Honor configured OpenStack network
• DEV-517: Fix Swagger file missing from package
• DEV-518: Can’t assign pool in on-prem host modal
• DEV-519: Upgrade JDK version in injector Docker image so JVM properly runs in container
• DEV-522: Fix incorrect Kubernetes pool memory settings description
• DEV-531: Increase Kubernetes injector pod creation timeout to cope with initial Docker image download
• DEV-532: Properly delete all Kubernetes resources on injector deployment failure
• DEV-538: Saving a kubernetes pool modal should reset modal state
• DEV-539: Have more specific error message when pod creation times out
• DEV-540: Intermittent connection refused errors to FrontLine UI when deploying FrontLine and injectors in the same Kubernetes cluster
• DEV-542: Binary repository credentials can’t be removed
• DEV-543: Pools and Repositories listing APIs used in Simulation configuration shouldn’t return secrets

Features#

• DEV-501: Allow preferring Kubernetes internal IP instead of external one, see DEV-534
• DEV-510: Trim Simulation System properties to remove unexpected white spaces
• DEV-511: Support OpenStack availability zone
• DEV-512: Make Kubernetes pool resources configuration mandatory
• DEV-528: Force a minimal number of Netty threads when running FrontLine in a container
• DEV-534: Prefer Kubernetes cluster external IP over internal one, support having FrontLine and k8s injectors in different networks

1.8.1 (2019-08-26)#

FrontLine#

Fixes#

• DEV-441: Editing a private key and changing its name warn about overwriting
• DEV-453: Time window in Live reports is not updated
• DEV-454: Need to click twice in Live reports for last n minutes time window to work properly
• DEV-460: Impossible to save OpenStack pool modal, as the image isn’t validated
• DEV-461: Dropdown are not populated when editing OpenStack modal
• DEV-462: OpenStack support not working with Keystone v3 api
• DEV-465: Truncated Export PDF Summary when the name is too long
• DEV-466: Support custom protocols with FrontLine
• DEV-469: Improve error message when hitting license limit
• DEV-470: Document how to publish simulation fatjar into binary repository
• DEV-471: Expire FrontLine Cookie
• DEV-474: Last run cache and number increment gets polluted after setting comments on a run which is not the last one for this simulation
• DEV-483: Verify selected Kubernetes namespace exists when configuring a Kubernetes pool
• DEV-486: Mean line in trends changes area color
• DEV-487: Allows configuring an external Pod when FrontLine deployed on Kubernetes
• DEV-488: Wrong color in response time percentiles on trends
• DEV-490: Team sort in the simulations table is not working correctly
• DEV-491: Going back and forth between multiple trends makes the charts appear empty
• DEV-493: frontline-maven-plugin should attach shaded artifact so it can be deployed
• DEV-494: Properly resolve fatjar snapshots
• DEV-495: Wrong labels on binary repositories creation modal
• DEV-499: Close binary repositories modal with escape doesn’t reset its state
• DEV-500: Deleting multiples binary repositories when one is used doesn’t refresh table
• DEV-502: Fix public link generation error when you choose now as the expiration date
• DEV-505: Tooltip not displayed when some series are disabled

Gatling 3.2.1#

See release note: https://github.com/gatling/gatling/milestone/89?closed=1

1.8.0.1 (2019-07-30)#

FrontLine#

Fixes#

• DEV-446: Migrate correctly simulations if they use a Git command, correct the simulations which were migrated incorrectly in 1.8.0
• DEV-447: Fix saving a simulation with a custom build command

1.8.0 (2019-07-23)#

FrontLine#

Features#

• DEV-27: Support downloading fatjar from JFrog Artifactory
• DEV-64: Support uploading private keys directly from the web interface
• DEV-80: Support deploying FrontLine on Docker
• DEV-88: Centralize private keys configuration
• DEV-249: Provide a way to save PDF Export templates
• DEV-394: Introduce Jenkins Credentials support for API tokens, deprecate clear text
• DEV-338: Only display AWS instance types suited for load testing
• DEV-362: Simplified Git repository cloning configuration
• DEV-373: Introduce per Jenkins Job API token settings
• DEV-379: Support downloading fatjar from Sonatype Nexus 2
• DEV-380: Support downloading fatjar from Sonatype Nexus 3
• DEV-387: Centralize binary repositories (Artifactory, Nexus 2 and 3) management
• DEV-393: Simplify Kubernetes pool configuration when FrontLine is deployed in a docker container in the same cluster
• DEV-395: Add ability to launch FrontLine on foreground
• DEV-403: Set Kubernetes CPU requests/limits as # of CPUs
• DEV-408: Remove SSH server from injectors Docker image, switch to native kubectl
• DEV-410: Introduce retry on initial Cassandra connection to handle slow Cassandra boots

Fixes#

• DEV-33: Don’t lose user preferences on logout
• DEV-86: Protect against brute force attacks when auth is in “FrontLine” mode: use Argon2 hashing
• DEV-295: Can’t unzoom chart on PDF Export when “No Data to Display”
• DEV-384: Store On-demand and Azure pools secrets encrypted
• DEV-386: Protect superAdmin account against brute force attack: delay response on failure
• DEV-391: When using LDAP auth, MyProfile password field should be hidden
• DEV-394: Enable all JDK cipher suites in Jenkins, Bamboo and TeamCity plugins
• DEV-396: Long PDF Export title is cropped
• DEV-397: Web handler errors should be logged with ERROR level, not DEBUG
• DEV-402: Protect against cookie brute force attacks: delay response on failure.
• DEV-404: Protect against API token brute force attacks: use Argon2 hashing.
• DEV-405: Kubernetes pool resources configuration is not persisted
• DEV-407: Don’t Crash when building a local project and FrontLine user doesn’t have permissions on this folder
• DEV-421: PDF Export summary display should display “-” instead of “-1” for undefined metrics
• DEV-423: PDF Export should honor percentiles and date/time user preferences
• DEV-424: Changing request in request summary shouldn’t drop selected time window
• DEV-427: PDF Export: incorrect header columns
• DEV-428: Selecting a request from Summary when there’s no group corrupts the request dropdown
• DEV-429: Adding a pin shouldn’t be possible in anonymous mode
• DEV-430: FrontLine logo is not visible on the 404 page

[[deprecated]]

Deprecated features removed#

• DEV-188: Removed Public API metrics deprecated in 1.7.0 (responses Ok, responses Ko, responses by status, groupCounts Ok, groupCounts Ko), please use their alias without spaces
• DEV-188: Removed use of file frontline-api.conf, please use frontline.conf

Gatling 3.2.0#

See release note: https://github.com/gatling/gatling/milestone/88?closed=1

1.7.2 (2019-06-24)#

FrontLine#

Fixes#

• DEV-345: Unclear confirmation message when creating a user
• DEV-371: gzip large asset files
• DEV-378: Kubernetes Check API doesn’t respond when the Kubernetes URL is set to http instead of https
• DEV-382: Sort UsedBy List Modal alphabetically
• DEV-385: Support only LTS (8 and 11) java versions

Gatling 3.1.3#

See release note: https://github.com/gatling/gatling/milestone/83?closed=1

1.7.1 (2019-05-14)#

FrontLine#

Fixes#

• DEV-347: Tooltip are misplaced in the public reports
• DEV-351: Sub groups are missing from group menu in Requests and groups tab
• DEV-352: Cursor is off in distribution charts after zoomong in/out
• DEV-353: Drop RunsBySimulation materialized view
• DEV-357: GCE support doesn’t honor proxy config
• DEV-361: Request tab charts become empty when coming back and there’s no group
• DEV-366: frontline.injector.disableKubernetesTrustManager and set the default value to true
• DEV-367: Drop restart option from frontline launch script
• DEV-369: Log injector crash data with ERROR level
• DEV-370: Ko Indicators tooltip not visible when the Sidenav is open

Gatling 3.1.2#

See release note: https://github.com/gatling/gatling/milestone/87?closed=1

1.7.0 (2019-04-11)#

FrontLine#

Features#

• DEV-12: Show which simulations use a given on premises pool
• DEV-116: Don’t display disabled percentiles in the summaries
• DEV-130: Provide an installer for installing FrontLine on Amazon Linux 1
• DEV-137: Remove timewindow valid duration
• DEV-166: Reboot FrontLine without rebooting Java process
• DEV-171: When editing a simulation, indicate which step is incorrectly configured
• DEV-172: Custom tags on AWS on demand instance
• DEV-173: Make SSH and HTTP service checks timeouts configurable
• DEV-178: Display an error page with a reload button if FrontLine can’t connect to Cassandra
• DEV-227: Filter Security Groups depending on Subnet
• DEV-252: Export run stats into PDF
• DEV-253: Support deploying injectors with K8S/OpenShift
• DEV-259: Compare runs global stats
• DEV-286: Display both subnet id and name in AWS Pool
• DEV-306: Force ec2-user when using our AWS certified AMIs
• DEV-339: Disable surefire in default maven build command

####### Fixes

• DEV-21: Fix Public API metrics with space char
• DEV-104: Fix AWS regions sort by name on Chrome
• DEV-125: Fix group dropdown filter
• DEV-136: Meaningful timewindow is not applied on reports
• DEV-142: When querying a run, API should returns the ramp Up/ramp Down of the run, and not of the simulation
• DEV-155: Protect against simulation double start from public API
• DEV-157: Double clicking on a graph doesn’t zoom back to everything, but to start & end
• DEV-168: Single quotes are not escaped in migration scripts
• DEV-169: Migration scripts should bind parameters instead of injecting them directly in the CQL query
• DEV-177: Duplicate requests when loading DNS & Injectors tabs
• DEV-179: Incorrect group assertions
• DEV-180: Actual value is missing in assertion messages when it’s 0
• DEV-181: Terminating pipeline should happen after persisting run end
• DEV-189: frontline-maven-plugin doesn’t delete temporary directory after use
• DEV-193: FrontLine launch scripts blocks Java 11
• DEV-194: FrontLine fails to download S3 object when it’s in a folder
• DEV-195: frontline-maven-plugin and sbt-frontline crash when classpath has both file and directory named license
• DEV-228: Don’t use original public IP after assigning EIP
• DEV-257: Tag EC2 instances on creation instead of later
• DEV-265: Protect against double simulation launch
• DEV-266: Protect against non alphanum chars when filling license key in web interface
• DEV-277: Same simulation gets triggered when starting multiple simulations at the same time from same local repository
• DEV-280: Editing the team of a permission in the user modal doesn’t enable the save button
• DEV-301: kill all on-premises cluster nodes on first node crash
• DEV-302: kill -9 stalled injectors if kill -1 didn’t suffice
• DEV-304: Invalid homepage redirect when pressing Enter key to save a run comment
• DEV-308: Broken response time distribution linear vs log scales behavior
• DEV-312: Public Report use private summary api instead of the public one
• DEV-314: Stockholm AWS region is missing
• DEV-324: Large y axis labels in charts were truncated
• DEV-334: Fix automatic run cleanup not working
• DEV-337: Don’t try to clean up uploaded resources when they couldn’t be uploaded in the first place
• DEV-342: Properly flag OpenStack pools in simulation pools panel
• DEV-344: Fix tooltip position in Percentiles Distribution chart

Gatling 3.1.1#

See release note: https://github.com/gatling/gatling/milestone/85?closed=1

1.6.2 (2019-01-24)#

FrontLine#

Features#

• 1598: Introduce automatic run clean up
• 1963: Sorts metrics by name in metrics public API
• DEV-117: Recommend increasing scala-maven-plugin Xss to 100M
• DEV-118: Recommend increasing gradle Xss to 100M
• DEV-119: Recommend increasing sbt Xss to 100M
• DEV-120: Make the doc more explicit about AWS marketplace lack of FrontLine repository
• DEV-121: Provide a shell script for CI solutions without plugins, eg Gitlab CI
• DEV-139: Change the /simulations/start system props parameter from an object to an array of objects

####### Fixes

• 1962: Public API should return Double instead of Long for count/s series
• DEV-7: Random 401 error toastr when logging in
• DEV-8: Don’t display any 404 errors when unauthenticated
• DEV-9: Don’t allow team members to edit run comment and launch simulation
• DEV-16: In the simulation modal, a user shouldn’t be able to see teams he’s not a member of
• DEV-17: In the simulations table, a user shouldn’t be able to select simulations belonging to teams he’s not a member of
• DEV-18: Don’t hardcode Stats fetching timeout
• DEV-22: Some public API endpoints are not secured
• DEV-49: Optimize simulations page Cassandra usage
• DEV-50: Use a dedicated thread pool for blocking tasks
• DEV-100: AWS Elastic IPs are assigned based on original list and not against available ones
• DEV-102: Don’t create a new Timer every time we use Futures#after
• DEV-105: AMI toggle should be disabled if the region is not selected
• DEV-122: Summaries requests in Public API fails if done just after the run is injecting
• DEV-123: Explicit dependencies shared with gatling-recorder and gatling-charts ClassNotFoundException
• DEV-124: Pipeline’s run status check timer is never cancelled and cause CQL queries bombs
• DEV-131: requestsPerSec assertion doesn’t work in FrontLine
• DEV-132: FrontLine assertions don’t honor time window
• DEV-133: Rps is incorrect in request summary when MeaningfulTimeWindow in non empty
• DEV-140: Sigar is not properly loaded on JDK10+
• DEV-143: Js crash in AWS pool modal when a subnet is incorrect
• DEV-144: Crash when writing JUnit XML file while pipeline runs on a slave
• DEV-145: Incorrect Jenkins pipeline syntax in documentation samples
• DEV-147: NPE when Jenkins plugin hits an IOException without a cause
• DEV-149: CI plugins don’t cancel timer when run is aborted
• DEV-150: CI plugins send incorrect from in metrics query
• DEV-151: CI plugins should mention concurrent users, not active users
• DEV-152: Rename last dashboard occurrences into reports
• DEV-153: Request body JSON parsing failure causes response to never be sent
• DEV-154: Summary is empty if we select everything while run is injecting
• DEV-156: Can’t edit team from specific to global in on-premises pool modal
• DEV-158: OpenStack pool table js crash when non-empty
• DEV-159: LDAP search user validation crashes on some LDAP implementations
• DEV-162: Use new /simulations/start endpoint in Jenkins plugin
• DEV-163: Public reports don’t work in the presence of comments
• DEV-164: js error when clicking in Summary and there’s no group
• DEV-165: Delete sample tmp file on JVM exit

Gatling 3.0.3#

See release note: https://github.com/gatling/gatling/milestone/84?closed=1

1.6.1 (2018-12-20)#

FrontLine#

Features#

• 1915: Sort dropdown lists alphabetically
• 1924: More user friendly error on malformed frontline.conf file
• 1933: In create simulation modal, only highlight until current step
• 1950: Document that we don’t support password-protected key pairs
• 1957: Clean up JVM parameters and increase default max heap size

####### Fixes

• 1909: Don’t let user delete a pool as long as it’s being used by a simulation
• 1910: Updating profile (first name, last name, mail address) doesn’t update local storage
• 1911: Double totals should be rounded up instead of displaying very large number of decimals
• 1912: Simulations table crash when adding a simulation with a newly created team
• 1913: When creating on-premises host, use config option for ssh connect timeout instead of hard coded value
• 1914: Serve FrontLine documentation from gatling.io website
• 1916: Wrong chart width init when run is ongoing with greater resolution
• 1921: Remove the 401 - Unauthorized toaster when landing on the login page
• 1923: Grafana/Public API: Invalid teamId and id serialization
• 1927: Crash when setting up an invalid license key
• 1934: Impossible to edit existing simulations once license limit is reached
• 1938: In setup mode, setting an invalid license displays it’s correct
• 1939: JavaScript error when clicking on browser back/previous when on the ShowListModal
• 1940: Fix ShowListModal icons order and plural
• 1943: Stop checking private IP in AWS Marketplace mode as it can throw an exception
• 1949: JavaScript error after deleting all the simulations
• 1951: NPE when saving an AWS Pool with a public key instead of a private one
• 1952: Don’t hardcode displayed frontline.conf path as it might not be /opt/frontline for on-prem customers
• 1953: No error toastr when configuring an invalid license in the web interface
• 1955: Incorrect AWS JSON permissions documentation
• 1958: Bug displaying second on tooltip
• 1959: Display proper error message when entering an expired License key
• 1961: Fix Simulation modal save not working when no pool is defined

Gatling 3.0.2#

See release note: https://github.com/gatling/gatling/milestone/81?closed=1

1.6.0 (2018-11-22)#

FrontLine#

• 1844: The params start & end in the /series endpoint are renamed to from & to, defaulting to the start & end of the injection. The from & to params in the /summaries/requests endpoint are now timestamps (they were previously an offset compared to the start of the injection), defaulting to the start & end of the injection.

Features#

• 1438: Provide downloadable maven, gradle and sbt samples
• 1483: Display related simulations when deleting a pool
• 1599: Pass parameters from Jenkins to simulation
• 1651: Add buttons to copy TeamId, SimulationId and RunId into clipboard
• 1698: Support running FrontLine with Java 11
• 1719: Make users use standard Gatling OSS binaries
• 1720: Make Esc key close Edit Simulation
• 1786: LDAP: validate that we can bind with search user on start up
• 1787: LDAP: validate that we can search with search user on start up
• 1807: Interactive initial setup
• 1812: Update Swagger UI
• 1822: Provide a way to log CQL requests, see logback.xml
• 1845: The param scope in the /series API endpoint is now optional, defaulting to all
• 1862: Support setting a proxy for public clouds HTTP requests (API, injectors)
• 1871: Support deploying fatjars that are already compiled and published in a S3 bucket
• 1877: Document how to deal with JNA crash when FrontLine’s temp dir is mounted with noexec
• 1891: Support GCP JSON file based auth
• 1896: Display number of attached pool / user / simulation to a team
• 1895: Provide certified AWS AMIs for OpenJDK8 and OpenJDK11

####### Fixes

• 1596: Long names (request, group) break layout, eg in dropdown menus
• 1622: High CPU usage in browser on trends when a run is ongoing
• 1666: Support large number of scenarios in simulation
• 1868: Limit the number of concurrent Cassandra requests
• 1884: Simulation JVM args should have precedence over global ones
• 1888: Fix PID file deletion race condition when rebooting
• 1890: Fix stacktrace formatting in run logs
• 1904: Fix check on SSH keys permissions
• 1905: Kill injector process as soon as all stats have been collected

Gatling 3.0.1.1.FL#

Please check Gatling’s:

• migration guide for hwo to upgrade. Most noticeable change for users coming from 1.4.7 is the case change of some DSL methods, eg baseURL becomes baseUrl.

1.5.0#

Internal release for AWS Marketplace

1.4.7 (2018-10-09)#

FrontLine#

Features#

• 1864: Ship aws-java-sdk-sts so assume role works out of the box

Fixes#

• 1746: Report max concurrent count for given second, not value at measure time
• 1836: Fix Swagger documentation
• 1847: Concurrent counts are logged as 0 when not updated during this second
• 1851: Extra null/None in run snapshot jvmProperties when triggering from API
• 1863: On premises hosts are not properly reserved

Gatling 3.0.0-M21.FL#

Fixes#

• 3553: JsonPath shouldn’t escape solidus
• 3554: Simulation folder points to resources one when launching Recorder from bundle

1.4.6 (2018-08-28)#

FrontLine#

Fixes#

• 1789: AWS EIP are not properly reserved and instances are not terminated when association crashes
• 1799: Don’t trigger sbt interactive mode when project fails to load
• 1803: Protect against empty second stats
• 1815: FrontLine Jenkins plugin swallows Exceptions
• 1820: Kernel in (4.0, 4.9) don’t get detected as supporting Netlink

1.4.5 (2018-07-13)#

FrontLine#

Features#

• 1784: Add an option for preferring private IPs for connection to on-demand AWS instances

Fixes#

• 1777: Fix Aws Instance Profile Name input not being optional
• 1779: trustStore shouldn’t be mandatory in the LDAP configuration
• 1780: objectClass shouldn’t be mandatory in the LDAP configuration
• 1785: Allow booting from an empty keyspace
• 1788: Don’t try assigning elastic IPs when list is empty

Gatling 3.0.0-M20.FL#

Features#

• 3105: Let users pass a custom check name
• 3408: Make actor system shutdown timeout configurable
• 3443: Result folder timestamp with sortable format
• 3476: Make checks with lots of possible actual values less verbose
• 3486: Make ConsoleDataWriter write interval configurable
• 3493: Maven plugin (3.0.0-M4): Support ant patterns in includes/excludes
• 3494: Have currentLocation expose url with fragment

Fixes#

• 3473: Support single entry zip archives
• 3482: Fix http.perUserCacheMaxCapacity when set to 0
• 3485: Fix RampRateOpenInjection that wasn’t always injecting the proper number
• 3487: Properly log response time when request crashes
• 3495: Maven plugin (3.0.0-M5): Properly honor zinc JVM args defaults

1.4.4 (2018-06-06)#

FrontLine#

Features#

• 1703: Option to specify profile name for on-demand AWS EC2 instances

Fixes#

• 1696: Re-implement LDAP integration w/ bare JNDI instead of ldaptive
• 1700: FrontLine over HTTPS only works with on-the-fly self-signed certificate
• 1701: Make run log less verbose when running large clusters
• 1705: Stats can be incomplete when run is aborted

Gatling 3.0.0-M19.FL#

Features#

• 3445: JMS listener thread count can be configured

Fixes#

• 3468: Protect against division by 0 when computing assertions with no requests

1.4.3 (2018-03-30)#

FrontLine#

Features#

• 1676: Make sure to log selector rebuilt in io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop
• 1687: Use ISO8601 format for log timestamps

Fixes#

• 1677: Concurrent LDAP connection usage
• 1678: Phantom EC2 instances when describe API crashes
• 1679: FrontLine launch script doesn’t properly honor JAVA_HOME envar
• 1680: LDAP search doesn’t take usernameAttribute conf into account
• 1681: Make dashboard login errors more verbose
• 1682: Support LDAP referrals
• 1683: Stop validating all users against LDAP server for performance reasons
• 1684: Make username handling case insentitive like in LDAP
• 1686: RemotelyClosedException because of injector not sending response to kill order

Gatling 3.0.0-M18.FL#

Features#

• 3436: Switch from Boon to Jodd as default JSON parser

Fixes#

• 3437: Warmup request should set Connection header to close

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