JMeter 2.13 is now here for sometime now. There are many new features in JMeter 2.13 . Some of the important and major enhancements are listed below.
Following are the Major enhancements in JMeter 2.13 version.
New Element – New Async BackendListener with Graphite implementation
A new Async BackendListener has been added to allow sending result data to a backend listener. JMeter ships with a GraphiteBackendListenerClient that allows sending results to a Graphite server using Pickle of Plaintext protocols.
New connect time metric
Starting with this version a new metric called connectTime has been added. It represents the time to establish connection. By default it is not saved to CSV or XML, to have it saved add to user.properties:
jmeter.save.saveservice.connect_time=true
95 and 99 percentile addition on Aggregate Graph and Report
The listeners Aggregate Graph and Aggregate Report previously showed only the 90 percentile (historical behavior), the 95 percentile and the 99 percentile have been added and are customizable. To setup the percentiles value you want, add to user.properties:
aggregate_rpt_pct1=90
aggregate_rpt_pct2=95
aggregate_rpt_pct3=99
Https test script modification
Now component is able to detect authentication schemes and automatically adds a pre-configured HTTP Authorization Manager with the correct Mechanism