This release includes the following enhancements:

Release date: Month DD, YYYY

Chaining Tools to a Message Responder's Pre-correlation Incoming Request

You can now chain tools to a Message Responder's incoming request before correlation, allowing you to do things like execute a Data Bank tool before responder correlation in order to use a data banked request value as part of a custom responder correlation.

Chaining Tools to the Responder's Incoming Request or Outgoing Response

Accessibility Issue Reports

You can now view accessibility issues in your reports, collected and categorized in a separate section.

Adding a Web Accessibility Scan#ViewingInReports

Event and Statistics Monitoring over WebSockets

Event and Statistics monitoring can now be done over WebSockets, reducing number of ports required for forwarding in container environments with a low performance cost when monitoring assets that are not under load.

Breaking Changes

• Support for Apache Tomcat 8.5 has ended. Tomcat 9 is required.
• Ended support for Oracle 12c in CTP.
• Virtualize users with the System role are no longer allowed to configure Virtualize servers in CTP connected to their Virtualize desktop installations (for example, license, events, hit statistics, and so on).
• Unrecognized CLI arguments will now cause an error. In previous versions, unrecognized arguments were ignored, allowing some tests to pass despite them. These tests will now fail, and their unrecognized arguments will need to be resolved.
• Connections to DTP and License Server over HTTP are no longer supported. HTTPS is required.

Additional Updates

• Removed the ability to set a custom return message for certain responders. Custom return codes still available.
• Java 17 now installed with SOAtest and Virtualize.
• Load Test monitors now support Tomcat 10. Load Test monitor support for Tomcat 7.x and 8.x has ended.
• Load Test monitors now support WildFly. Load Test monitor support for JBoss monitors has ended.
• Support for Oracle in CTP:
  • Added support for Oracle 23c.
  • Ended support for Oracle 12c.
  • Deprecated support for Oracle 18c and 21c.

• You can now enable user access logs for your server with a small configuration change to your logging XML file. See Configuring Virtualize Server#logging.config.file for more information.

• Test scenario creation from OpenAPI definitions using OpenAI or Azure OpenAI in SOAtest has been enhanced to automatically parameterize dynamic data returned from previous API responses in the scenario.
• WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 has been removed from the WS-I tool.
• Minimum supported Eclipse is now 2022-03 (4.23).

Resolved PRs and FRs