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This release includes the following enhancements:

Release date: May 15, 2024

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.

Asynchronous Socket Transport and Listener

Improved Microservice Coverage Workflows

Collection of code coverage in distributed microservices architectures has been enhanced in the following ways:

Support for Coverage Collection for Multiple Parallel Users

You can now enable multiuser coverage for multiple users who are simultaneously accessing the same web application without mixing the coverage data they collectTransport now supports message length at fixed position in middle of message. Transport and Listener now support UDP.

Report Microservice Test and Coverage Data to a Single DTP Project

CTP users can now configure all of their components to publish to the same DTP project to make , making it easier to review aggregate coverage and test results in a single DTP explorer page. Now you have two options when CTP is being used to orchestrate coverage collection for distributed microservices, users can now configure the components in their environment to publish coverage and test results to either a single project, allowing them to see the data for multiple microservices in an aggregate-level view, or to multiple projects in order to see the data split up by microservice. 

Improved Workflows for Coverage Agents in Kubernetes

CTP users can will now find it easier to deploy coverage agents in Kubernetes with detailed documentation and helpful examples. 

Finding Broken Parameterizations in Virtualize

Test Scenario Creation with OpenAI Enhancement

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.

Accessibility Scan Improvements

The Web Accessibility Scan has been enhanced to include support for WCAG 2.2. In addition, the Web Accessibility Scan now generates a new accessibility section in your reports. This new section collects and categorizes your accessibility issues in their own section, displayed in an easy-to-read, color-coded table with drilldowns to detailed information. See Adding a Web Accessibility Scan#ViewingInReports Added several tools to make it easier for Virtualize users to find and fix broken parameterizations. See Troubleshooting Parameterizations for more information.

Copying Data Sets

In addition to copying entire data repositories in the Data Repository view, you can now copy individual data sets, including options to merge, overwrite, update, or replace existing data. See Copying and Pasting Repository Data for more information.

Finding Broken Parameterizations in SOAtest and Virtualize

Added several tools to make it easier for SOAtest and Virtualize users to find and fix broken parameterizations. See Troubleshooting Parameterizations for more information.

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.

Asynchronous Socket Transport and Listener

The Asynchronous Socket Transport now supports message length at a fixed position in the middle of message. In addition, both the Asynchronous Socket Transport and Listener now support UDP.

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

Breaking Changes

• Ended support Support for Apache Tomcat 8.5 has ended. Tomcat 9 is required.
• Ended support for Oracle 12c in CTP.
• Ended support for the ExamXML diff engine.
• Ended support for sending MIME or DIME attachments with SOAP clients and Message Responders.
• Ended support for emulation for the XML Signer, XML Encryption, and XML Signature Verifier tools.
• Virtualize users with now requires the System role are no longer allowed to configure Virtualize servers in CTP connected to their Virtualize desktop installations (licensing, event monitoring, and hit statistics)Admin role for setting licensing or to enable event monitoring and hit statistics. Previously users with the System Role were able to configure these.
• 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.
• Users collecting coverage for multiple users who are simultaneously accessing the same web application need to inject the following HTTP header: baggage: test-operator-id=<USER> to prevent the coverage data they collect from being mixed. 

  See Application Coverage for more information

  Connections to DTP and License Server over HTTP are no longer supported. HTTPS is required

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Additional Updates

• Added support for Java 17. SOAtest and Virtualize now ship with Java 17.
• Added support to connect with Oracle DB using different RAC/ADG/DG with multi-host configuration.
• Added SOAtest static analysis support for WCAG 2.2.
• 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.
• CTP users can now add a data repository server through the UI. 
• 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.
• Scripting support for Nashorn updated to OpenJDK Nashorn. Scripts saved in earlier versions of SOAtest and Virtualize with the Oracle Nashorn engine will now run in the new OpenJDK Nashorn engine. See Extensibility or Scripting Basics for more information.
• Support for Oracle in CTP:
  • Added support for Oracle 23c.
  • Ended support for Oracle 12c.
  • Deprecated support for Oracle 18c and 21c.
• Minimum supported Eclipse is now 2022-03 (4.23).
• 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

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

• Scripting support for Nashorn updated to OpenJDK Nashorn. Scripts saved in earlier versions of SOAtest and Virtualize with the Oracle Nashorn engine will now run in the new OpenJDK Nashorn engine. See Extensibility or Scripting Basics for more information.
• Added support to connect with Oracle DB using different RAC/ADG/DG with multi-host configuration.

• Note that this is enabled by default in the SOAtest and Virtualize Server docker container available on DockerHub.

• MongoDB users can now execute a query with a sort and limit in order to have the MongoDB server sort and limit results on the server side. See MongoDB Tool 1.4.
• Removed the ability to set a custom return message for certain responders. Custom return codes still available.
• WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 has been removed from the WS-I tool.
• Updated static analysis rules to support WCAG 2.2.
• Minimum supported Eclipse is now 2022-03 (4.23).
In addition to masking environment variables in the UI, you can now mask them from traffic viewers, REST Clients, JSON/XML Data Banks and Assertors, and in the Event Monitoring Details. 

See Masking a Variable Value for more information.

• OpenAI integration updated to be able to get embeddings from OpenAI and Azure OpenAI.
• Ended support for the ExamXML diff engine.
• Ended support for sending MIME or DIME attachments with SOAP clients and Message Responders.

Resolved PRs and FRs