LoadRunner
History

LoadRunner

Section Title: History
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Version	Service Pack	Release date	Notes

1.0	N/A	November 1993	Load Testing for X Windows applications

2.0	N/A	July 1994	Windows support added

XL & RTE	N/A	December 1994	LoadRunner/XL (for large tests) and LoadRunner/RTE (RTE protocol support) introduced

3.0	N/A	April 1995	Added SQL Inspector (captures SQL statements sent from client applications to relational databases)

4.0	N/A	May 1996	Added Virtual User Generator, Controller, and Analysis tools

5.0	N/A	February 1997	Added SAP R/3 support

6.0	N/A	July 1999	Added Linux installation support

6.5	N/A	June 2000	Added "TurboLoad" technology (i.e. Run users as threads)

7.51	N/A	June 2000	Added Citrix ICA protocol support

7.8	N/A	September 2003

7.8	Feature Pack 1	September 2003	Added support for Windows XP.

8.0	N/A	August 2004	Added "Additional Attributes" to Runtime Settings.

8.1	N/A	August 2004	Added Web Click and Script technologies

9.0	N/A	August 2004	Re-branded to HP LoadRunner

9.10	N/A	February 2008	Added Web Services, Adobe AMF, and RDP

9.51	N/A	July 6, 2009

9.52	N/A	June 14, 2010

11.0	N/A	September 2010

11.0	Patch 1	January 6, 2011

11.0	Patch 2	February 22, 2011	Added support for Visual Studio 2010 and Protocol Updates to Ajax TruClient, Citrix, Flex, Web.

11.0	Patch 3	June 20, 2011	Added support for IE9, Mobile protocols, GraniteDS.

11.0	Patch 4	November 2011	HP SV (Service Virtualization Integration) with Controller, GWT-DFE(Google Web Toolkit- Data Format Extension), RTMP Tunneled, Messaging support, Streaming support, Flex Correlations.

11.50	N/A	November 2011	Added New VuGen IDE, Ajax TruClient for IE, Web Protocol Asynchronous Support, Flex, Mobile, .NET, Web Services, 64-bit applications recording, IPv6 support.

11.50	Patch 1	July 20, 2012	Added Ajax TruClient IE protocol.

12.00	N/A	March 18, 2014	Added ability to instantiate instances on Amazon EC2 directly from LoadRunner UI.

12.02	N/A	January 21, 2015	Added ability to instantiate instances on Microsoft Azure directly from LoadRunner UI

12.50	N/A	August 2015	JavaScript as a new scripting language for the Web-HTTP/HTML protocol Chrome TruClient support added Google Compute Engine supported as cloud provider Ability to record a TruClient script with one browser and replay it with any Integrated Network Virtualization solution (formerly known as Shunra) Docker-based Linux installation Generating scripts from HAR files Major enhancements in .NET and Citrix protocols

12.50	Patch 3	May 5, 2016	Provides support for TruClient - Native Mobile protocol in HPE Mobile Center Adds support for HPE Mobile Center 1.51 Fix for Amazon Cloud provisioning

12.53	N/A	May 2016	Git integration in VuGen Java 8 support, 64-bit replay support in Java protocols New PCoIP protocol HTTP Video Streaming (HTML5, HLS) support HTTP/2 support Enhanced SAPUI5 recording in TruClient REST step-builder editor in VuGen Support of Win 10 and recording using MS Edge browser Built-in Linux compatibility test in VuGen Improved performance of Linux Load Generators, support of additional Linux distributions

12.53	Patch 1	June 15, 2016	Fixes a memory allocation issue that can impact Web HTTP/HTML protocols.

12.53	Patch 2	August 3, 2016

12.53	Patch 3	September 29, 2016

12.53	Patch 4	January 4, 2017	LoadRunner 12.53 Patch 4 contains various enhancements, and provides support for the following: HPE Mobile Center 2.20. For details, see the Mobile Center Help.

12.55	N/A	August 17, 2017	Added MQTT Protocol, support for JMeter tests, support for Windows 10 creators, Windows Server 2016, and Ubuntu 16.04. Also added support for Chromium 55 for TruClient protocol.

12.56	N/A	February 26, 2018	LoadRunner 12.56 contains various enhancements, and provides support for the following: Runtime Settings Search New supported technologies and platforms Protocol enhancements TruClient enhancements VuGen enhancements Controller and Analysis enhancements

12.57	N/A	May 19, 2018	LoadRunner 12.57 contains various enhancements, and provides support for the following: New supported technologies and platforms Remote Terminal Emulator protocol compatibility with Windows 10 TruClient enhancements, including support for Chromium OS version 63 VuGen enhancements Controller enhancements

12.60	N/A	August 24, 2018	LoadRunner 12.60 contains various enhancements, and provides support for the following: A runtime setting to enable/disable HTTP/2 features New runtime setting that enables connecting to one or multiple IP addresses for Oracle NCA protocol Enhanced desktop pool support with the ability to sync on bitmap timeout per step for PCoIP protocol Dockerized Load Generators Network Virtualization is now free Save a graph as an image file

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