LoadRunner
History
Table:
Version
Service Pack
Release date
Notes

1.0
—
November 1993
Load Testing for X Windows applications[7]

2.0
—
July 1994
Windows support added[8]

XL & RTE
—
December 1994
LoadRunner/XL (for large tests) and LoadRunner/RTE (RTE protocol support) introduced[9]

3.0
—
April 1995
Added SQL Inspector (captures SQL statements sent from client applications to relational databases)[10]

4.0
—
May 1996
Added Virtual User Generator, Controller, and Analysis tools[11]

5.0
—
February 1997
Added SAP R/3 support[12]

6.0
—
July 1999
Added Linux installation support

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

7.51
—
June 2000
Added Citrix ICA protocol support

7.8
—
September 2003

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

8.0
—
August 2004
Added "Additional Attributes" to Runtime Settings.

8.1
—
August 2004
Added Web Click and Script technologies

9.0
—
August 2004
Re-branded to HP LoadRunner

9.10
—
February 2008
Added Web Services, Adobe AMF, and RDP

9.51
—
July 6, 2009

9.52
—
June 14, 2010

11.0
—
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
—
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
—
March 18, 2014
Added ability to instantiate instances on Amazon EC2 directly from LoadRunner UI.

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

12.50
—
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
—
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.

HPE Network Virtualization (NV) 12.53 Patch 1

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) support:

GWT Request Factory

GWT 2.7.0

Verified for use with GWT 2.8.0 (full support to be added in a future version).

12.55
—
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. LoadRunner 12.55 supports HTTP/2 64-bit record and replay and many performance improvements and enhancements.

12.56

—

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

—

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

—

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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