Important Changes made in JMeter v5.3

• Skin Color (or Theme): – more option added & it can be applied without a Restart.
• Add Elements option in the “Edit” menu is enhanced properly.
• Log Level: – more options added for Logs & UI changes done.
• UI Enhancement for: –
  • ForEach Controller
  • If Controller
  • Throughput Controller
  • While Controller
  • Counter Config
  • XPath2 Extractor
  • Function Helper Dialog
  • Search popup
  • JUnit Request
  • JMS Elements
• Now, if an Element is disabled, all its child Elements are also disabled.
• Undo & Redo support for editable fields supported. Keystrokes are CTRL + Z / CTRL + SHIFT + Z, or CMD + Z/ CMD + SHIFT + Z depending on the operating system.
• Default value of httpclient4.time_to_live has been modified from 2000 to 60000, to be closer to typical browser behaviour, this means HTTP connections will live longer than before. This has impact on connection creation & SSL handshake.
• Allow spaces in ${…} expressions around functions.
• _timeShift function does not work with offset formatters of the form “yyyy-MM-DD’T’HH:mm:ssXXX”. Now, it’s working fine as ${__timeShift(yyyy-MM-DD’T’dd:HH:mm:ss.SSSZ,,P2D,,)}
• ‘Median’ column is added newly in the HTML Report & the Response Time percentile columns supports floating-point numbers now.
• Set Connect Time on parent samples when using a Transaction Controller is fixed now.
• Java 14 support added & it can be used now for the builds.
• Some previously non-working Documentation Links have been fixed.