Use this tag for questions specific to Apache Jmeter 5.0 (r1840935), released on 19 September 2018. Always specify also the jmeter tag
This release brings a lot of new features and improvements, and also fixes bugs:
JMeter 5.0 is tested on Java 8 to 10, Java 11 should also work.
Rest support has been improved
- In distributed testing, JMeter now automatically prefixes thread names with engine host and port
- XPath 2.0 is supported in a new element called XPath2 extractor
- Search feature has been improved to allow you to iterate in the tree over search results and do necessary replacements through Next/Previous/Replace/Replace/Find buttons
- You can now restart JMeter from menu File → Restart
- A new Graph Total Transactions per second has been added to the HTML Web Report
- A New function __threadGroupName has been introduced to obtain ThreadGroup name
JMeter artifacts can be downloaded on Maven Central :
<groupId>org.apache.jmeter</groupId>
<artifactId>ApacheJMeter</artifactId>
<version>5.0</version>