BreakTest 2026.07.11

BreakTest 2026.07.11 is a test-plan portability, parallel-runtime stability,
and AI Repair reliability release built from the changes since BreakTest
2026.07.10. It introduces compressed JMX archives that can carry recorded
request and response evidence, fixes concurrency hazards in parallel and forked
execution, and makes automated GUI repair safer and recoverable.

Highlights

• Saves .jmx plans as compressed ZIP archives while continuing to load
  legacy XML JMX files.
• Embeds filtered HAR or replay recordings with the test plan so recorded
  evidence remains available after the plan is moved or reopened.
• Adds recording-retention choices for all traffic, omitted static bodies,
  omitted static resources, or no embedded recording.
• Adds Store Replay to View Results so the latest replayed requests and
  responses can become the plan's current recording evidence.
• Isolates mutable sampler and engine state between parallel ForEach and Fork
  workers, eliminating timing-dependent configuration and status races.
• Fixes GUI update checks so they run immediately at startup, repeat every six
  hours by default, and tolerate unrelated release assets.
• Hardens AI Repair with conflict-aware native Regex Extractor planning,
  atomic rollback, safe live-tree deletion, backup restoration, and explicit
  blocked completion reporting.

Compressed JMX Archives And Recordings

• Newly saved JMX plans contain the XML test plan and referenced attachments
  in one compressed archive, while retaining the .jmx filename extension.
• Loading detects ZIP-backed plans automatically and retains support for
  existing plain-XML JMX files.
• Imported HAR recordings are filtered to the generated samplers and stored in
  a native manifest with request and response bodies externalized as deduplicated
  archive entries.
• Recording references and checksums are retained on HTTP samplers, including
  after GUI edits and save/load round trips.
• Archive entry names, linked content, and required recording dependencies are
  validated without extracting files to the filesystem.
• Test validation no longer rewrites the open archive, and GUI saves show an
  activity overlay while the archive is assembled.

Replay And Recorded Evidence

• View Results can store the latest replayed sample for every resolved sampler
  as a replacement recording bundle.
• Replay storage supports the same four retention levels as HAR import.
• Recorded request and response data remains available to Sampler Result and
  recorded-HAR comparison views after reopening a plan.
• Sampler lookup now resolves nodes consistently across ordinary controllers
  and Test Fragments when replay results are associated with the plan tree.

Parallel And Fork Runtime Stability

• Parallel ForEach branches now clone child samplers as well as controllers,
  preventing siblings from racing while merged configuration is applied and
  recovered.
• Compiled sample packages resolve cloned samplers back to their source across
  nested parallel sections, including clone-of-clone cases.
• Worker-local variables isolate LAST_SAMPLE_OK and transaction package state
  while other virtual-user variables remain shared for intentional branch
  communication.
• The parent worker now receives a deterministic all-branches success result
  instead of whichever branch wrote its status last.
• Fork workers no longer overwrite the main virtual user's transaction state
  or notify the wrong transaction listeners.
• Parent-mode Transaction Controllers in parallel or forked branches retain a
  source-controller chain, preventing swallowed package-reset errors when
  sibling or nested clones interleave.

GUI Update Reliability

• Automatic update checks now run immediately at GUI startup and then repeat at
  breaktest.update.interval_hours, whose default is now six hours.
• Persisted check timestamps only deduplicate concurrently running instances
  instead of suppressing expected periodic checks.
• Numeric qualifier segments compare correctly, so for example rc10 sorts
  after rc2.
• Release parsing strictly validates the expected binary ZIP and checksum but
  ignores unrelated or malformed extra assets.
• Corrected the documented settings to breaktest.update.enabled and
  breaktest.update.interval_hours.

AI Repair Safety And Recovery

• Repair planning deduplicates conflicting dynamic literals, including encoded
  variants, and emits native Regex Extractor actions only when the recorded
  evidence supports a safe pattern.
• Regex planning now handles quoted token values without producing unsupported
  extractor forms or duplicate replacements.
• Applying a repair batch is transactional: failed actions are rolled back
  through GUI undo, with the pre-run backup used when tree integrity cannot be
  preserved.
• Added restore_open_plan_from_backup for explicit recovery after a reported
  live-tree integrity failure.
• Live node deletion now validates exact membership and match counts, rejects
  protected container deletion, and suppresses unsafe selection side effects.
• Stale node IDs fall back to stable paths after undo or reload, avoiding edits
  against invalid GUI tree references.
• GUI refresh is null-safe, bridge failures retain full stack diagnostics, and
  incomplete repair runs must report Status: blocked rather than appearing
  successful.

Tests

• Added archive save/load, attachment, recording-filter, replay, sampler
  resolution, and GUI lifecycle regression coverage.
• Added parallel sampler-isolation, worker-local status, Fork transaction
  state, nested clone resolution, and parent-transaction reset coverage.
• Added update scheduling, qualifier comparison, and extra-asset parsing
  coverage.
• Added AI Repair regression tests for conflicting literals, quoted-token
  regexes, rollback status, safe deletion, orphan extractors, stale tree state,
  and null-safe refresh.

Compatibility Notes

• Java 21 or later is still required.
• Legacy plain-XML JMX plans continue to load, but newly saved compressed JMX
  archives require a BreakTest version that understands the archive format.
• Existing JMeter-compatible test-plan elements remain supported where
  practical; embedded recordings are a BreakTest extension.
• This release uses the direct Git tag 2026.07.11.