Artillery v2.0.26

What's changed

New features

• Provide agetStash() method to access the Stash API from any Node.js script (#3624) (example)
• Provide type definitions for Playwright tests written in TypeScript (#3626) (example)

Fixes & improvements

• Fix: handle cases when the user does not have a default AWS region configured in their AWS config/profile (#3630)
• Fix: Check subscription plan correctly in Azure tests (#3623)
• Routine dependency upgrades for deprecation and security notices

Artillery v2.0.25

What's Changed

New features

• Stash API is now available. Stash API provides a persistent key-value store for use in your Artillery tests to share data between VUs, and offers Redis-compatible features like working with key-value pairs, lists, counters, and more. docs

Playwright

• Upgrade to Playwright v1.55.0 #3617

Fixes & Improvements

• Fix: Prioritize dependencies set via package.json over automatically-detected dependencies. This fixes issues where latest versions of dependencies could be installed rather than those specified in package.json #3616
• Fix: Avoid promisifying async "function" steps. This removes Node.js warnings when when an async function is used for a function step #3552
• Fix: Use China partition-aware ARNs and principals for tests on AWS Lambda/Fargate #3618
• Routine updates to dependencies to address security reports #3612
• Remove dependency on PostHog SDK #3615
• Migrate to AWS SDK v3. This is an internal change that does not affect any user-visible functionality

Artillery v2.0.24

• Upgrade to Playwright v1.54.2 (#3593)
• Fix for Apdex scores not always shown at the end of test run (#3579)
• Fix duration and status not always being reported correctly by the Slack plugin (#3555)
• Fix for arrival phases not being distributed correctly across worker threads in TypeScript tests (#3548)
• Decrease reporting lag for large tests on Azure ACI (#3542)
• Remove outdated Lightstep integration via lightstep-tracer library. Lightstep reporting is OTel-only now. (#3575)

Contributors: @manfromanotherland @hassy

Artillery v2.0.23

What's Changed

Playwright

• Upgrade to Playwright v1.52.0 (#3523)
• Increase maxConcurrentRecordings from 3 to 5 to increase the probability of capturing traces for failed VUs (#3533)
• Increase upload timeout for traces to help make sure large trace recordings are uploaded to Artillery Cloud (#3533)

Azure ACI

• Client ID and client secret must be provided via AZURE_CLIENT_ID and AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET environment variables rather than CLI flags. This brings Artillery CLI in line with Azure SDK's DefaultAzureCredential credential chain. (#3525)
• Add support for overriding worker startup timeout via WORKER_WAIT_TIMEOUT_SEC environment variable (#3527)
• Fix issue that caused tests comprised of a single TypeScript file to fail to run (#3528)

AWS Fargate

• Add more supported regions: us-gov-east-1 & us-gov-east-2 (AWS GovCloud), il-central-1 (Israel), cn-north-1 & cn-northwest-1 (China) (#3522)
• Add support for overriding worker startup timeout via WORKER_WAIT_TIMEOUT_SEC environment variable (#3527)
• Fix issue with --task-role-name flag not being taken into account (#3469)
• Fix issue that caused tests comprised of a single TypeScript file to fail to run (#3528)
• Fix issue that could lead to metric reports from workers to be processed with a lag in large tests (#3472)

Other improvements & fixes

• Improve layout of Slack test summaries posted by the slack plugin (#3499)
• Fix issue in tests written in TypeScript that led to the generated load being higher than expected (#3495)

New Contributors

• @aryasaatvik made their first contribution in #3469
• @manfromanotherland made their first contribution in #3499

Artillery v2.0.22

Highlights

• Add support for writing Artillery scripts in TypeScript (#3436 #3439). - Hello World example.
• The report command has ben removed. As an alternative consider setting up Artillery Cloud for visualizing test metrics, or setting up an OpenTelemetry integration with an external monitoring system with the publish-metrics plugin. (#3431)
• Node.js v22.13.0 (current active LTS) is the recommended version of Node.js for running Artillery now
• Artillery's official Docker image (https://hub.docker.com/r/artilleryio/artillery) includes Chromium for Playwright now (#3449 #3445)
• The Docker image is now based on Debian rather than Alpine (#3449)
• Upgrade to Playwright v1.49.1 (#3427)

Fixes & improvements

• Fix issue where config.target could not be set to the value of a remote environment variable (#3430)
• Fix issues that led to more tasks being launched on Fargate than requested in scenarios where Fargate is temporarily out of capacity (#3432)
• Make sure that stopping Playwright tracing is failsafe (#3443)
• Routine dependency upgrades

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with thanks to @dirkluijk @andrewvc

Artillery v2.0.21

Core

• Add --env-file flag as an alternative for --dotenv flag. This makes it consistent with the Node.js --env-file flag. The --dotenv flag will be deprecated in a future release (#3376)
• Add tracking of response times by HTTP status code. A new set of metrics (e.g. http.response_time.2xx or http.response_time.5xx) is now reported to provide more granular view of response times in a test (#3326)
• Fix an issue that caused incorrect "multiple batches of metics" warnings when running tests with pause phases (#3331)

Playwright

• Upgrade Playwright to v1.48.0

Azure

• Fix: Make values loaded from an env file with --dotenv / --env-file flag available to workers containers (rather than just the Artillery process running inside the worker) (#3376)
• Stagger startup of containers in large load tests to prevent rate limit errors from Azure services (#3371)

OpenTelemetry

• Add support for setting resource-level attributes (#3335)

Artillery Cloud

• Send CI related information to Artillery Cloud. This makes the following information available in Artillery Cloud:
  • Whether a test run was triggered in CI or not, and which CI service was used
  • For tests triggered in GitHub Actions - provide a link back to the job run on GitHub Actions

Dependencies

• Upgrade json-plus to address a critical security vulnerability (#3369)

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With contributions from @hassy @Archangelza1 @dirkluijk

Artillery v2.0.20

Core & CLI

• New: add ability to set a custom content type for multipart/form-data form fields (#3316) — docs
• Fix: don't print an unnecessary warning when loadAll is not set by @hassy in (#3303)
• Remove legacy Artillery Pro integration (#3320)

Artillery Cloud

• New: add --name option to set the name of the test to be shown in Artillery Cloud dashboard (#3317) — docs
• Improve pre-flight checks when recording reports to Artillery Cloud to detect potential firewall/proxy issues (#3314)
• Fix: include organization IDs in the test report URLs

Azure

• Fix: bundle separate config files provided with --config option correctly (#3312)
• Fix: bundle dotenv files provided with --dotenv correctly (#3313)
• Fix: bundle custom .npmrc and other dotfiles correctly (#3312)
• Improve error handling and reporting for container provisioning errors (#3313)

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With contributions from @hassy & @RikdeVos

Artillery v2.0.19

CLI

• Fix bug preventing custom code using ES modules from loading on Windows (#2662)
• Prevent setting individual CSV rows in context when using loadAll (#3277)

Fargate

• Add ability to set DNS servers using the --container-dns-servers flag when running on ECS/EC2 (#3301)
• Add ability to override the ephemeral storage amount for each task via the --task-ephemeral-storage flag (#3301)

Playwright

• Upgrade Playwright to v1.45.3 (#3294)

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With contributions from @bernardobridge, @hassy and @thrandale

Artillery v2.0.18

CLI

• Metrics reported for dynamic URLs are grouped by default now (#3264) - docs

Playwright

• Upgrade Playwright to v1.45.2 (#3278)

Artillery v2.0.17

HTTP

• Add support for file uploads (#3232) - docs

Playwright

• Upgrade Playwright to v1.45.0 (#3245)

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With contributions from @bernardobridge @InesNi