The Grinder 3.1 is released

The Grinder 3.1 can be downloaded from

       http://sourceforge.net/projects/grinder

Many fixes, translation updates, and a few features.

In particular, please note the rules for resolving a relative path
setting for the grinder.script property has changed. You may need to
update your properties files.

- Phil



The Grinder 3.1
---------------

  The console now has a "-headless" option which causes it to start
  without the graphical user interface. This is useful when used with
  the console client API.

  Add ConsoleConnection.stopAgents(), requested by Andreas Spall.

  Refine console sampling model:
  - Fix bug 1618759 - Console should not discard first sample.
  - Count empty samples when deciding when to stop recording.
  - Count empty samples when triggered and ignoring samples.
  - Display sample data when triggered and ignoring samples.

  Relative paths set for grinder.script are now resolved relative to
  the location of the properties file. This fixes two bugs. - Bug
  1889281 - grinder.script relative path bug. Thanks to Ross Nicholson
  for the report, and the suggested fix. - Bug 1875880 - Script
  validation wrong for properties file in sub directory.

  HTTP Digest Authentication example from Matt Moran.

  German console translation updates from Matthias Dillier.

  Italian console translation updates from Meo Bogliolo.

  French console translation updates from Tagnon Soko.

  Fulfil feature request 1891023 - Worker and Agent id's. The script
  context has new getAgentNumber() and getProcessNumber() methods.
  getThreadID() has been renamed to getThreadNumber() for consistency.
  Thanks to Ross Nicholson for requesting this feature.

  Fix bug 1897988 - grinder.initialSleepTime issue. The
  initialSleepTime property was broken. Thanks to whoever reported
  this.

  Fix bug 1893027 - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in TCPProxy. Thanks
  to Brian Dols for reporting this.

  Fix bug 1709285 - HTTP plug-in records wrong times with
  grinder.useNanoTime=true. Thanks to liaoya for the report.

  Fulfil feature request 1902280 - Use absolute start times in the
  data log. This allows the logs from different workers to be merged,
  so long as their machine clocks are synchronised. Thanks to Olivier
  Merlin for requesting this feature.

  Fix bug 1549708 - HTTPRequest.setDataFromFile() is not thread safe.
  The HTTPRequest methods that set defaults are now thread safe, and
  the Javadoc has been updated to warn that the default setters are
  not intended to be used by multiple worker threads. Thanks to
  Huifeng Shen for the report.

  Fulfill feature request 1731843 - Ability to close explicitly the
  HTTP connection. Thanks to whoever requested this feature.

  Fix bug 1913049 - dist build target fails due to syntax issues.
  Thanks to Travis Swicegood for the report.

  Fix bug 1913056 - release fails on build of test-src. Thanks to
  Travis Swicegood for the report.

  The file distribution now only updates out of date agents, and only
  sends the updated files.

  Fulfill feature request 1723753 - Agent service needed. Agents can
  now be started in a "daemon" mode where they automatically reconnect
  to a console. Thanks to Travis Bear for the request, and to Pawel
  Lacinski for the initial implementation.

  Fix bug 1926601 - Jython change breaks byte arrays in generated
  scripts. Thanks to Dhinakar K and O.A.Francis for reporting this.

  Fix bug 1953141 - line feeds and other characters not correctly
  captured by HTTP TCPProxy filter. Thanks to Dhinakar K for reporting
  this.

  The "Stop Processes" action has been removed from the tool bar since
  it is required only rarely.



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