Hello, The Apache JMeter team is pleased to announce the availability of Apache JMeter 2.12 (r1636949). This release brings the Java 8 compliance, few improvements in JMeter performance, some new features (Critical Section Controller, DNS Cache Manager, Undo/Redo behavior as an alpha preview, etc.) and fixes some bugs. You can read the New and Noteworthy section with some screenshots to illustrate improvements and full list of changes at: http://jmeter.apache.org/changes.html JMeter 2.12 requires Java 6 or later to run. == All users are highly recommended to upgrade == The Apache JMeter application is a 100% pure Java application designed to test server applications. It can be used to: * generate test loads * measure performance. * test functional behavior It includes support for protocols such as HTTP(S), JDBC, JMS, MongoDB, FTP, LDAP, TCP, native calls and others. It can also be easily extended with user-written code. See http://jmeter.apache.org/ Users are highly encouraged to read the JMeter Best Practices section: http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/best-practices.html The release can be downloaded from: http://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi When downloading, please verify signatures using the KEYS file: http://www.apache.org/dist/jmeter/KEYS Only the binary archive is needed to run JMeter - there is no need to download the source archive. However there are some optional libraries which are not included. See the "Getting Started" page for details: http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/get-started.html JMeter artifacts can be downloaded on Maven Central : <groupId>org.apache.jmeter</groupId> <artifactId>ApacheJMeter</artifactId> <version>2.12</version> Enjoy! The JMeter team @ApacheJMeter