Friday 31 December 2021

Traffic Parrot 5.29.7 released, what's new?

We have just released version 5.29.7. Here is a list of the changes that came with the release:

Features

  • Added new trafficparrot.properties to allow configuring separate HTTP and HTTPS ports for the UI:
    • trafficparrot.gui.http.port=8080
    • trafficparrot.gui.http.port.enabled=true
    • trafficparrot.gui.https.port=8079
    • trafficparrot.gui.https.port.enabled=true
    • trafficparrot.gui.https.jks.resource=certificates/user-interface-https.jks
    • trafficparrot.gui.https.jks.password=trafficparrot
  • Added support for connecting to an external RabbitMQ 3 broker via JMS
  • Added support for HTTP webhooks including:
    • UI to configure callback on the HTTP Add/Edit mapping page
    • Send request callback after a fixed delay
    • Use data from the original request and response body in the callback request template
    • Enable callback to be sent or not based on script
  • Added support for uploading data directory when uploading an HTTP mappings zip file
  • Added support for DOTALL option in {{ regexExtract }} helper

Changes

  • Upgraded WireMock from 2.29.1 to 2.31.0
    • WireMock removed support for parameter normalizing in response templates
    • To restore parameter normalizing behaviour, please set: trafficparrot.virtualservice.handlebars.normalizeHelperParameters=true
  • Upgraded gRPC from 1.39.0 to 1.43.1
  • Upgraded protoc from 3.17.3 to 3.19.1
  • Include RabbitMQ sample JMS connection

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug with indexed {{ dataSource }} parameters
  • Fixed a bug with mixed type XLS columns
  • Fixed a bug with the tray icon on Windows
  • Library upgrades to fix OWASP issues

Wednesday 1 December 2021

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