Traffic Parrot 5.58.6 released, what's new?

We have just released version 5.58.6. Here is a list of the changes that came with the release:

Features

• Added near-miss diagnosis for unmatched HTTP requests with a per-field comparison table showing match/mismatch indicators, stub name headings, a "View Stub" link to edit the stub directly, and a "Show full stub JSON" toggle
• Added HTTP Request Log page with auto-refresh, expandable request details, and near-miss display for unmatched requests
• Added HTTP Passthrough Proxy mode that forwards unmatched requests to a real backend, with a blue "Proxied" badge in the request log and one-click stub creation from proxied requests
• Added FTP and SFTP drivers for file mocking, enabling record and replay of file-based integrations over remote FTP and SFTP servers alongside the existing local file system driver
• Added HAR file import support on the HTTP Import page, allowing you to import HTTP Archive files exported from browser DevTools to create stubs from captured traffic
• Added preview and filter for HAR and OpenAPI imports, with host, method, status, and URL filters plus per-entry selection and duplicate detection before importing
• Added REST API for importing mappings via curl or other HTTP clients, supporting all import formats (HAR, OpenAPI/Swagger, RAML, WireMock ZIP) including filtered import with hostFilter, methodFilter, statusFilter, and urlFilter parameters
• Added matches SWIFT field body matcher for IBM MQ, JMS, and File messaging mappings, enabling field-level matching on SWIFT MT messages by tag number and regex
• Added swiftField Handlebars helper for extracting SWIFT MT message field values in dynamic response templates
• Added header matcher types for HTTP stub creation, supporting contains, matches (regex), and doesNotMatch matchers in addition to the default equalTo
• Added HlsStreamTransformer for simulating HLS video streaming — serves dynamically generated .m3u8 playlists and .ts video segments from a single wildcard mapping, including multi-variant adaptive-bitrate (ABR) playlists with scenario-state-driven variant switching
• Added enable/disable toggle for HTTP mappings — temporarily disable a mapping without deleting it using the eye icon in the mapping list
• Added support for uploading precompiled protobuf file descriptor sets (.desc and .protoset files) via the gRPC skeleton import UI, in addition to .proto source files
• Messaging export/import (JMS, File) now includes the data/ directory in the exported ZIP, so dataSource-backed mappings (CSV lookup, Excel lookup, object store) work correctly when imported on another instance
• Added strict error handling mode for Handlebars helpers via trafficparrot.virtualservice.handlebars.throwErrors, which causes helper errors to throw exceptions (HTTP 500 or messaging failures) instead of embedding inline error strings in responses
• Added scanConsistency parameter to the Couchbase N1QL dataSource helper, allowing you to choose between REQUEST_PLUS (consistent, default) and NOT_BOUNDED (faster) query scan consistency, plus improved error handling that returns error messages instead of exceptions
• Added JMS performance monitoring to log total processing time of JMS messages, matching the existing IBM MQ performance monitoring capability
• Added namespace support to the manageState Handlebars helper using namespace/variableName syntax, allowing state isolation between different test scenarios
• Added namespace support to the State Management REST API, enabling isolated state per scenario or test case:
  • Create or update namespaced state using PUT /api/state/{namespace}/{name}
  • Get namespaced state using GET /api/state/{namespace}/{name}
  • List all state in a namespace using GET /api/state/{namespace}
  • Clear all state in a namespace using DELETE /api/state/{namespace}
  • Existing /api/state/global/{name} routes remain unchanged for backward compatibility
• Added PUT /api/configuration/files/{file} endpoint for creating new configuration files programmatically (returns 201 Created, or 409 Conflict if file already exists)
• OpenAPI import now fetches content from externalValue URLs in named examples, using the fetched response body as the mock response instead of a placeholder message
• Added HMAC response signing built-in response transformer — computes an HMAC signature of the response body and adds it as a Base64-encoded header, configured via transformerParameters.hmacSigning in the mapping JSON, supporting HmacSHA1, HmacSHA256, and HmacSHA512 algorithms for simulating webhook and API gateway authentication
• Added OpenAPI schema check that validates HTTP mappings against OpenAPI specification files at startup, preventing startup if any mapping references a URL path or method not found in the specifications — enable with trafficparrot.virtualservice.openapi.check.mapping.schema.on.startup=true
• Added configurable IBM MQ response headers (replyToQueueManagerName, replyToQueueName) in mapping JSON files with Handlebars template support, allowing dynamic control of response message routing headers
• Added trafficparrot.ibmmq.connect.options.accessQueue.input property to configure how IBM® MQ queues are opened for input (consumer) operations, mirroring the existing accessQueue.output property for producers

Fixes

• Broker configuration panels (JMS, IBM MQ, File messaging) now show empty configuration fields as blank rather than rendering the literal text "null" when no value is configured
• Added path traversal prevention to the objectStore Handlebars helper to ensure file access stays within the data directory
• Fixed OpenAPI 3.1 import to correctly handle JsonSchema types, generating proper example responses instead of failing with an error
• Fixed binary schema fields in OpenAPI imports to show a (binary) placeholder instead of corrupted text
• Improved error messages for unsupported external $ref schema references in OpenAPI imports

Changes

• Upgraded web UI framework from Bootstrap 3 to Bootstrap 5
• Upgraded from WireMock 2 to WireMock 3
• Simplified the HTTP Record page to show a single Recording URL input by default for the common case of recording one backend; click Record from multiple URLs to reveal URL pattern fields and record from multiple backends in one session
• Added trafficparrot.virtualservice.grpc.tls.enabled and trafficparrot.virtualservice.grpc.non.tls.enabled properties to allow independently enabling/disabling each gRPC server port
• New code should use the TransformedRequest.like(Request) static factory method in place of the deprecated TransformedRequest public constructor; the deprecated constructor remains available for backwards compatibility
• IBM MQ client library updated from com.ibm.mq.allclient to com.ibm.mq.jakarta.client. If upgrading, replace com.ibm.mq.allclient.jar with com.ibm.mq.jakarta.client.jar in your lib/external/ folder — see JMS and IBM MQ documentation for details. Existing javax.jms plugins continue to work without source changes; support for javax-based plugins will be removed in a future major release.