Artillery v2.0.5

New release cadence

A new stable version of the Artillery CLI will now be released twice a month - on the first and third Monday of the month. Canary releases will continue being released from the main branch.

AWS Fargate

• Add support for running tests with Fargate Spot (#2464) - Documentation
• Set default bucket lifecycle policy for the S3 bucket containing artifacts from test runs (#2434) - Documentation
• Fix issue with traces sent via the OpenTelemetry reporter causing spans to go missing or be formatted incorrectly (#2439)
• Set default retention policy on CloudWatch logs (#2446) - Documentation
• Force headless mode for Playwright tests running on Fargate (#2455)
• Fix bug causing Fargate tests triggered on Windows to crash when running with custom JS code (#2431)
• Fix bug that would cause Fargate workers to crash on startup (#2428, #2459)

Playwright

• Track and report the INP Core Web Vitals metrics (#2461) - Documentation
• Add support for configuring Playwright’s testIdAttribute setting (#2441) - Documentation
• Update Playwright version used by Artillery to v1.41.0 (#2425) - Documentation

publish-metrics plugin

• Add tracing support for the Datadog, New Relic and Dynatrace reporters using OpenTelemetry (#2418, #2466)
• Improve traces sent to Honeycomb to include full metadata, exceptions, and events (#2418, #2466)

AWS Lambda

• Disable artillery-plugin-publish-metrics on Lambda (#2457). This is a temporary workaround to get tests to run on Lambda reliably again
• Add default bucket lifecycle policy for S3 bucket containing artifacts from test runs (#2434) - Documentation

CLI & Core

• Fix $randomString(length) utility to return correct number of characters and allow length larger than 10 (#2342)

Artillery Cloud

• Fix bug that prevented CloudWatch logs for all workers from being shown on test reports (#2421)

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