As announced in Apache announce mailing list, JMeter 2.8 has been released last week. Take a look at http://jmeter.apache.org/changes.html for a complete list of changes in the current version.

Among the changes, the “Thread Group: New Option Delay thread creation until needed” has great impact over the execution of performance tests with many threads. Basically, instead of creating the whole thread pool before running your tests, now JMeter creates the threads as needed, avoiding unnecessary threads and saving a lot of memory.

Have fun! And kudos to the JMeter team!

Here’s the list of the cool things we did since last Sunday in TupiLabs.

• Recorded first screencast about writing Jenkins plug-ins in Brazilian Portuguese
• Added more expressions to Speak Like A Brazilian
• Started to work on the new layout for Garagem Vaga. This involved changing the user experience, adding responsiveness and preparing for the mobile apps
• Sent a pull request for unit tests and coverage in FreedomSponsors
• Sent comments for a redesign of FreedomSponsors main page
• Prepared an initial Stacks + Velvet execution in a PBS supercomputer for a RAD sequence analysis
• Submitted a pull request to Cogroo
• Finished initial structure and architecture for CJAN
• Got two new sponsors for an Open Source event in Sao Paulo (WIP!)

We are working for you :-)

Have a great week!

Watch the news for more upcoming slides from JUC SF (Jenkins User Conference San Francisco). You can already check Kohsuke Kawaguchi‘s slides. The link is for the reddit thread, so you can comment there and give karma to @agentdero who posted the link.

http://www.reddit.com/r/jenkinsci/comments/10pyv8/jenkins_state_of_the_union_slides_from_juc_sf_2012/

Another interesting news is that now CloudBees Jenkins can deploy to GoogleAppEngine. I believe that in the near future BuildHive will have integration with other platforms and will be able to build software written in many programming languages too.

http://www.reddit.com/r/jenkinsci/comments/10rsp1/cloudbees_jenkins_can_now_deploy_to_google_app/