v5.6.1

Known issues

• Maven does not resolve transitive dependencies, see #6041. It will be resolved in 5.6.2

New and Noteworthy

• fix: use UTF-8 as a default encoding in HTTP sampler by @vlsi in #6010
• Fixed endless thread groups in non-GUI mode. Use default value for LoopController.continue_forever rather than initializing it in the constructor by @vlsi in #6011
• fix: after disabling the Java Request sampler, it cannot be enabled again by @vlsi in #6012

What's Changed

• docs: add release-drafter for populating GitHub releases info based on the PRs by @vlsi in #6000
• chore: use Gradle toolchains for JDK provisioning by @vlsi in #5989
• test: replace TestTransactionController.TestSampleListener with CollectSamplesListener by @vlsi in #6002
• bump JMeter version in issue templates to 5.6 by @alexsch01 in #6013
• fix: treat null or blank values as empty for saved properties by @vlsi in #6027
• doc: update documentation for sampleresult.default.encoding default value by @vlsi in #6028
• chore: trim dependencyManagement and optional dependencies from pom.xml by @vlsi in #6031
• doc: update changelog for 5.6.1 by @vlsi in #6024
• doc: update changelog for 5.6.1 by @vlsi in #6001

Dependencies

• fix(deps): update com.github.vlsi to v1.90 by @renovate-bot in #6003
• fix(deps): update com.fasterxml.jackson.core to v2.15.2 by @renovate-bot in #5991
• fix(deps): update kotlin monorepo to v1.8.22 by @renovate-bot in #6017
• fix(deps): update dependency org.hsqldb:hsqldb to v2.7.2 by @renovate-bot in #6016
• fix(deps): update dependency nl.jqno.equalsverifier:equalsverifier to v3.14.3 by @renovate-bot in #6014
• chore(deps): update release-drafter/release-drafter digest to 65c5fb4 by @renovate-bot in #6018
• fix(deps): update dependency org.apache.mina:mina-core to v2.2.2 by @renovate-bot in #6015
• fix(deps): update dependency com.helger.commons:ph-commons to v10.2.5 by @renovate-bot in #5993
• fix(deps): update dependency checkstyle to v10.12.1 by @renovate-bot in #6021
• fix(deps): update dependency org.jetbrains.dokka:org.jetbrains.dokka.gradle.plugin to v1.8.20 by @renovate-bot in #6019

New Contributors

• @alexsch01 made their first contribution in #6013

Full Changelog: rel/v5.6...rel/v5.6.1