What's new in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.8.4
Apr 3, 2024
- Simplified management of display group request items.
- Save execution data of multiple basic request tabs to external file.
- New toolbar actions in create request body and build URL windows.
- Plenty of minor UI improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.8.3 (Feb 20, 2024)
- Save complete basic request execution data to an external file.
- Toggle active status for multiple project request items.
- Tab menu improvements in basic request window.
- Support for sample tabs in basic request window.
- Other minor UI improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.8.2 (Jan 4, 2024)
- Redesigned window for creating request body.
- Simplified removal of request item from display group.
- Improved performance with displaying JSON data.
- Plenty of minor UI improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.8.1 (Nov 14, 2023)
- Set selected text as parameter value in basic request and execution windows.
- Include or exclude request headers and body lines in basic request window.
- Improvements with updating existing project from OpenAPI data.
- Other improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.8.0 (Oct 8, 2023)
- Support for single-value project parameters in basic request window.
- Improved window for managing parameter values during the execution.
- Various UI improvements in basic request window.
- New help topics on using project parameters.
- Plenty of minor improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.7.5 (Sep 3, 2023)
- Support for separate request item list sort order for each project.
- Additional application options to customize navigation tabs.
- Additional application options to customize OpenAPI data handling.
- Application option to select last active request item when opening projects.
- Other minor improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.7.4 (Jul 3, 2023)
- cURL support in basic request window.
- Review existing project item data in the OpenAPI window.
- Manage execution order of a single display group items.
- Other minor improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.7.3 (May 21, 2023)
- Update existing project items from OpenAPI data.
- Additional OpenAPI customization options.
- Execution order management improvements.
- Plenty of minor UI improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.7.2 (Apr 10, 2023)
- Significantly updated online documentation.
- Simplified authentication support.
- Improved display and execution group management.
- Additional execution options.
- Other improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.7.2 (Apr 10, 2023)
- Significantly updated online documentation.
- Simplified authentication support.
- Improved display and execution group management.
- Additional execution options.
- Other improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.7.1 (Mar 5, 2023)
- Disable basic request tab for execution.
- Improved project creation in basic request window.
- Simplified UI for defining chaining items.
- Plenty of minor UI changes and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.6.2 (Jan 6, 2023)
- Add new request item to the specific display group.
- Locate desired display group in the main window.
- Support for renaming basic request tabs.
- WebView2 used for rendering HTML content.
- Other minor improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.6.1 (Dec 5, 2022)
- Support for manually specifying authorization code or access token.
- New look of request item list in the basic request window.
- Improved execution of selected request items in the main window.
- Other UI improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.6.0 (Nov 20, 2022)
- Support for display groups in the main window.
- Simplified procedure for adding request items to the execution group.
- Ability to save project with the desired encoding.
- Improvements to creating project from OpenAPI data.
- Plenty of minor improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.5.4 (Oct 20, 2022)
- Switch to plain execution directly in the execution window.
- Support for sample upload data.
- Additional options to customize created cURL commands.
- Many UI enhancements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.5.3 (Sep 11, 2022)
- Application options to customize OpenAPI data handling.
- Execute created cURL commands in a command prompt.
- Additional options to customize created cURL commands.
- UI improvements in build request body and parse OpenAPI windows.
- Other minor UI and performance improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.5.2 (Aug 16, 2022)
- Revamped window for creating project from OpenAPI data.
- Enhanced global data management.
- Improved window for creating curl commands.
- Other UI improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.5.1 (Jul 7, 2022)
- Additional options when creating cURL requests.
- Improved application options management.
- Enhanced functionality for excluding elements when uploading data.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.5.0 (Jun 7, 2022)
- Create cURL requests from project request items.
- Improved connection proxy management.
- Set default project execution timeout value in application options.
- Simplified access to sample project inside the application.
- Improvements to command-line interface onboarding.
- Other minor fixes and enhancements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.4.2 (Apr 4, 2022)
- Significantly improved cookie management.
- Major UI improvements of request item properties.
- Open request item as basic request with multiple global URL values.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.4.1 (Mar 2, 2022)
- New command line parameters for customizing PDF execution reports.
- Various improvements with managing execution groups.
- Other minor UI improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.4.0 (Feb 2, 2022)
- Status bar with various execution data added to the execution window.
- Runtime upgraded to .NET 4.8 with support for TLS 1.3.
- Application option to ensure that current item is always visible during the execution.
- Ability to open project request items in basic request window with context menu.
- Simplified menus for execution options in the main window.
- Various UI enhancements in execution and basic request windows.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.3.0 (Jan 5, 2022)
- Create new request items in basic request window from OpenAPI data.
- Change request item active status from the main window context menu.
- Basic request window layout improvements.
- New application options and improved options window.
- Other minor improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.2.0 (Nov 3, 2021)
- Trial changes for Professional Edition (time limit removed).
- Major performance improvements when generating PDF reports.
- Ability to embed selected font in PDF report document.
- Support for inserting global header value in basic request window.
- Manage some execution options directly in the main window.
- Other minor improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.1.0 (Sep 15, 2021)
- New icon style for better display under different system themes.
- Ability to validate response JSON data as an array or an object.
- Support for creating PDF reports during command line execution.
- Additional improvements to command line interface (plain execution and overwrite parameters).
- Manage various execution options directly from the execution window.
- Plenty of minor improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.0.2 (Aug 11, 2021)
- Support for customizing font colors in pretty viewers (options window).
- Some menus and toolbars rearranged for better user experience.
- Icon improvements and other minor UI changes and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.0.1 (Jul 16, 2021)
- GUI improvements to fully respect selected operating system theme.
- Support for customizing font colors in pretty viewers.
- Request item excluded from execution displayed in disabled font color.
- Other minor UI improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 5.0.0 (Jun 17, 2021)
- New SVG icons for better high-DPI rendering.
- Many user interface improvements for better experience on high DPI displays.
- Ability to play sound when execution batch completes.
- Improved procedure for creating new project in the basic request window.
- Upgrade to Microsoft .NET 4.7.
- Upgrade to the latest version of components (JSON.NET, HtmlAgilityPack, etc.)
- Plenty of minor improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.8.1 (Mar 9, 2021)
- Simplified request item opening in basic request window.
- Easier management of global URL data in the main window.
- Support for additional conversion functions.
- Other minor improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.8.0 (Jan 5, 2021)
- Apply conversion expression with multiple functions to parameter or chaining items.
- Support for additional conversion functions.
- Generate random parameter value from the list of values.
- Support for random and increasing time parameters.
- Various fixes and improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.7.4 (Nov 7, 2020)
- URL builder for creating execution address in basic request window.
- Open request items as basic request with the specific global URL in the main window.
- Context sensitive double click in the main window list (execution order and execution count).
- Other minor UI improvements and changes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.7.3 (Aug 17, 2020)
- Ability to validate a custom logical validation expression.
- New functions with parameters and chaining items.
- Minor fixes and improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.7.2 (Aug 11, 2020)
- Change timeout and delay in the execution window.
- Create new global URL data for the specific environment in the execution window.
- Support for additional parameter date formats.
- Many UI enhancements and new version of OpenAPI.NET library.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.7.1 (Jun 15, 2020)
- Support for random parameters of type Guid.
- New functions with parameters and chaining items.
- Many UI enhancements, including new environment font and improved settings.
- New version of OpenAPI.NET library.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.6.2 (Mar 16, 2020)
- Ability to define default value for project chaining.
- Application option to specify default content type for request data.
- Open existing project file from disk in the welcome window.
- Improved UI for application options & other minor improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.6.1 (Nov 18, 2019)
- Separate button for inserting dynamic data in the corresponding field.
- Select request items for PDF export inside the export window.
- Execution start time added to execution results and execution report.
- Other minor UI improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.6.0 (Oct 7, 2019)
- Ability to insert global URL data value in selected field in basic request window.
- Support for sorting request item list in basic request window.
- Execute selected group directly in the manage execution groups window.
- Include/exclude all parameters in query string builder.
- Close selected tab with the middle mouse button.
- New context menu in request item execution list.
- Minor UI improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.5.1 (Jul 8, 2019)
- Select global URL and global query string directly in the execution window.
- Support for query string builder with request item URL property.
- Minor UI improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.5.0 (Jun 10, 2019)
- Select and open desired recent project in welcome window.
- Separate window for user-friendly query string building.
- Menu options to quickly increase or decrease item execution order.
- Improved request body viewer in execution window.
- UI and performance improvements when parsing OpenAPI data.
- Various minor UI improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.4.1 (May 8, 2019)
- New version of OpenAPI.NET package included.
- Separate button for switching word wrapping setting for multiline fields.
- Improved access to some online help topics.
- Various UI improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.4.0 (Apr 6, 2019)
- Override automatically determined request item execution count by manually specifying execution count value.
- Open corresponding online help topic from currently active window.
- Reverse request item execution order when using multiple parameters with multiple values.
- Support for indentation guide lines in pretty data viewers.
- List of relevant request items displayed when creating new execution group from the main window.
- Various UI and performance improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.3.0 (Feb 4, 2019)
- Update existing HttpMaster project from OpenAPI data.
- Support for version 3 when parsing OpenAPI data.
- Support for YAML data format when parsing OpenAPI data.
- Ability to use project parameter value in basic request window.
- Use obtained authorization code or access token in basic request window.
- New menus in action button to HTML encode/decode selected data.
- Plenty of minor fixes and improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.2.0 (Oct 24, 2018)
- Ability to create new execution group directly in the main window.
- Option to add bookmarks when creating PDF report with execution data.
- Support for adding custom report title and page footer when creating PDF report with execution data.
- Exclude request header or request body data item in basic request window with comment (double slash).
- New menus in action button to escape/unescape regular expression data.
- Plenty of minor improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.1.0 (Aug 13, 2018)
- New menus for inserting authorization code and access token variables.
- Pick file or folder with dialog when entering pre/post execution actions.
- Show/hide particular column in request item list (main window).
- Word wrap application setting now also affects request headers, request cookies, and request body.
- Ad-hoc word wrap switching now available in text field's action button.
- Action button available with regular expression in chaining definition.
- Numerous minor usability improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 4.0.0 (Jun 17, 2018)
- Support for obtaining authorization code and access token from external authentication providers.
- Specify pre-execution and post-execution actions for request item.
- Improvements with request item status code validation.
- Ability to stop execution batch on validation failure now available in Express Edition.
- Application setting for auto-indenting text in request data field.
- Additional execution options available in the main window.
- HttpMaster now requires .NET 4.6 or later.
- HttpMaster documentation available online.
- Plenty of minor improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.9.6 (Apr 4, 2018)
- Set active global URL or active global query string in basic request window.
- 'Insert GUID' command supported with actions button.
- Minor UI improvements and various fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.9.5 (Mar 13, 2018)
- Improvements with entering request body (select pretty viewer, automatic indent, etc.).
- Improved display of sent and received cookies in 'Cookies' tab.
- Ability to rewrite received cookie domain when resending it.
- Various UI improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.9.4 (Jan 4, 2018)
- Ability to manage list of recent project files and recent execution data files.
- Additional http options supported in basic request window.
- Action to quickly insert standard http header in request headers field.
- Various UI improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.9.3 (Dec 7, 2017)
- Advanced options (match case, whole word, wrap around) available when searching execution data.
- Ability to open request body data in a separate window for enhanced editing.
- New action button in request item properties for quick access to execution actions.
- Support for creating XML body from Swagger data.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.9.2 (Nov 14, 2017)
- Ability to create new HttpMaster project by importing Swagger (Open API) data.
- Minor UI improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.9.1 (Sep 5, 2017)
- Significantly improved input field for specifying request body.
- Menu options for pretty formatting XML or JSON request body.
- Support for relative Windows paths when uploading or reading disk files.
- Ability to extract multiple parameter values with regular expression from disk file.
- Various minor improvements and fixes.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.9.0 (Jul 18, 2017)
- HttpMaster is now dpi-aware application; user interface is automatically adapted for high DPI displays.
- Revamped icons for better user experience and improved high DPI rendering.
- Option to specify URL encoding behavior on each defined parameter/chaining.
- Support for executing request items from the particular execution group in command line interface.
- Various bug fixes and minor improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.8.1 (Jun 26, 2017)
- Menu options to execute request items without storing execution data (pure execution).
- Ability to select output content type (XML, JSON, etc.) when building request data for posting.
- Change timeout value in basic request window.
- Various UI and feature improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.8.0 (Apr 6, 2017)
- Improved functionality for building request body for posting data.
- Ability to specify initial value for parameters with manually provided value.
- Option to stop execution if data for the chaining cannot be obtained or is empty.
- Option to stop execution if validation of request item fails.
- Duplicate selected execution group.
- Ability to compact XML/JSON when exporting execution results.
- Various fixes and minor improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.7.0 (Jan 2, 2017)
- Support for conditional execution of request items in the execution group.
- New parameter type that prompts user for the value before the execution.
- Support for code folding (outlining) and line numbers in pretty data viewers.
- New pretty viewer for displaying CSS data.
- Simplified action to open additional request items inside basic request window.
- Open all items from selected execution group in basic request window.
- Ability to specify description for every project request item.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.6.0 (Nov 21, 2016)
- Introduction of new viewers for pretty data display powered by ScintillaNET.
- New pretty viewer for display of HTML response data.
- Export execution results to XML or JSON file (also supported with command line interface).
- Ability to apply function to generated or obtained parameter value.
- Specify multiple values for global URL or query string for easier switching between global values
- Improved application options window with couple of new settings.
- Advanced request item properties now available in Express Edition.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.5.1 (Oct 7, 2016)
- Advanced configuration of request headers now also available in Express Edition.
- Display group membership info for particular request item.
- Buttons to quickly add default success/error status codes to the selected project validation.
- Various fixes and minor improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.5.0 (Sep 6, 2016)
- New validation type to check for number of string occurrences in a response body
- Global chaining support; obtain chaining data only once and use it as a global value for all subsequent requests
- New parameter type to obtain string value from a disk file
- Simplified UI for project parameter management
- Field actions' button now supports converting selected text with desired hash algorithm
- Change font size and type for request and response data display
- Change order of execution groups with drag and drop
- Hide particular column in the main window and ability to reset main window column sizes
- Menu option to select all items in the main window and execution window
- Build request body from an existing HTML contents now available in Express Edition
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.4.0 (Jun 24, 2016)
- Support for execution groups
- Ability to specify and store authentication credentials in project properties
- Manage Execution Credentials' menu option available in the main application window
- Option 'Validate each value line separately' supported for all applicable text validation types
- Option 'Validate each line as regular expression' available for all validation types that support separate lines
- Full authentication support now available in Express edition
- Manage execution order with drag & drop now available in Express Edition
- Cookie improvements (correct handling of 'Cookie' header)
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.3.0 (Apr 7, 2016)
- New validation type to validate response body with XPath or JSONPath expression.
- New chaining type to extract value from the response body with XPath or JSONPath expression.
- Ability to apply function to the obtained chaining value.
- Support for any http method (verb).
- Improved status code validation type with the ability to specify custom status code.
- Option to upload selected file as Base64 string.
- Improved welcome window.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.2.0 (Feb 3, 2016)
- Wizard for user-friendly construction of commands for command line interface.
- Support for validations in basic request window.
- Ability to use encrypted passwords in command line interface.
- Advanced project request settings now available in Express Edition.
- Toolbar and keyboard support in 'Manage execution order' window.
- Menu option to reload project file from disk.
- Application setting to display warning message if project from the previous HttpMaster version is opened.
- Column widths in main window are now preserved between application restarts.
- Ability to uninstall license key.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.1.0 (Dec 14, 2015)
- Display a list of request items that use particular parameter, validation, or chaining.
- Menu option to display and reopen recently opened execution files (hmex files).
- Ability to specify which received cookies should be sent with the next request.
- Option to validate each row value separately for particular project validation.
- Option to exclude particular request item when executing selected or all items.
- Application setting to support international (non-ASCII) domain names.
- Content type 'application/soap+xml' displayed with XML viewer by default.
- Option to display and insert valid logical operators in validation expression.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 3.0.0 (Sep 30, 2015)
- Support for request chaining (use data from previous request with the next request).
- Command line interface to automate HttpMaster project execution.
- Save complete execution data to external file (hmex extension).
- Open saved hmex files, including those created with command line interface.
- Include/exclude request item for command line execution.
- Support for TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 security protocols.
- Menu option to apply changes to multiple project request items simultaneously.
- Pause/resume execution of items now available in Express Edition.
- Open only successful/failed item executions now available in Express Edition.
- Toggle visibility of upper/lower pane in execution window now available in Express Edition.
- How to' section available in HttpMaster help.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 2.7.1 (Aug 13, 2015)
- Support for context menu in execution window with the most common actions available.
- Project option to skip certificate validation.
- Ability to open project item as basic request now available in Express Edition (main window support only).
- Various minor UI fixes and improvements.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 2.7.0 (May 4, 2015)
- Support for upload type 'multipart form data'.
- Ability to use dynamic parameters with request headers.
- Option to switch to 'Text view' when entering validation expressions.
- Ability to align execution order values with the current sort order.
- Support for 'file' input type when building request body from HTML.
- Available actions' buttons now supported in Express Edition.
- Support for 'Text Viewer' when viewing response data.
- Application setting to specify disk location for temporary execution data.
- Ability to reset saved sizes and positions for all application windows.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 2.6.1 (Mar 25, 2015)
- UI improvements and fixes regarding high-dpi displays.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 2.6.0 (Mar 7, 2015)
- Introduction of LIFETIME license for Professional Edition.
- Option to specify fixed execution order index for each request item.
- Authentication support in basic request window.
- Ability to manage authentication data in execution window separately from the project authentication data settings.
- Create PDF report with execution data in basic request window.
- Create PDF report with execution data for single execution in execution window.
- Toggle visibility of execution list pane and execution data pane in execution window.
- Toggle visibility of request data pane and execution data pane in basic request window.
- Option to send data in segments added to basic request window.
- Project setting to specify time delay for the first request in execution batch.
- Application setting to specify default execution order type.
- Option to select non-default response data viewer now available in Express Edition.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 2.5.0 (Dec 2, 2014)
- Basic request feature for quick execution of simple internet requests now included in Express Edition.
- Ability to validate response body with regular expression.
- Option to specify time delay between two consecutive requests.
- Introduction of 'Welcome window' for quick access to the most common HttpMaster actions.
- Ability to open multiple request items as basic request.
- New validation type 'Response body is valid XML'.
- New validation type 'Response body is valid JSON'.
- Match case' option with 'Response header value' validation and 'Response URL value' validation.
- Ability to close selected tab with double click.
- Option to clear list of recent projects.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 2.4.0 (Sep 15, 2014)
- Significantly improved automatic building of request body from an existing HTML content - see 'Features' for more information.
- Ability to export execution data to Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf).
- Option to open particular request item as basic request.
- Ability to simultaneously open execution data view of multiple executed items.
- Improved drag and drop of request items in execution window.
- Request data encoding information available in execution data view.
- Correct handling of JPEG orientation metadata in response viewer.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 2.3.0 (Jun 9, 2014)
- Ability to specify proxy data, including authentication.
- New validation type to validate response URL value.
- Option to specify http headers inside request item to override global project headers.
- Support for http protocol version and request encoding in basic internet request.
- Ability to open completed execution as basic request.
- New look of http status code validation type and ability to reset http status codes to default.
- Available actions' button next to the http header field in basic request window.
- Application setting to automatically word wrap text in execution window.
- Word wrap' menu option added to context menu available in execution window.
- Double-click project file name in status bar to open its location in Windows Explorer.
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 2.2.0 (Mar 23, 2014)
- News:
- Support for uploading files
- Select headers to include with request item
- PATCH method supported
- Obtain HTML data for request body from disk file
- Validate response header value
- Headers support in basic request
- Upload files in basic request
- Check for updates at startup
- Various UI improvements
New in HttpMaster Professional Edition 2.1.0 (Nov 18, 2013)
- Support for HTML 5 input types when automatically creating request body from existing HTML content.
- Support for gif images in response viewer.
- Ability to specify custom decimal symbol and custom digit grouping symbol with numeric dynamic parameters.
- New validation type to validate response body size.
- New validation type to validate request duration.
- Associated actions' button for various input fields.
- Ability to clear previous search phrases in execution result toolbar.
- Last used parameter automatically selected when project is opened.
- Last used validation automatically selected when project is opened.
- Rename dynamic parameter' button.
- Rename validation' button.
- Rename request item' menu.
- Copy URL to Clipboard' menu.