# Appvance IQ (AIQ) 5.3.11 Release Notes

<div id="bkmrk-release-5.3.11-focus" style="background:rgba(164,206,61,0.13);border-left:4px solid #a4ce3d;border-radius:6px;padding:20px 24px;margin:0 0 26px;">Release 5.3.11 focuses on **Performance reporting** (Excel charts and an SLA compliance sheet), new **Web Designer** capabilities (`readDoc`, blob validation, Library Accessor logging), and **Storage Manager and IDE** reliability. It also adds an OTP code step, Chrome containerized support in Scenario Editor, and Enterprise licensing for GENI.

Every release lands on the same idea: AIQ stays the system of record for what ran, where it ran, against which environment and data — so your team spends its time on quality, not maintenance.

</div><table id="bkmrk-100%2Btest-to-script-c" style="width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;margin:0 0 34px;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:33.33%;text-align:center;padding:10px 8px;border-right:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.28);"><span style="display:block;font-size:28px;font-weight:700;line-height:1.1;">100+</span><span style="display:block;margin-top:7px;font-size:11px;letter-spacing:0.07em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.68;">test-to-script conversions / hour</span></td><td style="width:33.33%;text-align:center;padding:10px 8px;border-right:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.28);"><span style="display:block;font-size:28px;font-weight:700;line-height:1.1;">95%+</span><span style="display:block;margin-top:7px;font-size:11px;letter-spacing:0.07em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.68;">GENI conversion accuracy</span></td><td style="width:33.33%;text-align:center;padding:10px 8px;"><span style="display:block;font-size:28px;font-weight:700;line-height:1.1;">10×</span><span style="display:block;margin-top:7px;font-size:11px;letter-spacing:0.07em;text-transform:uppercase;opacity:0.68;">application coverage</span></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Before you upgrade: one cleanup step

<div id="bkmrk-not-required-if-you-" style="background:rgba(217,164,0,0.12);border-left:4px solid #d9a400;border-radius:6px;padding:18px 22px;margin:0 0 34px;">*Not required if you are upgrading from 5.3.8 or later.*

**Why:** 5.3.7 and earlier shipped with an updater bug that could leave old, stale `.jar` files sitting alongside their replacements instead of being overwritten during an upgrade. Left in place, those files can produce runtime errors that have nothing to do with your configuration.

**Who needs it:** Only controllers that were running 5.3.0 through 5.3.7 before upgrading. If you are coming from 5.2.x or older, no action is needed.

**What to do:** Ask your Appvance account team for the post-upgrade cleanup utility and run it once when the upgrade completes. They will provide the version for your platform (Windows or Linux/macOS), walk you through the run and confirm the log. The utility only removes jars strictly older than the installed version — it never touches current or newer files — and writes a log of everything it did to the distribution folder for your records.

</div>### What’s new in 5.3.11

<table id="bkmrk-corea-%E2%80%9Crequest-otp-c" style="width:100%;border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:10px 10px;margin:0 0 26px;"><tbody><tr><td style="width:50%;vertical-align:top;background:rgba(128,128,128,0.07);border:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.22);border-radius:6px;padding:16px 18px;"><span style="display:block;font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:0.08em;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:700;opacity:0.62;margin-bottom:7px;">Core</span>A **“request OTP code”** step, so one-time-passcode login flows are testable out of the box.

</td><td style="width:50%;vertical-align:top;background:rgba(128,128,128,0.07);border:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.22);border-radius:6px;padding:16px 18px;"><span style="display:block;font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:0.08em;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:700;opacity:0.62;margin-bottom:7px;">Scenario Editor</span>**Chrome containerized** support — no more version drift between machines.

</td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;background:rgba(128,128,128,0.07);border:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.22);border-radius:6px;padding:16px 18px;"><span style="display:block;font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:0.08em;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:700;opacity:0.62;margin-bottom:7px;">Web Designer</span>New `readDoc` method reads downloaded **.doc and .docx** files, with validation of blob contents for URLs.

</td><td style="vertical-align:top;background:rgba(128,128,128,0.07);border:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.22);border-radius:6px;padding:16px 18px;"><span style="display:block;font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:0.08em;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:700;opacity:0.62;margin-bottom:7px;">Test Designer</span>Support for the **Salesforce Inspector** extension on Chrome and Edge.

</td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;background:rgba(128,128,128,0.07);border:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.22);border-radius:6px;padding:16px 18px;"><span style="display:block;font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:0.08em;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:700;opacity:0.62;margin-bottom:7px;">Performance</span>An **Excel report with analysis charts**, plus an **SLA compliance sheet** with selectable percentile duration.

</td><td style="vertical-align:top;background:rgba(128,128,128,0.07);border:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.22);border-radius:6px;padding:16px 18px;"><span style="display:block;font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:0.08em;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:700;opacity:0.62;margin-bottom:7px;">Bulk Scenario Type</span>Detects `.ds` data files and offers to add them to the scenario and assign them to the script.

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### What got better

<div id="bkmrk-core-browser-navigat" style="background:rgba(128,128,128,0.07);border:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.22);border-radius:6px;padding:18px 22px;margin:0 0 14px;"><span style="display:block;font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:0.08em;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:700;opacity:0.62;margin-bottom:12px;">Core</span><span style="display:inline-block;width:8px;height:8px;background:#a4ce3d;border-radius:2px;margin-right:11px;vertical-align:middle;"></span>Browser navigation handles non-HTML content, alerts and downloads more reliably.

<span style="display:inline-block;width:8px;height:8px;background:#a4ce3d;border-radius:2px;margin-right:11px;vertical-align:middle;"></span>The Iteration summary report downloads every time.

<span style="display:inline-block;width:8px;height:8px;background:#a4ce3d;border-radius:2px;margin-right:11px;vertical-align:middle;"></span>UTF-8 encoding no longer corrupts PDFs on IDE upload.

<span style="display:inline-block;width:8px;height:8px;background:#a4ce3d;border-radius:2px;margin-right:11px;vertical-align:middle;"></span>Fewer merge conflicts across Storage Manager, Git and the IDE.

<span style="display:inline-block;width:8px;height:8px;background:#a4ce3d;border-radius:2px;margin-right:11px;vertical-align:middle;"></span>The “Library Accessor” action now logs what it did.

<span style="display:inline-block;width:8px;height:8px;background:#a4ce3d;border-radius:2px;margin-right:11px;vertical-align:middle;"></span>No more duplicate states during AISG scans.

</div><div id="bkmrk-web%2C-mobile-and-desk" style="background:rgba(128,128,128,0.07);border:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.22);border-radius:6px;padding:18px 22px;margin:0 0 26px;"><span style="display:block;font-size:10.5px;letter-spacing:0.08em;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:700;opacity:0.62;margin-bottom:12px;">Web, Mobile and Desktop Designers</span><span style="display:inline-block;width:8px;height:8px;background:#a4ce3d;border-radius:2px;margin-right:11px;vertical-align:middle;"></span>Export to Service Workbench works even when each iteration uses a unique login.

</div>Taken together: reporting you can hand straight to stakeholders, stronger document and download handling in Web Designer, steadier Storage Manager and Git workflows, and wider browser and authentication coverage.

### Release details

<table id="bkmrk-build-5.3.11-637953-" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;margin:0 0 30px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:9px 26px 9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.22);opacity:0.7;">Build</td><td style="padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.22);">**5.3.11-637953**</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:9px 26px 9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.22);opacity:0.7;">Released</td><td style="padding:9px 0;border-bottom:1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.22);">**October 26, 2026**</td></tr><tr><td style="padding:9px 26px 9px 0;opacity:0.7;">Distribution</td><td style="padding:9px 0;">From your Appvance account team</td></tr></tbody></table>

Upgrading the database? The **AIQ Database Schema Deployment Guide** and the **MySQL 8.0 → 8.4 RDS Upgrade Guide** are published in our documentation portal — your Appvance account team will point you to the current version. Questions about this release, or ready to upgrade? They are the fastest route.