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Appvance IQ (AIQ) 5.3.11 Release Notes

Summary

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.

The release keeps to a familiar theme for AIQ: fewer manual steps between a test and an answer. The new performance reporting is the clearest example — a completed run now arrives as a shareable Excel view with charts and SLA compliance, so results go straight to stakeholders instead of being rebuilt by hand.

Post-upgrade action required: AIQ 5.3.x → AIQ 5.3.11

Not required if you are upgrading from 5.3.8 or later.

If your controller was running AIQ 5.3.7 or earlier before this upgrade, ask your Appvance account team for the post-upgrade cleanup utility and run it once when the upgrade completes.

Why it is needed: 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: Your Appvance account team will provide the utility for your platform (Windows or Linux/macOS), walk you through the run, and confirm the log with you. 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.

Database and MySQL guides

Schema deployment and upgrade guidance for this release is published in our documentation portal. If you need the AIQ Database Schema Deployment Guide or the MySQL 8.0 → 8.4 RDS Upgrade Guide, your Appvance account team will point you to the current version.

New features

  • Core: Added a “request OTP code” step to support one-time-passcode login flows.
  • Web Designer: Added a readDoc method to read downloaded .doc and .docx files.
  • Web Designer: Added validation of blob contents for URLs.
  • Scenario Editor: Added Chrome containerized support.
  • Performance: Added an Excel report with performance analysis charts.
  • Performance: Added an SLA compliance sheet to the Excel performance report, with selectable percentile duration.
  • Bulk Scenario Type: Detects .ds script data files and asks whether to add them to the scenario and assign them to the script.
  • Test Designer: Added support for the Salesforce Inspector extension (Chrome and Edge).

Summary of improvements

Core

  • Improved browser navigation handling for non-HTML content and for actions that trigger alerts and downloads.
  • Fixed an issue where the Iteration summary report sometimes could not be downloaded.
  • Fixed PDF corruption caused by UTF-8 encoding during IDE upload.
  • Reduced merge conflicts in Storage Manager, Git, and the IDE.
  • Added logging for the “Library Accessor” action.
  • Fixed duplicate states appearing during AISG scans.

Web, Mobile and Desktop Designers

  • Fixed the Export to Service Workbench limitation caused by a unique login per iteration.

Overall improvements

  • More reliable Performance reporting, with richer Excel output.
  • Stronger Web Designer support for document and download handling.
  • More stable Storage Manager, Git, and IDE workflows.
  • Broader browser and authentication coverage (Chrome containers, OTP, Salesforce Inspector).

Release details

Build: 5.3.11-637953
Release date: October 26, 2026
Distribution: available from your Appvance account team

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