The Apache Jakarta Project has released JMeter 2.3.2, an open source (Apache 2.0 license) load testing application written in Java. "Apache JMeter may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources (files, Servlets, Perl scripts, Java Objects, Data Bases and Queries, FTP Servers and more). It can be used to simulate a heavy load on a server, network or object to test its strength or to analyze overall performance under different load types. You can use it to make a graphical analysis of performance or to test your server/script/object behavior under heavy concurrent load." This is mostly a bug fix and optimization release, but there a couple of new features including:

The Proxy server can now record binary requests.
The CSV Dataset configuration element has three new file sharing options: per thread group, per thread, per identifier.