# K6 v0.38.0, GrafanaCONline, news, and more **URL:** \ **Category:** Announcements\ **Created:** [May 16, 2022, 4:10pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/k6-v0-38-0-grafanaconline-news-and-more/99676 "2022-05-16T16:10:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ppcano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/ppcano/32/35247_2.png) [@ppcano](https://community.grafana.com/u/ppcano)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2022, 4:10pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/k6-v0-38-0-grafanaconline-news-and-more/99676/1 "2022-05-16T16:10:39Z")
> #### ๐Ÿ‘€ Originally posted at [https://k6.io/blog/k6-product-update-v0-38/](https://k6.io/blog/k6-product-update-v0-38/) This spring seemed to fly by, but not without some exciting announcements and a little celebrating! Check out the latest news. ## ๐Ÿ™Œ v0.38.0 released [k6 v0.38.0](https://github.com/grafana/k6/releases/tag/v0.38.0) is here! This release primarily contains support of a new AWS JS client, maintenance efforts, and a variety of improvements. The new AWS JS client, K6-jslib-aws lets you interact with AWS S3 and Secret Manager from your k6 script. Read more about this new library in the [k6 documentation](https://k6.io/docs/javascript-api/jslib/aws/). ![k6-jslib-aws](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/2X/6/6c4fa9b4311fb308f9d372ac9591411d19e8122e.png) Some other improvements include: - A better way to tag k6 stages - Add the ability to decrypt k6 traffic - Access consolidated options through the `exec.test.options` - Logs now print the content of objects and arrays - Disable output colors through an environment variable - Prevent starting a test with errors on the threshold configuration - Passphrase-protected TLS private keys For a full list of new features, check out [Release Notes](https://github.com/grafana/k6/releases/tag/v0.38.0). Want to hear directly from the k6 developers about the new k6 v0.38 OSS release? We are hosting a [k6 Community Call](https://www.meetup.com/k6-load-testing/events/285674892/) on Friday, May 20, 2022. Come and join us! ## โœจ New in k6 Cloud - [Private load zones](https://k6.io/docs/cloud/cloud-faq/private-load-zones/) let you start tests on k6 Cloud but have them execute on your own cloud infrastructure, provisioned within AWS. - We have also been improving [k6 Cloud App for Grafana](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-k6-app/) including simplifying the installation experience. Click [here](https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-k6-app/?tab=changelog) for a list of improvements and watch this [Office Hour](https://youtu.be/bt6civUmHUU) to hear directly from the engineers who built it. ## ๐ŸŒ xk6-browser xk6-browser is our extension for browser automation to test end-to-end websites. The team has been working hard to bring new APIs and stabilize the project. Many community members have been using xk6-browser for the last few months, and we have received a ton of great feedback. If you want to know whatโ€™s new, [v0.3.0](https://github.com/grafana/xk6-browser/pull/265) is very close. And in the spirit of transparency and building together with the community, we share its [roadmap](https://github.com/grafana/xk6-browser/blob/main/ROADMAP.md) publicly with our short, mid, and long-term goals. In this [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y04wavsZxSs), we walk you through how to get started with xk6-browser. ## ๐ŸŒฑ k6chaijs [k6chaijs](https://k6.io/docs/javascript-api/jslib/k6chaijs/) is a new assertion library that provides chainable assertions with [expect](https://www.chaijs.com/api/bdd/) . Itโ€™s an alternative to [check()](https://k6.io/docs/javascript-api/k6/check/) and [group()](https://k6.io/docs/javascript-api/k6/group/). k6chaijs handles Javascript exceptions automatically, making your test code resilient to failures. ![chaijs-code-sample](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/2X/0/03e9b91c3ca857c8a22d02115116a5b6950eb266.png) ## โš™ k6 Extensions - [Event loops](https://pkg.go.dev/go.k6.io/k6/js/eventloop) and [gRPC](https://github.com/codebien/xk6-grpc-example) are now supported in Extensions. - [xk6-websockets](https://github.com/grafana/xk6-websockets): new extension using event loops and enabling a single VU to have multiple concurrent connections for better performance. - [xk6-kubernetes](https://github.com/grafana/xk6-kubernetes): query nodes, schedule jobs, create pods, run commands, ephemeral containers and more foundational work. ## ๐Ÿ“ฃ GrafanaCONline 2022 Weโ€™ve got over 30 exciting sessions planned for our biggest Grafana community event of the year including [Grafana k6: Testing without Limits](https://grafana.com/go/grafanaconline/2022/demo-load-testing-with-k6/) on June 17: This talk will provide an overview of the extensibility provided by k6 and its ecosystem of more than 50 extensions. [View the full agenda and register now](https://go.grafana.com/MzU2LVlGRy0zODkAAAGEBScPyyqJPPUM3oIRPERFdZQnV-D0X_HK3ClNBSTcFKlG1NGRSWzqIp-T2D-GxKfefe0CaNU=). ![grafanaconline-2022-testing-without-limits](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/2X/6/65be2b6293c82f6e28bf1d35f93126e51f405e0f.jpeg) ## ๐ŸŽ‰ Award [G2 recognized k6 as a High Performer in the load testing category](https://www.g2.com/products/k6/reviews). Kudos to the entire k6 team and community! ![g2-award-k6](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/2X/6/6708e9dab8a2fabe6f269b8f24260ed63e287d45.jpeg) ## ๐Ÿ—ž Must-reads - [Thereโ€™s more than Performance Testing - Chaos Engineering with k6 and Steadybit](https://k6.io/blog/chaos-engineering-with-k6-and-steadybit/) [blog] - [k6 at StarEast 2022- Leandro SrPerf](https://k6.io/blog/k6-at-stareast/) [blog] - [End-to-end browser testing using xk6-browser with Thomas Wikman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtMJfasNjSY) [k6 Office Hours] - [Deployment-time testing with Grafana k6 and Flagger](https://grafana.com/blog/2022/04/28/deployment-time-testing-with-grafana-k6-and-flagger/) [blog] - [How we scaled our new Prometheus TSDB Grafana Mimir to 1 billion active series](https://grafana.com/blog/2022/04/08/how-we-scaled-our-new-prometheus-tsdb-grafana-mimir-to-1-billion-active-series/) [blog] Happy testing! -The k6 team