Mihail Stoykov

publish arm64 builds in linux repos

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We now run [tests and build arm64 binaries](https://github.com/grafana/k6/pull/2000) of k6, but don't have deb or rpm packages. [Original report](https://community.k6.io/t/unable-to-install-k6-on-ubuntu/2192) from the community forum

Update github actions to node 20 from 16

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Node 16 is EoL and github is [deprecating](https://github.blog/changelog/2023-09-22-github-actions-transitioning-from-node-16-to-node-20/) it and actions based on it. We do apperantly used them quite a lot. This hopefully will be just a simple bump...

Run tests in separate process so that we actually test loading proto definitions at runtime

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Originally raised in this [comment](https://github.com/grafana/k6/issues/3160#issuecomment-1620990687) by @thiagodpf. ### What? The current unit tests run the server and clients in the same process. gRPC seems to have a global registry for...

Fix `require` to be specification compliant in respect to what it resolves relative to

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### Brief summary k6's `require` has always resolved specifiers relative to the current "root of execution" module/script instead of to relative to the script/module the file is in. An example...

Deny setting operations on __ENV variables from JS code

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**Update** — the current agreement from the comments: https://github.com/grafana/k6/issues/1722#issuecomment-796752500 >So, yeah, I think we should either close this issue and https://github.com/grafana/k6/pull/1877, or "fix" it by freezing __ENV so any attempts...

Using a generator as default function

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Now that k6 supports generator the following code ```javascript export default function* () { console.log(1); yield 1; console.log(2); yield 2; console.log(3); yield 3; } ``` is valid and will not...

SharedArray does not work with async functions

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```javascript import {SharedArray} from "k6/data"; let s = new SharedArray("cool", async() => { return [1, 2, 3]; }) export default function () { console.log(s); } ``` Will give you ```...

External Threshold

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### Preface: This is a more of a discussion type of issue and as a reference I can refer users and contributors. I also didn't link every issue or PR...

implementation of scale using jumps

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This implementation saves the offset from the start of the cycle instead of from the previous step, called jumps later. This favors big numerator segments as can be seen by...

k6: group special async function treatment

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A group provided with an async function will now: 1. Treat the whole time it take for the async function promise to finisher the duration of the group. 2. It...