Mule Runtime Engine 4.6.0 Release Notes

Memory leak in MuleApplicationClassloader no longer occurs while undeploying an application.

W-16823349

A batch serialization error no longer occurs in Java 17 when one of the steps throws SQLException.

W-16546951

A deadlock no longer occurs when consuming the payload in the completion callback of the HTTP client sendAsync method.

W-16640190

NullPointerException no longer occurs when undeploying an application with native libraries in Windows OS.

W-16712841

Log4j2 monorepo is upgraded to 2.24.1.

W-16889265

The commons-io:commons-io dependency is upgraded to 2.17.0.

W-16843119

The stripTrailingZeroes compatibility flag is now added to preserve the decimal format.

W-17030593

Apache POI folder used for temporal files is no longer deleted.

W-16899674

Spring Core is upgraded to 5.3.39.

W-16519084

The configuration-properties encoding parameter is no longer ignored.

W-12228892

Web Service Consumer Connector and RosettaNet Connector no longer fails when there is an HTTP TLS transport configuration.

W-16288302

InitialisationException is no longer thrown when using the Raise Error component with an extra space at the end of the type field.

W-16237424

Kryo serialization now works as expected with ResourceOwnerOAuthContextWithRefreshState when using Java 17.

W-16533466

Kryo serialization now works as expected when executing the Rate Limit policy in Java17.

W-16843706

Fatal errors no longer occur when loading native libraries in Java 17.

W-16787783

java.lang.InstantiationError : java.util.Map is no longer thrown when applying an authentication policy.

W-16595277

When the feature flag anypoint.platform.keep.default.policy.format is set to true or the policy minimum Mule version is 4.5.0, the policy name format is now ${policyName} @ ${artifactName} - ${flowName}.

W-16169887

Logging for the Analytics .db files cleanup is now improved.

W-16624763

grizzly-ahc is now upgraded in the HTTP service.

W-16734361

Race condition now causes an infinite loop in Grizzly AHC.

W-16599945

DataWeave descendant selector performance is now improved.

W-16343577

Streaming capability for arguments at sum, countBy, and sumBy functions is now enabled.

W-16125755

Input/output MimeType properties are now preserved as expected.

W-16161736

Access error for Java 17 encapsulation errors is now improved.

W-15705596

Coercion error is now caught inside try as expected.

W-15323897

NullPointerException is no longer thrown when DataWeave transforms a RetryPolicyExhaustedException to a JSON format on a Java 17 runtime.

W-15643200

Properties files are now located in the lib/user directory during application deployment.

W-16404468

com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException is no longer thrown while deploying an application.

W-16343071

Debug logs for custom policies containing a custom extension/connector now work correctly.

W-15286605

The process of unloading native libraries in Windows OS running on Java 8 and Java 11 is now improved.

W-16375439

cxfVersion is upgraded to 3.5.9.

W-16436783

JaCoCo is upgraded to 0.8.11.

W-14866639

maven-jar-plugin is upgraded to 3.3.0.

W-14580541

Policies with minimum Mule version 4.4.0 now use the flow name as part of the artifact name, when the feature flag anypoint.platform.keep.default.policy.format=true is set.

W-16169887

NullPointerException is no longer thrown when API Gateway tries to dispose an empty cluster.

W-16540685

API Gateway pollers are no longer initialized when the API Gateway is started in offline mode.

W-16093885

Race condition no longer causes byte buffer disposal errors when deploying policies.

W-16450677

DataWeave now preserves MimeType properties correctly.

W-16161736

Loaded native libraries are now copied into a separate temporary folder to avoid issues while redeploying applications in Windows OS.

W-15894519

Parameter resolution error handling is no longer affected when the parameterized operation is inside a dynamically referenced subflow.

W-15923581

The OAuth token invalidation status is now communicated to other nodes in a cluster when a token is invalidated on one node.

W-15154658

Flows now honour the state configured in flows.deployment.properties when restarting the app, regardless of the initial state. To enable this feature, use the mule.honour.persisted.flow.state system property. This only applies to Standalone and Hybrid deployments.

W-15750334

Mule runtime startup no longer fails when MULE_HOME has a blank space on Windows OS.

W-15346051

A serialization exception is no longer thrown when a Batch Step fails with a ModuleException in Java 17.

W-15808825

mule-script-module is now improved to ensure that beans no longer contain invalid references to injected dependencies, whether they are directly or indirectly reliant on MuleConfiguration.

W-15832941

Jars in lib/user are now visible from jars in lib/opt. For example, using cluster persistence with the JDBC driver provided in lib/user no longer fails with a Could not load driverClass error.

W-16010357

Serialization now works as expected with Batch Job and Salesforce BulkOperationResult in Java 17.

W-16105403

Batch module no longer fails with a Could not serialize object error when client ID enforcement policy is enabled.

W-16124318

Deploying a policy no longer fails while using a mule directory with whitespaces.

W-15440100

ClassNotFoundException is no longer thrown when upgrading from Mule runtime 4.4.0 using the OAuth 2 authentication code and Object Store V2 stored tokens.

W-15595791

NullPointerException no longer occurs when having MQ connector as a dependency in MUnit 3.1.0.

W-15734679

API Gateway initialization no longer fails if quorum isn’t reached in cluster mode.

W-15951155

Hard timeout for platform requests is now available by setting up the anypoint.platform.request_timeout in milliseconds.

W-16141554

Argument materialization is now improved at the dw::Runtime::try function.

W-15323897

Streaming capability is now enabled for arguments of sum, countBy, and sumBy functions.

W-16125755

The mule-assembly-content-descriptor file size no longer differs between mule-ee-distribution-standalone ZIP and Tar GZ distributions.

W-15397610

The redeployment of an app with a domain using a Groovy component no longer throws the groovy.lang.MissingMethodException exception.

W-15750766

Batch job instance queue store files are removed after completion.

W-15546969

Cache scope with multiple computations no longer occurs if events arrive concurrently for an absent key.

W-14604517

Tanuki wrapper configuration is now enabled for AArch64.

W-15839796

MDC context is reset after the XML SDK operation is executed.

W-15206528

MUnit tests no longer fail with groupId cannot be null when using a parent POM for dependencies and plugins.

W-14998254

Maven plugin versions are updated to be compatible with Maven 3.9.

W-15554914

JRuby dependency is upgraded to 9.4.7.0.

W-15757000

Deploying a policy in Windows no longer fails in folders containing whitespaces.

W-16112611

Open Telemetry tracing support is now added to policies.

W-15633203

Kerberos is now enabled for proxy authentication against Anypoint Platform for Gateway capabilities.

W-15642605

Default stronger validations for policies are now added after applying the property anypoint.platform.validate_policy_schemas.

W-15769926

Logging for Gateway Analytics initialization is now improved.

W-15904845

Handling of connection errors with API platform is now improved.

W-15809377

Default gatekeeping for APIs that fail when doing a rollback is now added using the property anypoint.platform.gatekeeper.block_failed_revert.

W-15427352

Enforced Java accessibility restrictions only for Mule apps with DataWeave language level version 2.6 and later and executing with Java 17 and later.

W-15832793

Materialization issues no longer occur with schema properties.

W-15839190

The Flat File module now adds the substituteCharacterAsMissingValue reader property.

W-15571377

The Flat File module now adds the fillRedefinesByMaxLength writer property.

W-15973636

Applications configured with OAuth and running on Java 17 are now correctly serialized.

W-15425364

You can now see the number of flows considered for UBP and what those flows are when the application starts.

W-14401338

plexus-archiver is upgraded to 4.9.1.

W-14821825

The version in the pom.xml file is now parsed when containing the property ${text}.

W-15228973

Events with statistics are now correctly serialized for applications running on Java 17.

W-15542604

The exception java.lang.IllegalAccessException no longer occurs when using itemSequenceInfo in DataWeave.

W-15617764

DataWeave compiled expressions cache is no longer overpopulated when using nested templates.

W-15782010

Batch job serialization now works as expected when running on Java 17.

W-15345812

Tracing variables inside XML operations are no longer propagated to the flows.

W-15206528

jackson-databind is upgraded to 2.15.4.

W-15628361

NullPointerException no longer occurs on AST-deserialized applications using Anypoint Custom Metrics Connector.

W-15677894

Resiliency is now improved on policy application and updates.

W-15426519

A java.io.IOException exception no longer occurs when writing the same binary input multiple times for JSON and XML formats.

W-14589732

The Excel writer now generates XLSX files using ZIP specification 2.0.

W-15534640

When comparing a Date with a String representation of a date, the Date format is now used to coerce the String accordingly.

W-15478713

Access error messages for Java 17 encapsulation errors are now improved.

W-15705596

Client, policy, and API names are now shown when logging Analytics events.

W-15294568

When upgrading a policy, templates are now downloaded before the previous version is removed.

W-15212679

When applying a policy that initially failed but was later applied successfully, the retry initiated by the gateway no longer causes an exception error.

W-15186491

Joda-Time is upgraded to v2.12.7.

W-15511864

Apache CXF is upgraded to version 3.5.8.

W-15293232

Getting metadata from a XSD with vc:minVersion=1.1 no longer causes a NullPointerException error.

W-15193303

ArithmeticException no longer executes toHex with non-integer numbers.

W-15006840

Performance degradation no longer occurs when an array is concatenated.

W-15399854

NullPointerException no longer occurs when deploying domains.

W-15159880

Hazelcast is upgraded to 5.2.5.

W-15274674

Spring is upgraded to 5.3.33.

W-15260752

GraalJS is upgraded to 22.3.5.

W-15284493

MUnit tests using tracing module and "Set logging variable" now work as expected.

W-14773408

Using vc:minVersion="1.1" in XSD schema no longer throws NullPointerException in XML SDK connectors.

W-15081363

Template parser validation is now improved.

W-15141905

Inconsistent behavior no longer occurs between in-memory and streaming XML parsers for deciding document encoding.

W-15110015

Streaming for DataWeave-based data formats like ndjson now works as expected.

W-15262860

The Excel reader no longer reads furigana characters.

W-14991276

Coercion of the third parameter on the ternary function executor now works as expected.

W-15061008

Performance is now improved for certain For Each scenarios.

W-14678431

HTTP Request Connector no longer throws Connection limit exceeded, cannot process request when maxConnections is set to 1.

W-14686211

Disabling the enableNotifications flag on the On Error Continue component now works as expected.

W-14954677

Multi-step batch jobs can now be correctly resumed and finished after being stopped.

W-14726677

The error message is now improved for exceptions that occur when loading an extension because of Java version incompatibility.

W-14934626

The error message namespace already exists is no longer thrown when using the same namespace with the current module or extension namespace for apps using the XML SDK component.

W-14559071

Transactions' timeout is now honored. When a transaction times out, it is rolled back, and an error is thrown that can be handled with error handling. To enable this, activate the mule.tx.error.when.timeout feature flag.

W-14128870

Memory leaks no longer occur when using the mule-scripting-module dependency with HTTP Connector.

W-14479158

Java JDK inlineDeclaration now resolves correctly for stateless subtypes.

W-14645134

Performance is now improved when coercing addition and subtraction operations.

W-14927555