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Mule ESB 3.3.3 Release Notes

May 15, 2013

MuleSoft is pleased to announce the release of Mule ESB 3.3.3 which offers improvements to the core Mule ESB product and the graphical IDE, Mule Studio.

These release notes apply to Mule ESB Enterprise. We have applied all of the core changes in 3.3.3 to the Enterprise runtime.

Access the MuleSoft Enterprise Customer Portal to download Mule ESB 3.3.3 Enterprise Edition and take advantage of an improved and hardened Mule ESB.

Document Revision History

May 15, 2013, v1.0 Initial Publication

Current Release Version

Enterprise Edition Community Edition

ESB

Version 3.3.3 Build e6e2269e

n/a

Studio

Version 3.4.0
Build 201305141336

Management Console

Build Number: 5731754fe4

n/a

SAP Enterprise
Connector

2.0

CMIS Connector

1.8

Magento Connector

1.8

MongoDB Connector

3.0

Salesforce Connector

5.2.0

Twilio Connector

1.4

Twitter Connector

2.7.3

Noteworthy

  • Performance improvement in Studio’s XML Validator - The performance of Studios XML Validator has been significantly improved, facilitating quicker navigation between the Visual and XML editors and reliable data persistance between editors.

  • Maven integration improvements in Studio - A new populate repository improves the experience of Maven integration and reliability in Studio.

  • Studio Anypoint Connector validation with runtime - When you run an application that contains versions of Anypoint Connectors which conflict with the version of your projects runtime, Mule displays a warning to advise you of the conflict specifics and asks if you wish to proceed to run the application.

  • Support for multiple runtimes in Studio - Beyond the Community runtime, you can download multiple Enterprise runtimes in Studio, using different runtimes with your Studio projects as desired. Read more about installing extra runtimes in Studio.

  • Upgraded CXF - The CXF framework, which Mule uses to work with Web services, is upgraded to version 2.5.9.

  • Improved cluster performance - When using a cluster, systems which involve high CPU consumption function smoothly.

  • Fixed continuations support on the Jetty transport

Hardware and Software System Requirements

For most use cases, Mule ESB 3.3.3 does not change the hardware and software system requirements established by Mule ESB 3.3.2.

Please contact MuleSoft with any questions you may have about system requirements.

Important Notes and Known Issues in this Release

This list covers some of the known issues with Mule ESB 3.3.3. Please read this list before reporting any issues you may have spotted.

Mule ESB

Issue Description

MULE-6833

GZip transformer failing

MULE-6800

Thread leak on Mule redeployments for embedded

MULE-6712

Old dated message processing expressions

EE-3094

CXF Proxy service not honoring xsd schema location when validation is enabled

EE-3074

Undeploy of the foreach example not working on windows xp/ windows server 2003

EE-3052

MEL is inconsistent with rootMessage in foreach

EE-3046

HTTP Date header is should be formatted in 24-hour range

MULE-6215

Inconsistent and wrong script bindings

EE-3140

JDBC-EE BatchManager does not commit batch

EE-3139

Special characters in SFTP outbound endpoint 'path' not allowed

EE-3037

Leftover debug message left in JMS Message Dispatcher

EE-3023

static-resource-handler doesn’t work when http inbound doesn’t have path attribute.

EE-2994

populate_m2_repo is retrieving unnecessary jars and missing necessary jars

Mule Studio

STUDIO-3239

sObject in Salesforce connector is lost in Linux

n/a

When installing a new ESB runtime, Studio might change the runtime version on your current projects in the workspace. This has been fix for project created with the current release but it will affect any project created with a previous version of Studio ( current: 3.4.0-201305141336 ) in your workspace.

Mule Management Console

n/a

Known issue: If you place a cluster in a server group, you may experience issues with deployments which target the group instead of the cluster directly. Workaround: Use the cluster as one of the direct targets of your deployments. If you experience issues, check the apps directory in your Mule(s) to to confirm that they are functional.

n/a

Known issue: If you add a server to a group via the server details panel, using the settings tab and editing the server info, deployments targeting the group are not transferred to the newly added server.
Workaround: Use the Add to Group button in the server list grid.

Fixed in this Release

Mule ESB

Issue Description

EE-2755

MESSAGE-PROCESSOR notification events are not detected by the notification publisher

EE-2871

Mule cluster graceful shutdown loses messages

EE-2872

JBossTS properties getting ignored

EE-2873

Missing MANIFEST.MF information do not allow to start mule while using mule-ee-distribution-embedded-3.3.x.jar

EE-2898

High CPU Usage in Mule 3.3.1 Clustering

EE-2922

Installing security example fails

EE-2924

mule-ee-parent-poms should include the datamapper parent too

EE-2966

File Transport, moveToDirectory & moveToPattern doesn’t create the output directory if streaming is true

EE-2975

Provide a Locking mechanism for synchronization of Mule components in a clustered environment

EE-2982

The Redelivery Policy of the RollbackExceptionStrategy doesn’t work on Cluster

EE-2995

NullPointException when using splitter/aggregator in a clustered environment

EE-3112

Hazelcast refuses to start with truststore (ServiceRegistry issue)

MULE-5301

The MailMessageFactory adds inbound email headers to the outbound scope of the message

MULE-5954

Mule cannot configure JBOSS TM properties - defaultTimeout & txReaperTimeout

MULE-6443

poolingProfileType should include a variable to specify time between eviction

MULE-6448

The foreach stops the flow when in a xpath collection one tag is empty

MULE-6521

Mule packaging incorrectly registered by mule maven plugin

MULE-6540

Provide a Locking mechanism for synchronization of Mule components

MULE-6549

jBPM, MuleSendActivity.perform is not thread safe

MULE-6550

Different build numbers are displayed from the same distribution

MULE-6553

MESSAGE-PROCESSOR notification events are not detected by the notification publisher

MULE-6555

File transport moveToPattern fails to create directories if streaming is true

MULE-6556

IdempotentMessageFilter does not allow setting onUnaccepted

MULE-6654

Message format is wrong in AbstractAddVariablePropertyTransformer.transformMessage()

MULE-6809

When using a persisten object store keys that are not valid file names fail

MULE-6796

Allow MEL expressions in cxf:property of cxf:ws-config

MULE-6794

CXF WS-Security - SecurityContext is not set after successful authentication

MULE-6791

Jetty inbound endpoint configured with useContinuations="true" sets http.method as outbound rather than inbound

MULE-6790

File transport sets the Directory attribute incorrectly

MULE-6788

Upgrade CXF to 2.5.9

MULE-6783

HTTP inbound keep-alive attribute not overriding the keepAlive attribute of HTTP connector

MULE-6776

TransactedPollingMessageReceiver doesn’t call Exception Listener

MULE-6773

TCP/HTTP/HTTPS Connectors: invalid maxThreadsIdle

MULE-6768

After applying HTTP Basic Auth Policy, start to get a NotSerializableException

MULE-6766

foreach not accepting property placeholder for batchSize

MULE-6737

Application with IMAP connector doesn’t undeploy

MULE-6732

HTTP(S) transport generates everlasting temporary files

MULE-6731

File inbound endpoint triggers multiple flow instances if file read time is longer than pollingFrequency

MULE-6724

make maven buildnumber plugin work with git

MULE-6697

GZipTransformer does not support streaming

MULE-6690

StringToEmailMessage doesn’t encode subject correctly

MULE-6633

Typo in AsyncInterceptingMessageProcessor.isProcessAsync()

MULE-6630

Expression component serializes requests

MULE-6629

Concurrent modification exception when evaluation MEL expressions

MULE-6617

First successful not working when used with inputstream based transports

MULE-6616

mule-project-archetype:create generates a POM that uses version 1.6 of maven-mule-plugin

MULE-6612

Core exports unnecessary transient dependency to junit

MULE-6607

NullPointerException on commons-pool when using jdbc queries nested on inbound/outbound endpoints

MULE-6595

Monitored Object Store is using the wrong class loader

MULE-6593

Fligh Reservation system does not recognize JSON command on IE 9.

MULE-6591

Exception on shutdown provokes app redeployment

MULE-6590

Removing anchor file does not undeploy application

MULE-6587

Concurrent XA transactions on same resource manager will lose messages during rollback

MULE-6585

VM transport should use getSize instead of peek to determine if their are more messages

MULE-6522

JDK version checking does not always work inside an IDE

MULE-6499

Java version checking should not log a warning with a supported version

MULE-6485

useContinuations parameter failure

MULE-6064

The Default Persistent Object Store does not accept any Serializable key

MULE-5363

Improper response from ws:proxy (pattern based configuration) when request header contains Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

MULE-5276

processing.time.monitor thread leak

EE-3075

CSVToMapsTransformer fails with backslash t as delimiter

EE-3078

Running a SELECT query with the JTDS driver fails

EE-3064

StringToEmailMessage doesn’t encode subject correct

EE-3058

NullPointerException on commons-pool when using jdbc queries nested on inbound/outbound endpoints

EE-3044

Exception on shutdown provokes app redeployment

EE-3036

cluster & quartz, ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException and java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: n must be positive

EE-2932

First successful not working when used with inputstream based transports

EE-2832

JDBC EE Batch Update, - add support to execute the query once and only once, regardles the type of payload

EE-2827

web-service-proxy not copying Content-Encoding on response

EE-2802

GZipTransformer does not support streaming

MULE-6831

Applications deleted when deployment fails

Mule Studio

Issue Description

STUDIO-3217

MySQL Lookup Table not working with 3.3.3 in DataMapper

STUDIO-3214

Adding a Maven dependency in a studio project doesn’t add it to an archive deployed to CloudHub

STUDIO-3211

Deleting an Input argument is not automatically eliminating it from the assigned fields

STUDIO-3204

Metadata from CSV with quotes on column headers has quotes in field names

STUDIO-3198

Studio Takes 2 minutes to save a flow

STUDIO-3197

Datamapper generates an error if a csv has repeated column names

STUDIO-3190

misleading message when reloading metadata on user-defined JSON input

STUDIO-3189

Fixed Width Properties: why 'quote string' option?

STUDIO-3183

Studio crashes with widget disposed error

STUDIO-3178

Manually provided expressions do not render an arrow

STUDIO-3174

Multiple grf editors receive the same close event

STUDIO-3165

Problem with 1.3.x Connectors in Studio 3.4.0

STUDIO-3157

Assign Input Field to output field does not belong to current mapping generates bad script

STUDIO-3154

Improve version validation between ESB and CCs

STUDIO-3149

Autocomplete doesn’t work with functions arguments

STUDIO-3148

Studio crashes when creating a new project if having more than one runtime installed in Windows

STUDIO-3145

Delete Multiple Fields in the user-defined wizard component

STUDIO-3138

SFDC Connector not retrieving OpportunityLineItem Metadata

STUDIO-3132

DataMapper XML to XML Mapping Does Not Allow You To Finish Wizard

STUDIO-3129

HL7 Message Type list should be sorted

STUDIO-3128

Showing blank image in DataMapper errors logger in Windows 7

STUDIO-3122

Problem when deleting elements inside the ALL Message Processor

STUDIO-3084

Global elements are being displayed across projects

STUDIO-3059

Http outbound sets method to GET from POST when editing graphical view

STUDIO-2976

Scrip Component is not displaying the script text

STUDIO-2968

Maven: subsequent addition of new components may block because of pom being updated

STUDIO-2873

Dragging Catch Exception Strategy outside of flow causes the name to become empty in the XML

STUDIO-2849

Default engine for Script Transformer and Component is JavaScript; this should be Groovy

STUDIO-2603

Add Processor Chain to the palette

STUDIO-2492

Multiple Runtimes: Unknown node definition when using EE components on a project created with a CE Runtime

STUDIO-2475

Two way editing: problem with soap version attribute

STUDIO-2456

properties-ref in context:property-placeholder is not allowed and silently removed

STUDIO-2434

Maven: I should be able to (maven)build a studio project created with a pom (ee artifacts not published)

STUDIO-2294

Exception Strategy inside choice making trouble

STUDIO-1971

Studio should support spring profiles

STUDIO-1435

Multiple XML validation errors in Studio editor

STUDIO-716

Flow properties description text box looses the tabulation given when changing to XML configuration

Mule Management Console

Issue Description

MP-299

On Rest API, when listing flows, password information is shown for secure protocols (eg sftp). Hide password for secure endpoints.

MP-275

SFTP endpoint shows details about user and password. Hide password for secure endpoints.

MP-295

SFTP username and password visible in plain text in MMC. Hide password for secure endpoints.

MP-290

Business Event Analyzer truncating values. Make length of exception details for business events larger (and configurable). This is meant to be a bit hidden anyway, so we don’t risk people using extremely large values

EE-3025

Agent port range capability does not work on Windows. Fix the way port bindings work under Windows.

n/a

Stop alert watchers on agent stop. This is an improvement on how resources are managed when dealing with alerts.

n/a

Fix jetty connector timeout case when reusing same connector causing it to wrongly succeed on second open attempt.

SE-75

Deployment actions are always logged as System in the MMC audit log. Use logged in user instead of current user, which may be a privileged token, for logs. In the Audit Log deployment actions are now logged as the user who triggered them instead of the system user.

SE-133

Cannot compare with Boolean JMX Attribute. Consider Boolean attribute for JMX alert. Defining alerts based on boolean attributes now works properly.

SE-34

In Mule application embedded deployments, when clicking on a flow in MMC, an error occurs. Fix Flows tab for embedded Mule ESB. It allows clicking on flows in the flow tab to get further details.

Third Party Connectors and Other Modules

At this time, not all of the third party modules you may have been using with previous versions of Mule ESB have been upgraded to work with Mule ESB 3.3.3. Contact MuleSoft if you have a question about a specific module.

Migrating from Mule ESB 3.3.2 to 3.3.3

The improvements and fixes that Mule ESB 3.3.3 introduces require no specific migration activities for Mule ESB, Mule Studio, Mule Management Console, or Mule DevKit.

Known Issues

  • If an input stream is used as a payload and combined with clustering, when the processing goes from one node to the other, in Mule 3.3.0 the stream truncates and in Mule 3.3.1 an exception is thrown.

  • Sending JMS messages between Mule 3.3.1 and Mule 3.2.1 doesn’t work because the Mule session header encoding is incompatible between the two. Add a LegacySessionHandler to make this work.

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