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# SAP SuccessFactors Connector Release Notes

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Anypoint Connector for SAP SuccessFactors (SAP SuccessFactors Connector) provides full support to
query, create, update, and delete entities using the OData API v2 exposed by SuccessFactors.

Guide: [SAP SuccessFactors Connector User Guide](https://docs.mulesoft.com/sap-successfactors-connector/latest/)

## 5.0.4

**September 4, 2026**

### What’s New

- This release includes general security fixes.

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.6.6 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8, 11, and 17</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 5.0.3

**August 27, 2026**

### What’s New

- This connector version requires Mule runtime 4.6.22 or later if you’re using Mule 4.6.x, or Mule
  runtime 4.9.9 or later if you’re using Mule 4.9.x. If you prefer not to upgrade your Mule runtime,
  use the connector version released immediately after this one.

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.6.6 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8, 11, and 17</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Issue Resolution</th><th>ID</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><div><div><p>These libraries are upgraded to address reported security vulnerabilities:</p></div><div><ul><li><p>The Jackson Databind and Jackson Core libraries are upgraded to version 2.22.2.</p></li><li><p>The Gson library is upgraded to version 2.14.0.</p></li><li><p>The Apache Commons Codec library is upgraded to version 1.22.1.</p></li></ul></div></div></td><td><p>W-23967456</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 5.0.2

**September 6, 2025**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.6.6 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8, 11, and 17</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Issue Resolution</th><th>ID</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>The <strong>Default query parameters</strong> field now works correctly when using either the <code>Edit inline</code> or the <code>Expression</code> options.</p></td><td><p>W-19313743</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 5.0.1

**May 5, 2025**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.6.6 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8, 11, and 17</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Issue Resolution</th><th>ID</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>You can now successfully download the connector in Anypoint Studio because the <code>org.mule.commons::mule-oauth-client</code> dependency is upgraded to version 2.3.3.</p></td><td><p>W-18400354</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 5.0.0

**April 16, 2025**

### What’s New

- Basic Authentication is now deprecated.

- In OAuth SAML Bearer Assertion Authentication:

  - **The private key from the X.509 certificate.** and **The authorisation url.** fields are
    removed.

  - **Key store**, **Store password**, **Type**, and **Certificate alias** fields are added.

  - **Scopes** is moved from the **Advanced** tab to the **General** tab.

For more information about how to upgrade the connector to version 5.0, refer to
[Upgrading and Migrating SAP SuccessFactors Connector to Version 5.0](https://docs.mulesoft.com/sap-successfactors-connector/latest/sap-successfactors-connector-upgrade-migrate).

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.6.6 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8, 11, and 17</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Issue Resolution</th><th>ID</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>The connector no longer ignores proxy settings during the OAuth token call when using OAuth SAML Bearer Assertion Authentication.</p></td><td><p>W-18234690</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 4.1.9

**January 16, 2024**

### What’s New

- This connector is now compatible with Java 17.

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8, 11, and 17</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 4.1.8

**February 27, 2023**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Issue Resolution</th><th>ID</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>The connector now includes TLS context initialization when creating a connection.</p></td><td><p>W-12511414</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 4.1.7

**January 11, 2023**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Issue Resolution</th><th>ID</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Query pagination now fetches all items.</p></td><td><p>W-12283628</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 4.1.6

**December 16, 2022**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Issue Resolution</th><th>ID</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Query pagination for a specific setup is now terminated when all required items are fetched from the server.</p></td><td><p>W-12211375</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 4.1.5

**October 27, 2022**

### What’s New

- The Jackson Databind library is upgraded to
  `com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.14.0-rc1`.

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Issue</th><th>ID</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>The Jackson Databind library is upgraded from <code>com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.12.6.1</code> to <code>com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.14.0-rc1</code> to fix reported security vulnerabilities.</p></td><td><p>W-10920467</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 4.1.4

**April 5, 2022**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Issue</th><th>ID</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Fixed reported security vulnerabilities by upgrading the Jackson Databind library from <code>com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.12.6</code> to <code>com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.12.6.1</code>.</p></td><td><p>W-10920467</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 4.1.3

**January 4, 2022**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Issue</th><th>ID</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Upgraded library dependencies.</p></td><td><p>CONN-9834</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 4.1.2

**December 23, 2021**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Issue</th><th>ID</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>The <strong>Upsert</strong> operation threw an error for a user entity.</p></td><td><p>SE-23633</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 4.1.1

**November 19, 2021**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Issue</th><th>ID</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Upgraded the <code>com.google.code.gson</code> library due to a security vulnerability.</p></td><td><p>CONN-9258</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 4.1.0

**November 2, 2021**

### What’s New

- Added support for server-side pagination:

  - Cursor-based pagination

  - Snapshot-based pagination

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 4.0.6

**October 18, 2021**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Issue</th><th>ID</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>The connector threw an exception that did not have error type mapping, which resulted in a null error type definition.</p></td><td><p>SE-22715</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 4.0.5

**June 29, 2021**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

- The connector did not refresh the authentication token. (SE-20062)

## 4.0.4

**April 29, 2021**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

The **Query** operation did not refresh the authentication token. (SE-20062)

## 4.0.3

**April 22, 2021**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

The Query operation did not use the specified page size value. (SE-20440)

## 4.0.2

**March 19, 2021**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

The Query operation returned duplicate results. (SE-20027)

## 4.0.1

**December 11, 2020**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

Fixed an incompatibility with Scripting Module 2.0.

## 4.0.0

**November 04, 2020**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.2.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Features

Added support for OAuth 2.0 SAML Bearer Assertion authentication, which enables users to securely
consume SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central OData API using a registered OAuth client ID and valid
OAuth token.

## 3.2.1

**September 7, 2020**

## 3.2.2

**September 23, 2020**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.1.1 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8 and 11</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

SAP SuccessFactors Connector 3.2 caused a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. (SE-17391)

## 3.2.1

**September 7, 2020**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.1.1 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

Fixed a security vulnerability. (CONN-6896)

## 3.2.0

**July 15, 2020**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.1.1 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Features

Added the following parameters for the Query and Get Entity by ID operations using the ODATA API
exposed by the SuccessFactors system:

- `$select`

- `$expand`

## 3.1.4

**May 29, 2020**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.1.1 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

Fixed a security vulnerability. (CONN-6223)

## 3.1.3

**April 29, 2020**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.1.1 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

- The connector threw a connection exception on startup when deploying a test connection. (SE-15505)

- Fixed all major and medium reported dependency-related vulnerabilities. (CONN-5820)

## 3.1.2

**August 8, 2019**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.1.1 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Features

- Updated connector icons.

## 3.1.1

**June 10, 2019**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.1.1 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Fixed Issues

SuccessFactors Connector did not send the mandatory `hr` and `manager` fields. (SE-12039)

## 3.1.0

**March 25, 2019**

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.1.1 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>OData API v2</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

### Features

Added support for the SuccessFactors Update operation.

## 3.0.0

**June 27, 2018**

Mule 4 version of SAP SuccessFactors Connector.

**Note:** Version 3.0.0 and later discards the SFAPI API and introduces the ODATA API v2 exposed by
SuccessFactors.

### Compatibility

<table><colgroup><col> <col></colgroup><thead><tr><th>Software</th><th>Version</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><p>Mule</p></td><td><p>4.0.0 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>SuccessFactors API</p></td><td><p>ODATA API (Olingo 2.0.0)</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## See Also

- [SuccessFactors HCM Suite](https://help.sap.com/docs/r/product/SAP_SUCCESSFACTORS_HXM_SUITE)

- [Salesforce Help](https://help.salesforce.com)

- [MuleSoft Services](https://www.mulesoft.com/support-and-services)

- [Known Issues](https://help.salesforce.com/s/issues)