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# XML Module Release Notes - Mule 4

> For the full documentation index, see: https://docs.mulesoft.com/llms.txt

XML Module processes and extracts data from an XML document. Use XML Module for cases that involve
the use of XML standards such as XSLT, XPath, and XQuery, or XSD.

Guide: [XML Module User Guide](https://docs.mulesoft.com/xml-module/latest/)

## 1.4.8

**October 13, 2026**

### 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>XSLT</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Xpath</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XQuery</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XSD</p></td><td><p>1.0</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>The <code>com.google.guava:guava</code> library is upgraded to version 33.7.2-jre to address reported security vulnerabilities.</p></div></div></td><td><div><div><p>W-24454136</p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 1.4.7

**September 3, 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>4.1.1 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XSLT</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Xpath</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XQuery</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XSD</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8, 11, and 17</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 1.4.6

**August 21, 2026**

### 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>XSLT</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Xpath</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XQuery</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XSD</p></td><td><p>1.0</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>The <strong>Validate schema</strong> operation now correctly resolves cross-namespace <code>xs:import</code>/<code>xs:include</code> references when multiple XSD schemas are supplied for validation.</p></div></div></td><td><div><div><p>W-14657978</p></div></div></td></tr><tr><td><div><div><p>The <strong>Validate schema</strong> operation now correctly resolves referenced schemas when XML Module is configured inside a Mule Domain project.</p></div></div></td><td><div><div><p>W-23443267</p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 1.4.5

**July 24, 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>4.1.1 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XSLT</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Xpath</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XQuery</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XSD</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8, 11, and 17</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 1.4.4

**June 23, 2026**

### 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>XSLT</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Xpath</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XQuery</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XSD</p></td><td><p>1.0</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>The <strong>Validate schema</strong> operation now reports the underlying schema-validation error consistently across OpenJDK 8, 11, and 17. Previously, when a schema exceeded the JAXP secure-processing limit, the actionable cause was missing from the top-level error description on JDK 11 and 17.</p></div></div></td><td><div><div><p>W-16893452</p></div></div></td></tr><tr><td><div><div><p>The <code>com.google.guava:guava</code> component is upgraded to 33.6.0-jre.</p></div></div></td><td><div><div><p>W-3300013</p></div></div></td></tr><tr><td><div><div><p>The <code>commons-io:commons-io</code> component is upgraded to 2.22.0.</p></div></div></td><td><div><div><p>W-3300013</p></div></div></td></tr><tr><td><div><div><p>The <code>org.apache.commons:commons-lang3</code> component is added at version 3.20.0.</p></div></div></td><td><div><div><p>W-22566314</p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 1.4.3

**February 3, 2026**

### 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>XSLT</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Xpath</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XQuery</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XSD</p></td><td><p>1.0</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>The <code>net.sf.saxon:Saxon-HE</code> library is upgraded to version 11.7.</p></div></div></td><td><div><div><p>W-11165880</p></div></div></td></tr><tr><td><div><div><p>XML processing now includes protections against XML External Entity (XXE) injection attacks.</p></div></div></td><td><div><div><p>W-19325353</p></div></div></td></tr><tr><td><div><div><p>The <strong>XPath</strong> operation now correctly reports a Transformation Exception during initialization when invalid configurations are detected. This prevents the creation of objects with invalid states that previously resulted in NullPointerExceptions (NPE).</p></div></div></td><td><div><div><p>W-19325353</p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 1.4.2

**December 13, 2023**

### 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>4.1.1 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XSLT</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Xpath</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XQuery</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XSD</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>OpenJDK</p></td><td><p>8, 11, and 17</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 1.4.1

**July 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>4.1.1 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XSLT</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Xpath</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XQuery</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XSD</p></td><td><p>1.0</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>Updated internal dependencies.</p></div></div></td><td><div><div><p>W-13831265</p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 1.4.0

**January 10, 2022**

### What’s New

- The **Validate schema** operation’s new field, **Schema contents**, supports the direct text input
  of a schema. This enables you to perform a schema validation.

### 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>XSLT</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Xpath</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XQuery</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XSD</p></td><td><p>1.0</p></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 1.3.3

**February 10, 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>4.1.1 and later</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XSLT</p></td><td><p>3.0</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Xpath</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XQuery</p></td><td><p>3.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>XSD</p></td><td><p>1.0</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>The validators cache is no longer evicted due to inactivity. This avoids unexpected schema requests.</p></div></div></td><td><div><div><p>W-10678896</p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 1.3.2

**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>4.1.1 and later</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>Improved error handling for XML with invalid input errors.</p></div></div></td><td><div><div><p>XMLM-19</p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

## 1.3.1

**July 7, 2021**

### Minimum Mule Version

Mule 4.1.1

### New Features and Enhancements

None.

### Fixed Issues

- XML Module incorrectly merged Namespace configurations and Namespace directory. (XMLM-17)

## 1.3.0

**March 3, 2021**

### Minimum Mule Version

Mule 4.1.1

### New Features and Enhancements

- The XPath function can now receive XML namespaces to evaluate the path expression. (XMLM-16)

### Fixed Issues

None

## 1.2.3

**June 25, 2020**

### Minimum Mule Version

Mule 4.1.1

### New Features and Enhancements

None.

### Fixed Issues

- XML Module schema violations do not inform line and columns numbers. (MULE-18448)

## 1.2.2

**October 22, 2019**

### Minimum Mule Version

Mule 4.1.1

### New Features and Enhancements

None.

### Fixed Issues

- Use of `schemaFactory` was not synchronized in the XML module. (MULE-17600)

## 1.2.1

**September 20, 2019**

### Minimum Mule Version

Mule 4.1.1

### New Features and Enhancements

None.

### Fixed Issues

- XPath function fails to retrieve attribute values. (MULE-17475)

## 1.2.0

**May 27, 2019**

### Minimum Mule Version

Mule 4.1.1

### New Features and Enhancements

None.

### Fixed Issues

- Upgrade Guava to the latest version in the XML module. (MULE-16910)

- Fixed an issue that prevented the 'validate-schema' operation from working concurrently.
  (MULE-16317)

- XML module suggests the wrong expression in failure scenarios. (MULE-16239)

- validate-schema is not working when an XSD references other schema. (MULE-15526)

- Provide the option to reset the underlying controller of XSLTTransformer. (MULE-15259)

## 1.1.3

**January 17, 2019**

### Minimum Mule Version

Mule 4.1.1

### New Features and Enhancements

None.

### Fixed Issues

- Fixed an issue that prevented the 'validate-schema' operation from working concurrenctly.
  (MULE-16317)

## 1.1.2

**August 9, 2018**

### Minimum Mule Version

Mule 4.1.0

### New Features and Enhancements

None.

### Fixed Issues

- `validate-schema` is not working with an XSD referencing other schema. (MULE-15526)

## 1.1.1

**July 2, 2018**

### Minimum Mule Version

Mule 4.1.0

### New Features and Enhancements

None.

### Fixed Issues

- Reset underlying controller of XSLTTransformer after each transformation. (MULE-15259)

## 1.1.0

**March 1, 2018**

### Minimum Mule Version

Mule 4.1.0

### New Features and Enhancements

None.

### Fixed Issues

- Cannot set media type in XSLT transformer. (MULE-14651)

## See Also

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

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

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