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# Basic Authentication - Simple

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

## 1.3.3

**October 1, 2026**

### What’s New

- This release updates policy metadata only. There’s no functional change.

## 1.3.1

**May 26, 2022**

### Fixed issues

- Fix policy schema not allowing additional properties via REST API.

## 1.3.0

**May 17, 2022**

### New Features and Enhancements

- First Flex compatible Policy.

- Separated Policy Definition from Policy Implementation. Stronger validations applied to a given
  policy configuration.

## 1.2.2

**Apr 30, 2020**

### Minimum Mule Version

**Mule 4.1.0**

### New Features and Enhancements

- Error handling responses revised for WSDL APIs to be compliant with SOAP 1.1 and 1.2.

- Performance improvements are made to the header manipulation engine.

### Fixed issues

- After a policy was applied, HTTP headers did not follow the RFC 2616 requirement of
  case-sensitivity:

  [https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.2](https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.2).

## 1.2.1

**Jul 22, 2019**

### Minimum Mule Version

**Mule 4.1.0**

### New Features and Enhancements

- Several performance improvements are introduced in this release.

### Known Issues

- An error occurs in Mule versions v4.1.1, v4.1.2, 4,1,3 and 4.1.4 when a policy is deployed to
  applications that have the mule-secure-configuration-property-module plugin configured. To resolve
  this issue, upgrade the specified plugin in the application to version 1.1.0.

## 1.2.0

**Apr 26, 2019**

### Minimum Mule Version

**Mule 4.1.0**

### New Features and Enhancements

- Introduced support to encrypt sensitive information related to the policy. The runtime version
  must support encryption and must be properly configured. Encryption is supported since Mule
  Runtime v4.2.0.

- Several performance improvements are introduced.

### Known Issues

- An error occurs in Mule versions v4.1.1, v4.1.2, 4,1,3 and 4.1.4 when a policy is deployed to
  applications that have the mule-secure-configuration-property-module plugin configured. To resolve
  this issue, upgrade the specified plugin in the application to version 1.1.0.

## 1.1.1

**Jun 29, 2018**

### Minimum Mule Version

**Mule 4.1.0**

### New Features and Enhancements

Added `violationCategory` in the YAML configuration for Feedback Loop.

## 1.1.0

**Jan 26, 2018**

### Minimum Mule Version

**4.1.0**

### New Features and Enhancements

Reduced error-handling verbosity in templates.

### Fixed Issues

- When a WSDL proxy receives an empty payload, or an invalid XML, an `ExpressionRuntimeException`
  error is generated.

- When Mule is redeployed, the basic auth policies do not work.

- GroupId missing for proxy samples dependency.

- When an Authorization header is malformed, a 500 status code is returned instead of 401.

## 1.0.0

**Nov 17, 2017**

### Minimum Mule Version

**4.0.0**

## See Also

- [HTTP Basic Authentication Policy for Mule 4](https://docs.mulesoft.com/gateway/latest/policies-included-basic-auth-simple)

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