The Mule Team are pleased to announce the release of version 1.4.4. This is a maintenance release that sees nearly 200 reported issues closed.

As always, many thanks to our community for submitting bug reports, patches and improvements to Mule.

Issues resolved since 1.4.3

JIRA (200 issues)
Pr	T	Key	Summary
		MULE-2826	Deploy updated DTDs as part of release
		MULE-2957	Fix startup script problems (exposed by groovy 1.5.2 upgrade)
		MULE-3330	mule-transport-archetype is not up to date with the latest API
		MULE-3326	errorhandler example without MULE_HOME set fails on Windows
		MULE-2961	Restoring persisted events does not reattach event to valid UMOSession
		MULE-3279	Error: javax.jms.JMSException: MQJMS1013: operation invalid whilst session is using asynchronous delivery
		MULE-2394	Test GUI installer with Bootstrap refactoring work
		MULE-1894	JMS Session Leak in JMS Transport
		MULE-2006	XaTransaction commit/rollback does not propertly dissassociate the current thread of execution from transaction
		MULE-1776	XA transactions bug with simple queue to queue using Websphere MQ 6
		MULE-2748	Document changes in XML prerequisites (break the OOTB build from the source)
		MULE-2963	FilteringXmlMessageSplitter does not set CorrelationGroupSize
		MULE-1784	Run out of Websphere MQ sessions/connections
		MULE-2804	returnClass of GZipUncompressTransformer will default be set to java.lang.Object so it is not possible to uncompress files
		MULE-2509	Wait Policy Test Intermittent Failure
		MULE-2396	Rewrite the VMMessageReceiver to not extend PollingMessageReceiver
		MULE-2700	Mule must not add xml-apis/xerces to the classpath
		MULE-2968	Disposing TCP stream workers creates infinite loop
		MULE-1773	Thread Interference in the FileMessageDispatcher
		MULE-893	Clarify/reachitect MuleMessage property mutability & handling
		MULE-2962	Misleading OptionalDataException in MuleEvent.unmarshallTransformers
		MULE-3238	JdbcConnector & JdbcMessageDispatcher are leaving connections open
		MULE-2329	Add support to i86pc architectures
		MULE-1479	Verify outbound JDBC is enlisted in XA transactions
		MULE-2333	Profiler MBeans must be registered under Mule's domain
		MULE-1299	Review the Writing Transports Guide before 1.4 is released
		MULE-1030	Move non-vital stuff to a separate "mule-extras" distro
		MULE-1872	mule-assembly-verifier checks only for .jar files
		MULE-2807	LoanBrokerESB does not really work on JDK 1.5 because Castor-0.9.9 is broken
		MULE-2032	Remove the HEAD connection check on the HttpMessageDispatcher
		MULE-925	Implementation of a webservice proxy
		MULE-2955	Context Classloader may be null in some rare cases, accomodate those in the code
		MULE-2788	Upgrade OGNL to 2.7.1 to prevent spurious IllegalAccesssException
		MULE-2336	Simplify profiler agent registration
		MULE-2412	Jms activeMQ XAResource.isSameRM() returns a wrong result because of using Proxy
		MULE-1050	Tests sometimes fail to shutdown/startup MuleManager, resulting in multiple copies
		MULE-2160	Call MuleManager.dispose() conditionally in MuleXmlBuilderContextListener
		MULE-2135	xpath filter not executing expression if payload is byte[]
		MULE-1636	Component fails to route message received from NestedRouter
		MULE-1180	Getting parameters from message properties
		MULE-2217	Inbound pop3 forwards properties to outbound smtp
		MULE-1209	Documented properties of XmppConnector not honored
		MULE-1021	Conflicting scope for geronimo-spec-servlet dependency when deployed as a webapp
		MULE-2315	Use JAAS Subject as the authentication object
		MULE-2152	TCP message receiver sending data back even if it is not suppose to
		MULE-2413	TimedSocketTestCase is not portable
		MULE-2308	Mule bootstrap code refactoring (was license refactoring)
		MULE-2309	YourKit profiler integration
		MULE-2587	Incorrect name used to configure queue profile in SedaComponent.java
		MULE-1931	Temp JMS destinations should reference a connector
		MULE-2451	mule-transport-archetype has invalid method signature for overriding AbstractPollingMessageReceiver
		MULE-2446	Using SpringConfigurationBuilder prevents XML Schemas to be resolved locally
		MULE-2417	Wrong value of the smtp endpoint address in %MULE_HOME%\examples\errorhandler\conf\error-config.xml
		MULE-2322	Inconsistent behaviour when configuring pooling-profile
		MULE-1176	Using multiple connectors with XFire fails
		MULE-2289	Threading-profile tag always sets poolExhaustedAction to WAIT
		MULE-2575	Intermittent Failure for KeepSendSocketOpenMule1491TestCase
		MULE-2600	FilteringListMessageSplitter needs a callback for ThreadLocal state cleanup
		MULE-1500	Transform parameter support for XsltTransformer
		MULE-2975	Message Routers page links are broken
		MULE-2005	Add support for JBoss TS (Arjuna)
		MULE-2690	Fix for MULE-2645 needs to be applied to FilteringOutboundRouter.getEndpoint
		MULE-2117	SpringTransactionFactory.setTransactionManager() cannot be invoked declaratively
		MULE-2116	SpringTransactionFactory.beginTransaction() does not bind the transaction to TransactionCoordination
		MULE-1300	IdempotentReceiver has guaranteed memory leak
		MULE-2472	Inconsistent behaviour when configuring threading-profile
		MULE-2599	BridgeComponent didn't increase statistics counters
		MULE-2512	Unable to start Mule w/external Tomcat when org.mule.webapp.classpath in web.xml was set to external url
		MULE-2766	NPE on standalone server shutdown
		MULE-2622	XA topic consumer fails when trying to reuse session and consumer (default)
		MULE-2629	Default transformers + global endpoints don't work
		MULE-2615	Move non-Groovy script support into a Mule Scripting Pack distribution
		MULE-2632	jdbc connector never calls propertyExtractors in outbound read statements
		MULE-2594	FilteringListMessageSplitter is potentially overwritting contexts
		MULE-2645	TemplateEndpointRouter alters template values of endpoints only for the first time
		MULE-2687	JDBC connection fails within an JMS trasaction
		MULE-1688	VM Transport slow in 1.4 when queueEvents = "true"
		MULE-2635	Loanbroker example fails to start
		MULE-2670	"voipservice" example doesn't display a welcome screen for the Voip Service application
		MULE-2842	Invoking stop() on non-Seda components results in NullPointerException
		MULE-2813	JCA Resource Adapter -Inbound Message flow implementation changes
		MULE-2858	Add Xalan 2.7.1 as endorsed dependency
		MULE-2859	XsltTransformer fails test suite when run with Saxon
		MULE-2914	ActiveMQJmsConnector doesn't set maxRedelivery parameters
		MULE-2972	The FTP message dispatcher fails to specify encoding for data types other than UMOStreamMessageAdapter and byte[]
		MULE-2908	FileUtilsTestCase fails
		MULE-2970	Supports ?xsd query handling
		MULE-2663	SmtpMessageDispatcher.doDispatch should throw exception if failure
		MULE-2130	Impossible to re-initialise smtp connector
		MULE-2987	SEDA components with persisted queue do not receive asynchronous events.
		MULE-2875	XA Transactions leave sessions open when transaction is closed
		MULE-3289	Session to queue is not closed when not using transactions
		MULE-1286	JMS Selector was not being added when calling the JMSMessageDispatcher.doReceive()
		MULE-3283	JMSSupport is leaving connections open if session cannot be bound to transaction
		MULE-3246	MultiConsumerJmsMessageReceiver should detect topics and auto-adjust the number of receivers
		MULE-2727	WS-Security tests rely on special HTTP headers to invoke handler correctly
		MULE-3189	Visualizer throws NPE whilte evaluating <queue-profile/>
		MULE-2131	Endpoint Transformers Configuration Inconsistent?
		MULE-2720	userInfo is decoded twice in AbstractEndpointBuilder.getPropertiesForUri()
		MULE-2335	-config startup switch is not being picked up unless it's the first one
		MULE-2230	errorExpression on RestServiceWrapper doesn't work
		MULE-2250	Fix the pipeline component configuration test cases
		MULE-2947	ResponseOutputStream contains non-threadsafe dead code
		MULE-2919	DeferredOutputStream very slow