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Upgrading and Migrating Salesforce Marketing Cloud Connector to 5.x

Upgrade Anypoint Connector for Salesforce Marketing Cloud (Salesforce Marketing Cloud Connector) to version 5.x.

Supported Upgrade Paths

From Version To Version

4.x

5.x

Changes in This Release

  • This connector is now compatible with Java 17 only.

  • These libraries are upgraded to address reported security vulnerabilities:

    • The springframework library is upgraded to version 6.2.18.

    • The jackson-databind and jackson-dataformat-xml libraries are upgraded to version 2.21.3.

    • The cxf-core library is upgraded to 4.2.0.

    • The woodstox-core library is upgraded to version 7.2.0.

    • The stax2-api library is upgraded to version 4.3.0.

    • The cryptacular library is upgraded to version 1.3.0.

    • The dom4j library is upgraded to version 2.2.0.

    • The commons-io library is upgraded to version 2.22.0.

    • The commons.lang3 library is upgraded to version 3.20.0.

    • The commons-codec library is upgraded to version 1.22.0.

    • The commons-beanutils library is upgraded to version 1.11.0.

    • The commons-text library is upgraded to version 1.14.0.

    • The kotlin-stdlib library is upgraded to version 2.1.21.

    • The xmlsec library is upgraded to version 4.0.4.

    • The guava library is upgraded to version 33.6.0-jre.

    • The jakarta.xml.bind-api library is upgraded to version 4.0.2.

    • The jaxb-runtime library is upgraded to version 4.0.5.

    • The jakarta.xml.ws-api library is upgraded to version 4.0.2.

    • The jakarta.jws-api library is upgraded to version 3.0.0.

    • The jakarta.xml.soap-api library is upgraded to version 3.0.2.

    • The jakarta.activation-api library is upgraded to version 2.1.3.

    • The jackson-module-jaxb-annotations library is replaced by the jackson-module-jakarta-xmlbind-annotations library.

  • The FuelSDK dependency is removed. Core connector operations are now migrated to localized, compile-time generated classes to eliminate external classpath and transitive library conflicts in your Mule applications.

Upgrade Prerequisites

Before you perform the upgrade, you must:

  1. Create a backup of your files, data, and configuration in case you must restore to the previous version.

  2. Install Salesforce Marketing Cloud Connector 5.x.x.

Upgrade Steps

Follow these steps to perform the upgrade from Salesforce Marketing Cloud Connector 4.x.x to Salesforce Marketing Cloud Connector 5.x.x:

  1. In Anypoint Studio, create a Mule project.

  2. In the Mule Palette view, click Search in Exchange.

  3. In the Add Dependencies to Project window, enter Salesforce Marketing Cloud in the search field.

  4. In the Available modules section, select Salesforce Marketing Cloud Connector and click Add.

  5. Click Finish.

  6. Verify that the mule-sfdc-marketing-cloud-connector dependency version is 5.x.x in the pom.xml file, in which the first x is the minor release number and the second x is the patch release number.

Studio upgrades the connector automatically.

Verify the Upgrade

After you install the latest version of the connector, follow these steps to verify the upgrade:

  1. In Studio, verify that there are no errors in the Problems or Console views.

  2. Check the project pom.xml file and verify that there are no problems.

  3. Test the connection and verify that the operations work.

Troubleshooting

If there are problems with caching the parameters or caching the metadata, try restarting Studio.

Revert the Upgrade

If it is necessary to revert to the previous version of Salesforce Marketing Cloud Connector, change the mule-sfdc-marketing-cloud-connector dependency version 5.x.x in the project’s pom.xml file to the previous version.

See Also

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