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Release Notes MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

6682 views 9 Updated on May 23, 2025

Welcome MAKERS CHOICE 25-03!

We have sharpened our release options to make it easier to decide which release is right for you.
Find out what has become of Major Release and Enhancement Packages and which release fits your needs best.

  • Highlights
  • Changelog
  • Migration Notes
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Highlight Features MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

[Automation] Support for local AI models

We are excited to announce that Simplifier now supports the integration and execution of local Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, enabling businesses to leverage AI-driven insights directly within their applications. This new capability allows organizations to process real-time predictions, automate decision-making, and enhance operational efficiency without relying on cloud-based AI services.

[Governance] More granular settings for Workflow Monitoring and Archiving

It is now possible to easily configure the archiving settings for Workflows in the Workflow Monitoring UI and for each Workflow individually. On top of this adjusting the level of detail and retention of the Workflow history is possible, allowing Admins to optimize resource consumption. (Read more)

[Governance] Hide certain Authentication Methods

Not all Authentication Methods are relevant for the login of your Application and Workflow Users. You can now configure if an OAuth 2 or SAML Authentication Method should be available for Login on the Admin Dashboard, Launchpad, and Mobile Client, or if it should be hidden (Read more on oAuth and SAML documentation).

[User Experience] Enhanced display of Variable references

Refactoring and maintaining your Applications gets even simpler. Now it is possible to quickly find any references to a variable in an Application. The variable references dialog now also includes references to variables inside Stories in the process designer.  (Read more)

[User Experience] Feature Toggles now available in the Settings

MAKERS CHOICE 25-03 now provides an overview of all experimental features and features in preview. Now, you can activate them directly without the need to contact your Administrator to change the environmental variables. (Read more)

[User Experience] Improved browser tab icons and titles

Our improved overview of browser tabs via our new Tab icons and titles are now available for all artifacts in the Admin Dashboard and for everybody active by default. (Read more)

Artifact based tab icons and titles (experimental)

[User Experience] Easily integrate value help and suggestions in user inputs

Integrating value help and suggestions in the input widget guides your users, increases data quality, and speeds up identifying the correct values. But it can be repetitive if you handle the value help by adding all required widgets to your screens and loading the data by adding Business Object/Connector Calls or UI Actions in your Process Stories.

Therefore our input widget now comes with built-in value help and suggestions. There is no need to add further widgets or Process Stories anymore. (Read more)

Suggestion items for input widget

For a full list of all changes see our Changelog

Changelog MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

App Building

  • [User Experience] The references dialog of a variable now also displays Process Designer Stories that use the variable (Read more)
  • [User Experience] Tab icons and titles were improved and are now available for all artifacts. The feature lifecycle has been moved forward to ‘released’ and is now automatically active after the upgrade (Read more)
  • [Automation] Variables can now be updated in AppWizard API (Read more)
  • [User Experience] Added tracking consent banner to Admin Dashboard. The consent banner can be deactivated via an environmental variable. For more details see the installation and upgrade guides.

Workflows

  • [Governance] Workflow Monitoring Settings can now be defined for each Workflow individually (Read more)
  • [Integration] Variables can now have a default value (Read more)
  • [User Experience] When the Workflow Monitoring is filtered for a specific Workflow Instance ID, the user can now select a checkbox to include all sub-instances (child workflows) of the Workflow instance (Read more)
  • [User Experience] Simplified copying of IDs
  • [Automation] Improved Workflow runtime when running multiple instances in a cluster

Business Objects

  • [User Experience] The Parameters of Business Object Functions are now sorted by alphabet (Upper/Lower case is ignored)

Connectors

  • [User Experience] Connector Call Editor is no longer automatically closed on ‘Esc’-press/cancel. On changes, there is now a prompt that has to be confirmed by the user to prevent unwanted data loss
  • [Governance] SAP Systems can now be configured to be restricted to specific instances. If a SAP System is restricted it will not be selectable for endpoint configurations of connectors not matching the restrictions. It will also be skipped during import for these types of configurations. (Read more)
  • [Integration] Experimental version of the new modularized SOAP Connector can now be activated in Feature Settings. It is not a full replacement yet, but basic calls work as with the current SOAP Connector. Certificates and authentication are still incomplete.

Users and Permissions

  • [Governance] You can now configure if an oAuth 2 or SAML Authentication Method should be available for Login on Admin Dashboard, Launchpad, and Mobile Client, or if it should be hidden (Read more on oAuth and SAML documentation)

Logs and Monitoring

  • [User Experience] Filter Action for Connectors ‘Updated Configuration’ renamed to ‘Configuration Request’ in Monitoring (Read more)
  • [User Experience] When the workflow monitoring is filtered for a specific workflow instance ID, the user can now select a checkbox to include all sub-instances (child workflows) of the workflow instance (Read more)
  • [User Experience] Fixed typo in the help text of log settings

Standard Content

  • [Integration] The way to add value help and suggestion items in the Input Widget was simplified. Now you can let them displayed by configuring a value help source in the widget’s properties. Adding further widgets or Process Designer stories is not required anymore (Read more)
  • Updated System Lib UI5 1.96 to 1.96.38 to fix the issue in password input fields loosing their content on first change.
    IMPORTANT: If you use custom SAP themes, you might need to get a new export from SAP Theme Designer and add it to your applications.

Server

  • [User Experience] Added feature toggles in Settings to enable you to activate experimental features and features in preview within the Admin Dashboard (Read more)
  • [User Experience] Improved memory usage to reduce memory consumption
  • [User Experience] Artifact Graph no longer gets out of sync when importing Applications using Workflows. During migration on upgrade, Artifact Graphs out of sync will be fixed.
  • [Integration] Timeouts for BO- and Connector-Services for Workflow runtime are now customizable (Read more)

The Changelog to our MAKERS CHOICE 25-03 Quality Updates can be found in the official Simplifier Changelog.

System Requirement Changes MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

There are no changes in System Requirements.

See also our General Server Requirements.

As our new features like Workflows or the new Monitoring do not support Oracle and Oracle support will be deprecated in the future, we recommend to switch to MySQL completely

General Upgrade Instructions for MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

To increase security on the default setup, the standard password of the user ‘admin’ now has to be set as an environmental variable. For all details, see your upgrade/installation guide.

We have installation instructions prepared based on the versions you are upgrading from:

  • Upgrade from MAKERS CHOICE 25-01 to MAKERS CHOICE 25-03
  • Upgrade from LTS Release Simplifier 9 to MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

If you are setting up a new instance, please follow our installation guide for MAKERS CHOICE 25-03.

Manual Changes that should already be done before upgrading to MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

Allow *.simplifier.cloud in firewall

Simplifier requires access to *.simplifier.cloud domains to make all features available. Please allow access to *.simplifier.cloud in your firewall settings. (Read more)

Activate enhanced security (optional)

Activate enhanced security for Business Objects, Templates, and Plugins, if you have deactivated them. (See documentation)

Please check if your roles are set up accordingly and contain execution permission for all required Server-side Business Objects, read permission for all the necessary Templates as well as the relevant Plugin Permissions. Take care that you explicitly use your app-relevant/project roles during testing (and not Standard-Roles like SF_Developer or SF_Administrator).

Manual Changes after upgrading to MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

Replace Captcha Plugin

Our Captcha Plugin is deprecated and will be removed with Simplifier 10 from the plugin list in our default installation/upgrade guides. If you are using the Plugin, you should start replacing it now so you do not have to change your applications under time pressure.

AI and similar techniques can already solve captchas. So check if other solutions like rate limits fit your use case better. If you want to stick to captchas, check our Knowledge Base on ‘How to use Google reCAPTCHA v3 Essentials‘ for an alternative solution (Read more).

Update Standard Content

Update Standard Content to ensure you have all current fixes and features available on your instances. (Download here)

Please check the endpoint of AppWizard Connector, Standard Workflow Connectors, Login, and Captcha Connector (Read more).

Update March 14th: The OpenUI5 version of our Standard Widgets was updated to 1.96.38. If you are using custom SAP themes, you might need to get a new export from SAP Theme Designer and add it to your applications.

We recommend that you deploy all Modules and Apps after import. You can do this with the new Standard Content SSBO SF_Deploy. As this might take some time, let it run as a job.

Deprecated Features MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

[Interaction] Event tab in UI Designer

Our UI designer still has the legacy feature to add scripts to events directly in the Event tab. As we want to provide a consistent App Building we will remove this feature with Simplifier 10. Simply use our Process Designer instead.

Deprecated since Simplifier 8 EHP 3; Removal before Simplifier 10

[Integration] Captcha Plugin

Our Captcha Plugin won’t be updated anymore and was removed from the plugin list in our default installation/upgrade guides.

See our Knowledge Base article on ‘How to use Google reCAPTCHA v3 Essentials‘ for an alternative solution.

Deprecated since MAKERS CHOICE 25-01; Removal from the plugin list in our default installation/upgrade guides with Simplifier 10; Final removal with Simplifier 11

[Integration] Javascript execution in PDFs created by PDF Plugin

Currently, it is possible to add Javascript to PDFs created by PDF Plugin. This is a potential risk for Server Side XSS (PDF Injection) and Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF). The option to add Javascript to PDFs in PDF Plugin is now deactivated but can be activated at its own risk. The activation is subject to be removed in later Releases.

Deprecated since Simplifier 8 EHP 3; Removal tbd

[System requirements] Support of Oracle for Simplifier databases

Oracle support for your Simplifier instances has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

Deprecated since Simplifier 8 EHP 4; Removal tbd

[Integration] Removed setting to activate deprecated Connector API

The settings to activate deprecated Connector API will be removed with Simplifier 10 LTS. Please make sure you do not use the deprecated Connector API anymore.

Deprecated since Simplifier 8 EHP 4; Removal tbd

[Integration] Final removal of Logging Connector

With Simplifier 7.0 we have dropped the Support for the Logging Connector. Existing Connectors could still be executed. As a replacement, you can use the Simplifier.Logging Object within Business Objects. (Read more)

Dropped support since Simplifier 7.0; Removal tbd

Removed Features MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

[Integration] Simplifier Mobile Client for Android on Windows

Unfortunately, Microsoft has announced the end of support for Windows Subsystem for Android on March 5th 2025. With the end of support, our Simplifier Mobile Client for Android won’t work on Windows anymore. If you have already installed the Simplifier Mobile Client in Windows Subsystem for Android before March 5th 2024 you will continue to have access to the Simplifier Mobile Client until the end of support. (Read more on microsoft.com)

Deprecated since Simplifier 8 EHP 2; Removal March 5th 2025

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Release Date: March 12th, 2025

End of Maintenance: May 7th, 2025

All Simplifier releases and updates are provided on Docker Hub Repository.

Highlights

Highlight Features MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

[Automation] Support for local AI models

We are excited to announce that Simplifier now supports the integration and execution of local Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, enabling businesses to leverage AI-driven insights directly within their applications. This new capability allows organizations to process real-time predictions, automate decision-making, and enhance operational efficiency without relying on cloud-based AI services.

[Governance] More granular settings for Workflow Monitoring and Archiving

It is now possible to easily configure the archiving settings for Workflows in the Workflow Monitoring UI and for each Workflow individually. On top of this adjusting the level of detail and retention of the Workflow history is possible, allowing Admins to optimize resource consumption. (Read more)

[Governance] Hide certain Authentication Methods

Not all Authentication Methods are relevant for the login of your Application and Workflow Users. You can now configure if an OAuth 2 or SAML Authentication Method should be available for Login on the Admin Dashboard, Launchpad, and Mobile Client, or if it should be hidden (Read more on oAuth and SAML documentation).

[User Experience] Enhanced display of Variable references

Refactoring and maintaining your Applications gets even simpler. Now it is possible to quickly find any references to a variable in an Application. The variable references dialog now also includes references to variables inside Stories in the process designer.  (Read more)

[User Experience] Feature Toggles now available in the Settings

MAKERS CHOICE 25-03 now provides an overview of all experimental features and features in preview. Now, you can activate them directly without the need to contact your Administrator to change the environmental variables. (Read more)

[User Experience] Improved browser tab icons and titles

Our improved overview of browser tabs via our new Tab icons and titles are now available for all artifacts in the Admin Dashboard and for everybody active by default. (Read more)

Artifact based tab icons and titles (experimental)

[User Experience] Easily integrate value help and suggestions in user inputs

Integrating value help and suggestions in the input widget guides your users, increases data quality, and speeds up identifying the correct values. But it can be repetitive if you handle the value help by adding all required widgets to your screens and loading the data by adding Business Object/Connector Calls or UI Actions in your Process Stories.

Therefore our input widget now comes with built-in value help and suggestions. There is no need to add further widgets or Process Stories anymore. (Read more)

Suggestion items for input widget

For a full list of all changes see our Changelog

Changelog

Changelog MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

App Building

  • [User Experience] The references dialog of a variable now also displays Process Designer Stories that use the variable (Read more)
  • [User Experience] Tab icons and titles were improved and are now available for all artifacts. The feature lifecycle has been moved forward to ‘released’ and is now automatically active after the upgrade (Read more)
  • [Automation] Variables can now be updated in AppWizard API (Read more)
  • [User Experience] Added tracking consent banner to Admin Dashboard. The consent banner can be deactivated via an environmental variable. For more details see the installation and upgrade guides.

Workflows

  • [Governance] Workflow Monitoring Settings can now be defined for each Workflow individually (Read more)
  • [Integration] Variables can now have a default value (Read more)
  • [User Experience] When the Workflow Monitoring is filtered for a specific Workflow Instance ID, the user can now select a checkbox to include all sub-instances (child workflows) of the Workflow instance (Read more)
  • [User Experience] Simplified copying of IDs
  • [Automation] Improved Workflow runtime when running multiple instances in a cluster

Business Objects

  • [User Experience] The Parameters of Business Object Functions are now sorted by alphabet (Upper/Lower case is ignored)

Connectors

  • [User Experience] Connector Call Editor is no longer automatically closed on ‘Esc’-press/cancel. On changes, there is now a prompt that has to be confirmed by the user to prevent unwanted data loss
  • [Governance] SAP Systems can now be configured to be restricted to specific instances. If a SAP System is restricted it will not be selectable for endpoint configurations of connectors not matching the restrictions. It will also be skipped during import for these types of configurations. (Read more)
  • [Integration] Experimental version of the new modularized SOAP Connector can now be activated in Feature Settings. It is not a full replacement yet, but basic calls work as with the current SOAP Connector. Certificates and authentication are still incomplete.

Users and Permissions

  • [Governance] You can now configure if an oAuth 2 or SAML Authentication Method should be available for Login on Admin Dashboard, Launchpad, and Mobile Client, or if it should be hidden (Read more on oAuth and SAML documentation)

Logs and Monitoring

  • [User Experience] Filter Action for Connectors ‘Updated Configuration’ renamed to ‘Configuration Request’ in Monitoring (Read more)
  • [User Experience] When the workflow monitoring is filtered for a specific workflow instance ID, the user can now select a checkbox to include all sub-instances (child workflows) of the workflow instance (Read more)
  • [User Experience] Fixed typo in the help text of log settings

Standard Content

  • [Integration] The way to add value help and suggestion items in the Input Widget was simplified. Now you can let them displayed by configuring a value help source in the widget’s properties. Adding further widgets or Process Designer stories is not required anymore (Read more)
  • Updated System Lib UI5 1.96 to 1.96.38 to fix the issue in password input fields loosing their content on first change.
    IMPORTANT: If you use custom SAP themes, you might need to get a new export from SAP Theme Designer and add it to your applications.

Server

  • [User Experience] Added feature toggles in Settings to enable you to activate experimental features and features in preview within the Admin Dashboard (Read more)
  • [User Experience] Improved memory usage to reduce memory consumption
  • [User Experience] Artifact Graph no longer gets out of sync when importing Applications using Workflows. During migration on upgrade, Artifact Graphs out of sync will be fixed.
  • [Integration] Timeouts for BO- and Connector-Services for Workflow runtime are now customizable (Read more)

The Changelog to our MAKERS CHOICE 25-03 Quality Updates can be found in the official Simplifier Changelog.

Migration Notes

System Requirement Changes MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

There are no changes in System Requirements.

See also our General Server Requirements.

As our new features like Workflows or the new Monitoring do not support Oracle and Oracle support will be deprecated in the future, we recommend to switch to MySQL completely

General Upgrade Instructions for MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

To increase security on the default setup, the standard password of the user ‘admin’ now has to be set as an environmental variable. For all details, see your upgrade/installation guide.

We have installation instructions prepared based on the versions you are upgrading from:

  • Upgrade from MAKERS CHOICE 25-01 to MAKERS CHOICE 25-03
  • Upgrade from LTS Release Simplifier 9 to MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

If you are setting up a new instance, please follow our installation guide for MAKERS CHOICE 25-03.

Manual Changes that should already be done before upgrading to MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

Allow *.simplifier.cloud in firewall

Simplifier requires access to *.simplifier.cloud domains to make all features available. Please allow access to *.simplifier.cloud in your firewall settings. (Read more)

Activate enhanced security (optional)

Activate enhanced security for Business Objects, Templates, and Plugins, if you have deactivated them. (See documentation)

Please check if your roles are set up accordingly and contain execution permission for all required Server-side Business Objects, read permission for all the necessary Templates as well as the relevant Plugin Permissions. Take care that you explicitly use your app-relevant/project roles during testing (and not Standard-Roles like SF_Developer or SF_Administrator).

Manual Changes after upgrading to MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

Replace Captcha Plugin

Our Captcha Plugin is deprecated and will be removed with Simplifier 10 from the plugin list in our default installation/upgrade guides. If you are using the Plugin, you should start replacing it now so you do not have to change your applications under time pressure.

AI and similar techniques can already solve captchas. So check if other solutions like rate limits fit your use case better. If you want to stick to captchas, check our Knowledge Base on ‘How to use Google reCAPTCHA v3 Essentials‘ for an alternative solution (Read more).

Update Standard Content

Update Standard Content to ensure you have all current fixes and features available on your instances. (Download here)

Please check the endpoint of AppWizard Connector, Standard Workflow Connectors, Login, and Captcha Connector (Read more).

Update March 14th: The OpenUI5 version of our Standard Widgets was updated to 1.96.38. If you are using custom SAP themes, you might need to get a new export from SAP Theme Designer and add it to your applications.

We recommend that you deploy all Modules and Apps after import. You can do this with the new Standard Content SSBO SF_Deploy. As this might take some time, let it run as a job.

Discontinued

Deprecated Features MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

[Interaction] Event tab in UI Designer

Our UI designer still has the legacy feature to add scripts to events directly in the Event tab. As we want to provide a consistent App Building we will remove this feature with Simplifier 10. Simply use our Process Designer instead.

Deprecated since Simplifier 8 EHP 3; Removal before Simplifier 10

[Integration] Captcha Plugin

Our Captcha Plugin won’t be updated anymore and was removed from the plugin list in our default installation/upgrade guides.

See our Knowledge Base article on ‘How to use Google reCAPTCHA v3 Essentials‘ for an alternative solution.

Deprecated since MAKERS CHOICE 25-01; Removal from the plugin list in our default installation/upgrade guides with Simplifier 10; Final removal with Simplifier 11

[Integration] Javascript execution in PDFs created by PDF Plugin

Currently, it is possible to add Javascript to PDFs created by PDF Plugin. This is a potential risk for Server Side XSS (PDF Injection) and Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF). The option to add Javascript to PDFs in PDF Plugin is now deactivated but can be activated at its own risk. The activation is subject to be removed in later Releases.

Deprecated since Simplifier 8 EHP 3; Removal tbd

[System requirements] Support of Oracle for Simplifier databases

Oracle support for your Simplifier instances has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

Deprecated since Simplifier 8 EHP 4; Removal tbd

[Integration] Removed setting to activate deprecated Connector API

The settings to activate deprecated Connector API will be removed with Simplifier 10 LTS. Please make sure you do not use the deprecated Connector API anymore.

Deprecated since Simplifier 8 EHP 4; Removal tbd

[Integration] Final removal of Logging Connector

With Simplifier 7.0 we have dropped the Support for the Logging Connector. Existing Connectors could still be executed. As a replacement, you can use the Simplifier.Logging Object within Business Objects. (Read more)

Dropped support since Simplifier 7.0; Removal tbd

Removed Features MAKERS CHOICE 25-03

[Integration] Simplifier Mobile Client for Android on Windows

Unfortunately, Microsoft has announced the end of support for Windows Subsystem for Android on March 5th 2025. With the end of support, our Simplifier Mobile Client for Android won’t work on Windows anymore. If you have already installed the Simplifier Mobile Client in Windows Subsystem for Android before March 5th 2024 you will continue to have access to the Simplifier Mobile Client until the end of support. (Read more on microsoft.com)

Deprecated since Simplifier 8 EHP 2; Removal March 5th 2025

Release Info
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Release Date: March 12th, 2025

End of Maintenance: May 7th, 2025

All Simplifier releases and updates are provided on Docker Hub Repository.

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