App Building

• [Interaction] Our new self-service to create standalone applications is available in the Lifecycle Stage ‘Experimental’. (Read more)
• [User Experience] The references dialog of a variable now also displays Process Designer Stories and Data Sources that use the variable (Read more)
• [User Experience] If a data source is changed within Application Designer, all designed Bindings in child Widgets are revalidated now
• [User Experience] Designed Bindings in properties of widgets or screens are now validated again when the item is copied or moved. Manual Bindings are not affected
• [User Experience] Tab icons and titles were improved and are now available for all assets. The feature is now permanently available and cannot be deactivated in Feature Settings anymore (Read more)
• [Integration] Application 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.
• [User Experience] Optimized the technical base of the shape canvas of the Binding Editor to improve the User Experience
• [User Experience] Improved JavaScriptContext handling improves the execution performance of Server-side Business Objects.

Workflows

• [Governance] Workflow Monitoring Settings can now be defined for each Workflow individually (Read more)
• [Automation] Variables can now have a default value (Read more)
• [User Experience] IDs of Outcomes and Tasks can now be copied to the clipboard within Workflow Designer (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
• [Accessibility] We introduced our new AI-based automatic translation of Workflows in the Lifecycle Stage ‘In Preview’. It can be activated in Feature Settings. (Read more)
• [Automation] Constants can now be mapped in input mappings in the Workflow Designer
• [User Experience] The button to show or hide all descriptions is again available in the canvas toolbar. When activated, all non-empty descriptions are visible permanently.

Business Objects

• [User Experience] Business Object Editor is not automatically closed on ‘Esc’-press anymore. On changes, there is now a prompt that has to be confirmed by the user to prevent unwanted data loss
• [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 multiple instances. If a SAP System is restricted, it will not be selectable for endpoint configurations of connectors not match the restrictions. (Read more)
• [Integration] New modularized SOAP Connector can now be activated in Feature Settings.

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)

Data Privacy and Security

• [Governance] Enhanced user permission checks are now implemented on direct calls on API for deploying and releasing Applications

Transports

• [User Experience] Improved status dialog on remote Transports (Read more)

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 help text of log settings
• [User Experience] SAP SSO trace logging no longer adds ASCII art boxes sized to the logged variables

Server

• [User Experience] CORS Headers are now set by Simplifier Server and do not need to be set within Reverse Proxy anymore (Read more)
• [User Experience] Added feature toggles in Settings to enable you to active experimental features and features and preview within Admin Dashboard (Read more)
• [User Experience] Improved performance on all requests sent to Simplifier Servers (Admin-UI and Apps)
• [Governance] You now need to set a default password for user admin on new installations and upgrades (Read more in the installation/upgrade guides)
• [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)
• [User Experience] The default number of DB connections has been increased from 20 to 50, improving the performance of requests

Currently, there are no new system requirements.

See also our General Server Requirements.

Will be published with release of Simplifier 10.

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)

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).

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).

Update Standard Content

Update Standard Content to ensure you have all current fixes and features available on your instances. (Download for Simplifier 9 here; Download for Simplifier 10 will be published with Simplifier 10)

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

[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

[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

[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

[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 with 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. It can still be added by hand (for details check the environmental variables list in the 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 with Simplifier 11

Release Date: tbd

End of Maintenance: Long-term support until 3 months after the release of Simplifier 11

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