15.21Runtime version matters

Your application targets a Mule runtime version.

For example conceptually:

Mule Runtime 4.x
Java 17

A connector can impose minimum runtime/Java requirements.

We already saw one example:

Salesforce Connector 12
→ Java 17

So when upgrading connectors, ask:

Does runtime support it?
Does Java version support it?
Does CI build support it?

This is dependency compatibility, not simply changing one version string.