This page last changed on Feb 17, 2009 by smaddox.

17 February 2009

The Atlassian Crowd team is delighted to present Crowd 1.6.1.

This release focuses on solving problems with case sensitivity. Crowd's internal directories, client caches and LDAP directory caches are now all case insensitive but case preserving. Crowd will ignore case when comparing usernames, etc ('JSmith' = 'jsmith') and it will preserve case when passing information between applications and directories ('JSmith' remains 'JSmith'). This results in the expected behaviour in the Crowd-connected directories as well as Crowd-connected applications such as JIRA and Confluence.

In addition, Crowd now allows you to enforce lower-case conversion of usernames, groups and roles for a specific application. Where is this useful? Let's assume you have previously integrated JIRA with an LDAP directory that allows mixed-case usernames (e.g. 'JSmith'). JIRA enforces lower-case usernames (e.g. 'jsmith'), so you have existing lower-case usernames in JIRA. And now you want to integrate JIRA with Crowd. You can configure Crowd to convert all usernames, etc, to lower case before passing them to JIRA.

We have also fixed a few bugs, including a problem with finding group members in Posix directories and a problem with Gzip compression for SOAP requests.

Don't have Crowd 1.6 yet?
Take a look at the new features and other highlights in the Crowd 1.6 Release Notes.

Complete List of Fixes in Crowd 1.6.1

JIRA Issues (16 issues)
Key Summary Priority Status
CWD-1420 findGroupRelationships() is broken for Posix directories Blocker Resolved
CWD-1382 Selection of 'Enable Caching' does not immediately show the additional config options in IE Critical Resolved
CWD-1424 Add help link to help-paths.properties for new application tab Major Resolved
CWD-1419 Directory Encryption Type is not available for generic Posix or OpenLDAP Posix directories Major Resolved
CWD-1398 Content-Encoding is unset for SOAP requests Major Resolved
CWD-1396 Make the InternalDirectory case-insensitive Major Resolved
CWD-1395 Make the client caches case-insensitive Major Resolved
CWD-1394 Make the DirectoryCache case-insensitive Major Resolved
CWD-1378 Setup Wizard for MySQL connection doesn't specify characterEncoding Major Resolved
CWD-1377 Relaxed DN Standardisation option should appear only for caching-enabled directories Major Resolved
CWD-1252 Username case matters in JIRA if you're using Crowd 1.4.x or 1.5, it didn't used to in Crowd 1.3.x Major Resolved
CWD-1118 Allow Crowd admin to specify property to enforce toLower on username for JIRA/Confluence integration Major Resolved
CWD-781 Support case-insensitivity for the Internal Directory, this is in the aim of providing support for RFC-2798 Major Resolved
CWD-732 Crowd client should pass version, configuration information to server Major Resolved
CWD-1421 UI text in Crowd 1.6.1 Minor Resolved
CWD-1404 Make Crowd Client impersonate a more modern browser (User-Agent header) Minor Resolved

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