Crowd 2.6 : Crowd 2.5 Release Notes

6th August 2012

The Atlassian Crowd team is pleased to present Crowd 2.5.

This is a major release with a number of compatibility and performance improvements.

This release includes the following new features:

  • Support for JDK 7
  • Database drivers are now bundled for PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
  • Crowd console performance improved with large numbers of groups.
  • Cookie domain validation made consistent with RFC 6265
  • Spring Security integration upgraded to version 3

There are also a number of bug fixes and other improvements. This release also removes the deprecated support for roles.

Responding to your feedback:

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Upgrading to Crowd 2.5

You can download Crowd from the Atlassian website. If upgrading from a previous version, please read the Crowd 2.5 Upgrade Notes.

Complete List of Improvements and Fixes

JIRA Issues (45 issues)

Key Summary Priority Status
CWD-1807 Spring Security 3.0 Integration tutorial Minor Resolved
CWD-1709 Add Oracle 11g Support Minor Resolved
CWD-2712 Error Updating the Configurations for Delegated LDAP Auth Major Resolved
CWD-2504 Synchronization with JIRA/Confluence fail with duplicate entry Major Resolved
CWD-1945 Make Crowd's cookie domain validation consistent with RFC 6265 Minor Resolved
CWD-1710 Bundle database drivers with Crowd Major Resolved
CWD-1815 Please add support for SpringSecurity 3.0 Minor Resolved
CWD-2105 Expose the CrowdService in Crowd Major Resolved
CWD-2676 Upgrade Crowd to Spring Security 3.0 Major Resolved
CWD-2593 Remove deprecated support for roles Minor Resolved
CWD-2886 Unbundle the MySQL drivers Blocker Resolved
CWD-2804 ApplicationServiceGeneric.searchUsers is slow with large numbers of users Critical Resolved
CWD-2757 Race condition in DirectoryMonitorManagerImpl.addMonitor Critical Resolved
CWD-2111 Crowd ships with a javax.xml.namespace.QName class Major Resolved
CWD-2875 Fetching group memberships containing slashes fails with Active Directory Major Resolved
CWD-2851 LDAP connector using Incremental Sync still syncs all memberships Major Resolved
CWD-2846 Fix Crowd source distribution for 2.5 with Maven 3 Major Resolved
CWD-2828 Document removal of roles Major Resolved
CWD-2807 ApplicationServiceGeneric search methods may return too few results when paging Major Resolved
CWD-2750 NotSerializableException from Crowd's query cache Major Resolved
CWD-2326 CrowdHttpAuthenticatorImpl should use the CrowdClient to determine the SSO cookie name Minor Resolved
CWD-2882 Some lingering Role references Minor Resolved
CWD-2879 Refuse to create users and groups with trailing whitespace Minor Resolved
CWD-2878 Check for missing plugins on startup Minor Resolved
CWD-2864 Add Stash to the Application Type drop-down list Minor Resolved
CWD-2859 Upgrade to Atlassian Johnson 2 Minor Resolved
CWD-2857 Remove libraries for Seraph 2.1 Minor Resolved
CWD-2850 Improve performance of Crowd console and Spring Security integration with large numbers of memberships Minor Resolved
CWD-2870 Return a 404 when syncfeedback is not available Minor Resolved
CWD-2831 Refuse to create groups with trailing empty space through REST API Minor Resolved
CWD-2800 Don't use a separate bundled plugin zip in dev mode Minor Resolved
CWD-2801 Use ojdbc6 driver for Oracle Minor Resolved
CWD-2818 PartialSet appears to be unused Minor Resolved
CWD-2810 Support bcrypt password encoding Minor Resolved
CWD-2827 Include underlying exception from LDAP directory in authentication failures Minor Resolved
CWD-2817 Use Guava Minor Resolved
CWD-2749 Java API for searching for users that returns cross-directory results, correctly sorted Minor Resolved
CWD-2748 ApplicationServiceGeneric.searchUsers() returns too few users for offset queries when there are multiple directories Minor Resolved
CWD-2741 Bump plugins to pick up JDK 7 bugfix Minor Resolved
CWD-2740 Support running Crowd under JDK 7 Minor Resolved
CWD-2739 SSLSocketImpl.trySetHostnameVerification breaks under JDK 7 Minor Resolved
CWD-2737 Move build to Maven 3 Minor Resolved
CWD-2628 Remove CrowdDirectoryAttributes, LdapDelegatingDirectoryAttributes and LdapDirectoryAttributes from Crowd Minor Resolved
CWD-2624 Unable to find crowd-sal bundle when not using install target Minor Resolved
CWD-2673 Crowd 2.2 Rest API resource /user/mail/usernames?email=EMAIL always returns 204 status Trivial Resolved