Crowd 2.6 : Crowd 2.4.2 Release Notes

15th May 2012

The Atlassian Crowd team is pleased to present Crowd 2.4.2.

This release is a recommended upgrade for all customers which fixes a number of bugs.

This release makes Oracle 11g support official. Other bug fixes include StaleStateExceptions under concurrent load and issues with case-sensitivity. Installation as a Windows service is improved, with file encoding and memory usage now being set during installation.

Note, Crowd 2.4.1 and later versions fix an important security flaw. See the Crowd 2.4.1 Release Notes for details.

Upgrading to Crowd 2.4.2

You can download Crowd from the Atlassian website. If upgrading from a previous version, please read the Crowd 2.4 Upgrade Notes.

Complete List of Improvements and Fixes

JIRA Issues (13 issues)

Key Summary Priority Status
CWD-1709 Add Oracle 11g Support Minor Resolved
CWD-2703 Hibernate StaleStateExceptions in Crowd Major Closed
CWD-2679 Crowd + Apache Directory Server connector submitting changed passwords in plaintext Critical Resolved
CWD-2286 Add the -XX:MaxPermSize definition to the Windows Service installer Major Resolved
CWD-2760 No way to configure DN subtree matching to be case-insensitive and handle whitespace properly Major Resolved
CWD-2704 LDAP group membership works only if the DN matches CASE-SENSITIVE Major Resolved
CWD-2106 Let Crowd build with Maven 3 Minor Resolved
CWD-2722 MembershipDAOHibernate.search returns users in indeterminate order Blocker Resolved
CWD-2772 file.encoding isn't set when Crowd runs as a service Major Resolved
CWD-2212 Crowd build relies on crowd-bundled-plugins modifying crowd-web-app's src directory Minor Resolved
CWD-2795 Error in the log is incorrect when Confluence tries to connect to Crowd Minor Resolved
CWD-2771 Show file.encoding in system info Minor Resolved
CWD-2751 You are approaching your user limit of null with xx users Minor Resolved