Crowd 2.6 : Crowd 2.5.1 Release Notes

17th September 2012

The Atlassian Crowd team is pleased to present Crowd 2.5.1.

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

This release improves LDAP support, with empty base DNs now supported and issues fixed with special characters and differing case during membership synchronisation.

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Upgrading to Crowd 2.5.1

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 (14 issues)

Key Summary Priority Status
CWD-1971 Support empty Base DN definitions for Generic Directory Connector Major Resolved
CWD-2854 Mixed case with LDAP, couldn't synchronize users and groups Major Resolved
CWD-2042 Forward slashes not escaped correctly in DNs etc. Major Resolved
CWD-2893 When sAMAccountName casing does not match cn (User Logon Name (pre-Windows 2000) does not match User Logon Name), or casing of a user or group name has changed from original casing, synchs fail and access is affected Major Resolved
CWD-2926 Support empty Base DN definitions in a DELEGATION directory Major Resolved
CWD-2898 Use LdapName consistently when manipulating DNs Major Resolved
CWD-2918 Crowd DAOs in persistence-hibernate3 should inject by interface, not implementation class Major Resolved
CWD-2913 Not possible to import LDAP users into another LDAP directory using Directory Imported (argument credential cannot be null) Major Resolved
CWD-2919 Make Hibernate3BatchProcessor extendable Major Resolved
CWD-2916 LDAP exceptions with invalid characters cause exceptions during SOAP seraliasation Major Resolved
CWD-2894 build.sh fails with JDK 7u5: NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/xpath/XPathAPI Minor Resolved
CWD-2899 Upgrade ApacheDS used for testing Minor Resolved
CWD-2896 Use StAX instead of XMLWriter to generate memberships Minor Resolved
CWD-2889 ::1 cannot be a trusted proxy with some IPv6 configurations Minor Resolved