Crowd 5.1 Release Notes
21 November 2022
The Crowd team is proud to bring you Crowd 5.1.
Highlights
- New type of connection pooling: Dynamic LDAP connection pool
- Encrypting the database password
- Compatibility with New Relic
- Complete list of changes and improvements
- Non-Marketplace apps upload disabled
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Read the upgrade notes for important info about this release and see the full list of issues resolved.
New type of connection pooling: Dynamic LDAP connection pool
We’ve introduced a new type of LDAP connection pooling – Dynamic LDAP connection pool. You can enable and configure it for each directory separately. It also improves performance and brings more settings and customizations than the current JNDI pooling.
In summary, Dynamic LDAP connection pool:
Works with Connector and Delegated directories
Can be configured on a per-directory basis, directly from the Crowd web console
Supports pooling connections that use the StartTLS security protocol
Can be reconfigured at runtime, without the need to restart Crowd
Exposes a REST endpoint and JMX MBeans for pool monitoring
Improves performance, even when the configuration isn’t adjusted to the environment size
To enable Dynamic LDAP connection pool, view a directory and open the LDAP connection pooling tab. Learn more
Encrypting the database password
You can now encrypt the database password in a similar way to other Atlassian products, like Jira. This lets you add extra security to your Crowd instance, just to make sure everything is safe and sound. The database password you encrypt is the one stored in the crowd.cfg.xml file, a configuration file that’s part of the shared directory.
The password isn’t encrypted by default. You’ll need to take some steps to encrypt it and then propagate the changes to the configuration files. Learn more
Compatibility with New Relic
In Crowd 5.1.3, we've upgraded Tomcat to version 8.5.87. This version is incompatible with the older versions of the New Relic java-agent. If you're using New Relic as a service, make sure to upgrade java-agent to version 8.2.0. Learn more
Non-Marketplace apps upload disabled
Updated 22 April 2024
Starting from Crowd 5.1.9, manual uploads of non-Marketplace apps are disabled by default. Understand how to re-enable manual uploads
Complete list of changes and improvements
Here's a full list of issues resolved in this release:
Crowd 5.1 - 21 November 2022
Crowd 5.1.1 - 23 December 2022
Crowd 5.1.2 - 10 February 2023
Crowd 5.1.3 - 31 May 2023
Crowd 5.1.4 - 3 August 2023
Crowd 5.1.5 - 4 September 2023
This release doesn't include any resolved issues from our public instance, only small fixes and improvements.
Crowd 5.1.6 - 15 November 2023
Crowd 5.1.7 - 12 December 2023
This release doesn't include any resolved issues from our public instance, only small fixes and improvements.
Crowd 5.1.8 - 9 January 2024
Crowd 5.1.9 - 8 April 2024
This release doesn't include any resolved issues from our public instance, only small fixes and improvements.
Crowd 5.1.11 - 10 July 2024
This release doesn't include any resolved issues from our public instance, only small fixes and improvements.