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
- Complete list of changes and improvements
More
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
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