Crowd 7.1 Release Notes
2 October, 2025
The Crowd team is proud to bring you Crowd 7.1.
Highlights
- Authenticate to Crowd with an SSO Identity Provider
- Service accounts UI now available
- Enforce two-step verification for all users
- Supported platforms changes
- Complete list of changes and improvements
More
See the full list of issues resolved for important fixed about this release
Authenticate to Crowd with an SSO Identity Provider
With this update, you can integrate multiple identity providers (IdPs) directly with Crowd. Crowd will serve as the single integration point for your IdPs, acting as a bridge between the IdPs and your Atlassian Data Center products. This will help you simplify authentication by centralizing access management for all your Atlassian Data Center products through Crowd. Explore how to set up SSO for Crowd
This feature adds support for SAML and OpenID Connect, which has been frequently requested. For more details, check the following issues: CWD-5478 and CWD-3995.
If you're planning a cloud migration or a temporary hybrid setup, we recommend streamlining authentication and company-wide multi-factor authentication (MFA) by:
Configuring MFA at the IdP level.
Integrating the IdP with Crowd to provide SSO and MFA to your Atlassian products.
Service accounts UI now available
We’re introducing a user interface (UI) for managing service accounts, making it easier to create, update, delete, and manage credentials without relying on the REST API. You can now access all core service account management features directly in the UI. Service accounts created before Crowd 7.1 are also fully supported and can you can manage them through the new interface
Explore how to create a service account via the UI
Enforce two-step verification for all users
You can now require all users to set up two-step verification by enabling the JVM runtime property.
Datlassian.authentication.2sv.enforcement.all.users.enabled=trueOnce this property is set, every user will be prompted to configure two-step verification the next time they log in. Explore how to manage two-step verification
Before enabling this enforcement, test it in a non-production environment. Two-step verification enforcement might conflict with some third-party solutions or custom integrations.
Supported platforms changes
There are no platform changes in this release.
For more information about what the latest stable release of Crowd supports, see Supported platforms.
Complete list of changes and improvements
Here's a full list of issues resolved in this release:
Crowd 7.1.0 - 2 October, 2025
Crowd 7.1.1 - 27 November, 2025
Crowd 7.1.2 - 9 November, 2025
This Crowd release includes updates to our Apache Tika dependency in response to CVE-2025-66516.
Our security team has assessed that the current scope of this CVE does not present the same critical risk in our products, as our use of the dependency doesn’t support the known path for exploitation.
The patch for CVE-2025-66516 is being released out of an abundance of caution.
Crowd 7.1.3 - 19 December, 2025
Crowd 7.1.4 - 30 January, 2026
We've withdrawn Crowd 7.1.4 because of a bug CWD-6493, which caused Application Links to stop working after upgrade. If you've already upgraded to 7.1.4, update to 7.1.5 and recreate your Application Links.
Crowd 7.1.5 - 24 February, 2026