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Information for installing Crowd can be found here. If you're upgrading from a previous version, make sure to see the Upgrade Guide.

The list below is a summary of the Crowd releases for which Atlassian still provides support. The changelogs, included in the release notes for individual release, have details of the related bug-fix releases.

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5.2

29 September 2023

  • Last Server version. Any future releases will be Data Center only.
  • Rate limiting (Crowd 5.2.1)
  • Notifying users about their new accounts
  • New events in the audit log
  • New Tomcat version
Release notes
5.1

21 November 2022

  • New type of connection pooling: Dynamic LDAP connection pool
  • Encrypting the database password
Release notes
5.0

17 May 2022

  • HTML in email notifications
  • Announcement banner on the login page
  • Support for PostgreSQL 13 and PostgreSQL 14
Release notes
4.4

15 October 2021

  • Sync users based on their access rights (Data Center)
  • Log in with your email address (Data Center)
  • Verify new email addresses
Release notes
4.3

21 April 2021

  • Scheduling with cron expressions
  • Pruning delegated directories
  • Active Object support
  • New supported platforms
Release Notes
4.2

15 October 2020

  • Passwords to external systems now encrypted
  • New attribute mapping when importing users via CSV
  • Look and feel of the login screen
  • Improvements to directory details and audit log screens
  • Performance improvements
Release Notes
4.1

22 June 2020

  • Support for local groups in Azure Active Directory

  • UI and UX improvements

  • New supported environments

  • Performance improvements

Release Notes
4.0

25 February 2020

  • Improved authentication performance for multiple directories
  • Support for JDK 11
  • Improved performance of nested groups
Release Notes
3.7

3 October 2019

  • Universal Plugin Manager
Release Notes
3.6

3 September 2019

  • Azure AD group filtering
Release Notes
3.5

4 July 2019

  • Centralized license visibility
Release Notes
3.4

13 March 2019

  • Crowd SSO 2.0
  • UI Refreshed
  • Improved UX of managing group direct members
Release Notes
3.3

27 September 2018

  • Delegated group level administration
  • Crowd loves email
  • Multiple server alert addresses
Release Notes
3.2

20 April 2018

  • Extended audit log
  • Azure AD support for Azure Germany
  • Easier email configuration testing
Release Notes
3.1

27 November 2017

  • Automatically assigning groups per application
  • Support for newer databases versions
Release Notes
3.0

17 August 2017

  • Introducing Crowd Data Center
  • Microsoft Azure Active Directory
Release Notes
2.12

25 April 2017

  • Audit log
  • Directory failover
Release Notes
2.11

12 January 2017

  • Improved license counting
  • Get support easily with the Support Tools Plugin
  • Performance improvements
  • Support for newer databases versions
Release Notes
Last modified on Feb 12, 2024

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