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Crowd 7.2.0 is here!
Hello Community! We are excited to let you know that Crowd 7.2 is now available. Crowd 7.2.0 comes with the following major changes: * Changed the default connection pool provider from c3p0 to HikariCP for improved performance * Added account lockout functionality for better login security * Deprecated older database…
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Coming soon: Native Single Sign-On in Atlassian Crowd 7.1
We’re excited to announce that Atlassian Crowd 7.1 will introduce a built-in Single Sign-On (SSO) capability, scheduled for release at the end of September 2025. With this update, you’ll be able to integrate multiple Identity Providers directly with Crowd. This will allow Crowd to serve as the sole integration point with…
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Crowd 7.0 is here!
Hello Community! We are excited to let you know that Crowd 7.0 is now available. Download it here. What to look forward to in Crowd 7.0 This new version of Crowd includes multiple updates and changes: * Struts, Spring and other core dependencies got upgraded * Updated the list of Supported Platforms * Changes to backup and…
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Crowd REST API docs moving to developer.atlassian.com
Hello, Crowd Community! We’ve recently migrated our REST API documentation to OpenAPI 3.0. As part of that change, we’ve also moved it from docs.atlassian.com to developer.atlassian.com due to the lack of cross-product UI support for swagger.json files. You can now also directly download the swagger.json file. To access…
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OAuth 2.0 mail server integration method coming to Crowd
Hi Crowd Community, In light of Google’s announcement to deprecate basic authentication for third-party apps, we will be offering an alternate option to authenticate your emails to Crowd. Currently, we offer basic authentication in Crowd, however, with this change, apps connected to Google Workspace can no longer be…
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Crowd 6.0 EAP is out
We’ve just released an Early Access Program (EAP) of Crowd 6.0 so you can get familiar with the upcoming changes. Unless we need to include emergency or unplanned changes, this should be the only EAP for Crowd 6.0. Highlights * Migration to Java 17: We’ve removed support for JDK 8 and 11. Crowd 6.0 only supports JDK 17. *…
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Let's talk User Management!
Hello Crowd users, Here at Atlassian, we value direct contact with customers. It helps us stay grounded and in touch with customer's needs and challenges. This is why we would like to kick off the Let's Talk User Management program - every Tuesday from 3 pm to 5 pm CET we will be available to discuss user management with…
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SSO into SonarQube while managing users in Atlassian Crowd
When it comes to writing code, we all know how important it is to write maintainable, clean, and bug-free code. And while talking about bug-free code, the first name that comes to mind is SonarQube. SonarQube is a renowned open-source platform that provides a static code analysis tool. It does continuous code inspection,…
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Cleaner user lists in Atlassian on-prem apps with Crowd 4.4? Yes please!
Do you: * Use Crowd? * Have multiple Atlassian applications connected to Crowd? * Have different sets of users with access to each application? If you're a YES on all three, then a feature released in Crowd 4.4.0 "Sync users based on their access rights" may be a big help. The team I'm a part of runs quite a large…
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SSO into Jenkins while managing users in Atlassian Crowd
Jenkins manages and controls software delivery processes throughout the entire lifecycle, including build, document, test, package, stage, deployment, static code analysis, and much more. To make Jenkins application access easier and provide better security we have an SSO module that can be easily deployed on Jenkins…
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SSO for Atlassian Applications connected to Crowd
Crowd is a centralized identity and access management application that manages the users from multiple directories like Active Directory, LDAP, Open LDAP, Microsoft Azure Active Directory for connected applications such as Jira, Confluence etc. Now, organizations are looking to delegate user authentication for Atlassian…
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New App! Login to your websites using Crowd credentials (OAuth/OpenID)
Do you want Crowd to manage all your users and allow you to connect all of your organization's applications, even non-Atlassian applications, to it? You are in luck! We have just what you need. Atlassian Crowd is an application for centralized identity and access management. The Crowd Administration Console provides a web…
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Overview and practical use cases with open source tracing tool for Java Apps. Timeouts
Hi! In this article, I would like to share the small story of how Glowroot, other monitoring will help you with the next small story of how huge timeouts can decrease customer satisfaction. So a few times I heard in one of the installation the problem around the opening Jira, but monitoring shows everything is fine,…
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Secure your Crowd Data Center SSO 2.0 authentication
Atlassian recently released a new feature that you may not have heard of yet: Crowd Datacenter SSO 2.0. Crowd Datacenter SSO 2.0 is based on SAML and all services connected to Crowd automatically reroute the user to the Crowd Login page. The user is forwarded to the Crowd login from any service connected to Crowd, no…
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Looking back on 2018: Crowd highlights
Over a year ago, we introduced Crowd Data Center and since then the team has been hard at work improving both Crowd Server and Crowd Data Center. In the past twelve months, there have been 9 releases. We’ve fulfilled 18 feature and improvement requests and resolved 24 bug requests, but that only scratches the surface of…
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Security Advisory FAQ - Crowd Server and Data Center 2019-05-22
Recently a new critical severity security advisory was released which affects a number of instances running Crowd Server and Crowd Data Center: Crowd Security Advisory 2019-05-22. Our aim is to provide some guidance on what to do to fix and workaround this vulnerability. What is the CVE? The security vulnerability…
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The Crowd team is looking for feedback on Server & Data Center customers' identity strategies!
Do you own more than one Server or Data Center product? Do you have challenges provisioning users across your Atlassian products? Are you spending a lot of time integrating each Atlassian product with multiple identity solutions in your organization? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you'll want to continue…