Hey everyone,
We're happy to announce that new version of Crowd with Universal Plugin Manager has been released and you can download it here: atlassian.com/software/crowd/download.
We'd like to inform you that option "Paid-via-Atlassian" is not available yet. There is already ticket about that functionality which you can watch and vote on:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-5472

Thank you for your patience and we're looking forward to your feedback.

Kind regards,
Patryk Szczepanik

Hi sopel1,

Thanks for the detailed explanation, I have raised a feature request on CWD project for the same, you can comment and watch the issue here:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-5472

Cheers!

Gaurav 

Hi gagarwal,

So far this issue is the canonical request for PvA apps in Crowd. This has been a conversation that all interested app vendors are having with the Marketplace team ever since the release of the Marketplace in 2012, and we have always been referred to this very issue.

I completely understand that technically enabling UPM is a different step than supporting that in the Marketplace (hence my question), but I don't even know where I should request PvA support at this point, CWD, UPM, AMKTHELP? You get the idea

May I suggest that your team takes ownership of this feature's long standing scope and coordinate required follow-up steps with the relevant Atlassian teams?

Many thanks,
Steffen

Hi sopel1,

We are glad that you are happy about UPM.

Regarding the "paid-via-atlassian" option in UPM, it is not in the scope of the current release but I recommend you to kindly raise a feature improvement request for it.

Thanks,

Gaurav Agarwal

Wow, pretty unexpected and very exciting news, thanks a lot for making this happen gagarwal

Does this already imply support for "paid-via-atlassian" Crowd apps in the Atlassian Marketplace, or does this require separate enablement from the Marketplace team?

Crowd 3.7 will feature Universal Plugin Manager, and it will be released soon.

Crowd is available from the Atlassian website ( https://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd ). Recent releases contain new features, improvements and bugfixes.

Is crowd dead? They don't even list it on their website as a product.

Hmm. Okay, no UPM compatibility simply means admins can't browse marketplace, determine compatibility and install from within the Crowd UI. It's not obvious but it is possible to manually download the jar file of a plugin and install from the command line.

Tedious, and a barrier for sure.

Perhaps this should be considered critical. Marketplace Vendors rely on UPM compatibility in order to get their innovations to a paying audience.

No UPM = less incentive.