We've now upgraded MIT Wikis to Confluence version 2.7.3. The new release contains some added functionality and bug fixes.
The Most importantly, though, the upgrade includes major improvements to the application's back-end user and group management framework. Space administrators will find a very much improved user search function on the Permissions page, making it much easier to find and add users to their spaces. This improved performance improvement is particularly useful pertinent now that MIT Wikis is using MIT Touchstone Collaboration Accounts for non-MIT users, whose usernames are not as easy to deduce as those of MIT users.
The upgrade has also allowed us to move to a newer back-end java engine, which should help the application to run more efficiently.
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