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+= Highlights
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+== Improved User Search
+
+{project_name} now supports a glob-like syntax for the user search when listing users in the Admin Console,
+which allows for three different types of searches: prefix (`foo*` which became the default search), infix (`\*foo*`), and exact `"foo"`)