I’ve just released version 2.7.0 of the CUNY Academic Commons. Version 2.7.0 is one of our twice-yearly “feature releases”, which include major improvements to the platform. Included in the release:

• A rewrite of the black toolbar that appears across the network. We’ve given the toolbar a visual refresh, and reorganized the available buttons and submenus for clearer and easier navigation. My Groups and My Sites now get their own top-level dropdowns, and redundant or unneeded nav items have been removed.
• A refresh of the Group Library interface. Items can now be edited without leaving the main Library view, using an expandable “drawer” interface. The concept of “folders” has been migrated to “tags”, allowing for fine-grained organization.
• A new privacy setting for groups allows you to make the contents of a Public group visible only to logged-in Commons users. This allows group admins to leverage the anyone-can-join features of Public groups, while hiding group membership and other content from external visitors not logged into the site.
• We’ve changed the ‘Full Name’ field to ‘Display Name’, to clarify that Commons users have full control over how their name (or pseudonym, if they wish) is shared with the public and with other members of the community.

For complete details, visit the 2.7.0 milestone.