Tabula release notes

We released Tabula version 2025.8.3 on Thursday 21^st August 2025. Changes in this update include:

• Improved Tabula performance when submitting coursework.
• Tabula in-app help once again points to the correct location of the Tabula Manual.

Technical notes

Improvements made

• [TAB-11841] - Coursework submission is slow
• [TAB-13515] - Disable legacy Turnitin LTI service in Tabula

Tasks completed

• [TAB-13506] - Remove depreciated XSSFColor constructor
• [TAB-13507] - Replace depreciated uk.ac.warwick.tabula.helpers.Tap with scala.util.chaining
• [TAB-13508] - Tabula manual location has changed
• [TAB-13514] - Improve logging for TCA similarity report retrieval failures