If you want to use WorldGuard flags for the global wilderness region in a world, you'll need to remove the world from the Lands config option disallow-wilderness. Otherwise, it's not guaranteed that the flags of WorldGuard will work in this world. This change heavily improves performance further and has no drawbacks for you. You just need to do this one thing.
# Fixed NPE on config load
# IMPROVED API
Please note that some API events have changed. If you're a developer, please make sure that you're up to date.
Don't forget to watch wars progress:
https://trello.com/b/QXkfopTC/minecraft-spigot-lands
# IMPROVED Event handling
# IMPROVED Worldedit integration
# IMPROVED Player data loading and unloading