April 2024 release notes

Improvements

• Results Page Redesign:
  • We continued to address customer questions as we near the launch of the redesigned search page.
  • We fixed click tracking for new SERP pages for all modules
  • We ddressed a number of image sizing bugs
  • We started building out migration scripts
  • We started work on faceted search filters
• Indexing improvements:
  • We updated the search.gov indexing process to recognize and index only the canonical versions of a website.
  • We improved indexing stability by streamlining the removal of dead domains.
  • We increased the number of indexing workers to address growth in the system.
• Updates, upgrades, and other codebase improvements:
  • We upgraded Ruby.
  • We continued to lay the groundwork for our new hosting infrastructure that will improve stability, observability, and performance of the Search.gov platform.

Fixes

Implemented OpenID Connect logout changes.