December 2023 release notes

Improvements

• Results Page Redesign: We’ve continued progress on updating our frontend components.
  • We connected backend data to the user interface for several features:
    • RSS feed page
    • No results
    • Video page
    • SERP header with dynamic logo and title
    • Results and footer font
    • Colors
    • Search results count
    • File type
    • Image assests
  • We added the ability to allow the customers to see how many results are returned for related content.
  • The affiliate logo url and title is now available on SERP.
  • We’ve pluralized content found on the Federal register documents.
  • We updated the default “best bets background color” and “results title link visited color” values on our database. This will ensure the values are correct.
• Results matching improvements
  • We continued investigations on how to run scrapy independently in a daemon.
  • Continued progression with running the SpacyModel trainer against staging copy of production data set.
• Updates,upgrades,and other codebase improvements:
  • We addressed all findings listed in a weekly report, in continuation for our ATO period, as well as, updated our SSPP and provided the associated artifacts.
  • We updated our cookbooks to remove unused code.
  • We updated our api TLS certification.

Fixes

• We investigated and corrected React development warnings on our staging and production environments.
• We looked into and corrected why resque-scheduler wasn’t running on our staging environment.