January 2024 release notes

Improvements

• Results Page Redesign:
  • We released our new results page in beta!
  • We resolved several issues related to display, and how results modules show up on different search tabs.
  • See the results page live on our own website with this example search for “release notes”.
• Results matching improvements
  • We continued refining the web spider we are developing, which will support search on sites that cannot publish an XML sitemap.
  • We pivoted away from Spacy for processing alphanumeric strings and began experimenting with simpler methods.
• Updates,upgrades,and other codebase improvements:
  • We upgraded Resque and Kibana.
  • We completed deep improvements to our internal network.
  • We continued making progress on our new orchstration tool.
  • We removed segments of legacy code to improve overall system health.