June 2023 Release Notes

Improvements

• Results Page Redesign: We’ve continued progress on updating our frontend components.
  • We built the Graphics Best Bets component for the new results page.
  • We added term-match highlighting to the backend data for results snippets.
  • We made sure that long URLs and descriptions display in a user-friendly manner.
  • We prepared backend data for some types of search results:
    • Jobs
    • Federal Register documents
    • Health topics
• Indexing improvements: Our system now prioritizes customer requests for reindexing over general index maintenance.
• Results matching improvements: In this phase we are looking at alphanumeric strings, such as form numbers or policy numbers. We created a Levenshtein model that will identify variations on strings that are “close enough” to consider matches. For example, “DD 214” and “DD214.”
• Codebase improvements:
  • We deprecated our Twitter integration.
  • We cleaned up some code that was generating errors.
  • We removed the last pieces of code related to our deprecated Google integration.
• Containerization: We containerized a component of our development environment.
• Infrastructure:
  • We improved our secrets management.
  • We improved our firewall posture.
  • We improved the performance of some of our security agents.
  • We updated gems across our apps, as needed, to maintain a secure environment.

Fixes

• We completed some privacy-related tidying up.