September 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:
    • Related searches
    • Search page alert
    • Collections
  • We added controls to the Admin Center for the colors used on the new results page.
  • We added the ability to control image assets on the redesign display page. These image assets now contain a favicon, header logo, header logo alt text, identifier logo, and identifier logo alt text.
  • We added the ability to choose the layout of the header on the new results page. The default will be USWDS Extended, with the option to choose USWDS Basic.
  • We added our multilingual search support to the new results page, so the system text on the page matches the language the user is using.
  • We built the user interface for some types of search results:
    • Jobs
    • RSS news
    • Videos
    • The “no results” alert
• Results matching improvements:
  • We created a dictionary that uses the distances in the Spacey model. This will bring together the relationships between words and alphanumeric strings to the search terms.
• Updates,upgrades,and other codebase improvements:
  • We added Haitian Creole localizations to our set of supported languages, so system text can be properly displayed in that language.
  • We updated the SLS certificate for one of our components.
  • We updated our Adobe/css tools to the latest version.

Fixes

• We resolved certain error messages in the database.