March 2018 Release Notes

Highlights

• We added a manual page about xml sitemaps to our Search.gov help manual.
• We created a robots.txt files manual page.

Chores

• We have updated how we create and update the Search.gov sitemap.
• We transitioned our i14y repo to CircleCI.
• We increased storage volumes used by Elasticsearch 5.6.4.
• We open-sourced the usasearch application, which is now known as search-gov.
• We are now sending our email notifications via AWS Simple Email Service (SES).
• We setup a metrics dashboard for SES emails.

Bug Fixes

• We removed all Rspec/VCR dependencies on actual private keys.
• We removed the link to Search.gov website from the “Powered by Search.gov” logo that appears at the bottom of our hosted SERPs.