March 2019 Release Notes

Improvements

• We’ve continued to work on improving our recently launched click-based relevancy to boost search results relevance ranking for our indexing customers. As always, it’s important to periodically review your site’s Best Bets and keep your sitemaps up-to-date with latest <lastmod> date metadata.
• We continued to upgrade components of our service, including ElasticSearch, Rails, and Ruby to improve the overall performance of our indexing system.
• We launched a new Search Site Launch Guide to make it easier to go live with Search.gov:
  • https://search.gov/manual/site-launch-guide.html
• Released new documentation to make it easier to maintain your indexed content with Search.gov:
  • https://search.gov/manual/indexing-with-searchgov.html

Fixes and Chores

• We mitigated potential security vulnerabilities associated with Ruby gems.
• We applied high priority Ubuntu patches.