January 2019 Release Notes
Improvements
- After integrating directly with the new USAJOBS API, we worked on additional tuning of trigger words to avoid false positive job-related searches
- We have improved search performance by caching repeat queries made to our data store
- We updated our content parser to accept some non-standard HTML tags, and to ignore any content within
<nav>
and<footer>
elements
Fixes, Upgrades, Misc
- We upgraded Ruby on our
search-gov
repo - We increased the processing power on the servers that support our primary web index
- We reindexed our primary index into more Elasticsearch shards
- We decreased the cookie timeout for Admin Center sessions
- We made the failed password reset alert language more ambiguous, so people will no longer be able to tell whether the email address has an account
- We fixed a bug in our MRSS photo indexer
February 15, 2019