Published: January 14, 2020
The govinfo team had a busy fall with three production deployments comprising 56 individually tracked changes since our September release. Two of the fall deployments were interim releases for software updates and the third was a regularly scheduled quarterly deployment that included a major system update to how govinfo content files are delivered to users. Read on for a summary of the changes in these deployments, but first, here are some top searches from the last couple months:
In addition to software updates and improvements to regression testing and virus scanning tools, the following items were deployed since the September release. Please note that certain fixes and enhancements may require content to be re-processed or re-published for the updates to take effect and this will be completed over a period of time.
New Content – Received 40,830 content packages (roughly equivalent to one bound printed document) for submission to the system. Notable content submissions since the last release include the Congressional Pictorial Directory for the 116th Congress, 2019 U.S. Government Manual, and the Unified Agenda. Also see our early October announcement that over 1,500 Digitized Congressional Hearings have been added to the system since the previous October.
Bill History Links to Related Bill Versions and Laws - From applicable Details pages in the Congressional Bills and Public and Private Laws collections, you can now see links to the related bill history. Here are several examples:
Example of related bill history linked to the bill version Details page.
Example of related bill history linked to the law Details page.
The related documents feature provides users with quick and easy access to related govinfo publications and has expanded to 9 collections and 24 relationships!
House Rules Committee Print XML – Select House Rules Committee Prints are submitted to the system with XML embedded in the PDF files. These XML files are now available for download as another rendition from Details pages, Browse pages, and Search Results. See example.
Repository
Social Sharing Integration – Replaced the previous tool for sharing pages and content on social media with a streamlined and more user friendly implementation, including the addition of an option to copy the current URL for easier sharing links across the site.
Usability and Accessibility
Minor Fixes and Enhancements
Developer Tools
Content Submission
Feature Articles – Featured 10 articles including finding Federal appropriations, resources for National History Day projects, the publications related to human rights, and more.
About Release Notes - Changes to govinfo components are made through code deployments on a quarterly release cycle. Release Notes are published after each deployment to highlight the changes. This includes updates about content, features, enhancements, bug fixes, and more. Read previous editions of Release Notes