June 2025 Release Notes

The June 2025 GovInfo release included 110 individually tracked system changes. Highlights included the new United States Reports collection which launched in July 2025; file size information on search results and collection browse pages; a new custom search widget on the Statute Compilations collection browse page; increased access to amendments in the Congressional Record; a Related Documents use case connecting associated Congressional Reports on Public and Private Laws details pages; as well as continued migration of collection browse pages to a more supported web application framework. Seven collections were migrated this release—the Congressional Record (Bound Edition), History of Bills, House Rules and Manual, House Journal, Senate Manual List of Sections Affected, and Statute Compilations. A proof of concept for the content details pages migration was also completed. Other changes included numerous enhancements to the internal content management system and XML metadata editor to improve navigation, processing, and other content support functions prior to publication on the public site. The team also worked on design improvements, collection and system enhancements, and bug fixes.

New Content: Over 52,000 content packages (roughly equivalent to one bound printed document) were made available from April 1 to June 30. Notable submissions included The President’s FY 2026 Budget and accompanying documents; U.S. Code, 2024 Edition, Titles 1-6; Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 8; S. Doc. 119-3 - Report of the Secretary of the Senate: October 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025, Part I and Part II; S.Pub. 116-7 - Senate Journal for the 116th Congress, 1st session; S.Pub. 117-12 - Senate Journal for the 117th Congress, 2nd session; S. Pub. 118-7 - Senate Journal for the 118th Congress, 1st session; H.Doc. 118-187 Constitution Jefferson’s Manual and Rules of the House of Representatives; Volume 39 Nos. 5-14 of the FCC Record: A comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices and other documents of the Federal Communications Commission of the United States; U.S. Statutes at Large in USLM XML format for digitized volumes 40-43, 45-50, 105, and 109; 32 reports submitted by Federal agencies into the Congressionally Mandated Reports collection (bringing the total to over 760); 458 born-digital documents that were acquired through GPO’s Cataloging and Indexing Program; judicial opinions from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court District of Minnesota (MNB), U.S. District Court Western District of North Carolina (NCWD), and U.S. Bankruptcy Court District of Colorado (COB); 11,157 digitized U.S. Congressional Serial Set reports, documents, and journals; 154 digitized Congressional Hearings; interim packages for the Privacy Act Issuances collection; Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) publications; Railroad Retirement Board publications; and partnership publications from the Indiana State Library including 7 volumes of the Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands; and more.

The image below features covers from some of the publications submitted to GovInfo this quarter.

Feature Articles: GPO published seven feature articles from April 1 to June 30. These included articles showcasing Biscayne National Park, the Antiquities Act of 1906, and Helen Keller Day; and features commemorating the 55th Anniversary of Earth Day, May’s American Wetland Month, Armed Forces Day, Juneteenth, and Memorial Day; and an update for the March 2025 Release Notes.

Display of File Size Information: To assist users in understanding when they are going to click on a large file that may take some time to download, the team implemented enhancements to the display of format buttons. For this release, the file size for PDF and other file formats is now visible when you hover over the buttons on the search results and select browse pages. As the overarching migration to a more up-to-date web application framework continues, users will see this display on all pages next to format buttons, including details pages and additional browse and other landing pages.

In the next release, additional improvements will focus on providing users with alerts when a file is being downloaded including a progress indicator.

The image below shows the hover and file size display next to the buttons on the search results and browse pages. Mobile devices display as a drop-down.

Digitized United States Reports of the Supreme Court: GPO is proud to announce an expanded judicial branch offering of publications in GovInfo with the launch of the United States Reports collection. This collection consists of opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court, Volumes 2 (1791) through 501 (1991). More than 28,000 cases are included in this release.

Read more about this exciting achievement in the recently featured GovInfo news article announcing the release of the United States Reports Collection.

Statute Compilations Custom Search Widget: The Statute Compilations collection is an invaluable resource in GovInfo and serves as an essential research tool for legal professionals and researchers. The Office of the Legislative Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives maintains this corpus, which is necessary for legislative drafting and ensuring consistent application of the law. Statute Compilations are public laws that either do not appear in the U.S. Code or have been classified as a title of the U.S. Code that has not been enacted into positive law. Each Statute Compilation incorporates the amendments made to the underlying statute since it was initially enacted.

The ability to search Statute Compilations by title is critical for users of this content. For this release, the GovInfo team worked on a customized search widget that is now displayed on the Statute Compilations browse page. The goal is to provide an easy way to target searches over the title field.

Learn more about the Statute Compilations collection and title searching tips.

See the custom widget on the Statutes Compilations browse page below.

Improved Access to Amendments in the Congressional Record (2021-prior): To improve access to and increase transparency for the content available on GovInfo, this release featured development to enhance the findability of House and Senate amendment information within the Congressional Record. As of this release, daily issues of the Congressional Record prior to 2021 will have new sub-granules that make it easier to access each amendment. This change will take effect over time, and 2021-forward was implemented in a prior release.

The images below show an example of amendment text from the Congressional Record with the sections of the new sub-granule documents highlighted. Scroll to the orange call-out line on the Document in Context tab to view the amendment documents.

Related Documents Display for Congressional Reports to Public and Private Laws: This new use case links to the associated Congressional Reports on Public and Private Law details pages. Reports are a crucial part of the legislative process, and accessing them alongside laws in GovInfo aids users interested in the history and background of a piece of legislation.

See an example of the display of related reports on the Public Law details page below. Expand the "Congressional Reports" node to see the related report(s).

Migration to New Web Application Framework Continues: For this release, the team migrated the Congressional Record (Bound Edition), History of Bills, House Rules and Manual, House Journal, Senate Manual List of Sections Affected, and Statute Compilations collection browse pages to a more supported and versatile web application framework. In addition to working on migrating the remaining collections’ browse pages, a proof of concept for the migration of the content details pages was also completed, with that migration earmarked for a future release. This effort supports consistency, easier maintenance, and the ability to build out future enhancements seamlessly.

Additional Enhancements:

• Enhanced the Congressionally Mandated Reports collection by supporting flexible update processes through the XML Metadata Editor for “Reports to be Made to Congress”, “Requirement”, and “Communication” fields.
• Implemented a Related Documents enhancement to incorporate Committee chamber data for Congressional Bills relationships; this provides additional context for users.
• Improved the internal XML Metadata Editor user functionality for editing large files and locating smaller files within large packages.
• Modified the chamber determination logic for the Congressional Committee Prints and Congressional Hearings collections, at the request of Congressional stakeholders.
• Updated the Additional Government Publications collection to pick up OCLC identifiers from input template files along with related search engine and MODs metadata changes.
• Updated the Bound Congressional Record collection to show values displayed on the browse pages properly.
• Updated the Additional Government Publications collection 'Content Origin' field.
• Expanded support for handling Additional Government Publications collection standard references.
• Implemented parser refactoring and cleanup for the Additional Government Publications, Bound Congressional Record, daily Congressional Record, Statutes Compilations, and Privacy Act Issuances collections.
• Updated the Congressional Hearings collection to enhance meeting event identifiers metadata and improved the logic for determining the chamber at the request of Congressional stakeholders.
• Improved parsing of references in Congressional bills for Title 26 of the U.S. Code (Internal Revenue Service).
• Updated the History of Bills collection to parse granules without titles properly.
• Updated the GovInfo Link Service to allow for 5-digit bills, i.e., “billnum maxLength”.
• Fixed an issue with reprocessing publications in the Economic Report of the President collection.
• Updated digitized collections’ browse pages to continue supporting migration to the new web application framework.
• Fixed an issue with the node collapse behavior in newly migrated browse pages.
• Resolved an issue with the custom search RSS feeds in which quoted searches were not working correctly.
• Updated the GovInfo API to ensure the sort order is correct for the granules service.
• Made various updates to the internal XML metadata editor and content management system.
• Performed updates related to web application content delivery and other web services.
• Performed various software and security upgrades on multiple internal and external components.