March 2025 Release Notes

The March 2025 GovInfo release included 106 individually tracked system changes. Highlights were development for the upcoming United States Reports collection as well as continued migration of collection browse pages to a more supported web application framework. The team completed six collections this release. Other changes included major upgrades to the internal content management system and public search engine to ensure optimal findability of GovInfo content, enhancements to the Bound Record and Compilation of Presidential Documents browse pages, additional batches of USLM XML files for the digitized Statutes at Large, improvements to parsing for the Economic Reports of the President collection, improved phrased searching as well as design improvements, collection and system enhancements, and bug fixes.

New Content: Over 78,000 content packages (roughly equivalent to one bound printed document) were made available from January 1 to March 31. Notable submissions included the United States Statutes at Large - Volume 134, 116th Congress, 2nd Session; Economic Report of the President, 2025; U.S. Government Manual (January 2025); United States Senate Manual, 118th Congress; S. Pub. 119-2, Senate Class List; 124 reports submitted by Federal agencies into the Congressionally Mandated Reports collection (bringing the total to over 700); 716 born-digital documents that were acquired through GPO’s Cataloging and Indexing Program, including from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the U.S. Geological Survey; judicial opinions from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court District of the Virgin Islands (VIB), United States District Court Eastern District of Texas (TXED), and U.S. Bankruptcy Court District of Minnesota (MNB); 13,436 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; and partnership publications from the Indiana State Library including ten 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 January 1 to March 31. These included an article showcasing The Bald Eagle: An Endangered Species Success Story; features commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Black History Month, Presidents’ Day, and Women’s History Month, along with news updates about the availability of the latest Economic Report of the President and December 2024 Release Notes.

Digitized United States Reports of the Supreme Court: The GovInfo team completed internal and public-facing development for the collection, which will be comprised of Volumes 2 (1790) through 501 (1991) of the United States Reports. The functionality will include navigation through GovInfo’s search and browse interfaces, unique search facets for targeted searching, access to content files and metadata on details pages, and integration of the United States Reports into the GovInfo Link Service and API. The United States Reports are the official, bound reports of Supreme Court decisions. Look for the digitized United States Reports collection in GovInfo later in 2025!

The photograph below shows bookshelves holding United States Reports volumes digitized by GPO.

Migration to New Web Application Framework: For this release, the team migrated the Budget of the U.S. Government, Senate Journal, Congressional Record, Congressional Documents, U.S. Courts, and Congressional Committee Prints collection browse pages to a more supported and versatile web application framework. The team will continue working on other collections’ browse pages in the coming releases and then move on to migrating content details pages. This effort supports consistency, easier maintenance, and the ability to build out future enhancements seamlessly.

Browse Improvements based on End User Feedback:

Congress Number and Calendar Year Now Visible on Bound Record Browse – Building upon work done in the last release, the collection browse page for the Bound Congressional Record now displays the Congress number and the calendar year for that collection’s browse node sequence. This improves how users navigate to the information. They do not have to perform a separate cross-reference check to know which Congress took place in a given year or which volume was part of a given Congress. Users previously could only drill down to content listed by Volume and Session.

This image shows the new display of the Bound Congressional Record browse page.

Updated Sorting Based on Issuance Date for the Compilation of Presidential Documents – Releases typically incorporate requested improvements from content users and agency stakeholders. Feedback about the sorting sequence and display of documents for the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents resulted in a change to show these documents in ascending order by issuance date rather than by the document's identification number.

See an example in the image below.

Additional Enhancements:

• Updated the search engine schema to improve results after searching by phrases using quotation marks and parentheses.
• Performed parser refactoring for the Economic Indicators, U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Courts, and Additional Government Publications collections.
• Improved parsing of Miscellaneous Government Publication collection government authors.
• Improved parsing of History of Bills collection granule (i.e., document) titles.
• Resolved an issue for parsing standard references in the U.S. Code collection.
• Updated the U.S. Statutes at Large styling for the drop-down menu functionality for citation, advanced search, and navigators.
• Resolved an issue with the Code of Federal Regulations collection for proclamations with no title.
• Updated the information on the Compilation of Presidential Documents Help and browse pages based on stakeholder feedback.
• Updated all committee browse pages to ensure quality and accuracy based on the current Congress and committee information.
• Updated various collection and Help pages for styling, currency, and other quality updates, including the Bureau of Land Management, Economic Indicators, Economic Report of the President, Privacy Act Issuances, Statute Compilations, and the U.S. Congressional Serial Set collections.
• Expanded the limit of values displayed for “Office Location” in the U.S. Courts drop-down list under the Advanced Search functionality.
• Incorporated a change for the internal XML Metadata Editor on the Congressional Committee Prints collection to make docClass a dropdown and trigger a reprocess.
• Created the ability to parse ILS number information from the submitted metadata for the Congressionally Mandated Reports collection.
• Fixed an issue with the House Journal browse.
• Performed an update for Sitemaps to delete empty sitemaps automatically.
• Resolved an issue with the new web application framework where the “collapse all” button and functionality were not properly opening nodes.
• Resolved an issue that caused certain API package and granule summaries to return an error message.
• Fixed an issue with a styling resource loading errors for Congressional Bills Bulk Data.
• Updated how the Bulk Data parent directories display the last modified information when changes occur.
• Implemented numerous internal processor component improvements.
• Enabled persistence of metadata edits for the Economic Report of the President collection to ensure that edits made to the metadata are retained in the event of re-processing.
• Created new integration tests and resolved issues with older tests.
• 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.