Published: October 16, 2019
In addition to component upgrades, security enhancements, and improvements to the content management system, the following items were deployed in this 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. Content made available after these fixes and enhancements have been implemented will reflect the updates. In addition, an interim release is scheduled for next month for numerous front end items, and this article will be updated after the release is deployed.
Did you know you can perform a search over any field in the MODS metadata?
For example, a search for mods:presidentialDoc:@type:execord will result in a list of documents that have the attribute type:execord in the presidentialDoc field in the MODS and are therefore Executive Orders.
A search for mods:dateIngested:(2012-04-13) will result in a list of documents that have the value 2012-04-13 in the dateIngested field in the MODS and were therefore ingested into the system on April 13, 2012.
Over 1,500 Digitized Congressional Hearings Added – GPO has been digitizing historical Congressional Hearings and making them available on govinfo. Since October 2018, more than 1,500 have been added as part of this ongoing effort to provide increased access. Learn more.
GPO Produces U.S. Code with New Digital Publishing Technology – GPO has taken a major step forward in the modernization of its publishing systems by beginning to publish the 2018 main edition of the United States Code through XPub, the agency’s new digital technology for XML-based publishing.
Featured Content – See documents related to the Anniversary of the Wilderness Act and Land and Water Conservation Bill, Constitution Day and Citizenship Day 2019, September 11 Observance, 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 past Release Notes