This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 23 March, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to keep GOV.UK running, and what we’re doing to make it better.
Running and supporting GOV.UK
To keep GOV.UK accurate, available and secure, to support government publishers and to meet the most pressing needs of end users, we’ve:
- fixed a bug with inline attachments not rendering correctly in the policy groups format in Internet Explorer 8
- continued work on updating MapIt - postcode lookups on GOV.UK are using old postcode datasets, soon we'll be using the latest ONS postcode dataset so the postcode lookups should perform better and be more up to date
- uprated fees for Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) for the new financial year and are now working on changes for the new state pension in April for Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
- updated UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) rules and fees
- updated Insolvency Service content to reflect changes to their processes
- put the finishing touches on the HM Courts and Tribunals (HMCTS) transition content
Improving GOV.UK
To improve GOV.UK in relation to the missions on our roadmap, we’ve:
- completed the 2nd wave of contextual user research to learn more about user needs in relation to to early years content and services
- completed further content inventories and audits for the education theme
- made sure atom feeds keep working when content is redirected
- made email alerts from Travel Advice Publisher more reliable, created a way to make sure the emails have sent and improved incident alerts
- stopped broken links from appearing when HTML attachments are deleted
Things we plan to do next
In the next 2 to 3 weeks we expect to:
- migrate statistics announcements, HTML publications and policy/working group formats
- rebuild Specialist Publisher so that it uses the publishing API and it's easier to support and iterate to meet user needs
- batch together redirect requests so they can be dealt by a developer in one go
- update HMRC’s Basic PAYE tools with the latest version
- fix some bugs with how the emergency publishing banner displays on the site
- upgrade the Content API to the latest version of Rails
- review the wording of the Signon password reset email, so that it causes less confusion to editors the next time it needs to be sent
- working with Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on changes to the roll-out of Universal Credit
- continue with migration of Whitehall Publisher to the new tagging architecture
- continue building navigation prototype based on data from the education theme
- migrate Mainstream Publisher to the new tagging architecture
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Comment by Farnham posted on
Hello.
From an earlier post. Did you do this yet? Or still plan to?
In future we plan to develop the publication format so that the current and all past issues of a regularly issued publication (eg a monthly release or an annual report) can be grouped onto the single publication page. This will mean "collections" can be freed up to be much more useful thematic groupings of related content.