Deep Search Release Notes

0.3.1 Beta

Release date: August 14, 2025

This release fixes broken links to documents associated with public meeting agenda items. In July 2025, CivicClerk introduced a time limit on document URLs obtained through its private API. When the time limit expires, the document URLs are no longer valid.

To address this issue, Deep Search now substitutes document URLs with links obtained through CivicClerk’s public API.

0.3 Beta

Release date: November 15, 2023

This release brings the basic content types in Deep Search to parity with Instant Search and makes website searching more intuitive for users. Deep Search now returns all content types available in Instant Search, plus agenda items. Deep Search also searches within documents hosted on the City’s website.

• Page content type added to the Solr index (901) – Web pages were added to the Deep Search index.
• Events content type added to the Solr index (901) – Events were added to the Deep Search index.
• News content type added to the Solr index (901) – News articles were added to the Deep Search index.
• Places content type added to the Solr index (901) – Places were added to the Deep Search index.
• Page results templating (901)
• Events results templating (901) – Added a contextual field displaying the date or date range of the event.
• News results templating (901) – Added a contextual field displaying the published date of the news article.
• Place results templating (901)
• Page, Events, News, and Place filters (901) – Added Instant Search filters to the Deep Search experience.

0.2 Beta

Release date: October 16, 2023

• Merging documents and agenda items in the Solr index (873) – Previously, users had to select a data source before searching, which created usability issues. To simplify the experience, documents and agenda items were merged into a single index so results could display in one combined list.
• Added document name field to search – Previous versions of Deep Search only searched document contents. This release also searches document names.
• Changing search modes triggers a new search (897) – Switching between search modes now automatically reruns the search, making comparisons between search systems easier and improving usability.
• Hide filters for unused content types (903) – Webpage, event, news, and place filters were temporarily hidden to improve usability. These filters will return when those content types become available in Deep Search.
• Public meeting agenda items filter (875) – Added a filter for public meeting agenda items.
• Improved search algorithm – Ongoing improvements based on testing during development.

0.1 Beta

Release date: August 14, 2023

• Initial beta release of the Deep Search tool, allowing users to search within documents and public meeting agenda items.