Making technology guidance easier to find on GOV.UK
We’re working to make it easier for government technologists to access the guidance they need to buy, design and build the best possible digital services in the most efficient way…
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We’ve added Samsung Internet to our browser testing recommendations
We update our browser testing recommendations in the Service Manual every 6 months. Samsung Internet is the latest addition to our list to test your service in.
Upgrading our GOV.UK search engine: a postmortem and lessons learnt
When preparing to update the GOV.UK search engine, a code change resulted in missing or duplicated search results. Find out how our search team fixed this issue, what we’ve learnt and the safeguards we’ve put in place to prevent it …
Making the GOV.UK DNS more resilient
Our job in the Infrastructure Team is to make sure GOV.UK is available. Find out how we've improved the uptime of GOV.UK by making our DNS more robust.
Retiring the Business Support API
We’ve come to the decision that as of April 2017, the Business Support API will be deprecated. This post explains why we're doing this and the dates you need to know.
Updating the GOV.UK Continuous Integration environment
Our team makes sure the GOV.UK infrastructure is up to date and maintained, while also providing infrastructure for new requirements. At the moment it’s our mission to “Upgrade the Things”, which involves a series of major updates to our …
Cutting the maintenance strings on Puppet::Syntax
Today we’re handing over the maintenance of our Puppet::Syntax tool to an open source community group.
Improving forms with new radios and checkboxes
Over the last year on GOV.UK, we’ve been looking for ways to make our forms easier to use by improving the checkboxes and radio buttons that people need to click on.
Completing our work to secure digital services
In June we blogged about work we were doing to update our security guidelines for government digital services. Since then we've been busy working with teams across government to update services ready for the changes. Thank you to the teams …
Gaining understanding of the browsers people use
GOV.UK gets a lot of visits from people in the UK and further afield. We keep a record of all visits and use this data to support as many users as possible. Deciding which browsers to test We’ll try to …
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