release_notes.md

# April 7, 2026 (Sprint 31.3)
## Added
- **API:** Added rulemaking document sort logic based on tier precedence


## Changed
- **CMS:** Improved rulemaking document listings so single-commenter documents show the commenter’s name, while multi-commenter documents are labeled as “Joint comment”.
- **CMS:** Reduced repetitive text in rulemaking document labels and documents to make rulemaking pages easier to scan.
- **CMS:** Fixed the global search autosuggest dropdown so it displays above the site navigation.
- **API:** Penalty filter excludes null values when a max penalty value is entered. This ensures that results returned are exclusively display only MURS with $0 penalties.


## Under the hood
- **API:** Removed unused Slack environment variable
- **API:** Rulemaking search endpoint is now available without a feature flag
- **API:** Upgrade flyway from 12.0.3 to 12.1.1
- **API:** Upgrade ujson from 5.11.0 to 5.12.0

# March 24, 2026 (Sprint 31.2)
## Added
- **CMS:** FECfile+ Eligibility widget to allow users to easily determine if they are eligible to register for the new web-based software for electronic filing.
- **CMS:** Launched new rulemaking comment feature with improved form functionality and better visibility for rulemaking documents open for comment.
- **API:** Form 56 integration added to daily refresh process


## Changed
- **CMS:** Legal Resources: Enhancements to global legal search: Auto search upon changing filters, loading gif to give user feedback while search executes, fixed results ordering issues. Support for Back/forward history.


## Under the hood
- **CMS:** Upgraded Wagtail framework to v6.3.8
- **CMS:** Vue 2 & 3 compatibility improvements
- **CMS:** Webpack configuration clean up and optimization
- **API:** Removed unused Node.js packages to reduce dependency size

# March 10, 2026 (Sprint 31.1)
## Added
- **CMS:** Launched new rulemaking search on the FEC website. This provides fast, comprehensive search and access to FEC rulemaking documents.
- **CMS:** Add ability to create cross-reference entries for court cases without dedicated pages
- **API:** Rulemakings endpoint - add testify flag at rulemaking level, admin and comment close date parameters at document level
- **API:** Enable large and no tier document text search
- **API:** Clean and fix is_open_for_comment logic and flags

## Changed
- **CMS:** Simplified court case number sort on court case index page
- **CMS:** Consolidated commenter type handling and categorization
- **CMS:** Improved proximity search validation for all legal searches across the website
- **CMS:** Updated rulemaking document sort logic based on tier precedence

## Under the hood
- **Database:** Add more columns to rulemaking database
- **Database:** Upgraded flyway database migration tool to version 12.0.3
- **CMS:** Fixed court case page search in Wagtail
- **CMS:** Implemented cache-busting mechanisms for rulemaking API calls

# February 24, 2026 (Sprint 30.i)
## Added
-**Legal Resources:** Global legal search now includes Rulemaking

## Under the hood
- Upgrade flyway to v12.0.0 to remediate snyk vulnerability

# February 3, 2026 (Sprint 30.6)
## Added
- **API:** Add a Celery task that handles publishing and unpublishing rulemakings to the OpenSearch service, executed by a cron job running every minute and send slack alert to bots# channel at the end of the day.

# January 20, 2026 (Sprint 30.5)
## Added
- **Leal resources:** Court case index page with alphabetical listing, search filtering, and case counts includes court case detail page template with opinions and related cases sections, dynamic blocks for displaying active and selected court cases, and ability to add multiple court case numbers to court case pages
- **About the FEC:** FEC Timeline feature with page/child relationship model and improved timeline layout spacing between images and captions

- **H4CC-** Published the 2026 reporting date pages and prior notices
    - [2026 Quarterly filers](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/2026-reporting-dates/2026-quarterly-filers/)
    - [2026 Monthly filers](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/2026-reporting-dates/2026-monthly-filers/)
    - [2026 Congressional-pre-election reporting](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/2026-reporting-dates/congressional-pre-election-reporting-dates-2026/)
    - [2026 Pre- and- post-general reports](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/2026-reporting-dates/pre-and-post-general-reports-2026/)
    - [2026 Coordinated communications periods](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/2026-reporting-dates/coordinated-communications-periods-main-page-2026/)
    - [2026 Electioneering communications periods](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/2026-reporting-dates/electioneering-communications-periods-main-page-2026/)
    - [2026 Federal election activity periods](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/2026-reporting-dates/federal-election-activity-periods-main-page-2026/)
    - [2026 24- and 48-hour-reports of independent expenditures periods](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/2026-reporting-dates/24-and-48-hour-reports-independent-expenditures-periods-main-page-2026/)

## Changed
-**General:** Updated "Government Printing Office" to "Government Publishing Office"

## Under the hood
- Fixed legal pytests
- Fixed <br> tag syntax to prevent Wagtail admin errors 


# January 06, 2026 (Sprint 30.4)
- No updates
- 
# December 23, 2025 (Sprint 30.3)
## Added
-**API-** Add sorting functionality to the is_open_for_comment field in rulemakings endpoint

 ## Changed
-**API:-** Refactor ElectionsListView to use new ofec_zip_to_district table
-**API:-** Update the Postgres Docker image to v15.10 to match the current API postgres database version.

## Under the hood
- Add a new pdf document to an existing archived mur in postgres and upload to website 
- Add Zip Code to Congressional District data from 2012 to 2026

# December 09, 2025 (Sprint 30.2)

## Changed
-**API** Fix Form3L version issue

# November 25, 2025 (Sprint 30.1)
- Lapse in funding
- 
# November 11, 2025 (Sprint 29.i)
- Lapse in funding
- 
# October 21, 2025 (Sprint 29.5)
- Lapse in funding

# October 07, 2025 (Sprint 29.5)
- Lapse in funding
- 
# September 23, 2025 (Sprint 29.4)
## Changed

- **Legal Resources** Consolidate overlapping mur disposition categories
- **H4CC** Updating Reporting Example: [Partnership contributions](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/partnership-contributions) 

# September 9, 2025 (Sprint 29.3)
- No updates
# August 26, 2025 (Sprint 29.2)
## Under the hood
- Fix local flyway error happened during pytest

# August 12, 2025 (Sprint 29.1)
## Added

 - **Legal resources:** Added the 2025 print edition to the regulations page and updated the content on the [page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/)

## Under the hood
-  Added contents column in rulemaking view
# July 29, 2025 (Sprint 28.i)
## Under the hood
 -  Add AO unpublished_flg feature
 - Add migration file for rulemaking views 
# July 08, 2025 (Sprint 28.6)
## Under the hood
 - Fix ao_no sorting bug

# June 24, 2025 (Sprint 28.5)
## Added
 - **Legal resources:** Proximity keyword search filter now available for Matters Under Review, Alternative Dispute Resolution and  Admin Fines.
- **Legal resources:** Design and publish [legal search guide](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/) 
## Changed
 - **H4CC:** Convert certain party [pages](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements-political-party/making-independent-expenditures-political-party-committee/) containing coordination information to resource template 
## Under the hood
 - Create functions to upload rulemaking data to elasticsearch
- Upgrade gevent package in both cms and api apps to remediate a snyk vulnerability

# June 10, 2025 (Sprint 28.4)
## Added
 - **Legal resources:** Design and publish [legal search guide](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/how-to-use-fec-legal-search-systems/) 

## Changed
 - **H4CC:** Convert certain party [pages](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements-political-party/making-independent-expenditures-political-party-committee/) containing coordination information to resource template
# May 27, 2025 (Sprint 28.3)
## Changed
- **H4CC:** Improved organization of information on IE reporting on Dates and deadlines pages
    - [2025](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/2025-reporting-dates/24-and-48-hour-reports-independent-expenditures-periods-special-elections-2025/)
    - [2023-2024](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/2023-reporting-dates/24-and-48-hour-reports-independent-expenditures-periods-special-elections-2023/)


## Under the hood
- Added published_flg to ao table.
# May 13, 2025 (Sprint 28.2)
## Changed
- **Main page and About:** Updated [home page](https://www.fec.gov/) and [all commissioners page](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/commissioners/) after departure of a commissioner.

# April 29, 2025 (Sprint 28.1)

 ## Changed
- **API**  Resolve inconsistent results when sorting advisory opinions in descending order by issue date.
-**H4CC:** The How to Report page - Registering a Candidate was updated to reflect to help filers determine if they should be filing a new Form 2 or amending an existing [Form 2 page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/registering-candidate/)

# April 15, 2025 (Sprint 27.7)
## Added
- **API:** For the legal/search endpoint, add sort by “issue_date" feature for advisory opinions

# March 25, 2025 (Sprint 27.7)
## Under the hood
- Switched app instance creation to Flask app factory pattern 

# March 11, 2025 (Sprint 27.6)
## Added
- **Campaign Finance Data:** Added donations tables for Inaugural Committees

## Changed
- **Legal:** Removed the banner and comment period for REG 24-06. Banner from the homepage and comment period information from [page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/pending-rulemaking-matters-comment/) 
- **Legal:** Changed the labels for the "Citations" filters for AOs and MURs

## Under the hood
- Added fuzziness to q-exclude parameter for legal search

# February 25, 2025 (Sprint 27.5)

## Added
- **Campaign Finance Data** Added bulk data links for 2025-2026 candidates summary

## Changed
- **Help for Candidates and Committees:** [Election cycle and aggregation reporting example](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/election-cycle-aggregation/) updated to remove old election cycle dates, add new election cycle dates, and update report and FECFile images.
- **Legal:** Swapped the entity_name filter for ao_commenter and ao_representative
- **Campaign Finance Data:** Updated current cycle constants 

## Under the hood
- Added parsed candidate name to candidate detail
- Upgraded flyway to v11.3.1 to remediate snyk vulnerability
- Allow zero input from integer filters in legal search
- Fixed q-exclude filter to search by name for statutes

# February 11, 2025 (Sprint 27.4)

## Added
- **Legal:** Added the FR notice on Inflation Adjustments to the Regulations web page 
- **General:** Added bluesky option to commissioner pages
- **API:** Added 2026 cycle tables add_fec_fitem_sched_a_2025_2026 and fec_fitem_sched_b_2025_2026 table


## Changed
- **About:** Moved Commissioner Cooksey over to [the Commissioner archive page](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/commissioners/
) 
- **About:** Updated the Office of Communications Public Disclosure and Media Relations Divisions to reflect the retirement of the FEC’s Press Officer and to include the bio of Deputy Press Officer 
- **Legal:** Posted approved Statement of Policy Regarding the Notification of Respondents in Matters Under Review Remanded From a Challenge Pursuant to 52 U.S.C.§ 30109(a)(8) [page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-other-guidance/)
- **Help for Candidates and Committees:** Contribution updates for the 2025-26 election cycle 
	- [Contribution limits](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/contribution-limits/)
	- [Contribution limits for party committees](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-political-party/contribution-limits-party-committees/)
	- [Limits on contributions received by the SSF](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-ssf/limits-contributions-received-ssf/)
	- [Contribution limits to NC PACs](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-pac/contribution-limits-nonconnected-pacs/)
	- [Handling a questionable contribution](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/questionable-contributions/) 
	- [Recounts and contested elections](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/recounts-and-contested-elections/)
	- [Contributions made by party committees](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements-political-party/contributions-made-by-party-committees/) 
	- [Limits on contributions made to candidates by the SSF](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements-ssf-or-connected-organization/limits-contributions-made-candidates-by-ssf/)
	- [SSF: making contributions to party committees and other PACs](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements-ssf-or-connected-organization/making-contributions-party-committees-and-other-pacs-ssf/)
	- [Who can and can't contribute to a nonconnected PAC](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-pac/who-can-and-cant-contribute-nonconnected-pac/)
	- [Contributions made to party committees and PACs](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements-pac/contributions-made-party-committees-and-pacs-nonconnected/)
	- [Understanding ways to support federal candidates](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/understanding-ways-support-federal-candidates/) 
- **Help for Candidates and Committees:** Updated the limits on the Coordinated party expenditure spending limit page to reflect 2025 Inflation adjustments 
- **Help for Candidates and Committees:** Bundling reporting threshold changed to reflect 2025 Inflation Adjustments 
	- [Lobbyist bundling disclosure](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/lobbyist-bundling-disclosure/)
	- [Supplemental filing information for congressional committees (2025)](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/2025-reporting-dates/supplemental-filing-information-for-congressional-committees-2025/)
	- [2025 supplemental filing information for special election - FL/01](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/2025-reporting-dates/2025-supplemental-filing-information-special-election-fl01/)
	- [2025 supplemental filing information for special election - FL/06](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/2025-reporting-dates/2025-supplemental-filing-information-special-election-fl06/)
- **Help for Candidates and Committees:** Removed the Form 3Z and 3ZP from website which is no longer required to be filed 
	- [Registration and reporting forms](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/forms/)
	- [Supplemental filing information for congressional committees (2025)](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/2025-reporting-dates/supplemental-filing-information-for-congressional-committees-2025/) 
	- [Pre-election reports](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/pre-election-reports/)
	- [Quarterly reports](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/quarterly-reports/)
- **API:** Changed 'total' property to schema to return a float data type instead of string type
- **API:** Changed the proximity_filter to mean that the proximity_filter_term comes before or after the q_proximity terms

## Under the hood
- Upgraded CF CLI to v8.9.0 in api, cms, proxy, proxy-redirect and pattern-library circleci/config.yml files to ensure apps use the Cloud Foundry v3 API during deployment
- Updated the total property in /v1/schedules/schedule_a/by_size/ to return float value instead of string

# January 28, 2025 (Sprint 27.3)

## Added
- **Legal Resources:** Added MUR legal citation filters

## Under the hood
- Added validations to ao_requestor_type, mur_type, primary_subject_id, secondary_subject_id and type filters
- Upgraded python version tp 3.11 in CMS and API apps
- Upgraded to Wagtail 6.3

# January 14, 2025 (Sprint 27.2)

## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added the new 2025 reporting dates to the Election dates and deadline [page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/)
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Published the Candidate and Officeholder Security [pages](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements/candidate-and-officeholder-security/) related to the new rules 
- **Legal Resources:** Updated the [regulations](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/) and E&J chronological and [citation index pages](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/citation-index-part-111/) for the Annual inflation adjustments to limits for 2025
- **About:** Updated [the new Chair](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/ellen-l-weintraub/
) and [Vice Chairman](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/james-e-trainor-iii/ 
) for 2025 

## Under the hood
- Fixed q-exclude filter on AO keyword search
- Resolved AO pagination bug
- Added ISO8601 format to calendar endpoint
- Added proximity search to legal endpoint


# January 2, 2025 (Sprint 27.1)

## Changed
- **API:** Deprecated ao_filter has been removed. Functionality is available through ao_doc_category_id filter. Users should switch to ao_doc_category_id.
  
# December 17, 2024 (Sprint 26.i)

## Added
- **Legal Resources:**  [Petition](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/pending-rulemaking-matters-comment/) for a rulemaking and comments on cotnriubtions through untracebel Electronic Payment Methods REG 2024-08
- **Legal Resources:**  Final Rules and Explanation and Justification for Form 3Z REG 2024-04. Pages updated: [Chronological Index 2020-2029](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/chronological-index-2020-2029-ejs/), 
[Part 104: Reports by political committees and other persons](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/citation-index-parts-103-104/#part-104-reports-by-political-committees-and-other-persons) and 
[Regulations](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/)
- **Campaign Finance Data:** Added disclaimer to national party datatables
- **Legal Resources:** Added document date range and penalty by respondent range filters

## Under the hood
- Added style rules to print pages
- Upgraded werkzeug and flyway
- Fixed empty filter bug


# November 26, 2024 (Sprint 26.6)

## Added
- **Homepage:** Added sign up button to test new website features

## Changed
- **Campaign Finance  Data:** Fixed bug with dropdown scrolling 

## Under the hood
- Updated report_type,form_type and form_category 
- Upgraded gevent 
- Fixed bug on for Filing or Reports datatables where the the loading gif (three animated dots) is not removed when visiting a url with querystring parameters
- Fixed bug with AO name fields not populating
- Upgraded Flyway 
- Fixed bug with 24/48 report form_type

# November 15, 2024 (Sprint 26.5)

## Added
- **Legal Resources:** Added MUR subject filters to website 

## Changed
- **Legal Resources:** Updated the AO search templates
- **Homepage:** Updated .gov banner to fix accordion on homepage
- **Legal Resources:** Fixed archived MUR url 
- **API:** Added min/max penalty filters to legal search, updates legal search fields to make the structure of nested fields between document types the same

## Under the hood
- Fixed bug in CandidateList and CommitteeList when passing q and sort by receipts
- Removed un-display MUR disposition category
- Updated Django v4.2.16
- Added testing for legal search cases

# October 29, 2024 (Sprint 26.4)

## Added
- **Legal resources:** Added new Subjects filter for MUR data tables.
- **API:** Added current MURs to the citations endpoint
- **API:** Added filter by document date 

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Changed the order of the Election results and voting information [page](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/election-results-and-voting-information/) to better serve the regulated community ## Under the hood
- **API:** Fixed current MUR and arch MUR sort issue 


# October 15, 2024 (Sprint 26.3)

## Added
- **API:** Added subject filters for the legal search endpoint
- **Legal resources:** Added new filter for MUR final disposition on MUR data tables.
- **API:** Added doc_type filter to citations endpoint
- **Legal resources:** Added the effective date and FR notice for the Final Rules on Campaign Funds for Candidate and Officeholder Security to the regulations [page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/) 
- **Legal resources:** Updated the E&J pages for Campaign Funds for Candidate and Officeholder Security 113.1(g)(10)(i), 113.1(g)(10)(ii), 113.1(g)(10)(iii) and 113.1(g)(10)(iv)) Updates to the following pages
[Chronological Index 2020-2029](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/chronological-index-2020-2029-ejs/), 
[Part 113: Permitted and Prohibited Uses of Campaign Accounts](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/citation-index-parts-112-113/#part-113-permitted-and-prohibited-uses-of-campaign-accounts) and [Part 113: Permitted and Prohibited Uses of Campaign Accounts](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/explanations-and-justifications-conversion-tables-appendix-parts-110-300/#part-113-permitted-and-prohibited-uses-of-campaign-accounts) 
- **About the FEC:** Added option for downloading commissioner photo, if available

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated the Political Party Committees Campaign Guide “Keeping party records” pages (updated text and CFR links to eCFR):
    - [Loans](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/handling-political-party-loans-debts-and-advances/loans/)
    - [Unpayable debts](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/handling-political-party-loans-debts-and-advances/how-handle-unpayable-debts/)
    - [Settling debts](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/handling-political-party-loans-debts-and-advances/settling-debts-less-amount-owed/)
    - [Personal funds advances](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/handling-political-party-loans-debts-and-advances/advances-personal-funds/)

- **Legal resources:** Removed information for the comment period for the NPRM on Political Party Rules II as the comment period [expired.](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/pending-rulemaking-matters-comment/)
- **Legal Resources:** Updated the legal keyword tooltip
- **Help for Candidates and Committees:** Resolved issue with modals on date tables

## Under the hood
- View is added to facilitate MUR sorting
- Fixed a bug with MUR subjects to display as list


# October 1, 2024 (Sprint 26.2)

## Added
- **API:** Added ao_doc_category_id filter to /legal/search?type=advisory_opinions

- **API:** Added a mur_disposition_category_id to the /legal/search endpoint

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated the Political Party Committees Campaign Guide “Keeping party records” pages (updated text and CFR links to eCFR):
    - [Recording receipts for a party committee](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/keeping-political-party-records/recording-receipts/)
    - [Best efforts to document receipts](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/best-efforts-document-receipts/)
    - [Recording disbursements for a party committee](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/keeping-political-party-records/recording-disbursements-party-committee/)
    - [Recording debts and loans for a party committee](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/keeping-political-party-records/recording-debts-and-loans-party-committee/)
      
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated additional candidate committee-related pages with updates from the Technological Modernization rulemaking: 
    - [Recording receipts](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/keeping-records/recording-receipts/)
    - [Recording disbursements](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/keeping-records/records-disbursements/)
    - [Recording debts and loans](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/keeping-records/recording-debts-and-loans/)
    - [Volunteer activity](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/volunteer-activity/)
    - [Types of contributions](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/types-contributions/)
    - [Remedying an excessive contribution](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/remedying-excessive-contribution/)
    - [Additional recordkeeping by publicly funded presidential candidates](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/understanding-public-funding-presidential-elections/additional-recordkeeping-publicly-funded-presidential-candidates/) 

## Under the hood
- Fixed the MUR disposition category ID key

# September 17, 2024 (Sprint 26.1)

## Changed
- **Legal resources:** Removed information for the comment period for the NPRM on Admin Fines and the Form 3Z as the comment period [expired.](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/pending-rulemaking-matters-comment/)
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Finished updating the Party Guide updates to the “Making disbursements as a party” pages:
    - [Coordinated party expenditures](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements-political-party/coordinated-party-expenditures/)
    - [Advertising and disclaimers](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/advertising-and-disclaimers/)
    - [Making independent expenditures political party committees/](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements-political-party/making-independent-expenditures-political-party-committee/)
    - [Fundraising party committees federal-candidates](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements-political-party/fundraising-party-committees-federal-candidates/)

- **Legal Resources:** Fixed AO citations bug

## Under the hood
- Add candidate_id limitation on schedule a aggregate 

# September 3, 2024 (Sprint 25.innovation)

## Added
- **API:** Add two new API tasks to add/update/remove environment variables from cli

## Changed
- **General:** Removed archived slacker python package and unused “notify” function block from cms repo.
- **General:** Remove unused node packages, es6-weak-map and es5-ext from package.json
- **Legal resources:** Updated boolean search string operators for and to be `+` and or to be `|`.

## Under the hood
- **API:** Upgrade node package to version 22.1.0
- **API:** Upgrade flyway package to version 10.17.1
- Remove name and number from keyword search and highlights

# August 12, 2024 (Sprint 25.6)
## Added
- **Legal resources:** Add the comment periods for Administrative Fines Expansion and Form 3Z to the Pending rulemaking matters for comment [page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/pending-rulemaking-matters-comment/) 
- **Campaign finance data:**  Added “National party headquarters, recounts and convention accounts” to the Raising and Spending sections of national party committees’ pages

# July 30, 2024 (Sprint 25.5)
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** Added “National party account receipts” to the Browse data Raising tab
- **Campaign finance data:** Added “National party account disbursements” to the Browse data Spending tab

## Changed
- **Legal resources:** Updated the [section](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/#go-to-11-cfr) under :”Annual printed editions of 11 CFR” with links to the 1977-1996 11 CFRs. 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updates made to the "Taking in receipts as a party" section with changes from the new Party Guide - pages include: 
    - [Template change, text updates, AOs added and formatting to match the Guide ](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-political-party/contributions-party-committees/)
    - [Text changes to match the Guide](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-political-party/who-can-and-cant-contribute-party-committee/)
    - [Format and text changes to match the Guide ](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-political-party/handling-questionable-contribution/)
    - [Template and text changes to match the Guide](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-political-party/contribution-limits-party-committees/)
    - [Text and format changes to match the Guide ](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-political-party/remedying-excessive-contributions-party-committee-reattributions/)
    - [Format change to match the Guide](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-political-party/overdrafts/)
    - [Text changes to match the Guide](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-political-party/affiliation-between-party-committees/)
    - [Format changes and text changes to match the Guide](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-political-party/communications-coordinated-party-committee/)
    - [Format changes](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-political-party/offsets-party-operating-expenditures/)
    - [Template change](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-political-party/permissible-use-corporatelabor-resources-and-facilities-party-committees/)
    - [Citation format  updates](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-political-party/state-tax-checkoff-funds/)

## Under the hood
- Upgrade requests package
- Switch analyzer to standard
- Significant updates, including moving from version 1.0.0 to 2.0.0
- Upgraded Webpack from 3 to 5
- Moved most packages from cjs to esm (from require to import and module.exports to export function)
- Changed Webpack 3’s approach of bundling JavaScript into fewer files, to the current standard of splitting files and sharing common functionality between pages, decreasing page load time considerably
- Changed from a (date, random) hash file naming convention to a contenthash system that will allow longer-term file caching, decreasing page load time
- Combined manifest files so all js files use the same manifest
- Updated manifest plugin functionality to include each entry’s required JavaScript chunks
- Changed asset_for_js to tags_for_js_chunks to better reflect its new functionality of adding full <script> tags rather than only returning a single path
- Renamed legal .js files to .cjs
- Extensive Node package version upgrades

# July 17, 2024 (Sprint 25.4)
## Added
- **General:** Added "Search legal resources" to the global search autosuggest to improve access to legal cases and their documents

# July 2, 2024 (Sprint 25.3)
## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated "Registering as a political party" [section](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/registering-political-party/bank-accounts-political-party-committees/) with changes from the new Party Guide - Updated language to match the campaign guide for the web page 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated "Registering as a political party" [section](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/registering-political-party/national-party-accounts-certain-expenses/) with changes from the new Party Guide - Updated language to match the campaign guide for the web page 

## Under the hood
- **About the FEC** Expanded error handling for about/careers/ to avoid Server Error when USAJobs is not responding. Also added error handling for incorrect data format being returned. Render the error-type to the page so developers can more quickly decipher and debug error.

# June 18, 2024 (Sprint 25.2)
## Changed
- **Legal Resources:** Added informational message to [Requests for legal consideration page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-other-guidance/requests-legal-consideration/) concerning application to audits that began before June 1, 2024.
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated "Registering as a political party" section with changes from the new Party Guide - [Added court case citations](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/registering-political-party/getting-ballot-access-and-incorporating-party-committee/)
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated "Registering as a political party" section with changes from the new Party Guide with [changes](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/get-treasurer/) from the new Guide 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated "Registering as a political party" section with changes from the new Party Guide with text [updates](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/registering-political-party/qualifying-as-a-political-party-committee/) from the Guide. 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated "Registering as a political party" section with changes from the new Party Guide with text and adjusted bullet points on the [page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/registering-political-party/registering-political-party-committee/) to match the Guide. 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated "Registering as a political party" section with changes from the new Party Guide updated a couple of [sentences](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/registering-political-party/information-local-party-committees-not-registered-fec/) to match the Guide. 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated "Registering as a political party" section with changes from the new Party Guide added a [footnote](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/registering-political-party/affiliation-between-political-party-committees/) to the text from the new Guide. 

## Under the hood
- Update tsvector columns in National party account data materialized view

# June 4, 2024 (Sprint 25.1)
## Added
- **API:** Added  /national_party/totals/ API endpoints in swagger UI
- **API:** Increased size of inner hits to 100 in legal search
- **General:** Added site footer link for accessibility statement
- **General:** Added site footer text: “This information is produced and disseminated at U.S. taxpayer expense.”

## Changed
- **General:** Redirects for COVID plans that have been retired

## Under the hood
- Redirects for outdated files were put in place.

# May 21, 2024 (Sprint 24.innovation)
## Added
- **Legal resources:** Added the [effective date](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/) for the FR notice of interim finales on implementation of the FOIA improvement act
- **Legal resources:** Added the new regulations to the [E&J index](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/chronological-index-2020-2029-ejs/) and [citation index](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/citation-index-parts-1-8/) 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added a new stand alone Leadership PAC [page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/registering-pac/types-nonconnected-pacs/leadership-pacs/)
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added an intro sentence on the registering for candidate page to help guide the user on the [page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/registering-candidate/)
- **API:** Added two new API endpoints for national party accounts in swagger UI

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Uploaded the Party Guide to the Party [page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/guides/?tab=political-party-committees)
- **API** Fix schedule_a/by_employer, schedule_a/by_employer, and schedule_b/by_recipient full text search
- **API** Add national party schedule A/B endpoints 
- **Legal Resources** Switch to eCFR for legal global search

## Under the hood

- Regulations search is now using the eCFR API
- Upgrade Werkzeug 
- Upgrade Flyway
- Upgrade gunicorn 
- Improve keyword search speed

# April 30, 2024 (Sprint 24.6)
## Added
- **About the FEC:** Expanded keyword search for over 3000 previously unsearchable Press releases, Weekly Digests, Tips for Treasurers, and FEC Record pages dating back to 1975.

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Quality control to ensure the removal/update references to superseded AOs 
- **Legal Resources** Remove EQS references throughout the website
- **Legal Resources** Expand keyword search to include html content

## Under the hood
- Add tsvector columns to contribution and disbursement aggregate data table
- Upgrade flyway to 10.11.1
- Add robots.txt

# April 17, 2024 (Sprint 24.5)
## Added
- **API:** Added new efile/form1 endpoint that provides real time access to form1 data.
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added and updated glossary terms stemming from the technological modernization regulations  

## Changed
- **Campaign finance data:** Changed from multi-select to single-select for Line-number filters on Receipts and Disbursements datatables

## Under the hood
- Alert banners will no longer show in sitemap or search index, removing them from search results

# April 2, 2024 (Sprint 24.4)

## Added
- **Legal Resources:** Added the policy statement for Commission action in matters at the initial state in the enforcement process (2024) to the [Policy and other guidance page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-other-guidance/#policy-statements) 
- **Legal Resources:**  Updated [regulations](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/) and [E&J](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/) pages to add ZIP Code correction Federal Register notice
  
## Changed
- **General:** Removed “menu option 0” from web pages showing this in contact information
- **Statutes search:** Update the keyword search example and the information box language 
  
## Under the hood
- Redirected FEC office pages from transition site to [updated FEC.gov pages](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/fec-offices/) 
- Disallowed search engine indexing for AO, MUR, Receipts, and Disbursement searches in robots.txt

# March 18, 2024 (Sprint 24.3)
## Added
- **About the FEC:** Published [new pages for FEC offices](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/fec-offices/) linked via the organization chart
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Published a [new page on candidate salaries](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements/candidate-salary/) 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Published a [new reporting example for candidate salaries](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/candidate-salary-payments/) 

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated the [Personal use page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements/personal-use/)  
- **Legal Resources:** Added a clarifying note to a 2011 Federal Register notice linked on the Policy page and guidance search 

## Under the hood
- Upgraded Eregs django to v4.2.11 to resolve snyk vulnerablity
  
# March 05, 2024 (Sprint 24.2)
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added new glossary term to the glossary - compensation 

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:**  Updated the Guidance Search with revised Form 3X
- **Campaign finance data:** Updated the election search to improve clarity on the use of the ZIP code. ZIP code cannot be used for prior cycles. 

## Under the hood
- Updated sitemap_PDF.xml to add document to guidance search
- Update jinja2
- Update django
- Update cryptography

# February 20, 2024 (Sprint 24.1)
## Added
- **API:** Added a min/max file date to the committees endpoint

## Changed
- **API:** Fixed a bug which involved changing conduit_committee_zip to a string
- **Campaign finance data:** Removed the gray color category from election search map that made it difficult to see district boundaries
- **General:** Updated the social icons on the website to match new/approved icons for those services

## Under the hood
- Updated circleci configuration to use run step when deploying the applications to cloud space
- Updated gitpython
- Updated flyway
- Added the indexes for last file date and adds a missing index for last f1 date that were not originally included


# February 06, 2024 (23.Innovation)
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Published the 2024 [presidential primary spending limits](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/understanding-public-funding-presidential-elections/presidential-spending-limits/) 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Published the 2024 [coordinated party expenditure spending limits](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements-political-party/coordinated-party-expenditures/coordinated-party-expenditure-limits/) 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Published the [lobbyist bundling threshold](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/lobbyist-bundling-disclosure/) for 2024 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Published the [2024 presidential funding general election grant and spending limit](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/understanding-public-funding-presidential-elections/receiving-public-funding-grant-for-general-election/).
- **API** Added form 2 endpoint to efilings
- **Legal Resources:** Added final rules on candidate salaries to the [Regulations and E&J pages](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/) 
- **Legal Resources:** Added final rules on technological modernization to the [Regulations and E&J pages](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/)
- **Legal Resources:** Updated the [Legislation page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/legislation/) to add new Administrative Fine legislation extending the program through 2033

## Changed
- **CMS:** Upgraded wagtail to LTS v5.2

## Under the hood
- Added parsed candidate names 
- Redirected four regulations to eCFR to ensure latest versions of those rules appear
- Upgraded gitpython python package to remediate snyk vulnerability 


# January 16, 2024 (Sprint 23.6)
## Added
- **About the FEC:** The home page and related pages in the [Leadership and structure section](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/) were updated to reflect the Commission leadership for 2024
- **About the FEC:** Meeting minutes for Commission meetings from 2019 through 2023 were posted to [Commission meeting pages](https://www.fec.gov/meetings/)
- **Help for candidates and committees:** [Reporting pages for 2024 deadlines](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/) were published
- **Legal Resources:** The Federal Register notice Civil Money Penalties Annual Inflation Adjustment Rates) was added to: https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/administrative-fines/, https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/administrative-fines/calculating-administrative-fines/, https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/chronological-index-2020-2029-ejs/, https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/citation-index-part-111/

## Changed
- **Legal Resources:** Updated the examples to reflect the new civil penalty amounts for 2024 on https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/administrative-fines/calculating-administrative-fines/


# January 2, 2024 (Sprint 23.5)
## Under the hood
- Removed line_number from related endpoints


# December 18, 2023 (Sprint 23.4)
## Added
- **About the FEC:** [Commission meeting pages](https://www.fec.gov/meetings/) for 2024 were published.

## Changed
- **About the FEC:** Updated the language on [Commission meeting pages](https://www.fec.gov/meetings/) to reflect that open meetings will begin at 10 a.m. in 2024 
- **General:** Uploaded a [1993 report on public funding of presidential elections](https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/The_Presidential_Public_Funding_Program.pdf) in PDF format to replace the files on the transition site.

## Under the hood
- Renamed column names in ofec_pacronyms


# December 5, 2023 (Sprint 23.3)
## Added
- **Legal resources:** A 2009 procedural rule on audit hearings and related material was added to the [Policy and other guidance page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-other-guidance/#rules-of-agency-organization-procedure-or-practice).

## Changed
- **About the FEC:** Added email address to [Chair Lindenbaum’s page](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/dara-lindenbaum/).
- **Legal Resources:** Updated [Policy and other guidance page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-other-guidance/#rules-of-agency-organization-procedure-or-practice) to link a new policy Directive passed by the Commission. 

## Under the hood
- Updated redirects for certain documents in the guidance documents search 
- Fixed filter by multi candidate_id for reports/entity_type
- Improved locust load testing


# November 22, 2023 (Sprint 23.2)
## Added
- **General:** Created new WIKI page for the site-search sitemaps and search.gov search engine  
- **Campaign finance data:** Launched new debts datatable 

## Changed
- **General:** Added logic to remove duplicate (aliased)  press, digest, record, or tips pages from the /updates filtered page
- **General:** Correctly right-aligned dates on the template pattern: “heading_with-date”
- **About the FEC:** Removed Word documents from Commissioner pages in favor of PDF documents
- **About the FEC:** Added new Directive on investigations by the Office of General Counsel to the list of directives on the [Leadership and structure page](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/#commission-directives-and-policy) 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated reporting examples for [non-election year IE reporting on Form 5](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-independent-expenditures/reporting-independent-expenditures-form-5/)  and [48-hour reporting by independent expenditure filers] (https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-independent-expenditures/48-hour-reports-independent-expenditure-filers/)
- **API:** Form_line_number filter has been added for schedule C, D, E, F, and H4 endpoints. We encourage users of these endpoints to switch from the deprecated line_number filter to the new form_line_number filter 

## Under the hood
- Added candidate_id validation on endpoints 
- Fixed bug where editors could not access all rows on Wagtail templates with longs tables using tableblocks

# November 7, 2023 (Sprint 23.1)
## Changed
- **About:** Fixed broken links on Commissioner  pages
- **API:** Line_number filter on the schedule endpoints has been deprecated 

## Under the hood
- Adedd validation to sort option parameters 
- Updated redirects for certain documents in the guidance documents search


# October 24, 2023 (22.Innovation)
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:**  Added a new [reporting example](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/bank-loan-obtained-candidate-committee/) on how to file a bank loan taken out by a candidate committee 

## Changed
-  **About the FEC:** Updated the staff list on the [Information Division home page](https://transition.fec.gov/about/offices/info/info.shtml)
- **Campaign finance data:** Updated the disbursements language on [Browse data](https://www.fec.gov/data/browse-data/?tab=spending)
- **General:** Updated the content on the [Election results and voting information](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/election-results-and-voting-information/) page
- **Homepage:** Updated the linked URL on the home page for the [Election results and voting information](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/election-results-and-voting-information/) page 
- **API:** Added deprecation notice for line_number filter across all schedule endpoints and removed deprecated candidate_id filter from the schedule_d endpoint

## Under the hood
- Tested redirects for the guidance documents search on some documents 
- Added automated tests for CandidateTotalsView and refactored CandidateTotals
- Upgraded gevent python package to remediate snyk vulnerability
- Replaced CandidateTotals with CandidateTotalsDetail to remove confusion with CandidateTotal model 
- Upgraded gitpython and gevent
- Fixed broken calendar downloads
- Corrected metadata for two documents that were causing searching result rendering issues
 

# September 28, 2023 (PI 22.6)
## Changed
- **General:** Fixed padding on document pages so that dates appear correctly
- **About the FEC:** The introductory language for [open meeting and hearing pages](https://www.fec.gov/meetings/) was updated to encourage readers to check for meeting updates or cancellations
- **About the FEC:** The [Audit Division home page](https://transition.fec.gov/about/offices/audit/audit.shtml) was updated to reflect the new Acting Assistant Staff Director
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated versions of many FEC [forms](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/forms/) have been uploaded. The form changes update instructions for deliveries to the FEC
- **Legal resources:** URLs for documents such as Federal Register notices and enforcement manuals that are also part of the guidance documents search have changed and have been updated on pages throughout this section
- **Legal resources:** The [e-regs](https://www.fec.gov/regulations) have been updated to incorporate the 2023 11 CFR
- **Legal resources:** File names for documents on the [Enforcement and compliance practices page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/procedural-materials/) were clarified

## Under the hood
- Implemented redirects and a new site map for guidance search documents
- Upgraded gevent, requests python, and gitpython packages 


# September 18, 2023 (PI 22.5)
## Added
- **Legal resources:** A new [landing page for pending policy and other guidance initiatives in an active comment period](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-other-guidance/pending-policy-and-other-guidance-initiatives-for-comment/) has been launched
- **API:** Added form_type filter added to efile/filings endpoint

## Changed
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed Statistical summary tables to update correct links when ‘latest available option’ is triggered 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** The URLs for documents such as Forms and Campaign Guides that are also part of the guidance documents search have changed and are being updated on pages throughout this section
- **Legal resources:** Links on the [regulations page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/) have been updated to link to the 2023 11 CFR
- **Legal resources:** Added ability to add external Policy and guidance documents to document feeds

## Under the hood
- Redirects for documents in the guidance documents search have been put in place
- Upgraded Node to version 18.17.1


# September 5, 2023 (PI 22.4)
## Added
- **API:** Adds cmte_tp and filing_form filters to the debts endpoint

## Changed
- **Legal resources:** Updated [pending rulemaking landing page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/pending-rulemaking-matters-comment/) for active rulemaking comment period

## Under the hood
- Upgrade gitpython and certified python packages to remediate snyk vulnerabilities
- Add test for sorting validation


# August 22, 2023 (PI 22.3)
## Added
- **API:**  Line_num filter added to debts endpoint

## Changed
- **Campaign finance data:** Updated file labeling on committee profile pages and related datatables to show “Debt settlement plan YYYY” instead of “Document YYYY”
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated pages with FEC address to add delivery zip code of 20002


# August 8, 2023 (PI 22.2)
## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated the content on [Introduction to Campaign Finance page](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/) 

## Under the hood
- Tested redirects 
- Add validation for sortable fields in /candidates/totals/
- Upgrade django


# July 25, 2023 (PI 22.1)
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** New datatable with allocated federal and nonfederal disbursements

## Changed
- **Legal Resources:** Migrated hearing comment files from 2009 and 2001 FR notice to CMS

## Under the hood
- Upgrade Flyway==9.20.0
- Upgrade requests==2.31.0 and requests-aws4auth==1.2.3
- Add 2008 & 2012 presidential map database migration files
- Add candidate_aggregates.CandidateTotalAggregateView to downloads test case
- Redirects put in place for migrated hearing comment files from 2009 and 2001 Federal Register notice


# July 17, 2023 (PI 21.innovation)
## Changed
- **Legal resources:** Due to a comment period closing, the [pending rulemaking matters for comment page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/pending-rulemaking-matters-comment/) was updated to reflect that there are no pending matters for comment at this time
- **Legal resources:** The [Policy and other guidance](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-other-guidance/#requests-for-comment) page was updated to reflect a pending comment period on a proposed agency procedure
- **Help for candidates and committees/Dates and deadlines:**  Refined workflow for building and maintaining Reporting dates table pages includes a simplified spreadsheet, a new dedicated Wagtail template and more robust process for managing footnotes

## Under the hood
- JSON objects in script tags in reporting dates pages are now fully escaped mitigating XSS vulnerabilities


# June 20, 2023 (PI 21.6)
## Changed
- **About the FEC:** COVID 19 information was added to [meeting pages](https://www.fec.gov/meetings/) for the remainder of 2023.

## Under the hood
- Upgraded flyway to v9.19.4 
- Added length validation to filter_fulltext field by switching to keyword type
- Added pdf_url to the schedule H4 endpoint
- Updated prettier setting defaults
- Upgraded django to align with other repositories


# June 6, 2023 (PI 21.5)
## Added
- **Legal resources** Added links to Federal Register notice containing interim final rules on contributions in the name of another to the [Regulations](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/) and [Explanations and justifications](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/) pages.

## Changed
- **About the FEC** Posted updated versions of [Commission Directives 69 and 70](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/#commission-directives-and-policy).
- **Campaign finance data** Updated the version column to display “Version unknown” for documents without a version

## Under the hood
- Fixed the description full-text filter in /electioneering/ endpoint
- Removed the format from build script in the API, added prettier to pre-commit hooks Thanks @jmetev1 for your contribution! 
- Fixed case sensitivity in schedule H4 endpoint
- Removed deprecated endpoints /by_office and /by_office/by_party


# May 23, 2023 (PI 21.4)
## Changed
- **API:** Removal of   /candidates/totals/by_office/ and /candidates/totals/by_office/by_party/ 

## Under the hood
- Refactor filter_fulltext to handle null value
- Update the api, celery-beat, celery-worker,  cms, eregs, proxy, proxy-redirect stack to cflinuxfs4 in manifest files.
- Upgraded flyway


# May 09, 2023 (PI 21.3)
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added new internet disclaimer examples to the [Advertising and disclaimers page] (https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/advertising-and-disclaimers/).
- **Legal resources:** Added links on the [Policy and other guidance page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-other-guidance/) to the Commission’s [Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Justice](https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/fedreg_notice_2023-05.pdf) and to other proposals considered recently by the Commission.
- **API:** Added report level data to the debts endpoint

## Changed
- **About the FEC:** Made minor grammar correction to the open meeting page template
- **API:** Deprecation notice for  /candidates/totals/by_office/ and /candidates/totals/by_office/by_party/ added
- **API:** Updated sorts and additional filters to H4 endpoints
- **Campaign finance data:** Removed references to PACronyms

## Under the hood
Fix null committee name for unverified committees
Upgrade sass
Created materialized view for schedule D
Update legal/search endpoint description on openFEC API 
Add coalesce to committee_name to prevent null return
Updated redis


# April 25, 2023 (PI 21.2)
## Added
- **API:** H4 (Allocated Federal/Non Federal Funds) endpoint added 
- **About the FEC:**: Published pages for all [Commission meetings](https://www.fec.gov/meetings/) scheduled for the second half of 2023. 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added [new reporting example](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/contributions-unregistered-organizations/) for candidates showing how to report contributions from unregistered organizations.

## Changed
- **Campaign finance data:** [Congressional district maps](https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/?state=&cycle=2024&election_full=true) have been updated.
- **Campaign finance data:** Updated default time periods to 2024 after April quarterly filing deadline.
- **Campaign finance data:** Updated [presidential map](https://www.fec.gov/data/candidates/president/presidential-map/) to include 2024 candidates who have reported receipts of more than $100,000 from sources outside the candidate's own funds.

## Under the hood
- Increase the snapshot sleep time to fix elasticsearch backup issue.
- Update endpoint /legal/search/ description, add explanation of pagination


# April 11, 2023 (PI 21.1)
## Under the hood
- Search all legal resources bug fixed



# March 28, 2023 (PI 20 Innovation)
## Added
- **About the FEC:** Created page for the [March 22, 2023 public hearing on candidate salaries](https://www.fec.gov/updates/march-22-2023-public-hearing-on-candidate-salaries/)
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Add new glossary terms related to adapted disclaimers, mechanism and indicator and update memo entry/memo item and public communication terms. 

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** [Various pages](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/) were updated to reflect new rules on internet disclaimers.
## Under the hood
- Fixed column, autosuggest, and text widths with long committee names
- Fixed filter panel width for MURs and AFs


# March 7, 2023 (Sprint 20.6)
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Add new glossary terms - adapted disclaimers, mechanism, and indicator
- **Campaign Finance Data:** Add links for 2023-2024 bulk data


## Changed
- **API:**  Update /legal/search/ endpoint to filter by MUR/ADR/AF document categories.
- **API:**  Add more interpretation of candidate_id for all endpoints
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Changed the glossary terms for memo entry/memo item and public communication 
## Under the hood
- Cleaned up www redirects


# February 21, 2023 (Sprint 20.5)
## Added
- **About the FEC:** Created page for the [February 14, 2023 hearing on audit procedures](https://www.fec.gov/updates/february-14-2023-public-hearing/).
- **Legal Regulations:** Added the FR notice for inflation adjustments to the [regulations page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/) and [E&J 2020’s chronological page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/chronological-index-2020-2029-ejs/). 
- **Legal resources:** MURs search results can now be sorted by case number.

## Changed
 - **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated various pages to display the [2023-2024 new contribution limits and snippet](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/contribution-limits/). 
 - **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated the [coordinated party expenditure limits page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements-political-party/coordinated-party-expenditures/coordinated-party-expenditure-limits/) with the 2023 limits.
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated the [lobbyist bundling page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/lobbyist-bundling-disclosure/) with the 2023 reporting threshold.
- **Legal resources:** Added comments and requests to testify at hearing on [pending proposal](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-other-guidance/#proposals) concerning audit procedures.

## Under the hood
- **E-regs:** Upgrade node 18.13.0
- **CMS:** Locustio to Locust upgrade

# February 7, 2023 (Sprint 20.4)
## Under the hood
- **CMS:** Node upgrade to 18.13.0
- **API:** Node upgrade to 18.13.0
- **API:** Setup pre-commit git hook
- **API:** Add sort by case_no to legal search

# January 24, 2023 (Sprint 20.3)
## Added
- **Legal resources:** Migrated the [Explanations and Justifications (E&J) Appendix and conversion tables](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/appendix-e-j-s/) from the transition site to FEC.gov.

## Under the hood
- **CMS:** Major version upgrade to Wagtail v3.0.3
- **API:** Remove union all logic from schedule A, B and E endpoints when filtering by committee ID

# January 10, 2023 (Sprint 20.2)
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added [pages](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/) containing reporting dates and deadlines for 2023.
- **Legal resources:** Added links to new regulations on administrative fines and internet communications to the [regulations page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/#go-to-11-cfr) and [Explanations and Justifications (E&J) indices](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/).

## Changed
- **About the FEC:** Updated the site to display the 2023 Chair and Vice Chair of the Commission on the home page and [Leadership and structure](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/#commissioners) page.
- **Legal resources:** Updated the administrative fine calculator and added link to new regulations on administrative fines along with updated example scenarios to the [Calculating a fine page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/administrative-fines/calculating-administrative-fines/)

## Under the hood
- **API, CMS, Eregs:** Upgrade gitpython  v3.1.30  to remediate RCE (Remote code execution) vulnerability.
- **CMS:** Upgrade pillow v9.3.0 to remediate DoS (Denial of Service) vulnerability.  

# December 27, 2022 (Sprint 20.1)
## Added
- **About the FEC:** Added web [pages for 2023 open meetings and executive sessions](https://www.fec.gov/meetings/)

## Changed
- **Legal resources:** Added link to new regulations on internet disclaimers to [regulations page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/#go-to-11-cfr) and [Explanations and Justifications (E&J) indices](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/).
- **Campaign finance data:**  Updated aggregate amount url to display the correct counts for presidential, house and senate committee reports

## Under the hood
- **API:** Update refresh materialized view command in README.md file
- **API:** Upgrade flyway to v9.10.1
- **CMS:** Updated the template for meeting pages to change the default time of Commission meetings to 10:30 a.m.

# December 13, 2022 (Innovation 19)

## Changed
- **Legal resources**: Updated the [list of newly added regulations](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/#go-to-11-cfr) to include their effective dates.

## Under the hood
- **Pytest testing-framework:** Adjusted default flags/settings for enhanced error/warning reporting 
- **Pytest testing-framework:** Reduced  CMS Pytest warnings and errors from 157 to about 22  by updating Python libraries and making associated code changes

# November 22, 2022 (19.6)

## Changed
**Campaign finance data:** Corrected links to bulk download files for leadership PACs  

## Under the hood
- Adjusted API app memory to 2G on all environments
- Upgraded flyway to resolve RCE and ACE snyk vulnerabilities

# November 9, 2022 (19.5)

## Changed
**Campaign finance data:** Added a tooltip to the individual contributions field on PAC and party datatable side panel
**Legal resources:** AO comment deadlines are now shown for recent AOs on AO landing page.

## Under the hood
-  Changed table format for [E&J chronological indexes](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/chronological-index-e-j-s/) to make them easier to update in the future.
- Created model CommitteeHistoryProfile and refactored CommitteeHistory join 

# October 25, 2022 (19.4)

## Changed
- **Legal resources:** ADR additional parameters added to /legal/docs/ endpoint

## Under the hood
-  Changed table format for [E&J citation indexes](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/explanations-and-justifications-citation-index/) to make them easier to update in the future.
- Removed redirect to e-cfr for three administrative fine regulations that are now current in e-regs.
- Fixed ie-only in endpoint "/reports/{entity_type}/ "

# October 11, 2022 (19.3)
 
## Changed
- **General:** Reviewed and updated the [Election Day information](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/election-day-information/) page.
-**Help for candidates and committees:** Tweaked language on the [Requests for additional information page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/request-additional-information/) to clarify that it’s the Commission that is requesting additional information about a filing.
- **Legal resources:** Updated the [e-regs](https://www.fec.gov/regulations) to load the 2022 11 CFR.

# September 20, 2022 (19.2)
## Added
- **Legal resources:** Updated the [regulations page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/#go-to-11-cfr) to link new interim final rule on candidate loans as well as the 2022 11 CFR
## Changed
- **Legal resources:** Updated [E&J pages](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/) to include new interim final rule on candidate loans in relevant pages
- **Campaign finance data:** Filings and Reports datatables  “Committee name or ID” search filters are now a combination text or typeahead field allowing users to search on a text string and/or choose a committee from the typeahead dropdown list.
- **Campaign finance data:** Changed "notification" to "report" for 24/48 hour reports

## Under the hood
- Added committee ID to newly created tsvector column in materialized views to make committee ID a searchable term

# September 6, 2022 (19.1)

## Added

- **Campaign finance data:** Added summary and donation data to inaugural committee pages. Also removed an irrelevant independent expenditure table since this type of expenditure is not made by inaugural committees 

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated page for candidates, [Understanding independent expenditures](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/understanding-independent-expenditures/), with changes from the new Candidate Guide

## Under the hood
- Upgraded flyway to v9.2.0 to resolve high snyk vulnerability flagged on  postgres jar
- Removed redirects froom transition 
- Upgraded flask
- Updated docker images and pin flake8
- Removed duplicate indexes on real_efile_sb4 table and also create index on real_efile_sa7 table

# August 23, 2022 (18.innovation)
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** [Pages related to taking in receipts for candidates](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/support-corporations-labor-organizations/) were updated with material from the new Campaign Guide for Congressional Candidates.

## Changed
- **Campaign finance data:** Modified materialized views and API to support searching for filer and spender name in website datatables

## Under the hood
- Update flyway
- Update moment

# July 26, 2022 (18.6)
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** Enable string keyword text filter for committees in /efiling/filings
- **Campaign finance data:** Add committee label to `ofec_committee_history` 

## Changed
- **Legal resources:** Modify resource page for court cases 
- **Legal resources:** Update results display for MUR search 

## Under the hood
- Upgrade ujson package to v5.4.0
- Add keyword length validation for keyword search
- Upgrade lxml to 4.9.1

# July 19, 2022 (18.5)

## Fixed
- **General:** Wagtail bug with paragraph formatting

## Under the hood
- Rename digtialgov environments in cloud.gov space
- Upgraded Django in CMS and E-regs

# July 5, 2022 (18.4)
- **Campaign finance data:** Display a list of Joint Fundraising Committees’ affiliate committees on profile pages
- **Legal resources:** Added information on requesting an advisory opinion via email to the [AO process page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/advisory-opinions-process/).
-  **Legal resources:** Added new Federal Register notice of interim final rule on independent expenditures to [Regulations](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/) and [Explanation and justification](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/) pages

## Fixed
- **Legel Resources:** Remove the excess backslash from Collecting agent glossary text.

## Under the hood
- Flyway upgraded to 8.5.11

# June 21, 2022 (18.3)
## Added

- **About the FEC:** Pages for the rest of the [Commission’s meetings in 2022](https://www.fec.gov/meetings/) were created. 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** [Pages related to making contributions to candidates](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/#contributions)  were updated with material from the new Campaign Guide for Congressional Candidates.
- **House and Senate overview pages:** Methodology overview is now available for “Contributions across time” feature.

## Changed

- **Committee API** Add JFC participant committees in api return
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updating "Taking receipts" section "Contributions" with changes from the new Candidate Guide 

## Under the hood
- Add filter by case_citation in /legal/search/ endpoint.

# June 7, 2022 (18.2)

## Changed

- **Committee Type Description** Update hybrid PAC description
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Revised Form 1 and instructions uploaded, [FECFile software page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/fecfile-software/) updated and [related reporting examples](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-pac-reports/#reporting-examples) for Form 1 updated.

# May 24, 2022 (18.1)
## Added

- **Campaign finance data:** Created new all elections totals table for house and senate overview pages
- **Campaign finance data:** Created new contributions across time data visualization for house and senate overview pages
 
## Changed

- **Campaign finance data:** Updated language regarding redistricting and the 2020 census on the [Election search page](https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/?state=&cycle=2022&election_full=true)

## Fixed
- **API:** Add numeric validation for image_number in all endpoints

## Under the hood
- Upgrade celery, redis and kombu  package in openFEC repo to fix the Stored Command Injection
- Upgrade python from v3.7.x to v3.8.x on openFEC repo
- Upgrade python from v3.7.x to v3.8.x on fec-eregs repo


# May 10, 2022 (17.innovation)
## Added

- **API:** Added total debt column to the /candidates/totals/aggregates endpoint

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Corrected the list of districts in the election search, allowing customers to quickly access all of the districts created as a result of the 2020 Decennial Census
- **API:** Fixed the sort functionality on columns in the Candidate total aggregate view

## Under the hood
- Upgraded GitPython package from 3.1.0 to 3.1.27 in fec-cms repo
- Added primary key to DSC schedule aggregate tables
- Upgraded Ujson to 5.2.0
- Add redirects 
- Updated deprecated git protocols
- Upgraded Django to 3.2.13
- Upgraded Networkx to 2.6.3

# April 19, 2022 (17.6)
## Added

- **API:** Created the new endpoint /candidates/totals/aggregates to consolidate /candidates/totals/by_xxxx with parameters for office, office-state, office-state-district and office-party

## Changed

- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated the text to the following pages “Day-to-day operations,” “Transfers between a candidate's committees,” “Fundraising notices for campaigns,” “Joint fundraising with other candidates and political committees,” Travel,”  “Advertising and disclaimers,” “Noncampaign expenses for travel, transfers and donations ,”  “Making contributions to other candidates,”  “Fundraising for other candidates, committees and organizations,” “Personal use” to reflect changes made in the new Candidate Guide


## Fixed
- **Feedback Box:** Fixed an issue where the feedback box would not submit on pages with a full_width_page.html template and would submit to the wrong location

## Under the hood
- NULL value in some fields that are returned by these endpoints has been changed to a string literal “NULL”
- Added a new test case for CandidateTotalAggregateView
- Upgrade GitPython from 3.1.0 to 3.1.27
- Upgraded moment to 2.29.2 to fix Directory Traversal vulnerability
- Upgrade wagtail to 2.15.4
- Employer in /schedules/schedule_a/by_employer/
- Occupation in /schedules/schedule_a/by_occupation/
- Zip in /schedules/schedule_a/by_zip/
- Recipient in /schedules/schedule_b/by_recipient/

# April 5, 2022 (17.5)
## Changed

- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated the text to the following page “Recording reciepts” to reflect changes made in the new Candidate Guide
- **Campaign finance data:** Modified the campaign finance data landing page to improve access to the election search
- **API** Breaking change: Removed financial/reports/{entity_type} `type` filter and replaced with `committee_type` filter

## Under the hood
- Upgrade braintree/sanitize-url to v.6.0.0
- Upgraded Pillow to address security issue, Wagtail upgrade
- Added state and district columns to candidate_totals_MV

# March 22, 2022 (17.4)
## Changed

- **API:** Updated Committee Type I language to say “Independent expenditure filer (not a committee)” 
- **Legal resources:** Added new "Rule of Agency Procedure" to the Policy and other guidance page
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated the text to the following two pages “Quarterly reports” and “48-Hour Notices” to reflect changes made in the new Candidate Guide

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed an issue with shareable URLS on datatables. URLs were not retaining filters that were applied which made it difficult to save or share a specific query

## Under the hood
- Upgrade flyway to 852  
- Added example paragraph block to Wagtail Resource template

# March 8, 2022 (17.3)

## Changed

- **About the FEC:** Adjusted the description of audit hearings on the hearing [meeting pages](https://www.fec.gov/meetings/?tab=hearings)
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated the text to the following two pages “Converting a committee to multicandidate status,” and “Assigning debts to another committee” to reflect changes made in the new Candidate Guide. 

## Fixed

- **Campaign finance data:** Datatable links now remain accurate  when shared, bookmarked or refreshed. Datatable that use committee-type filters now have filter panels, tilter tags and URLs that always reflect the state of active filters.


## Under the hood
- Update Eregs parser packages for stability and reliability purpose
- Update swagger-ui-dist package on openFEC repo
- Support for grouping differing data-type checkbox filters inside a single fieldset
- Example paragraph added to resource page template
 
# February 22, 2022 (17.2)
## Added

- **Legal resources:** - Added a link to the annual inflation adjustment Federal Register Notice and updated the Explanation and Justification table.  
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Posted the [coordinated party expenditure limits](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements-political-party/coordinated-party-expenditures/coordinated-party-expenditure-limits/) and [lobbyist bundling disclosure threshold](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/lobbyist-bundling-disclosure/) for 2022.


## Changed

- **API** Breaking change - financial/reports/{entity_type} `type` filter has been deprecated. `committee_type` filter has been added as a replacement and the `type` filter will be removed 3/23/2022. 

## Under the hood
- Fixed celery task 404ing when a case is unpublished
- Upgraded celery to latest v5.2.3 in Eregs (snyk vulnerability) 
- Scaled up celery worker memory to 1G in Dev space
- Updated circleci postgres docker image to v13.5
- Added three new columns in ofec_candidate_totals_mv: (V0242 and V024 migration files)
   - individual_itemized_contributions (Line 11a(i))
   - transfers_from_other_authorized_committee (Line 12)
   - other_political_committee_contributions: (Line 11c)
- Upgraded flyway to 8.4.3

# February 8, 2022 (17.1)
## Added

- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added “Lawfully admitted for permanent residence” and “U.S. National” to the glossary.

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Corrected a tooltip display bug for state contribution maps that didn’t show all available text 

## Under the hood
- Upgraded lodash to v7.7.21 Eregs app
- Upgraded node to v14.15.5 and npm to v8.3.1 in Eregs app
- Modified reload AOs to handle multiple AOs. 
- Modified circleci config file to narrow bug fix
- House Senate overview page landing templates deployed under feature flag

# January 25, 2022 (16.innovation)
## Added

- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added [dates and deadlines](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/) pages for 2022.

## Changed

- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated administrative fine information and  links to FEC Record articles throughout [dates and deadlines](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/) pages

- **Legal resources:** Added links on the [Regulation](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/) pages to two Federal Register notices containing updated FEC regulations.

## Fixed
- **Legal resources:** Restored access to obscured content on mobile and tablet screen/device sizes by enabling the Table of Contents toggle button and adding responsive behavior. Removed references to unused icons in help menus

## Under the hood
- Upgraded Django to LTS v3.2 on fec-eregs
- Upgraded regulations parser to run on python v3.7.x
- Upgraded node/npm to v14.15.5 / 8.3.1 on openfec to fix npm build warning during circle builds
- Upgraded lxml to v4.7.1
- Changed idx to row number in ofec_sched_b_aggregate_recipient_mv

# December 28, 2021 (16.6)
## Changed

- **Campaign finance data:** Updated some column formatting on our datatables for consistency in labeling

## Fixed
- **Legal resources:** Fixed some filter padding on the statutes and regulations searches 

## Under the hood
- Added materialized view refresh process to openFEC ReadMe
- Updated sitemap_pdf.xml
- Upgraded node to LTS v14.13.0

# December 14, 2021 (16.5)
## Added

- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added a new Foreign nationals [page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/foreign-nationals)
- **About the FEC:** Added a new category for management challenges reports to the Inspector General's report [feed](https://www.fec.gov/about/reports-about-fec/oig-reports/)
- **Campaign finance data:** Added new helpful tooltips to define different committee types on datatables such as all committees, and PAC and party committee datatables
- **Campaign finance data:** Added new column to the disbursements table on committee profile pages to highlight the percent of total disbursements by vendor

## Changed

- **Campaign finance data:** Converted some of our methodology interactions to pop-up modal windows for consistency across the website 

## Under the hood
- Upgraded Django on fec-eregs to v2.2.24
- Added committee disbursement percentages to schedule_b_by_recipient API endpoint
- Security and stability fixes.

# November 30, 2021 (16.4)
## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated Who can and can't contribute to a candidate page
- **Legal Resources:** Modified administrative fine pages to list the full report names for added clarity

## Fixed
- **Category:**
- **About the FEC:** Fixed an issue preventing audit hearings from 2009-2012 from showing up in the hearings [page](https://www.fec.gov/meetings/?tab=hearings) feed
- **Help for candidates and committees** Updated page references to the FECFile Getting Started Manual throughout the reporting [examples](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/reporting-examples/)

## Under the hood
- Fixed spacing bug that caused elements to collide. 

# November 16, 2021 (16.3)
## Added
- **Legal resources:** Added a table linking previous editions of the 11 CFR to the [Regulations page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/#go-to-11-cfr)

## Changed
- **Campaign finance data:** Committees datatable default sort switched to registration date
- **Campaign finance data:** Removed individual contributions data table from inaugural committee organization types
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Improved the form-field validation process on the RAD question submittal [form](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/question-rad/) by adding pre-submit validation and improving the post-submit validation.

## Under the hood
- Implemented Slack alerts and bots channel error messages when refresh db fails. 
- Index added for first_f1_date to allow for registration date sort on committees datatable
- Added JavaScript  test coverage for new form-field validation on RAD question submission form  

# November 2, 2021 (16.2)
## Added
- **Legal resources:** - Migrated older [page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/how-to-comment-on-proposed-rules-and-other-rulemaking-documents/) about how to make public comments on proposed rules and other rulemaking documents


## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:**- Updated [reporting example](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/redesignating-and-reattributing-contributions/)of redesignations and reattributions by candidate committees

## Fixed
- **Committee profile pages:** Updates committees detail panel labels to "Most recent treasurer" and "Committee type" and reorders fields so they are consistent with pac-party datatable

## Under the hood
Implemented Slack notifications when an AO is modified

# October 19, 2021 (16.1)
## Added
- **Legal resources:**  Added administrative fines embedded search on legal resources,  enforcement page.
 
## Changed
- **Genera:** Updated error message on transition.fec.gov to be specific for the transition site.
## Fixed
- **General:** Added report category for OIG reports resolving overlap with non-OIG reports in report filter menu


## Under the hood
- Added task to send Slack alerts when a legal resources case is modified (ADR/AF/… 
- Added first_f1_date and filter to /totals/by_entity/ 
- Address pytest deprecation warnings in openFEC
- Update CircleCI image with node LTS v14.17 in fec-pattern-library 
- Made embedded Admin fines block available to Wagtail page editors
- Updated urllib3 minor version (1.26.4. to 1.26.7)

# October 05, 2021 (15.innovation)
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** Launched the new Political action and party committee datatable

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed a problem where the multi-committee ID select was not working for totals/pac-party
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed a problem where downloads were not working for totals/pac-party

## Under the hood
- Upgraded npm and node packages

# September 09, 2021 (15.6)
## Added

- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added a [new reporting example for candidates redesignating their committees for a new election](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/using-committee-for-another-election/).
- **Campaign finance data:** Added registration date and filing frequency to committee page headers. 

## Changed
- **Legal resources:** updated [README](https://github.com/fecgov/fec-eregs/blob/develop/README.md) file and [Parse regulations on local](https://github.com/fecgov/fec-eregs/wiki/Parse-regulations-on-local) wiki

## Under the hood
- Added first Form 1 date filter in committees
- Added redirects for two Commission reports 

# August 24, 2021 (15.5)
## Added

- **General:** Added the term “cooperative” to the glossary

## Changed
- **Legal resources:** Updated the links to various formats of the 11 CFR to point to the 2021 edition on the [Regulations page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/)
- **Campaign finance data:** Updated the filter label “Other committees” on several datatables to “Other committees and filers” to better reflect different filer types
- **Campaign finance data:** To reinforce that not all receipts are from contributors, we modified labeling on the receipts datatable and related pages from “contributor” to “source”

## Under the hood
- New Elasticsearch management command to delete one or all legal documents for given doctype
- Converted certain party H4CC pages over to a resource template 
- Upgrade Wagtail minor version from 2.11.7 to 2.11.8
- Update Pillow minor version

# August 10, 2021 (15.4)
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** Add a message regarding the expected 2021 census redistricting to the election search
- **Legal resources:** Added a new administrative fine search allowing users to search by case number, committee name and keyword

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Modified some pages in the [section on separate segregated funds fundraising](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/fundraising-for-ssf/)  to make it clear that “SSF” is an acronym for “separate segregated fund” and to link the glossary definition of SSF.
- **Legal resources:** Access to the most current enforcement manual (2012) was improved on [https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/procedural-materials/](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/procedural-materials/)
- **General:** Added an event summary and modified styles to improve the usefulness of the calendar

## Under the hood
- Updated python package networkx to v2.6.2
- Fixed an issue in Wagtail that retained the old page title after a page was duplicated



# July 27, 2021 (15.3)
## Added
- **API:** Added leadership PAC sponsor and organization type to /totals/by_entity/ endpoint

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Changed H4CC pages on Qualifying as a party committee and Types of party committees. Created new page to combine both
- **Campaign finance data:** Changed Campaign Finance Data pages on matching fund submissions. Created a new landing page and new child pages for submissions (2016, 2012, 2008 and 2004). 

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed election page responsive behavior
## Under the hood
- Remove old elasticsearch5.x references from openFEC README.md file
- Update to django minor version v3.1.13 

# July 13, 2021 (15.2)
## Added
- **Legal Resource:** Add additional Administrative fine
 parameters to /legal/docs/ api  endpoint
- **API:** Add filters to /totals/entity_type/ to support PAC/Party totals data table

## Fixed
- **General:** Fixed glossary spacing issues
- **Campaign finance data:** Fix bad link to OGE reports
- **API:** Fixed API doc typos for form 1 and form 2
## Under the hood
- Added data to support Administrative Fines data table

# June 29, 2021 (15.1) 
## Added
- **Legal Resources:** Added AO Procedures 2009 Federal Register notice to [guidance search](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-and-other-guidance/guidance-documents/) and to [Policy and other guidance](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-other-guidance/)page 
- **API** Add leadership PAC sponsor names to /committees/ endpoint

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added disclaimer examples for separate segregated funds and corporations and labor organizations to relevant pages.
- **Campaign finance data:** No longer default to 2020 presidential race

## Under the hood
- Increase memory allocation for celery worker
- Upgraded software packages

# June 15, 2021 (14.innovation)
## Added
- **Legal:** A 2009 Federal Register notice on AO procedures was added to the [Policy and other guidance page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-other-guidance/#rules-of-agency-organization-procedure-or-practice) and the [Guidance search](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-and-other-guidance/guidance-documents).

## Changed

- **General:** Banner warning of degraded performance for Internet Explorer will now appear for every version of that browser (previously only for versions < 10)

## Fixed
- **API:** Fixed Schedule-b (Disbursement) e-file export multi same rows bug.
- **General** Fixed scrolling after resizing window while menu was open
- **General:** Fixed minor grammatical errors to three entries.
- **Homepage:** Fixed aspect ratios of Commissioners' photos no longer skew for some browsers on some devices

## Under the hood
- Added redirects from older content to newer content
- Security and stability updates
- Homepage speed improvements
- Increased privacy for all off-domain links

# May 25, 2021 (14.6)
## Added
- **Legal Resources:** Migrated reporting FAQs to the [Guidance search](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-and-other-guidance/guidance-documents/)

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added information on joint fundraising for party committees to [Joint fundraising with other candidates and political committees](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements/joint-fundraising-candidates-political-committees/)


## Fixed
- **Reports about FEC:** Fixed report category/year filtering that affected ResourcePage templates (usually studies) and added a new category called “Other reports and plans”
- **About the FEC** Fixed a bug in the News and Updates search results to no longer display content following “Read more”

## Under the hood
- Added redirects from older content to newer content
- Security updates
- Cached candidate and committee totals endpoint

# May 11, 2021 (14.5)
## Under the hood
- Cache candidate and committee `/totals` endpoint.

# April 27, 2021 (14.4) 
## Changed
- **Homepage:**: accessibility improvements, performance optimization
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Reporting examples for [PACs/Party Committees](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/reporting-examples/liquidating-bitcoins/) and [Candidates](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/liquidating-bitcoins/) on liquidating bitcoins were updated with an alternative reporting method.

## Fixed
- **Legal resources:** Fixed loading of large MUR case files
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed loading of all datatable information on the candidate, committee, and election profile pages

## Under the hood
- Upgraded underlying technology
- Tested redirects from last sprint 
- Banner updates

# April 13, 2021 (14.3) 
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** Added administratively terminated committee status label to committee profile pages
- **General:** Added the term “Administrative termination” to the glossary.

## Changed
- **Homepage:** Changed the wording of the COVID-19 status banner to “FEC-related COVID 19 information”

## Fixed
- **Committee profile page:** Unable to view 2019-2020 reports bug

## Under the hood
- Added redirects from older content to newer content
- Added more image (pdf) links

# March 30, 2021 (14.2) 
## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Changed the name of a fictional PAC used in several reporting examples in the Campaign Guide for Corporations and Labor Organizations and in the examples.

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed terminated committee bug on committee profile page.
- **General:** Removed hearings from open meeting tab and fixed text search to return expected results

## Under the hood
- Replaced vulnerable sanitize-html package with dompurify package
- Added redirects from older content to newer content
- Updated the sitemap for the Guidance Search to reflect cosmetic updates to Campaign Guide for Corporations and Labor Organizations.
- Created new github openFEC issue template
- Revised openFEC, fec-cms, and fec-eregs pull request templates to use the same text
- JS test coverage for Campaign finance archive tables

# March 16, 2021 (14.1) 
## Fixed
- **General:** Removed list child nodes wherever possible to help screen readers work more effectively on the site 

## Under the hood
- Performance improvements and accessibility updates
- Upgraded lxml 4.2.1-4.6.2 for parsing
- Added redirects from older content to newer content
- Removed retired transition pages from global search
- Package and security updates
- Added bulk schedule data dump information to the API documentation

# March 2, 2021 (13.innovation-2) 
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** Added a card to link users from a leadership committee’s page to the sponsor’s page 
- **General:** Launched our new OIG landing page and improved navigation to additional content that explains the OIG office and how to file a complaint
- **Campaign finance data:** Added bank information to Form 1 downloads 
## Changed
- **General:** Links have been updated to include trailing slash to minimize redirects
## Fixed
- **Legal resources:** Fixed AO entities with "name" missing for individuals
## Under the hood
- Removed references to the classic site

# February 2, 2021 (13.12) 
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** Created filterable tables for archive campaign finance data migrated from transition.fec.gov to fec.gov. 

## Changed
- **Legal Resources:** Updated various pages in the [regulations](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/) and [enforcement](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/administrative-fines/) sections to incorporate the 2021 inflation adjustments for civil penalties.
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated various pages to reflect the new lobbyist bundling threshold. 

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Hide committees section if a candidate does not have any affiliated committees.

## Under the hood
- Bug fixes, software updates and code improvements
- Upgrade datatable.net to a minor release v1.10.23
- Upgrade datatable.net-responsive from 2.2.3  to 2.2.7
- Moved proxy and proxy-redirect applications from staticfile to nginx buildpack
- Calendar security updates
- Add leadership pac committees rows into endpoints: `/candidate/<candidate_id>/committees/history/` and `/candidate/<candidate_id>/committees/history/<int:cycle>/`

# January 19, 2021 (13.11) 
## Added
- **About the FEC:** Added [meeting pages for the first six months of 2021](https://www.fec.gov/meetings/)
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added a [landing page for all reporting examples](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/reporting-examples/)
## Under the hood
- Bug fixes, software updates and code improvements
- Redirects from older files on transition.fec.gov to newer content were put in place

# January 5, 2021 (13.10) 
## Added
- **About the FEC:** Added new pages for [Commissioner Shana M. Broussard](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/shana-m-broussard/) [Commissioner Sean J. Cooksey](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/sean-j-cooksey/) and [Commissioner Allen Dickerson](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/allen-dickerson/)
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added 2021 reporting pages in the Dates and deadlines section
## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed bug with downloading .fec and .csv files by using https for download links 
## Under the hood
- Bug fixes, software updates and code improvements
- Redirects from older files on transition.fec.gov to newer content were put in place
- Fixed bug with editing pages in Wagtail administrator access due to caching 
- Fixed some court case redirects to fec.gov from transition site
- Moved to new cloud.gov Elasticache Redis service for downloads

# December 22, 2020 (13.9) 
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** Added leadership PAC sponsor filter to [committees datatable](https://www.fec.gov/data/committees/)
## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed bug with candidate profile page without affiliated committees
## Under the hood
- Added redirects for 13.9 (accessible FOIA documents, Press pages, and litigation documents) 
- Cleaned up content on [selected/ongoing litigation pages](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/court-cases) to match content style 
- Cleaned up [court cases index](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/court-cases/court-case-alphabetical-index/) to match current content style
- Removed public route to eRegs
- Added internal route to eRegs
- Removed unused services
- Added index for archived MURs
- Removed deprecated communications costs endpoint
- Removed broken filters
- Bug fixes, software updates and code improvements

# December 8, 2020 (13.8) 
## Added
- **Legal resources:** Migrated approximately 500 [court cases](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/court-cases/) to fec.gov from the transition site. 
- **Legal resources:** Migrated the [court case alphabetical index page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/court-cases/court-case-alphabetical-index/) to fec.gov from the transition site 
- **Homepage:** Added FEC.gov status [link](https://fecgov.statuspage.io/) to FEC.gov footer
## Under the hood
- Manually updated the 2011-2017 Record .shtml links in court cases that were scraped
- Cleaned up the Selected and Ongoing Court case pages from the scraping 
- Redirected old Records after court case page migration
- Updated links for ongoing and selected litigation pages to the Wagtail court case page 
- Removed unused services
- Bug fixes, software updates and code improvements

# November 24, 2020 (13.7) 
## Added
- **Legal Resources:** Migrated [Request for Legal Consideration page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-other-guidance/requests-legal-consideration/) and related files to fec.gov from the transition site.

## Under the hood
- Added redirects from older files on transition.fec.gov to newer content 
- Added redirects from application URLs from the [CMS](http://fec-prod-cms.app.cloud.gov/) and [Proxy](http://fec-prod-proxy.app.cloud.gov/) applications to www.fec.gov
- Updated the candidate and committee profile pages to pull converted principal campaign committee to political action committee information from the API
- Bug fixes, software updates and code improvements

# November 10, 2020 (13.innovation-1) 
## Added
- **Legal Resources:** Migrated the [Policy and other guidance](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-other-guidance/) page to fec.gov and updated site menus and related pages with new URL.
## Changed
- **Homepage:** Banners were posted for the October Quarterly and Pre-Election reports, as well as Election Day information for voters.
- **API:** Modified rest.py to send `RESTRICT_MESSAGE` and 503 error code if IP address is blocked
- **Campaign finance data:** [Migrated data summary landing page](https://www.fec.gov/campaign-finance-data/campaign-finance-statistics/) to fec.gov and improved its style to improve navigation to relevant data
## Fixed
- **CMS:** Update requests library to resolve security vulnerability

## Under the hood
- Updated fec-pattern-library README.md to add Node.js version in use
- Updated fec-pattern-library, fec-cms, openFEC, and fec-eregs to 
- Use CloudFoundry command line interface (cf cli) version 7
- Use rolling deployments instead of zero-downtime deploys
- Updated fec-cms instructions.md to clarify steps for manual reindexing
- Updated openFEC README.md to clarify deployment language
- Campaign statistics pages redirects 
- Redirects from older files on transition.fec.gov to newer content were put in place
- Updated link to sale or use info on license.md. 
- Updated to cloud foundry cli version 7
- Implemented rolling deployments


# October 26, 2020 (13.6)
## Added
- **API:** Added column sponsor_candidate_ids to materialized views to prepare to show sponsoring candidate information for leadership PACs in the future
- **CMS:** Migrated Statistical Data Summary pages from transition to filterable tables on fec.gov. Over 400 pages on our transition site were retired and combined into 5 pages of filterable data tables on fec.gov. 

## Under the hood
- Upgraded python and postgres docker images in circleci config file to match the runtime environment in openFEC and fec-cms repos. 
- Upgraded python docker image in circleci config file to match the runtime environment in eregs repo.

# October 6, 2020 (13.5) 
## Added
- **API:** Added cand_cmte_linkage_alternate table to prepare to show sponsoring candidate information for leadership PACs in the future 
- **API:** Added ofec_pcc_to_pac_mv and exclude table to facilitate tracking of the committees that convert from PCC to PAC mid cycle.

## Changed
- **General:** Updated .gov banner to be more concise 
- **General:** Updated the [Election Day information page](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/election-day-information/) to include a section for the Electoral College and make the page a “best bet” in the global search for certain election- and voting-related search terms. 
- **Legal Resources:** Added a page to the [guidance search](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-and-other-guidance/guidance-documents/) 
- **Legal Resources:** Migrated [Enforcement](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/enforcement-profile/) profile page to fec.gov 
- **API:** Replaced `/committee/[committee_id}/communication_costs/by_candidate/` with `/communication_costs/aggregates/?committee_id={committee_id}`
- **API:** Replaced `/committee/[committee_id}/electioneering/by_candidate/` with `electioneering/aggregates/?committee_id={committee_id}`

## Fixed
- **Legal Resources:** Fixed an issue causing the Campaign Guide for Congressional Candidates not to appear in the guidance search results. 

## Under the hood
- Replaced deprecated endpoint path `/communication-costs/` with `/communication_costs/` in the CMS 
- Upgraded flask-cors to version 3.0.9 
- Redirects from older files on transition.fec.gov to newer content were put in place
- Defined content security policy for fonts
- Included GSA/DAP regardless of GTM settings 
- Reformat content security policy data structure 
- Updated content security policy for wagtail 
- Bug fix for content security policy preventing local development 
- Improved performance for schedules B and E by using fewer columns in count query 
- Pinned greenlet package in fec-eregs to address build problems
- Updated API application memory for dev space 
- Upgraded Django to resolve security vulnerability 
- Fixed bug causing runtime error 

# September 22, 2020 (13.4) 
## Added
- **Legal resources:** [Migrated 2009 enforcement policy comment page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy/comments-received-notice-public-hearing-agency-procedures-and-policies-2009/) to fec.gov 
## Changed
- **Campaign finance data:** Changed language for historical statistics to campaign finance statistics
- **About the FEC:** Updated [various hearing pages](https://www.fec.gov/meetings/?tab=hearings#meetings-hearings) with new links pointing to related pages that were recently moved to fec.gov.
## Fixed
- **Legal resources:** Fixed case for Matters Under Review (MUR) where no data presented to user when partial data exists
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed some joint fundraising committees’ missing financial summary totals
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed user interface on candidate profile page to disable individual two year transaction periods where a candidate did not have cycles in an election
## Under the hood
- Updated package-lock.json to address signature malleability and arbitrary code execution
- Redirects from older files on transition.fec.gov to newer content were put in place
- Updated a single candidate and committee page to show that the campaign committee converted to a PAC before the end of an election cycle

# September 9, 2020 (13.3) 
## Added
- **API:** Added a new `/communication_costs/` endpoint with OffsetPageSchema (to replace `/communication-costs/` endpoint with SeekPageSchema. Updated deprecation notice for `/communication-costs/` endpoint.
- **Legal resources:** Added command of archived MUR “extract_pdf_text” to extract pdf OCR text from Elasticsearch and insert text to database. Add command of archived MUR “load_archived_murs” to upload Archived MUR data to Elasticsearch

## Changed
- **General:** Updated the language in the website feedback box to make it clear which information the FEC retains when feedback is submitted


## Fixed
- **API:** Fixed data methodology broken links in API documentation 

## Under the hood
- Reduced excessive disk allocation for one application, specified disk allocation for API applications, increased memory for API application
- Updated some candidate and committee pages to show that some campaign committees converted to PACs before the end of an election cycle
- Created mur_arch schema and related tables to database
- Pinned vine version 1.3.0 due to dependency tree error with kombu dependencies
- Added reCAPTCHA to the reports analysis contact form
-Redirected three policy pages (enforcement process, embezzlement and internet comment pages) from transition to fec.gov 
- Bumped the version of Lodash to 4.17.20


# August 25, 2020 (13.2) 
## Added
- **Legal resources:** Migrated the 2013 enforcement process, the 2009 Website and Internet Communications Improvement Initiative comments, and 2006 embezzlement comments received over to fec.gov, along with related comment PDF files. 

## Changed
- **Legal resources:** Updated the [administrative fine pages](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/administrative-fines/), the [regulations page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/#go-to-11-cfr) and the [Explanation and Justification indexes](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/) to add a link to a Federal Register notice containing final rules for civil penalties in administrative fine cases.
- **API:** Updated deprecation policy and linked to API swagger user interface

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** On candidate profile pages, fixed the “spent by” column sort for the following datatables: Independent expenditures, Communication costs, and Electioneering communications 
- **Campaign finance data:** On committee profile pages, fixed “candidate” column sort for the Communication costs datatable
- **API:** Resolved math error on swagger user interface reporting incorrect hourly rate limit for an upgraded api key (hotfix)
- **API:** Resolved page load problem where API key signup form was not always showing (hotfix)
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Fixed image responsiveness on example disclaimer pages

## Under the hood
- Added `user-downloads` prefix for all user generated downloads
- Redirects from older files on transition.fec.gov to newer content were put in place

# August 11, 2020 (13.1) 
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added a helpful message to let users know when the contact your analyst form is down due to a ServiceNow API outage
- **API:** Added terms of service and acceptable use policy links to the openFEC swagger page
- **Legal resources:** Added administrative fines values published in August 2020 to the administrative fines calculator, and removed those for 2017
- **Campaign finance data:** Added a message to link a candidate to a committee that converted from a principal campaign committee to a PAC


## Changed
- **API:** Removed contributor_aggregate_ytd sort option for /schedules/schedule_a/ endpoint. This was a breaking change and we’ve notified the users of this endpoint of the change 
- **API:** Changed /schedules/schedule_a/ default sort to contribution_receipt_date ASC. This was a breaking change and we’ve notified the users of this endpoint of the change
- **General:** Updated README.md to link to correct PostgreSQL version


## Fixed
- **General:** Added a sidebar, internal button to link to “About the FEC” and made a friendly URL for the OIG page
- **General:** Made images in Rich Text Editor responsive
- **General:** Made example images and captions stack responsively in mobile 
- **General:** Fixed table-block header spacing 


## Under the hood
- Increased number of gunicorn workers for additional concurrency
- Added better error handling for the Reports Analysis Division contact page
- Resolved high-severity vulnerability in ajv package
- Changed the default sort for the schedule a endpoint to descending to be in line with other endpoints
- Fixed schedule b slow queries by adding to indices for an 800x faster response
- Redirects from older files on transition.fec.gov to newer content were put in place
- Dropped a materialized view from the ofec_filings_mv
- Removed a sort expression for schedule b
- Unpinned python on runtime.txt

# July 28, 2020 (12.innovation)
## Added 
- **API**: Added an API key signup form for users wishing to use the openFEC API programmatically
## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data**: Fixed the sort by candidate and spent by columns on independent expenditures, communication costs, and electioneering communication sections of election pages. Fixed the sort by candidate column on the independent expenditure section of committee spending pages. Previously users could not effectively sort their results
- **API**: Fixed the server error when sort by candidate_name or committee_name in independent expenditures, communications costs and electioneering by_candidate endpoints
- **API**: Fixed a server error and added validation for page=0. Now the page correctly throws a validation

- **API**: Fixed endpoint /totals/{committee_type}/ to return all relevant results
## Under the hood

- Upgrade lodash npm pkg to v4.17.19 in fec-cms to resolve the medium snyk vulnerability
- Upgrade codecov python pkg to v2.1.7 to fix the errors in circleci post check task.
- Updated CMS wagtail package to 2.7.3
- Updated API websocket-extensions package from 0.1.3 to 0.1.4
- Modernized repository language in API
- Updated prance to address deprecation warning
- Increased the size of tres_nm column in f_rpt_or_form_sub table as part of the deployment of informatica mappings
- Added filings URL to unverified filers download file

# July 7, 2020 (12.6) 

## Added 
- **General**: Added openFEC API terms of service
- **General**: Added openFEC API acceptable use policy
- **Legal resources**: Loaded the 2020 11 CFR into e-regs.

## Changed
- **About the FEC**: Updated [Commissioner Trainor’s page](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/james-e-trainor-iii/) to note he is now the Chair. 
- **API**: Began the process of deprecating the `contributor_aggregate_ytd` sort option and changing the default sort to descending for the /schedules/schedule_a/ endpoint

## Under the hood
- Modified Schedule A endpoint description about last index
- Added notification to change sched-a sort to DESC
- Updated downloads server error message
- Redirects from the old admin fine calculators to the new admin fine calculator 
- Remove old admin fine calculators 
- Added `requirements-parsing` to fec-eregs to help with local parsing
- Resolved postrgesql vulnerability in openFEC’s build.gradle
- Updated README, team postgres version to 10.7
- Made performance improvements to API by changing how query counts are calculated

# June 23, 2020 (12.5) 
## Added 
- **Campaign finance data**: Added active and terminated indicators on the global search and committee search on the [data landing page](https://www.fec.gov/data/) to make it easier for users to know which committees are still active, at a glance
- **Campaign finance data:** Added language to committee profile pages for those that have transitioned from a candidate committee to a nonconnected PAC within a single cycle
- **API:** Added filter for `load_date` to Schedule A endpoint, allowing users to filter for most recently added transactions
- **API:** Added pg_date indexes to fec_fitem_sched_a tables to support users’s request to filter on pg_date to download data for their usage
- **Help for candidates and committees:**  Added a new [page](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/james-e-trainor-iii/) for newly-sworn in Commissioner Trainor
## Changed
- **General:** Updated the message for when a search yields no results
- **General:** Updated the feedback box directions to make it more clear we are seeking feedback about the website and direct other feedback and questions to the appropriate places within the FEC
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated the Campaign Guide for Congressional Candidates for accessibility
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Changed the icon for example template pages to make them consistent
## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Corrected an error message to show a `Page not found` for candidate and committee profile pages when an invalid candidate or committee ID is provided in the URL
- **API:** Updated a URL in the description of presidential end point to direct users to the appropriate methodology page
## Under the hood
- Updated search index for transition.fec.gov
- Provided user with an error message when MUR documents failed to load
- Moved inline CSS from television ad example templates to stylesheets and removed from template
- Updated Django minor version from 2.2.11 to 2.2.13
- Redirects from older files on transition.fec.gov to newer content were put in place.
- Added flake8 linting to `pytest`

# June 9, 2020 (12.4) 
## Added
- **Legal resources:** Added a single new administrative fines calculator for committees to estimate fines for late or non-filed reports 
- **Campaign finance data**: Added `active/terminated` indicator to committee profile page
## Changed
- **Legal resources:** Updated links to the 2020 11 CFR on our [regulations page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/#go-to-11-cfr)
- **Legal resources:** Moved a page containing [enforcement and compliance procedural materials](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/procedural-materials/) from the transition site to fec.gov
- **General:** Updated the [Office of Inspector’s General’s web page](https://www.fec.gov/office-inspector-general/) 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Various pages were updated to reduce duplicative content and point users to the new page on [disclaimer notices](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/advertising-and-disclaimer/)

# May 26, 2020 (12.3) 
## Added
- **API:** Added validation for Schedule A pagination requests so API users could paginate through results
- **API:** Added is_active column in endpoint: name/committees/ to help distinguish between committees that are active or terminated on fec.gov

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** The [web page containing information on disclaimer notice rules](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/advertising-and-disclaimers/) was revamped to make it easier to navigate and include helpful examples.
- **General:** The [Office of Inspector’s General’s web page](https://www.fec.gov/office-inspector-general/) was updated.

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed case-sensitive candidate and committee profile pages that were causing errors

## Under the hood
- Created alternative 500 error messaging in the CMS
- Added is_active column to two materialized views
- Update python code to include missing cites on AO’s.  Run API task to reload them manually.
- Redirects from older files on transition.fec.gov to newer content were put in place.

# May 12, 2020 (12.2) 
## Under the hood
- Updated vulnerable webargs package in eregs and API applications
- Updated vulnerable wagtail package
- Set API `get` request timeouts in CMS


# April 28, 2020 (12.1) 
## Added
- **Legal resources:** A new [page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy-and-other-guidance/guidance-documents/) allows users to search Commission guidance documents that set forth a policy on a statutory, regulatory or technical issue, or interpret a regulation.
- **API:** Added is_active column to `/committee/{committee_id}/history/` endpoint

## Changed
- **Campaign finance data:** Added a way to access [pages explaining campaign finance data](https://www.fec.gov/campaign-finance-data/about-campaign-finance-data/) to our page on How to [research public records](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/#data-tutorials) page
- **General**: Updated the “Official website of the US government with more information and styling

## Fixed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Fixed missing feedback button on some pages
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed download link for disbursements on presidential map 

## Under the hood
- Remove unused database objects
- Increased number of API application instances to ten (10)
- Redirects from older files on transition.fec.gov to newer content were put in place.
- Added sitemaps for guidance document searching for version control


# April 14, 2020 (11.innovation) 
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added examples of [proper disclaimers]([https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements/advertising/) for party committee fundraising and advertising to various pages.

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Revised a [page on filing frequency](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/filing-frequency-type-filer/) to make it more clear to candidates that they must file pre-election reports in addition to quarterly reports.

## Under the hood
- Updated SEO of press releases that cut off the name of the court case they referenced to incorporate the case names.

# March 20, 2020 (11.6) 
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** Added [Presidential candidate map](https://www.fec.gov/data/candidates/president/presidential-map/)
- **Campaign finance data:** Added new endpoint `/communication_costs/aggregates/`

## Under the hood
-  Enabled CircleCI pipelines on fec-cms, openFEC, fec-eregs, fec-pattern-library,
   fec-infrastructure and fec-dns repos

# March 10, 2020 (11.5) 

## Added
- **Legal Resources:**  Published a [new page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/chronological-index-2020-2029-ejs/)  with the Commission’s explanation and justifications for regulations taking effect from 2020 to 2029
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added disclaimer examples to the “Advertising and disclaimers” [page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements/advertising/) 

## Changed
- **Campaign finance data :** Added language to the [candidate data page](https://www.fec.gov/data/browse-data/?tab=candidates) above the presidential map accordion to indicate the time period covered by the data
- **Campaign Finance Data:** Independent expenditure data table “most recent” checkbox now includes unknown version 

## Under the hood
- In fec-cms repo, update Wagtail to v2.7 & Django to v2.2.10 LTS (Long Term Support) versions 
- In openFEC repo, update Node to LTS v10.16.* & NPM to v6.13.7
- F24 version issue has been fixed  

# February 25, 2020 (11.4) 
## Added

- **Help for candidates and committees:** Published a new page on [publicly funded presidential spending limits](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/understanding-public-funding-presidential-elections/presidential-spending-limits-2020/) for 2020] 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Published a new page on [lobbyist bundling disclosure requirements](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/lobbyist-bundling-disclosure/)
- **API :** Added five endpoints to support a new presidential map feature  
    - /presidential/contributions/by_candidate/
    - /presidential/contributions/by_size/
    - /presidential/contributions/by_state/
    - /presidential/coverage_end_date/
    - /presidential/financial_summary/

## Changed
- **Legal resources :** Added a new section on audit report processing and policies to the [Audit Reports page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/audit-reports/#audit-report-processing-and-policies)
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated the [coordinated party expenditure limits](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements-political-party/coordinated-party-expenditures/coordinated-party-expenditure-limits/) page with the limits for 2020
- **Campaign finance data:** Updated the [help page for presidential map data](https://www.fec.gov/campaign-finance-data/presidential-map-help/)
- **Campaign finance data:** Updated language above presidential accordions explaining contents of files
- **Campaign finance data:** Updated Independent Expenditure methodology
- **Campaign finance data:** Updated text of version checkbox 
- **Campaign finance data:** Updated Independent Expenditure report type toggle functionality

## Under the hood
- Updated Gunicorn from version 19.7.1 to 19.10.0
- Updated GitPython from version 2.1.8 to 2.1.15
- Upgraded Handlebars from version 4.3.0 to 4.7.2
- Switched eRegs from shared-psql to medium-psql-redundant and bound application to new database
- Added tests to Independent Expenditure data table
- Conditionally hide presidential section from docs until feature release
- Add presidential endpoint descriptions
- Add transfers_from_affiliated_committees field to /presidential/financial_summary/ endpoint
- Most recent Independent Expenditures logic updates

# February 11, 2020 (11.3) 
## Added

- **Campaign finance data:** Added current version filters to Independent expenditures datatables 
- **Campaign finance data:** Added bulk presidential map data downloads within browse data candidates tab 

## Under the hood
-  Improved sitewide search by making sure archived pages that have been taken offline do not appear in search results.
-  Upgraded Django to version 1.11.27

# January 29, 2020 (11.2) 
## Added
- **API:** Added filing_form and is_notice filters to /schedules/schedule_e/efile/ endpoint
- **About the FEC:** Added [meeting pages](https://www.fec.gov/meetings/?tab=executive-sessions) for 2020 executive sessions.
## Changed
- **Legal resources:** Updated links to GPO’s website on the [Statutes](https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/statutes/) page to point to the most recent versions of Titles 52 and 26.
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated information on multistate independent expenditure reporting for [PACs](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-independent-expenditures/reporting-independent-expenditures-form-3x/) and [other filers](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-independent-expenditures/reporting-independent-expenditures-form-5/).

## Under the hood
- Removed null value in cycles, cycles_has_finance and cycles_has_activity from ofec_committee_history_mv
- Legal citations field added to pages that use a full-width template.

# January 14, 2020 (11.1) 
## Added
- **Campaign Finance Data:** Added most recent Statement of Organization to committee profile pages
- **Help for candidates and committees:**  Added new pages regarding [public funding of presidential elections](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/understanding-public-funding-presidential-elections/) and the [presidential transition and inauguration](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/presidential-transition-and-inauguration/)
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added new pages regarding [dates and deadlines for FEC reports in 2020](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines/)
- **Legal resources:** Added new terms to the glossary

## Changed
- **About the FEC:**  The Home page and Commissioner pages were updated to reflect the new Chair and Vice Chairman for 2020
- **General:** Clarified the license language for code repositories


## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed connected organization field on SSF committee profile pages
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed the receipt datatable filter label from “Contributor name or ID” to “Recipient name or ID”

## Under the hood
- Updated API documentation for endpoint descriptions
- Added the ability to include legal citation blocks to the full width page Wagtail template
- Updated smart_open and its related python packages


# December 31, 2019 (10.innovation)
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Published new pages on [presidential public funding](http://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/understanding-public-funding-presidential-elections/) and funding the [presidential transition and inauguration](http://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/presidential-transition-and-inauguration/)

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Revamped the page for [purposes of disbursement](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/purposes-disbursements/) into a format that allows committees to tab between adequate and inadequate purposes.
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Added links to assist navigation between the sections on [disbursements](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements/) and [winding down costs](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/winding-down-candidate-campaign/winding-down-costs/) for candidates.

## Fixed
- **About the FEC**: Fixed missing or broken links for several FEC Record [indexes](https://www.fec.gov/updates/record-archive-1975-2004/)

## Under the hood
- **API**: Added cloud.gov IPs to the API umbrella to limit server side calls to cloud.gov API keys 

# December 10, 2019 (10.6)
## Added
- **API**: Added new electioneering communications endpoint /electioneering/aggregates/

## Under the hood
- Added `TSVECTOR` trigger to schedule a raw efile

# November 26, 2019 (10.5)
## Added
- **About the FEC**: Published a new page on the FEC’s Limited English Proficiency [plan](https://www.fec.gov/about/equal-employment-opportunity/limited-english-proficiency/)

- **Campaign finance data**: Added new pages explaining [API data end points](https://www.fec.gov/campaign-finance-data/about-campaign-finance-data/) 

## Fixed
- **Legal resources**: Uploaded a corrected PDF of the FEC's compilation of federal election campaign laws to the [statutes page](https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/statutes/).
- **Campaign finance data**: Fixed candidate mentioned filter for independent expenditure raw datatable
- **Campaign finance data**: Fixed committee summary page with wrong form or cmte_type.

## November 12, 2019 (10.4) 
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Added information for host committees, convention committees and inaugural committees to the [Other Filers menu](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/guides/?tab=other-filers)
- **Legal Resources**: Added a new page on [administrative terminations and debt settlement plans](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/policy/administrative-terminations-and-debt-settlement-plans/) 
- **About the FEC**: Added a new page for [Equal Employment Office](https://www.fec.gov/about/equal-employment-opportunity/) at the FEC 

## Changed
- **General**: Added information on paying for communications to the page for citizens on understanding ways to [support federal candidates](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/understanding-ways-support-federal-candidates/)
- **About the FEC**: Updated the homepage and [leadership and structure page](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/) to reflect the naming of Commissioner Caroline C. Hunter as Vice Chair

## Fixed
- **Legal resources**: Instead of requiring users to search for statutes by keyword before seeing any of the statutes, all now load by default 
- **Candidate Profile page**: Message showing "no financial data message" now appears for candidates with committees that have not filed disclosure forms

## Under the hood
- Removed unused partition code from API
- Updated schedules/schedule_e  API endpoint to filter by filing_date and dissemination_date columns
- Removed unused materialized view and view from database
- Upgraded`Flask` from 1.0.2 to 1.1.1
- Updated /schedules/schedule_e/efile API endpoint to filter by candidate_id


# October 28, 2019 (10.3) 

## Added
- **About the FEC**: Published a new version of the FEC [organization chart](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/fec-offices/) 
- **General**: Added new social media images for advisory opinions, weekly digest, open meetings, public hearings, executive sessions, and press releases
- **Campaign finance data**: Added new interactive tool, Where Contributions Come From, to the Raising By The Numbers page
- **API**: Added designation filter to committee history endpoints

## Changed
- **General**: Updated the error message for 500 server errors to include a referral to the FEC’s API status page
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Retired older committee-specific pages about partnerships and redirected to the new, more [comprehensive page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/partnership-llc-contributions/).
- **General**: Updated default social media image, renamed existing social media images
- **API**: Increased maximum number of committee_id to search to ten

## Fixed
- **About the FEC**: Broken links to FEC meeting documents and minutes from 2000 through 2003 were fixed
- **General**: Fixed layering issues where drop-down menus would sometimes appear behind other elements on the page
- **API**: Fixed filter by committee_id in these endpoints:
    - /schedules/schedule_a/by_size/,
    - /schedules/schedule_a/by_state/,
    - /schedules/schedule_a/by_zip/,
    - /schedules/schedule_a/by_employer/,
    - /schedules/schedule_a/by_occupation/,
    - /schedules/schedule_b/by_recipient/,
    - /schedules/schedule_b/by_recipient_id/,
    - /schedules/schedule_b/by_purpose/ and
    - /schedules/schedule_e/by_candidate/

- **Campaign finance data**: Fixed missing committee information and raising and spending tabs for future cycle candidate committee profile pages 
## Under the hood
- Forked `jmcarp/marshmallow-pagination` repository with `fecgov/marshmallow-pagination` for dependency management
- Added content security policy fix for Wagtail images under app.cloud.gov domain
- Updated search.gov indexing for global sitewide search

# October 15, 2019 (10.2) 
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Added new pages on [partnership and LLC contributions](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/partnership-llc-contributions/), [assigning debts](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/handling-loans-debts-and-advances/assigning-debts-another-committee/), [raising and spending funds for the national party convention](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-political-party/national-nominating-convention/), [delegate activities](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/delegate-activity/), and reports by [host and convention committees](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/other-filers/reports-filed-by-host-and-convention-committees/), [monthly filing presidential candidates](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/monthly-reports-presidential/), and [inaugural committees](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/inaugural-committee-reports/)

## Changed
- **API**: Revised message for API status errors to point to new [status page](https://www.fec.gov/status)

## Fixed
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Fixed incorrect counts for Schedule E raw data table
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Only link to election profile pages starting in 1980
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Fixed raising and spending tab behavior of candidate profile pages without activity in particular cycle 

## Under the hood
- Increased elasticsearch timeout to allow certain legal resources queries to load
- Fixed logic for loading unpublished legal cases
- Redirected older content pages on transition to updated pages on current site

# October 1, 2019 (10.1) 
## Added
- **Campaign finance data**: Added organization type and committee type to candidate pages
- **General**: Published the latest version of the [Combined Federal/State Disclosure Directory](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/combined-federalstate-disclosure-and-election-directory/)
- **General**: Added page for Chair Weintraub's symposium on “Digital Disinformation and the Threat to Democracy: Information Integrity in the 2020 Elections”. 

## Changed
- **General**: Moved the page of archived Record articles from 1975 to 2004 to a new [location](https://www.fec.gov/updates/record-archive-1975-2004/). A link to this archive was added under “About latest updates” and to the no results message when a user searches Updates and gets no results.
- **Legal resources**:  For Matters Under Review changed title to include “closed”
## Fixed
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Fixed “Filter this data” buttons on Candidate and Committee profile pages filings tab to filter by form type
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Fixed pages for candidates with future election years
## Under the hood
- Refactored code for readability and future maintenance
- upgraded api to `python@3.7.4` (required upgrade of dependencies `gunicorn`, `gevent`, and `pandas`)
- Addressed vulnerability around ESLint
- Implemented Google Tag Manager, to be activated at a later date
- Added styles for a future organization chart
- Reorganized classic.fec.gov website to display the Campaign Finance Disclosure Portal as the new homepage

# September 10, 2019 (9.innovation) 
## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data**:  fixed inconsistent data on candidate profile pages 
## Under the hood
- Added secure headers to API and CMS, including a Content Security Policy.
- Refactored three endpoint resource files: CandidateTotalsView, CandidateHistoryView, CommitteeHistoryView.
# August 20, 2019 (9.6) 
## Added
- **API**: Added filters to /schedules/schedule_e/efile/ endpoint.

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data**: Fixed missing committee type filters (Lobbyist/Registrant PAC, Leadership PAC, and Separate Segregated Fund (SSF) PACs) for receipts, individual contributions and disbursements datatables 
- **Legal**: Fixed the missing mailto link when you try to click "Email our team

## Under the hood
- Added lodash 4.17.13 to “devDependencies” in package.json 
- Upgraded to django@1.11.23


# August 6, 2019 (9.5) 
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Added reporting examples for party committees to the [Filing party reports page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-political-party-reports/#reporting-examples)
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Added language for presidential candidates to the [Guides page for candidates](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/guides/#cand-comm-guides-candidates-and-their-authorized-committees).
- **API**: Added committee organization type and designation filters to schedules A and B

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data**: Updated Receipts and Individual Contributions datatables to be able to reset to default table settings
- **Campaign finance data**: Fixed inconsistency between candidate profile page and candidate list page financial data
- **Campaign finance data**: Fixed election profile page data tables to click through to the full election cycle transaction data
- **Campaign finance data**: Fixed doubled totals in schedule A aggregate endpoints
- **API**: Fixed error handling for some sort errors
## Under the hood
- Made a redirect for old candidate registration brochure.
- Refreshed databases with new `tsvector` logic to better couple searched fields with parsed user input. Restored original `parse_fulltext` definition.
- Added diacritical mark handling for `tsvector` field searches

# July 23, 2019 (9.4) 
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Added guidance for presidential candidates to  various [pages for candidates](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/guides/?tab=candidates-and-their-authorized-committees) 
- **Legal resources**: Added date filters to MUR search
- **API**: Added endpoint `/schedules/schedule_a/by_state/by_candidate/totals` to aggregate individual total contributes summed over all states by candidate by election cycle
## Changed
- **Legal resources**: Changed citation radio buttons to have a more visually intuitive representation of “selected” state
## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data**: Fixed missing `committee_name` column when exporting `.csv` report files for presidential, House and Senate, and PAC and Party reports data tables.
- **Campaign finance data**: Fixed full-cycle financial summary links on candidate profile pages 
## Under the hood
- Made redirects for various publications

# July 9, 2019 (9.3) 
## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Uploaded the [Guideline for Presentation in Good Order](https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/guideline-for-presentation-good-order.pdf) and [appendices](https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/guideline-for-presentation-good-order_appendices.pdf) used by publicly funded presidential candidates, and added links to them on the [public funding information page](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/understanding-ways-support-federal-candidates/presidential-elections/public-funding-presidential-elections/).
- **General**: Updated language of message shown to users of older browsers, including Internet Explorer 10 and below.
## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data**: Fixed 404 error generated by some special election candidates linked from election profile 
- **Campaign finance data**: Made pull-downs for download options are still clickable when they’re the last row of the table
- **General**: Adjusted polyfills to improve appearance and performance for users of older browsers, including Internet Explorer 10 and 11 and last-gen browsers. 
- **General**:  Fixed some unmatched tag warnings that were being displayed for Internet Explorer users.
- **General**:  Resolved an issue with displaying the Calendar and related entries on the home page in Internet Explorer
## Under the hood
- Modified `to_tsvector` arguments to replace all non-alphanumeric characters with whitespace to be compatible with the Python search term parsing
- Add historical candidate inactive data 
- Updated API URL in CMS feature space to point to stage database
- Updated X-UA meta tag for Internet Explorer

# June 28, 2019 (9.2) 
## Added
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Added filter to exclude incumbents not seeking re-election from candidate data tables
## Changed
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Expanded all receipts and individual contributions datatable searches  to all time periods (as long as other criteria are also defined)
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Updated heading styles for filters of all receipts and individual contributions data tables of all receipts and individual contributions data tables
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Added report year to the filter panel of all receipts and individual contributions data tables
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Added multi-year select functionality to report year filter to all receipts and individual contributions
- **Campaign Finance Data**:Updated custom error handling of new all receipts and individual contributions filter interaction
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Clarified the tooltip text of “report time period” on raising and spending data tables
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Removed Separate Segregated Fund options from filters of all receipts and individual contributions datatables because they were not functioning properly
- **Homepage**: Changed the message that’s displayed when no results are found while searching Updates
## Fixed
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Fixed column headers of the election profile page that were not  displaying correctly
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Fixed empty download file bug for RFAIs
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Fixed totals for Puerto Rico Resident Commissioner totals by always showing 4-year cycle totals
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party candidates’ raising and spending meters are now colored blue instead of dark gray
## Under the hood
- Added test coverage for candidate endpoints

# June 11, 2019 (9.1) 
## Added
- **API**: Added 'is_active_candidate' filter to /candidates/ to exclude incumbents that have dropped out 
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Added an interactive module to Raising- and Spending-By The Numbers that lists total money raised or spent during a selected race with breakdowns by party
## Changed
- **Campaign finance data**: Applied multi-year and all report year search capability to Disbursement datatables
- **Campaign finance data**: Updated default time period across site to be 2020
- **Legal resources**: Added 2019 regulations to regulations explorer
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Changed any table columns of currency to use the new monospace currency font
## Fixed
- Added validation for proper line number formatting
- Added a better error message for over-rate-limit downloads 
- Fixed incorrect candidate totals for some candidates
- Fixed incorrect search results in house candidate datatables
- Fixed misleading “no data” messages by providing a more complete list of why data could be missing 
- Fixed improper capitalization on house/senate/presidential candidate datatables breadcrumbs and table headers
- Fixed DFL party to display as part of the democratic party color scheme
# May 21, 2019 (8.7) 
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Added a new page concerning [bank accounts of separate segregated funds](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/registering-ssf/bank-accounts-ssf/)

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Redirected older links for outdated publications and outreach files to current information on fec.gov.

## Under the hood
- Excluded Schedule L from cycle totals calculation
- Fixed CRLF injection with urllib3 package in openFEC repository
- Fixed security vulnerability with webargs by updating version to 5.1.3 (fec-eregs)
- Fixed Privilege Escalation security vulnerability for mysql:mysql-connector-java in `build.gradle` (openFEC)
- Fixed Integer Overflow security vulnerability for com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java in `build.gradle` (openFEC)
- Fixed `transaction_id` bug where type incorrectly specified as `Integer`
- Fixed `parse_fulltext()` function for user-provided search strings in full text fields


# May 07, 2019 (8.6) 
## Added
-**Campaign finance data:** A classic.fec.gov page showing how to [download and use .fec files](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/data-tutorials/) is now housed on fec.gov

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed loan incurred date filter
- **General:** Breadcrumbs for each section are now consistently color-coded

## Under the hood
- Fixed email filter of endpoint, /rad_analyst/ 
- Fixed /schedules/schedule_d/{sub_id}/
- Fixed /schedules/schedule_c/{sub_id}/

# April 23, 2019 (8.5) 
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** Added new pages to explain the [presidential map](https://www.fec.gov/campaign-finance-data/presidential-map-help/) and the [House and Senate map](https://www.fec.gov/campaign-finance-data/house-and-senate-map-help/)
- **Campaign finance data:** Added new page to house [presidential financial summaries](https://www.fec.gov/campaign-finance-data/presidential-campaign-finance-summaries/) table previously on classic site. 
## Changed
- **Legal resources:** Redirected outdated links for explanations and justifications to the current [chronological index](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/chronological-index-e-j-s/) on fec.gov 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added language regarding specific requirements for [paper filers](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/paper-filing/) to the paper filing page. 
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added links to explain types of PACs to the contribution limits chart snippet embedded on several pages in this section.
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated footer to include Protected Voices link

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:**  Fixed incorrect totals on committee profile page 
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed candidate and committee master files link
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Fixed non-filer publications filter under Latest updates section


## Under the hood
- Laid the groundwork for upcoming features (widgets functionality, fonts)
- Upgraded Django to v1.11.20

# March 26, 2019 (8.3) 
## Changed
- **Campaign finance data:** Updated raising and spending by the numbers pages to provide totals based on a candidate's election year
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Redirected older links to compliance pages, coordinated party expenditure limits and inflation adjustment Federal Register notice to their current homes on FEC.gov
- **Campaign finance data:** Refactored candidate: /candidates/totals/by_office/ endpoint to provide filter for active/inactive candidates
## Fixed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added a missing notation regarding combined party limits and a link to a page explaining more about the combined limit to the contribution limits chart
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Corrected a redirect to the forms

## Under the hood
- Added additional caching to the API during peak hours
- Upgraded from cflinuxfs2 to cflinuxfs3 for all 4 applications: CMS, OpenFEC, Eregs, and pattern library
- Added ability to temporarily block IPs from API
- Upgraded CMS Node to 10.15.1
- Migrated unit tests from PhantomJS to Puppeteer
- Upgrade SQLAlchemy to 1.3.1
- Upgrade redis to 13.2.0

# March 12, 2019 (8.2) 
## Added
- **Legal resources:** Updated the [legislation page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/legislation/) with new legislation, signed into law in December, that extended the Commission’s administrative fine program
- **Campaign finance data:** Added 2019-2020 bulk data sets to candidates, committees, filings, raising and spending related pages
- **Campaign finance data:** Added candidate: /candidates/totals/by_office/ endpoint for calculating aggregated data for each office


## Changed
- **Legal resources:** Placed updated campaign finance statute files on the [statute page](https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/statutes/). Posted the agency’s 2019 compilation of federal election campaign laws. Added links to Title 52 and Title 26 of U.S.C. on GPO's website.
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Redirected older links for various Commission forms and transition pages to current materials. Older pages that already had been redirected to their new homes were removed classic and transition

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed ability for user to filter filing dates by a single day
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed operating expenditures line item within candidate financial summary
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed pagination for raising and spending by the numbers pages
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed reporting deadline links for Election profile pages


## Under the hood
- Upgraded OS stack to cflinuxfs3
- Increased API and proxy timeouts
- Added active candidates filter capability to /candidates/totals API endpoint 
- Fixed /elections API endpoint to exclude inactive candidates
- Added new endpoint /candidates/totals/by_office/ to calculate candidate totals by office
- Updated legal informational banners to link to HTTPS for the following classic legal applications: SAOS, SERS, SAOS

# February 14, 2019 (8.1) 
## Added

- **Help for candidates and committees**: Added 2019 due dates and filing information to [Dates and deadlines]([https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/dates-and-deadlines) 
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Added a new guide and reporting examples for “Other filers” (those who file Forms 5, 7 or 9)
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Added new pages and new reporting examples on making independent expenditures to the guides for PACs and corporations and labor organizations. 
## Changed
- **About the FEC**:  Updated references to the Chair and Vice Chairman for 2019 
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Update pages with the new contribution limits for 2019-2020 and coordinated party expenditure limits for 2019.
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Replaced the current page on making electioneering communications in the section for corporations and labor organizations with a new [page]( https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/other-filers/making-electioneering-communications/) applicable to all Form 9 filers.
- **Legal resources**:  Updated the [regulations page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/) and the page on calculating [administrative fines](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/administrative-fines/calculating-administrative-fines/) with the 2019 civil penalties as adjusted for inflation.
## Fixed
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Amounts are now displayed correctly on the raising and spending sections for a given PAC or Party committee.
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Fixed future cycle totals to display correctly for the entire election year
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Fixed tooltips to display text within the box on maps
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Fixed the ability to navigate back and forth between the raising and spending breakdown charts and candidate profile pages without losing the context on the chart page
- **Legal Resources**: Fixed MUR number search on enforcement search


## Under the hood
- Dropped unused sched c d e f tables and related process
- Updated candidate links for election profile pages to link to corresponding election year from page context
- Remove the `mur_` filters from the API

# December 04, 2018 (7.6)
## Added
- **Campaign Finance Data:**  : Added report beginning image number column to the committee filings datatable
- **Campaign Finance Data:**  : Added more searchable fields to filings/operations-log endpoint
- **General:** Added data.json file to add FEC’s API to data.gov 
## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Redirects were deployed for some older fec.gov pages to help uses find more current versions in Help for candidates and committees.
- **About the FEC:** Redirects for some older fec.gov hearing pages were deployed to help users find more current versions listed on the public hearing pages. 
- **About the FEC:** A link to the SERS database and some introductory language was added to the [public hearings](https://www.fec.gov/meetings/?tab=hearings) section of the meetings page to direct users to older archived rulemaking hearings
## Fixed
- **Homepage:** Fixed non-filer publications filter for press releases
## Under the hood
- Added robots.txt to prevent search engines from indexing pages in development and staging environments
- Implemented bastion host
- Upgraded requests and django-storages packages to fix security vulnerabilities
- Automated Elasticsearch backup process, added management tasks to create/restore backups 

# November 20, 2018 (7.5)
## Added
- **Campaign Finance Data**:  Disbursements aggregate data of memoed items are available (by API only)
- **Help for candidates and committees:**  Added “Disclosure Date” (of electioneering communications) to the glossary 
## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** www redirects for some older fec.gov pages
## Under the hood
- Added new column “count” to two endpoints: sched-a/by_size/by_candidate and sched-a/by_state/by_candidate
# November 6, 2018 (7.4)
## Added
- **Campaign Finance Data:** Added host committee (Form 4) subtotals to committee profile pages 
- **Campaign Finance Data**: Added spender committee type filter on disbursement data table page
- **General:** [Election Day information](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/election-day-information/)
## Changed
- **Campaign Finance Data:** Provide exact data table row counts when total is under 500,000. Provide approximate data table row counts, rounded to the nearest thousand, when total is over 500,000 
## Under the hood
- Removed unused /committees/totals/ endpoint from API
- Added automated test coverage for committee profile pages
- Added spender committee type filter on disbursement page to Schedule B in API
- Removed Elasticsearch 2.4 from eRegs app

# October 23, 2018 (7.3)
## Added

- **Legal Resources:** Updated the [Legislation page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/legislation/) with newly passed legislation (H.R. 5895) changing the point of entry for Senate committees. Links and information regarding older legislation were updated as well.

## Changed
- **Campaign finance data:** Updated election search page to make it easier for users to see the results and to find upcoming presidential election data
- **Campaign finance data:
- ** Added financial summaries for Inaugural and Host committees

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed data table counts and added counts back to data table results 
- **General:** Fixed the breadcrumb links for the [FEC Record](https://www.fec.gov/updates/?update_type=fec-record) subjects

## Under the hood
- Upgraded Django and related packages to version 1.11.15 for security patch
- Upgraded Flask and Flask-related packages to the newest version for security patch and system stability:
    - Flask==1.0.2
    - Flask-Cors==3.0.6
    - Flask-Script==2.0.6
    - Flask-RESTful==0.3.6


# October 9, 2018 (7.2)
## Added
- **API:** Added legal resources to [API docs](api.open.fec.gov)
- **About the FEC:** Added two 2009 policy [hearings](https://www.fec.gov/meetings/?tab=hearings) 

## Changed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Legacy “Quick Answers” pages regarding filing and candidates are redirected to Help for candidates and committees.

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:**  Fixed bug with Forms 1, 2, and 1M causing more than one to be marked “Most recent”
- **Campaign finance data:** Candidate Filings tab: Corrected issues with table display  at medium and small device/screen sizes 
- **Campaign finance data:** Candidate profile page: Candidate compare buttons now link to the correct election year based on candidate

## Under the hood
- Added recaptcha to feedback drawer in order to improve form security
- Deleted ofec_entity_chart_mv which is no longer used by any API endpoint

# September 25, 2018 (7.1)
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** Added candidate office sought, party, state and district filters to independent expenditure data table
- **Legal API:** Added Administrative Fine and Alternative Dispute Resolution cases to legal API endpoint

## Changed

- **Help for candidates and committees:** Changed the trainings link in the drop down menu and the “Education and outreach” link on the Help for candidates and committees [landing page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/) to point to the new trainings page.
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Modified various pages and form instructions to remove references to the Secretary of the Senate, in response to the change in the law effective September 21 regarding e-filing and point of entry for Senate candidates and committees.

## Under the hood
- Switched to automated database migrations for all automated tests, rather than hard-coded database schema
- Added feature flag capability to data app section and line chart feature
- Temporarily removed datatable counts until misleading estimates can be resolved
- Removed hardcoded Press landing page contact information

# September 11, 2018 (6.6)
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added new resource [page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/trainings/) for FEC conferences, webinars and other training and appearance opportunities
- **API:** Added  filters to /committees/ endpoint so that committee search results can be filtered by most recently updated committee information
- **API:**  Added filter to /rad-analyst/ endpoint so that RAD analyst search results can be filtered by most recently changed analyst assignment information

## Fixed
- **Legal resources:** Fixed bug causing audit subcategory filters not to populate properly 
- **Legal resources:** Fixed broken statutory citation search for Advisory Opinions

## Under the hood
- Updated fec-cms project to use pytest testing framework
- Updated API pytest version to 3.7.4
- Added automated tests for candidate profile pages
- Added automated tests for legal search
- Re-enabled a validator for some API endpoints that requires a sort field to be an index on the underlying data table
- Fixed same name replacement file deletion in Wagtail CMS

# August 14, 2018 (6.5) 
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** Added “other” to schedule A by state aggregates to show non-US states
-  **Campaign finance data:** Added important 2018 Pennsylvania redistricting information to the election search and Pennsylvania house election pages
- **Campaign finance data:** Added transaction-level coverage dates on candidate and committee profile pages.
- **Campaign finance data:** Added the ability to search for receipts from entities with foreign addresses
- **API:** Added transaction coverage date to /candidate/ID/totals
- **API:** Added transaction coverage date to committee/ID/totals endpoints

## Changed
- **Help with candidates and committees:** Modified the page on [electioneering communications](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements-ssf-or-connected-organization/making-electioneering-communications/) to better indicate that these rules also apply to individuals and other entities as well as corporations and labor organizations.
## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed redirects from legacy election page tabs to new corresponding datatable anchors
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed incorrect committee summary data description link on Advanced data committees tab
## Under the hood
- Upgraded to Wagtail 2.0. This includes major updates to the CMS editor interface which now utilizes Draftail. In addition, 2 new features were added to the editor: glossary term button and anchor button.
- Created public.ofec_sched_a_agg_state_vw to to group by all non-US state to “Other”,Modify ScheduleAByStateView to return “other” row.
- Upgraded to Django 1.11.13 in the CMS repo
- Upgraded cg-django-uaa python package to version 1.2.0
- Removed unused bandit python package
- Replaced vulnerable bleach npm package with the sanitize-html package
- Replaced vulnerable underscore.string.js npm package with the sprintf-js package
- React code within Draftail now utilizes webpack to transpile custom js.
- Added the ability to deploy the API without running migrations
- Added endpoint-specific caching to the API


# July 31, 2018 (6.4)
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added new pages for candidates on [using personal funds](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/using-personal-funds-candidate/), [understanding independent expenditures](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/understanding-independent-expenditures/) and [joint fundraising](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements/joint-fundraising-candidates-political-committees/)
- **Campaign finance data:** Enabled candidate financial totals export feature on elections page

## Changed
- **Legal resources:** Updated [PDF](https://www.fec.gov/resources/cms-content/documents/feca.pdf) of [statute](https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/statutes/) in CMS
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Reorganized the [receipts](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/) and [disbursements](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/making-disbursements/) pages for candidates to aid readability and fill in gaps in information, including moving some current pages to a new section on [outside spending](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/#outside-spending)

## Fixed
- **Legal Resources:** Improved parsing of AO statutory and regulatory citations to recognize citations listed in a series (ex. “52 USC 30101, 30133” and “11 CFR 110.1 and 112.4”)
- **Legal Resources:** Added missing multi-part PDFs to nine archived MURs
- **Campaign finance data:** RQ-4 RFAIs now display in the 24- and 48-hour reports section of committee filings page

## Under the hood
- Refactored elections (ElectionView) endpoint to handle download function
- Improved meeting page template to accommodate regulatory hearings and include audio and video links


# July 17, 2018 (6.3)
## Added
- **Legal resources:** Embedded search boxes on the Enforcement and Audit report landing pages to help users search for relevant audit reports
- **Campaign finance data:** Added historical statistics link to campaign finance data submenu
- **General:** Added pre-release testing procedures documentation
- **API:** Added new operations log endpoint to the API (/filings/ section)


## Changed
- **Campaign finance data:** Updated default presidential year to 2020

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Added totals for [senate](https://www.fec.gov/data/candidates/senate/) and [presidential](https://www.fec.gov/data/candidates/president/) candidates running in future election years
- **Campaign finance data:** Added RFAI request types RQ2 and RQ4 to the 24/48 hour reports table of the committee filings tab
- **Campaign finance data:** Removed unused mid-year and year-end filter options from calendar
- **Legal resources:** Restored legal citation blocks to AO canonical page
- **Legal resources:** Added “About” menu and glossary to regulations search

# July 5, 2018 (6.2)

## Added
- **Legal resources:**  Added Joint Fundraising Committee filter to audit search

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data:** Removed joint fundraising activity from the “elections” endpoint to avoid returning inflated candidate financial results 
- **General:** Restored icons and styling missing on megamenu while visiting datatables or calendar.

## Under the hood
-  **Legal resources:** Implemented process to load advisory opinion (AO) data daily when there are changes to AO data and to reload all AOs on Sunday
- **API:** Updated Flyway to version 5.1.3

# June 26, 2018

## Added
- **General:** Added search box on mobile menus as well as “Explore All” links for each section, making it easier for users to find what they are looking for
- **Legal resources:** Added functionality to allow users to search for audits of joint fundraising committees

## Changed

- **Help for candidates and committees:** Updated [pages](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/registering-candidate/) on appointing a treasurer, registering a candidate and registering a candidate’s committee 
- **API:** Updated the look and feel of the API page interface using Swagger 3.16.0
- **Campaign finance data:** Updated the election profile pages to make it easier for users to find different election datasets as well as linking to important report deadlines
- **About the FEC:** Updated the URL and design of the [Contact page](https://www.fec.gov/contact/) to help users find the FEC services they need 
- **Home page:** New background picture
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Brochures and forms that were outdated but still housed and linked on FEC transition site and in other places are redirected now to more current resources on the appropriate pages.

## Fixed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Corrected link to compliance page for [PA/07](https://transition.fec.gov/info/ElectionDate/2018/PA_07.shtml) election

# June 19, 2018 (6.1)
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** Added language on our All receipts and Individual contributions data tables to help users search for occupation-specific individual contributor data prior to 2003
- **Legal resources:** Built an [audit report search](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/audit-search) function to replace the search that is currently on classic.fec.gov site
- **General** Added new design and Wagtail CMS template to allow content editors to make changes to contact information
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Created a shortcut link to [candidate reporting examples](www.fec.gov/candidate-reporting-examples)

## Changed
- **General:** Updated the definitions of “independent expenditure only committee” and “Super PAC” to ensure legal accuracy and help them better correspond to each other 
- **General:** Updated the appearance of our feedback tool and added a tool to allow users to sign up for usability testing

## Fixed
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Fixed link to “Explore all compliance resources” link in the Help for candidates and committees main menu 
- **Campaign finance data:** Improved the user interface to display line-two committee addresses
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed incorrect display of contributors for earmarked contributions on Receipts and Individual contributions datatables

## Under the hood
- Schedule A queries now use fecp-driven fec_fitem_sched_a tables for better performance and data accuracy
- PAC and party reports page now include Form 3s filed by these committees
- Added better error handling for navigating regulations

# May 29, 2018 (Sprint 5.6)
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** Added new page explaining how to work with [downloadable data files.]( https://www.fec.gov/campaign-finance-data/working-downloadable-fec-data-files-using-ms-access/)
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added FECFile help links to the troubleshooting section of Filing committee reports for all committee types

## Changed
- **General:** Changed main menu options to improve site navigation

## Under the hood
- Upgraded ElasticSearch
- Update sample_db SQL to include test data for all materialized views
- Created sample test data for all 52 ofec materialized views
- Updated Redis/Celery/Kombu packages for system stability
- Created a new materialized view, ofec_report_pac_party_all_mv

# May 15, 2018 (Sprint 5.5)

## Changed
- **General:** We updated our website menus to improve navigation to areas our users find most helpful

## Fixed
- **General:** We fixed the link back to FEC.gov on transition pages so that users will be returned to the main homepage
- **Campaign finance data:** Added monthly filter for [PAC and Party committee reports page](https://www.fec.gov/data/reports/pac-party/)
- **Campaign finance data:** Removed bundling reports filter from [House](https://www.fec.gov/data/reports/house-senate/), [Presidential](https://www.fec.gov/data/reports/presidential/), and [PAC and Party](https://www.fec.gov/data/reports/pac-party/) report pages
- **Campaign finance data:** [Raising](https://www.fec.gov/data/raising/) and [spending](https://www.fec.gov/data/spending/) breakdown charts now have cycles that are data-driven
- **Campaign finance data:** Fixed current version icons on advanced data report page datatables

## Under the hood
- Removed Gemnasium badge from our code repositories fec-cms, fec-eregs, openFEC, and fec-pattern-library. 
- Replaced Gemnasium by SNYK
- Schedule_b queries now use fecp-driven fec_fitem_sched_b tables for better performance and data accuracy
- Added better error handling for loading invalid or archived MUR numbers


# May 2, 2018 (Sprint 5.4)
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** Added the ability for users to navigate to the authorized candidate’s page from the committee’s page 

## Changed
- **Campaign finance data:** Updated Pennsylvania district map on elections pages
- **Candidate and committee search:** Changed candidate/committee search results to sort by total financial activity rather than total receipts only

## Fixed
- **Advanced data pages:** Fixed House, Senate and Presidential candidate search pages to return all candidates regardless of financial activity
## Under the hood
- Updated CMS to the latest version of Python 3.6
- Refreshed MUR and AO tables in development and staging from the tables in production 
- Switched API to the campaign finance database-driven Schedule B tables
- Created itemized Schedule A tables and transferred data from our primary campaign finance database to Postgres
- Implemented and tested SNYK, a new vulnerability tracking tool 
- Optimized independent expenditure queries
- Analyzed and fixed slow running raw data queries

# April 18, 2018 (Sprint 5.3)
## Added
- **Campaign finance data:** Redesigned Advanced data section and bulk downloads page 
- **Campaign finance data:** Enabled [House](https://www.fec.gov/data/candidates/house/), [Senate](https://www.fec.gov/data/candidates/senate/) and [Presidential](https://www.fec.gov/data/candidates/president/) downloads
- **General:** Added new page on [public funding](https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/understanding-ways-support-federal-candidates/presidential-elections/public-funding-presidential-elections/) of presidential elections
- **General:** GovDelivery email [signup](https://www.fec.gov/updates/) is now active
- **Legal resources:** Added new SERS supplemental index [page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/sers-supplemental-information/) for FEC rulemakings
- **Legal resources:** Added new page on how to file a [complaint](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/complaints-process/how-to-file-complaint-with-fec/)

## Changed
- **Campaign finance data:** Changed the individual contributor, ZIP code search to match first 5 digits entered by the user
- **General:** Updated pattern library to include more comprehensive examples, including breadcrumbs, color pairing guidance and form examples 
- **General:** Careers page now querying USAJobs API hiring path 
parameter and displaying “Open to:” information for each open position 

## Fixed
- **Candidate profile pages:** Corrected contribution refunds total on candidate profile pages
- **Legal Resources:** Fixed a bug where 2 U.S.C. statutes on Advisory Opinions weren’t all properly mapping to new 52 U.S.C. statutes”
## Under the hood
- Loaded 2018 regulations into eRegs


# April 4, 2018
## Added
- **API:** Created a new endpoint for state election offices
- **Help for Candidates and Committees:** Began publishing reporting examples for Separate Segregated Funds and Nonconnected PACs
- **Latest updates:** Uploaded and linked 1975 and 1976 [issues](https://transition.fec.gov/pages/fecrecord/fecrecord.shtml) of the FEC Record that were previously unavailable
 
## Changed
- **Contact Info:** Updated all pages with FEC’s new mailing address: 1050 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20463

## Fixed
- **General:** Repaired a URL for an image link that was causing the image for commissioners without a biography photo to display as a broken link
- **General:** Updated the styling of the card components on the campaign finance data landing page to be consistent with styles elsewhere on the site, and create a more unified viewing experience
- **General:** Fixed calendar “All filing deadlines,” “All outreach” and “All legal events” button filters so that it will filter all deadlines
- **Candidate profile pages:** Fixed broken links on candidate profile page when a candidate has more than one authorized committee
- **Candidate profile pages:** Fixed display error that was causing district 10 candidates to display as district 1
- **Finance Data:** Moved quarterly Form 5 filings to the “Regularly filed reports” section instead of the “24 and 48 hour reports” section 
- **Finance data:** Fixed RFAIs so that they appear correctly on committee and candidate profile pages 
- **Finance data:** Fixed exclude filters to be able to return values that are null
- **Finance data:** Added new schedule A ZIP code filters to limit to 5 digits only
- **Legal resources:** Fixed MUR pagination error when searching by respondent
## Under the hood
- Styled a new pagination component that can be used on the site in the future, and will allow for specific page numbers to be selected from a set
- All public repositories have been transferred from the 18F github organization to the fecgov github organization. This includes: openFEC, fec-cms, fec-proxy, fec-eregs, FEC, fec-pattern-library, fec-infrastructure, fec-testing, fec-epics, and fec-transition
- Enabled Cached Calls on production. This functionality will save all API data in a S3 cached-calls folder so that it can be retrieved from S3 when the database or server is unavailable
- Manifest inheritance and the host attribute have been deprecated in Cloud Foundry. We use manifests to deploy using CircleCI. The base manifest has been removed and its contents have been merged with each of the individual space manifests (dev, stage, and prod). This change was made on each of the applications we deploy: fec-eregs, fec-proxy, fec-cms, openFEC
- Created redirect for anyone hitting https://www.fec.gov/files/bulk-downloads/ so that they will be routed to the bucket directly instead of going through the proxy. This will allow the user to download large data sets without failure
- Upgraded API(openFEC repo) to python v3.6.5
- Added five test cases for audit search endpoints
- Improved performance for automatic MUR reloading
- Improved performance for schedule A ZIP code searching by adding new indexes

# March 7, 2018
## Added
- **Finance Data**: Added the coverage end date to the source reports column on election page tables so that candidate data can more be accurately compared across the same time periods
- **API:** Added the ability to filter search results by excluding values

## Fixed
- **General**: Quarterly and monthly filing deadlines are now included on the homepage “Events and deadlines” feed
- **General:** Fixed a bug that was causing numbers for ordered lists to not display
- **General:** Fixed a styling effect on card components that was causing adjacent content to abruptly shift position on page

## Under the hood
- Modified audit search API endpoint to allow users to see results filtered by primary category and then further refine those results by subcategory
- Removed an unused function and streamlined existing API “exclude” logic
- Improved site stability by making Redis automatically attempt to reconnect when a connection is lost


# February 20, 2018
## Added
- **General:** Added an emergency banner to notify users of limited availability due to government shutdown
 
## Changed
- **Leadership and structure:**  Updated homepage and leadership pages to reflect Commissioner Goodman’s departure

## Fixed
- **Finance data:** Fixed display of odd-year special elections 
- **Finance data:** Changed state dropdowns to order alphabetically by state name instead of abbreviation
## Under the hood
- Updated eRegs to most recent version
- Fixed Elasticsearch timeout issue with reindexing legal documents, which increased performance for AOs and MURs
- Removed old aggregate tables and related database objects and tests that are no longer being used  
- Fixed multi column sort bug for openFEC API

# January 25, 2018
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** New pages for corporations, labor organizations, trade associations, membership organizations and their separate segregated funds are now live. 
- **Campaign finance:** Added Types 3 and 4 Federal Election Activity (FEA) (Line 30(b)) to the filters available on the [browse disbursements](https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/)

## Fixed
- **Contact:** Corrected phone number in [Find your committee’s analyst](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/question-rad/) message 
- **API:** Fixed /elections/search/ endpoint to return all congressional districts, so they appear correctly in the [Elections search](https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/) 
## Under the hood
- Improved backup of archived MURs for greater flexibility
- Improved monitoring of daily update processes
- Improved processing of aggregates
- Switched API to new aggregate tables
- Added and updated ZIP Codes to improve election page search

# January 17, 2018
## Added
- **API Documentation:** Added documentation for form type and report type
## Changed
- **Legal:** Updated Advisory Opinion and Matter Under Review documents to have permanent links
- **Finance data:** Updated logic to better handle Senate special elections
## Fixed
- **General:** Corrected typographical errors
## Under the hood
- Improved load testing
- Improved error handling

# January 3, 2018
## Added
- **Glossary:** Added definition of “Non-contribution account” to glossary
- **General:** Added GovDelivery envelope icon to footer
- **API:** Added Audit [endpoints](https://api.open.fec.gov/developers/) 

## Changed
- **Finance data:** Changed “election cycle” to “period” to more accurately reflect how we calculate financial summary information
- **Leadership and structure:** Updated Chair and Vice Chair of the Commission information to reflect 2018 leadership
- **API:** Changed 18F-fec@gsa.gov to APIinfo@fec.gov
## Fixed
- **Glossary:** Made typographical corrections
## Under the hood
- Fixed the AO landing page unit test case
- Removed remaining “tour” code
- Removed unused “between committees” template
- Added more automated testing scripts
- Updated minimum date in javascript tests for 2018

# December 20, 2017
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added additional “How to report” examples focusing on [Statements of Candidacy](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/registering-candidate/) and [Statements of Organization](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/registering-committee/)
## Changed
- **Legal:** Redesigned the “Legal resources” [landing page](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/) to help users more easily find information 
- **Calendar:** Removed “all day” from calendar entry display
## Fixed
- **Finance data:** Changed the default time period to display the most recent financial data for all committee profile pages
- **Finance data:**  Corrected spelling error on search button
## Under the hood
- Added legal test (legal_test_data.py) data for all legal resources
- Added logging to the API to make debugging issues easier
- Removed icons no longer in use
- Resized a few existing icons to make them consistent with other icons
- Adjusted our icon build scripts so that icons that have been removed will no longer show up in the output files, and thus, won’t show up as options in the pattern library
- Moved legal news feed to its own template tag
- Changed the logic for determining future Senate elections to use a formula instead of a hard-coded set of dates

# December 6, 2017
## Added
- **General:** Added new glossary terms 
## Changed
- **Finance data:** So that the latest independent expenditures are shown first, the “24-Hour and 48-Hour Report” toggle option is now the default selected on page load, instead of “Regularly scheduled reports,” and the display order of the toggle now matches the default order 
[Example](https://www.fec.gov/data/independent-expenditures/)
## Fixed
- **Finance data:** Corrected a typo in the report type tooltip on the independent expenditure data table filters [Example](https://www.fec.gov/data/independent-expenditures/)
## Under the hood
- **Server logs:** Added more logging to periodic server tasks (Celery Beat) for better troubleshooting 
- **API developer interface:** Updated API developer interface (Swagger) tools
- **General:** Added security related attributes to session cookies for security/ATO compliance



# November 21, 2017
## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added additional “How to report” examples focusing on disbursements for [filing candidate reports](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/#reporting-examples). Other types of reporting examples will be coming soon

## Changed
- **Database:** modified sql script to correct value used to determine if a candidate is active in a particular election
- **Elections data:** Replaced hard-coded Senate special election years with data-driven lookup so that future Senate specials will automatically appear in the dropdowns. [Example](http://www.fec.gov/data/elections/senate/AL/2018/)
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Moved [Campaign Guides](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/guides/) to improve the pathways users take to find relevant guidance within “Help for candidates and committees” and so it’s easier to find all information from a stable URL
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Redesigned the "Help for candidates and committees" [landing page](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/) to accommodate moving the Campaign Guides to their own section and to surface more commonly used information from within “Help for candidates and committees”
- **General:** Converted the “Introduction to campaign finance and elections” section on the homepage into a more concise and visual layout
- **General:** Created reusable pattern to add responsive images to the site with cross-browser/device support. Currently being used on new “Help for Candidates and Committees” landing page and the new “Introduction to campaign finance and elections” section of the homepage

## Fixed
- **General:** Fixed a broken link to the [Open FEC API](https://api.open.fec.gov/) in the website footer
- **General:** Added a missing space between the amendment status and the notice title on the “Commission meeting” feed
- **General:** Corrected time zone issue, allowing editors to control go-live/expiry date and time for banner announcement
- **Legal:** Fixed parsing of AOs to better detect statutory and regulatory citations [Example](https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/advisory-opinions/2016-24/)  


## Under the hood
- Updated link in API readme
- Resolved performance monitor errors related to time zones
- CSRF(cross-site request forgery) tokens are now marked as secure


# November 9, 2017

## Added
- **API:** Added advisory opinion “status” field to API indicating whether an advisory opinion is pending, withdrawn or final
## Changed
- **Finance data:** Committee profile pages now display political party in the “About the committee” section of the page 

## Fixed
- **Elections:** Updated Senate classes and upcoming election years with correct information
- **Finance data:** The “Filings” section on committee pages now displays the most recent raw eFilings, where before, no data was displaying 
- **Finance data:** Corrected an error that displayed the wrong data column for operating expenditures reported on Form 3X
- **Legal:** Fixed Archived MUR URL issue that caused MURs to display with an error 
- **Legal:** Repaired broken “Explore all advisory opinions” link from the button on the Advisory Opinions landing page 
- **Legal:** Removed the incorrect `/data` entity from the breadcrumb path for current and archived MUR pages 
- **Legal:** Fixed a bug in the logic that was causing some withdrawn advisory opinion requests to not display “Withdrawn” in the date issued column

## Under the hood
- Improved daily data transfer process
- Improved and updated continuous integration

# October 26, 2017

## Added
- **General**: Added new glossary terms
- **General**: Added “Contact” link in the About menu
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Created new “How to report” examples for [filing candidate reports](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/filing-reports/#reporting-examples). Other types of reporting examples will be coming soon
- **Help for candidates and committees**: Added a [tool](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/question-rad/) that allows authorized representatives to find and email their committee’s analyst. The tool provides an explanation for committees that are not yet assigned an analyst
- **Legal**: Added advanced Boolean search logic to the advisory opinion and MUR search systems  [Global legal search](https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/), [MUR search](https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/search/enforcement/), [AO search](https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/search/advisory_opinions/)
- **API**: Added additional fields and filters to /totals/{committee-type} endpoint
## Changed
- **General**: Citations in glossary terms now link to source documents
- **General**: Removed the new site announcement banner and decommissioned the site orientation feature as part of the post-transition plan 
- **Finance data**: Changed cycle breakdown to reflect current 2 year cycle, 2017-2018
- **Latest updates**: Made it easier to find the newest news and announcements by removing meetings from the [latest updates](https://www.fec.gov/updates) feed
- **Legal**: Added additional embedded search modules that allow a quick start to search by MUR number or keyword from outside of the full search page. Also added a consistent link to the full search experience
- **Legal**: Updated information on MUR and AO messages to reflect the current state of legal search tools
## Fixed
- **Meetings**: Corrected a filter that prevented all hearings from being displayed in the [hearings](https://www.fec.gov/meetings/?tab=hearings) feed
- **Meetings**: Repaired broken links to draft Commission open meeting documents
- **General**: Corrected a typo on the contact page that previously misspelled “Teletypewriter”
- **About**: Replaced a missing image for the vacant seat on the [Leadership and structure](https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/) page
## Under the hood
- Made our most-used table (of current contribution limits) into a widget that can be embedded into multiple pages and updated globally, reducing risk of error
- It is now possible to preview the homepage banner announcements in Wagtail before publishing them
- It is now possible to set a time for expiration of the homepage banner
- Added the ability to upload documents for Commission meeting Sunshine Act Notices directly in the Wagtail meeting page template
- We can now create custom page titles in Wagtail that allow us to organize pages within the CMS.
- Updated Wagtail application timezone to America/New_York to accommodate user-friendly scheduling of page and banner announcement expiration
- OpenFEC-web-app and fec-style repositories are now merged into fec-cms
  - openFEC-web-app unit tests migrated to fec-cms
- Updated fec-cms developer documentation to account for post merge of apps
- Migrated continuous integration build scripts from Travis and to Circle CI


# August 24, 2017

## Added
- **Finance data:** Added state, office and party filters to the filings and reports page
- **General:** “About” menu with links to “News and updates,” “Commission meetings” and more
- **General:** Added a new Commission Meetings page that includes all open meetings, hearings and executive sessions
- **General:** Added many more glossary terms

## Changed
- **Finance data:** Redesigned [Campaign Finance Data](http://fec.gov/data) page to make it possible to search for individual contributions and compare candidates running in an election right from the page
- **Finance data:** When browsing reports and filings, document titles in the table now link to the webpage version of a given report (when available)
- **Finance data:** Senate candidates page defaults to 2018
- **Finance data:** Improve design of election page for more consistent browsing experience
- **Finance data:** Better link from candidate pages to election pages
- **Finance data:** Expanded download limits to increase the number of data rows that can be downloaded at one time
- **Finance data:** Data downloads are now .CSV files rather than zip files and are much faster and more reliable
- **Legal Resources:** Updated pages to remove notice about MUR archive not being included in MUR searches
- **General:** Redesigned homepage to provide easier navigation to the most visited sections of the site. The updated homepage more clearly highlights news and announcements, and events and deadlines. 
- **General:** Better domains for documents uploaded to CMS
- **General:** Added contact information for Information Division and Electronic Filing Office

## Fixed
- **Finance data:** Fixed an issue where new termination reports were incorrectly labeled as amendments
- **Finance data:** Fixed a bug where election pages sometimes didn’t display the correct number of congressional districts


# July 14, 2017

## Added
- **Legal resources.**  Added a column for “entity type” to the entities grid on advisory opinion pages - [example](https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/advisory-opinions/2017-04/)
- **Campaign Finance.** Added more transaction links to the candidate and the committee profile page financial summaries so that users can view the transactions that were itemized for each subtotal - [example](https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H8GA06195/)

## Changed
- **Legal resources.** Removed Amazon (AWS) URLs and replaced with fec.gov  URLs for legal documents - [example](https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/aos/83272.pdf)

## Fixed
- **Finance data:** Fixed an issue where F3X loan repayments were incorrect in financial summaries on the committee profile pages.


# July 3, 2017

## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added new guidance content for non-connected PACs.
- **Finance data:** Added the ability to enter an image number to pull up a specific page of a filing to the main search field on [fec.gov/data](https://fec.gov/data) (addresses [#4275](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/4275)).
- - **Finance data:** Added the ability to filter by [receipt type](https://fec.gov/data/receipts) and [disbursement type](https://fec.gov/data/disbursements) (i.e. form line numbers) (addresses [#548](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/548), [#3925](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/3925) [#592](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/592) and  [#4189](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/4189)).
- **Finance data:** Added the ability to [filter receipts](https://fec.gov/data/receipts) by ZIP code of the contributor  (addresses [#437](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/437) and [#4247](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/4247)).
- **Finance data:** Added the ability to [view reports](https://fec.gov/data/filings) as HTML web pages (addresses [#4191](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/4191) , [#138](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/138) , and [#4129](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/4129)).
- **Legal resources:** Added the ability to filter [Matters Under Review](http://fec.gov/data/legal/search/enforcement) by MUR number and respondent name.
- **Legal resources:** PDFs for legal resource documents now have nice fec.gov URLs instead of a long string of random characters.
- **Latest updates:** Added [historic Sunshine Act notices](https://fec.gov/updates/?&category=E&update_type=meetings) for executive sessions before 2017.
- **General:** Added permanent redirect for beta.fec.gov domain to www.fec.gov domain (addresses [#1067](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/1067)).

## Changed
- **Legal resources:** When [browsing AOs](https://fec.gov/data/legal/search/advisory-opinions), search results are now shown as tags above the results.
- **Finance data:** When toggling between processed and raw data, any applied filters are retained.
- **Finance data:** When [searching elections](https://fec.gov/data/elections), the district map will only show up for the current election cycle, and the districts have been updated with the latest redistricting maps. (addresses [#4139](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/4139) and [#4136](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/4136))
- **Finance data:** Added a column for “Beginning image number” to the main [filings data table](https://fec.gov/data/filings)
- **Finance data:** Added coverage dates to the reports tables on committee pages (Addresses [#3943](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/3943))
- **Finance data:** RFAIs now show “Not applicable” in the version columns (Addresses [#3942](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/3942))
- **General:** When browsing *Help for candidates and committees*, *Latest updates*, and other sections, PDFs will now open in the browser by default

## Fixed
- **Finance data:** Improved the quality and consistency of schedule A, B and E data
	- Amended schedule A and B transactions will replace previous versions so older ones will longer be included in results (Addresses [#2481](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/2481) and [#4266](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/4266))
- **Finance data:** Fixed an issue where candidate or committee names that matched a search term wouldn’t show up in the typeahead suggestions
- **Finance data:** Fixed an issue where form 5 and form 24 data was missing from [independent expenditures](https://fec.gov/data/independent-expenditures)
- **Finance data:** Fixed an issue where filings before 2015 would occasionally have negative page numbers (addresses [#4202](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/4202) and [#4232](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/4232))
- **Finance data:** Fixed an issue where a special election candidate had inflated total receipts numbers ([#4236](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/4236) and [#4290](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/4290))
- **Legal resources:** Fixed character encoding on legal resource data that was causing unusual characters to show up in text (Addresses [#4262](https://github.com/18f/fec/issues/4262))
- **Latest updates:** Fixed an issue where searching for [latest updates](https://fec.gov/updates) by text wouldn’t return the proper results


# June 14, 2017

## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added new guidance content for [political party committees](https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/)
- **Finance data:** Raw electronic filings submitted within the last two days will now be shown on the “Filings” tab of a committee’s page in order to give users the most up-to-date information. (In response to https://github.com/18F/FEC/issues/4211)
- **Finance data:** Added the total amount of independent expenditures for and against a candidate, the total amount of communication costs for and against a candidate, and the total amount of electioneering communications that mention a candidate to the candidate profile pages
- **Legal resource:** Added a field to enter an advisory opinion number directly on the [advisory opinion landing page](https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/advisory-opinions/)

## Changed
- **Finance data:** Updated candidate and committee pages for greater consistency and organization:
	- The “Individual contributions” tab is now “Raising” and includes the amount of total receipts as well as breakdowns of individual contributions.
	- The “Disbursements” is now the “Spending” tab and includes the total amount of disbursements made by the committee as well as the previous breakdowns and subtotals. In the case of relevant committees, “Independent expenditures”, “Electioneering communication” and “Communication costs” are now included on the “Spending” tab rather than their own tabs, in order to give a complete picture of all spending done by a committee. 
	- All transaction data table pages now show the coverage dates that the data is for.
	- By default, the “All transactions” view of individual contributions and disbursements is open first.
- **Legal resources:** When searching [advisory opinions](https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/search/advisory-opinions/?type=advisory_opinions), checking “Show only pending requests” now removes the “Final opinion” filter in order to show all pending AOs automatically
- **Legal resources:** On an individual advisory opinion page, the documents are sorted in reverse-chronological order
- **Site navigation:** Added a prominent shortcut link to *[Individual contributions](https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/)* in the Campaign finance data menu in the main site navigation in order to make it easier for people to find the page.
- **Home:** Meeting agendas are no longer included in the “What’s happening section of the home page, which were duplicating “Upcoming events”. Now, upcoming meetings will only be included in “Upcoming events”, though meeting agendas will continue to be available on Latest updates

## Fixed
- **Finance data:** Fixed an issue where certain candidate and committee financial summary figures would be incorrect
- **Finance data:** Fixed an issue where coverage dates on candidate and committee financial summaries would be wrong or missing
- **Finance data:** Fixed an issue where candidates running in 2017 did not show up in the [top raising and spending lists](https://fec.gov/data)
- Fixed links on *[Advanced data](https://fec.gov/data/advanced)* that were targeting earlier pages from betaFEC that longer exist


# June 1, 2017

## Added
- **Finance data:** Authorized committee pages now show the district, state and political party of their related candidate. (In response to [#4118](https://github.com/18F/FEC/issues/4118))

## Changed
- **Finance data:** When browsing [receipts](https://fec.gov/data/receipts) and [disbursements](https://fec.gov/data/disbursements), the time period filter is now in the top, open panel for greater visibility. On receipts and [individual contributions](https://fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions), the “Contributor name or ID” filter is now in the top, open panel, and on disbursements, the “Recipient name or ID” filter is in the top, open panel.
- **Finance data:** When viewing more than 100,000 records, the link to the bulk data downloads is now presented as a message next to the export button, rather than as a tooltip.
- **Legal resources:** The universal [legal resources](https://fec.gov/legal-resources/) search now searches AOs by only the name, number, summary and text within the final opinion. Tip: to pull up a specific AO by number from the universal search, enclose it in quotation marks.
- **General:** Styled the button to start the site orientation tour.

## Fixes
**Finance data:** When an export results in a 500 server error, the download will now show a message alerting the user that it failed.
**Finance data:** When clicking a number in the financial summary of an earlier time period on a candidate or committee profile page, the time period is now passed to the itemized data table.
**Finance data:** On committee profiles, the filings table headers no longer appear sortable when they’re not actually sortable. (Fixes [#4155](https://github.com/18F/FEC/issues/4155))
**Finance data:** Removed nonfunctional export buttons on the candidate profile pages for contributions by state and contributions by size.
**Finance data:** Fixed an issue where table columns would be poorly sized in Firefox and Internet Explorer. (Fixes [#4153](https://github.com/18F/FEC/issues/4153))
**Finance data:** Older filings that do not have PDFs available will no longer show an empty link to a PDF. (Fixes [#4159](https://github.com/18F/FEC/issues/4159))
**Finance data:** The top raising and spending candidates list on *[Campaign finance data](https://fec.gov/data/)* now includes candidates running for office in 2017 as well as 2018 (Fixes [#4169](https://github.com/18F/FEC/issues/4169))
**General:** Fixed the link to [classic.fec.gov](https://classic.fec.gov) on 404 pages (Fixes [#4135](https://github.com/18F/FEC/issues/4135))
**General:** Fixed an issue where certain candidates or committees would not appear as search suggestions after typing their full names.
**General:** Fixed an issue where users could enter `<script>` tags in the a typeahead-enabled input.

# May 19, 2017

## Added
- **Latest updates:** Added meeting agendas to the [latest updates](https://beta.fec.gov/updates) feed and upcoming open meetings will now show up on the “What’s happening” section of the home page
- **General:** Added new social media preview images, with unique images each for campaign finance data, legal resources and help for candidates and committees 

## Changed
- **Finance data:** When navigating to *[Browse receipts](https://beta.fec.gov/data/receipts)* the “Unique only” filter is no longer checked by default. It is also now labeled “From unique individuals only” and is now inside the “Contributor information” panel
- **Home:** Replaced the link to the Citizen’s Guide brochure with a link to the video “A Citizen's Guide to Supporting Candidates”
- **Help:** Removed the link to *Submit a question to RAD* from the *Help for candidates and committees* menu, and added various pathways to the [general contact page](https://beta.fec.gov/contact-us) so that users can be routed to another office if it’s more appropriate.

## Fixed
- **Finance data:** Fixed a bug where the table of itemized disbursements on committee pages would include disbursements from all committees
- **General:** Added better CSS and Javascript minification for faster page load times
- **Home:** Fixed a bug where certain events would not show up on the “Upcoming events” section of the home page
- **Calendar:** Fixed a bug where the [calendar](https://beta.fec.gov/calendar) would incorrectly separate items on the same day
- **Calendar:** Fixed a bug on the [calendar](https://beta.fec.gov/calendar) where meetings with a start time but no end time would show up as “All day” events


# May 11, 2017
## Added
- **Finance data:** Added filters for state and district when [browsing House candidates](https://beta.fec.gov/data/candidates/house/) and for [state when browsing Senate candidates](https://beta.fec.gov/data/candidates/senate/?election_year=2016&cycle=2016&election_full=true)
- **Finance data:** Added filters for authorizing candidate to the [House and Senate reports page](https://beta.fec.gov/data/reports/house-senate/) and [Presidential reports page](https://beta.fec.gov/data/reports/presidential/)
- **Finance data:** Added filters for committee type to the [House and Senate reports page](https://beta.fec.gov/data/reports/house-senate/) and [PAC and party reports page](https://beta.fec.gov/data/reports/pac-party/)
- **Calendar:** Added filters [on the calendar](https://beta.fec.gov/calendar/) for Mid-Year and Year-End reporting deadlines
- **General:** Added links in the footer to the [FOIA page](https://beta.fec.gov/freedom-information-act/) and the [page of strategy, budget and performance reports](https://beta.fec.gov/about/reports-about-fec/strategy-budget-and-performance/)

## Changed
- **Finance data:** Changed the messages that display when no data is available for a particular candidate or committee in order to be more descriptive and explain why there may be no data
- **Finance data:** Removed the reaction boxes from under the charts on [beta.fec.gov/data](https://beta.fec.gov/data).
- **Finance data:** Changed the behavior of the election year filter when [browsing candidates](https://beta.fec.gov/data/candidates) so that it filters by the year the candidate filed to run for office, rather than the years in which the candidate’s committee has activity
- **Legal resources:** Changed advisory opinion documents without dates to show “Not dated” rather than “01/01/1900”
- **Legal resources:** The [advisory opinion search](https://beta.fec.gov/data/legal/search/advisory-opinions/) now shows a loading state when it’s loading data
- **Legal resources:** When searching across [legal resources](https://beta.fec.gov/data/legal/search), the results are now presented in the order that matches the order on the legal resources landing page
- **Home:** Changed the “Upcoming deadlines” card on the Help for candidates and committees section of the home page to link to the calendar, rather than show a deadline

## Fixed
- **Finance data:** When viewing data for previous cycles on a candidate page, the links to browse receipts and disbursements now retain the time period filter
- **Finance data:** When toggling time periods on the financial summary tab of a candidate page and then navigating to another tab, the time period now correctly populates the data on the other tables
- **Finance data:** When viewing a 4 or 6 year cycle on a candidate page, the coverage dates now accurately show the entire range
- **Finance data:** When viewing a 4 or 6 year cycle for a candidate running in a future election, the financial summary now displays data correctly
- **Finance data:** When viewing candidates running in odd-year special elections, itemized data now works correctly
- **Home:** Fixed a bug that prevented pinned items from showing up on the What’s happening feed
- **Home:** Fixed the links to YouTube videos for the *Help for candidates and committees* tabs


# April 28, 2017

## Added
- **General:** Added a site search that searches through candidates, committees, and other pages on the site
- **Legal resources:** Redesigned the display of [AO search results ](https://beta.fec.gov/data/legal/search/advisory-opinions/)to include more information to make it easier to find what you’re looking for
- **Legal resources:** Added the ability to [filter AOs](https://beta.fec.gov/data/legal/search/advisory-opinions/) by the name of other entities involved in an opinion, such as commenters and representatives
- **Legal resources:** Added links to the regulations and statutes that an AO cites on an AO page
- **Legal resources:** Added a table of entities involved in AOs to the AO pages, including commenters and representatives
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Added the ability for authorized representatives of committees to [look up their RAD analyst](https://beta.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/question-rad)

## Changed
- **Finance data:** When searching from [beta.fec.gov/data](https://beta.fec.gov/data) , users no longer need to select “candidates” or “committees”; all results are presented together 
- **Finance data:** The [cumulative raised and spent charts](https://beta.fec.gov/data) now default to the 2017-2018 time period
- **Finance data:** Unverified filers no longer show up in the data
- **Finance data:** When [searching elections](https://beta.fec.gov/data/elections), districts with upcoming special elections now show the date of the next special election
- **Finance data:** Removed the links from “Total receipts” and “Total disbursements” in candidate and committee financial summaries
- **Finance data:** Removed the “Disbursements received from other committees” table on committee profiles and moved “Disbursements to committees” to the main “Disbursements” tab
- **Finance data:** The details panel when [browsing receipts](https://beta.fec.gov/data/receipts/) and disbursements now shows the form and line number that a receipt was reported on
- **Finance data:** Added “2017-2018” as an option for the [filings](https://beta.fec.gov/data/filings/) and [candidates](https://beta.fec.gov/data/candidates/) “Year” filters
- **Finance data:** When downloading [receipts](https://beta.fec.gov/data/receipts/), the contributor year-to-date aggregate now comes after the amount of the single transaction
- **Legal resources:** Added a more prominent link to the administrative fine calculator on the [administrative fines page](https://beta.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/administrative-fines/)
- **General:** Added a link to the Inspector General page in the footer

## Fixed
- **Finance data:** Election pages for districts with special elections happening now show all candidates in the special election
- **Finance data:** The profile pages for candidates running for odd-year special elections now work
- **Finance data:** The district maps on election pages no longer overlap with the tabs
- **Finance data:** Candidate profiles now show the statements of candidacy filed for the selected election year
- **Finance data:** Fixed an issue where certain RFAIs were not properly labeled
- **Finance data:** Fixed an issue where “Total transfers” in a committee financial summary were not properly labeled
- **Legal resources:** When searching AOs, hitting “enter” in a filter field now applies the filter
- **Accessibility:** Fixed several broken ARIA labels for accessibility improvements
- **Home page:** Tips for Treasurers in the “What’s happening” section of the home page are now labeled properly
- **General:** Fixed a bug where the feedback widget would not work
- **General:** Fixed an issue where the site menu would not open in Safari


# April 14, 2017

## Added
- A new site tour that introduces users to [beta.fec.gov](https://beta.fec.gov/)
- **Legal resources**: Added links to the existing AO search and Enforcement Query System to *[Advisory Opinions](https://beta.fec.gov/data/legal/advisory-opinions)* and Enforcement search results pages
- **Legal resources**: Added pending Advisory Opinions to *[Advisory Opinions](https://beta.fec.gov/data/legal/advisory-opinions)*

## Changed
- **About**: Removed the “coming soon” button from the “Working with the FEC” section on *[About](https://beta.fec.gov/about)*

## Fixed
- Fixed an issue where the site menu wouldn’t work correctly on some mobile browsers

# April 7, 2017

## Added
- **Help for candidates and committees:** Replaced *Registration and reporting* with a new section that combines content about registration and reporting with guidance around compliance: [*Help for candidates and committees*](https://beta.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/)
	- Added a section on the home page for this
- **New navigation:** A whole new site navigation menu with a simplified set of links for *Campaign finance data* and new sections for *Legal resources* and *Help for candidates* and committees
- **Legal resources:** Added the ability to [search AOs](https://beta.fec.gov/data/legal/search/advisory-opinions/) by citations
- **Legal resources:** New pages for [*Enforcement matters*](https://beta.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/), [*Alternative Dispute Resolution*](https://beta.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/alternative-dispute-resolution/) and [*Administrative fines*](https://beta.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/administrative-fines/)
- **Campaign finance data:** Redesigned candidate pages to give complete financial summary information and more detailed data about raising and spending
- **Campaign finance data:** Redesigned the [*Advanced data*](https://beta.fec.gov/data/advanced) page and added links to legacy data pages=
- **Campaign finance data:** Added the ability to view financial totals for previous years on the [cumulative raising](https://beta.fec.gov/data#raising) and spending charts 
- **Campaign finance data:** Added filters for beginning image number on [*Filings*](https://beta.fec.gov/data/filings) and image number on [*Receipts*](https://beta.fec.gov/data/receipts) and [*Disbursements*](https://beta.fec.gov/data/disbursements)
- **About the FEC:** Added a new section for [*Reports about the FEC*](https://beta.fec.gov/about/reports-about-fec/)
- **General:** Added more links to the site footer

## Changed
- **Legal resources:** Changed the SERS description on [*Regulations*](https://beta.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations)
- **Legal resources:** When searching [*Legal resources*](https://beta.fec.gov/legal-resources/) MURs now display in reverse chronological order, and regulations and statutes by title, chapter and subchapter
- **Campaign finance data**: Added missing fields to committee financial summaries, including beginning cash on hand, ending cash on hand and debts/loans owed to committee
- **Campaign finance data**: Added links from financial summaries to itemized transactions for certain subtotals
- **Campaign finance data**: Added itemized individual contributions and disbursements to committee pages

## Fixed
- Fixed an issue where “offsets to operating expenditures” on committee pages showed the wrong data
- Fixed an issue where certain candidates didn’t show up in search ([Issue #2210](https://github.com/18F/openFEC/issues/2210))
- Fixed a bug where links to committee pages would be broken ([Issue #1852](https://github.com/18F/openFEC-web-app/issues/1852))


# March 23, 2017
## Added
- Legal resources: Added several new pages to the Legal resources section, including
	- **[Regulations](https://beta.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations)**, which links to various versions of 11 CFR, the existing SERS system, and public hearings
	- **[E&Js](https://beta.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/explanations-and-justifications/)**, with information about explanations and justifications for regulations
	- Court cases
	- **[Legislation](https://beta.fec.gov/legal-resources/legislation)**, with information about the history of campaign finance legislation

## Changed
- Updated the contact information on [Contact](https://beta.fec.gov/contact-us) to include more toll-free numbers and a general info@fec.gov email address	


# March 10, 2017

## Added
- **Finance data:** Added amendment status and version information to reports pages ([for example](https://beta.fec.gov/data/reports/presidential/?data_type=processed))
- **Finance data:** Added the ability to filter reports by their version and document status 

## Changed
-  **Legal resources:** [Advisory Opinions](https://beta.fec.gov/data/legal/search/advisory-opinions/) are now ordered in reverse-chronological order 
- **Home page:** Redesigned the “What’s happening” section of the [home page](https://beta.fec.gov/) for greater legibility 
- **General:** Improved typography spacing and styles throughout the site

## Fixed
-  **Legal resources:** Fixed a bug where paging through Advisory Opinions would lose the search query
-  **Legal resources:** Changed Advisory Opinions so that the count accurately reflects the number of AOs in a search
- **Finance data:** Fixed a bug on the [election lookup page](https://beta.fec.gov/data/elections) where presidential election dates were incorrect

# February 16, 2017

## Added
- **Campaign finance data**: New page for [itemized loans](https://beta.fec.gov/data/loans/)
- **Campaign finance data**: New page for itemized [party coordinated expenditures](https://beta.fec.gov/data/party-coordinated-expenditures/)
- **Campaign finance data**: Added the ability to [download reports](https://beta.fec.gov/data/filings/) as valid CSV files
- **Campaign finance data**: Added report ID number (FEC-####) to the “Version” column when browsing tables of filings
- **Latest updates**: Added “FEC Record” and “Tips for Treasurers” to the [latest updates](https://beta.fec.gov/updates) feed
- **API**: Added the ability to sort the `/filings/` endpoint by multiple parameters

## Changed
- **Campaign finance data**: Redesigned the committee page based on user feedback:
	- The page has a new layout that makes more efficient use of space
	- The financial summary is now easier to read and clearly displays nested totals and subtotals 
	- The filings table now groups filings by type and presents them in reverse-chronological order 
- **Campaign finance data**: Now committee pages default to the most recent cycle for which there is a report filed 
- **Campaign finance data**: Increased the color contrast on the [total raising and spending charts](https://beta.fec.gov/data) to improve legibility

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data**: Fixed a bug where candidates would occasionally not show up when [browsing candidates](https://beta.fec.gov/data/candidates)
- **General**: Fixed a bug where the navigation menu on the side of a page wouldn’t work in certain browsers

# February 2, 2017

## Added
- **Campaign finance data**: Improved the display when browsing [filings](https://beta.fec.gov/data/filings/) to show when a document is the latest version of a filing or when it’s out of date (because it has been amended). The table now also specifies when a filing is an original or amendment.
- **Legal resources**: Added citations to [Advisory Opinion](https://beta.fec.gov/data/legal/advisory-opinions/) pages that show which previous AOs an AO cites and which later AOs cite this AO.

## Changed
- **Campaign finance data**: Links in the main navigation to Presidential reports, House and Senate reports, and PAC and Party reports no longer automatically filter to only unamended reports

## Fixed
- **Campaign finance data**: Requests for Additional Information (RFAIs) on the [filings](https://beta.fec.gov/data/filings/) page no longer give an option to download a .fec file, as they do not exist in that file format.
- **Campaign finance data**: Fixed a bug on certain data table pages that prevented the filter panel from opening and closing.
- **Campaign finance data**: Fixed a bug on data table pages where entering a filter term with double-quotations would cause the filter to not work as expected.
- **Registration and reporting**: Fixed a bug that was causing thumbnails of committee guides to not show up correctly on certain pages.
- **Home page**: Fixed a bug where the “More about the FEC” link wouldn’t work correctly

# January 19, 2017
## Added
- **Finance data**: Added the ability to view raw data from efilings for:
	- [Itemized receipts](https://beta.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=efiling) 
	- [Itemized disbursements](https://beta.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=efiling)
	- [Itemized independent expenditures](https://beta.fec.gov/data/independent-expenditures/?data_type=efiling)
- **Legal resources**: Additional advanced filters for [advisory opinions](https://beta.fec.gov/data/legal/search/advisory-opinions/)) so that users can now refine their search within certain document types, view pending AOs, and search by requestor name and requestor type
- **API**: Added endpoint for raw itemized receipts from efilings: `/schedules/schedule_a/efile/`
- **API**: Added endpoint for raw itemized disbursements from efilings: `/schedules/schedule_b/efile/`
- **API**: Added endpoint for raw independent expenditures from efilings: `/schedules/schedule_e/efile/`

## Changed
- **API**: Made under-the-hood improvements to provide users with more accurate data
- **Home**: Shortened the text on the home page hero section and added a link to “About the FEC”

## Fixed
- **Finance data**: Fixed a bug where filters appeared to be loading when first visiting a page

# January 4, 2017
## Added
- **Legal resources**: Added a new page outlining the process of filing a complaint with the FEC and how the FEC handles these complaints: [beta.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/complaints-process](https://beta.fec.gov/legal-resources/enforcement/complaints-process)
- **Home page**: Added a section for “Citizen information” 
- **About the FEC**: Added a landing page for “[About the FEC](https://beta.fec.gov/about)”. Additional sections will be added in future releases.
- **API**: Added a new endpoint for raw schedule E data from efilings at: `/schedules/schedule_e/efile/`

## Changed
- **Finance data**: Improved the UX for toggling between raw and processed filings at [beta.fec.gov/data/filings](https://beta.fec.gov/data/filings):
	- Relabeled the “efiling data” to “raw data”
	- Separated the “Data type” toggle from the rest of the filters for greater clarity
	- Changing the data type now shows a message explaining the different type of data and hides all filters that are not available for the selected data type
- **Finance data**: Changed the style of sidebar links on the [Advanced Data page](https://beta.fec.gov/data/advanced) and added links to reporting requirements for different types of committees

## Fixed
- **Finance data**: Fixed an issue so that when a candidate has no financial data associated with them, their name is included in the message that’s displayed (thanks to open source contributor [@busterroni](https://github.com/busterroni) for the fix)
- **Home page**: “learn more” links now scroll the page down, rather than jumping to the section
- **Legal resources**: Fixed an issue where the candidate and committee suggestions were incorrectly showing up when searching through legal researches

# December 22, 2016
## Added
- **General**: Added a new home page organizing FEC information into three primary sections, campaign finance data, registration and reporting and legal resources.
- **Legal resources**: Added a new page explaining the [Advisory Opinion process](https://beta.fec.gov/legal/advisory-opinions/process)
- **Legal resources**: Added new filtering functionality to allow users to refine their [Advisory Opinions searches](https://beta.fec.gov/data/legal/search/advisory-opinions/) by number, name and date
- **Legal resources**: Added a list of recent Advisory Opinions to [beta.fec.gov/data/legal/advisory-opinions](https://beta.fec.gov/data/legal/advisory-opinions/)
- **API**: Added a new field to the /filings/ and /reports/ endpoints called `amendment_chain` which lists all filings in an amendment chain

## Fixed
- **Calendar**: Fixed a bug where modifying filters on the [calendar](https://beta.fec.gov/calendar/) didn’t change the URL
- **Campaign finance data**: Fixed a bug that caused incorrect numbers on the [cumulative raising and spending charts](https://beta.fec.gov/data/)

# December 7, 2016
## Campaign finance data
- Improved the underlying data quality for [beta.fec.gov/data/filings](https://beta.fec.gov/data/filings)

## Legal resources
- Added a search for [Enforcement Matters](https://beta.fec.gov/data/legal/enforcement/) that includes all Matters Under Review from 1999 and later
- Improved the flexibility of legal resource searches so that variations of searched keywords show up in results (for example, “embezzling” returns matches of “embezzle” and “embezzles”)
- Fixed an issue where the “Legal resources” item in the main navigation menu wasn’t highlighted when on these pages

## General improvements
- Made minor changes to links in header and footer menus for consistency in navigation across different aspects of the site
- Made under-the-hood improvements to the FEC content management system

# November 9, 2016

## Campaign finance data
- Updated the total raising and spending charts on [beta.fec.gov/data](https://beta.fec.gov/data) to use live data, giving users an up-to-date picture of the total amount raised and spent in federal elections
- Updated results on [beta.fec.gov/data/filings](https://beta.fec.gov/data/filings) and reports pages to show if a report was filed electronically or on paper

## Legal resources
- Updated the Legal Resources search so that document types with results are displayed above document types without results
- Improved search effectiveness (search stemming)
- Added missing “previous section” pager icon to eRegulations
Made assorted styling changes to improve readability of document templates

## Press section
- Added a new section for the FEC Press Office — [beta.fec.gov/press](https://beta.fec.gov/press) — that includes a section of resources for journalists
- Added a new Latest Updates section that includes press releases and Weekly Digests from the FEC Press Office: [beta.fec.gov/updates](https://beta.fec.gov/updates)

## API
- Added a new `means_filed` property on `/filings/` and `/reports/` responses to identify if a filing was submitted electronically or by paper
- Added a new endpoint for large cumulative finance totals by entity type at `/v1/totals/entity-receipts/` and `/v1/totals/entity-disbursements/`
- Fixed a bug that would prevent users from being able to paginate through large data sets on itemized endpoints, like the schedule A and schedule B endpoints

# October 26, 2016

## Campaign finance data
- Created new data visualizations:
	- [beta.fec.gov/data/raising](https://beta.fec.gov/data/raising) charts top raising candidates, PACs and party committees
	- [beta.fec.gov/data/spending](https://beta.fec.gov/data/spending) charts top spending candidates, PACs and party committees
- Added .fec file download capability to financial reports on:
	- [beta.fec.gov/data/filings](https://beta.fec.gov/data/filings)
	- [beta.fec.gov/data/reports/presidential](https://beta.fec.gov/data/reports/presidential)
	- [beta.fec.gov/data/reports/house-senate](https://beta.fec.gov/data/reports/house-senate)
	- [beta.fec.gov/data/reports/pac-party](https://beta.fec.gov/data/reports/pac-party)
- Added coverage period information to the financial totals listed on individual candidate pages
- Fixed a bug that caused the the tooltip on the data table export button to show up in the wrong location
- Fixed a bug that stopped the independent expenditure page from loading when the 24- and 48-hour report filter was applied
- Made under-the-hood improvements to ensure better site stability

## API
- Added URLs for .fec files for reports available at `/filings/` and all `/reports/` endpoints

## Legal resources
- Fixed searching of AOs to only search final opinion and closeout letter documents


# October 12, 2016
## Campaign finance data
- Improved the itemized independent expenditure page:
    - Made independent expenditure data more timely by improving its data source
    - Added independent expenditures from Form 5
    - Added independent expenditures from 24- and 48-hour reports
- On committee pages, added the ability to export results from receipt and disbursement tables
- On candidate, committee and election pages, added the ability to view different number of results per page on aggregate tables

## Legal resources
- We’re not shipping anything new this week but we’re hard at work on new features that are coming soon

## Styles
- Redesigned and refactored our heading template to provide a more visually consistent experience across pages


# September 28, 2016
## Campaign finance data
- Made the following items exportable:
  - Reports data pages (for example, https://beta.fec.gov/data/reports/presidential)
  - eFilings (on reports and filings pages)
- Added committee names to exported files of itemized receipts, disbursements and independent expenditures
- Enhanced summary charts on https://beta.fec.gov/data, adding data through August 31, 2016
- Improved the ending date filters so that clicking on a month now selects the last day of that month
- Fixed a bug where on small screens the filters created an extra gutter on the side of the screen

## Legal resources
- We’re not shipping anything new this week but we’re hard at work preparing more content

## Additional content
- We’re not shipping anything new this week but we’re hard at work preparing more content

## General improvements
- Fixed an issue where closing the site glossary forced the user to the top of the page
- Added a slight delay to the opening of the navigation menu, to prevent users from opening it inadvertently

## API
- Added itemized [debts](https://api.open.fec.gov/developers/#!/debts) (schedule D) at `/schedules/schedule_d/`

# September 14, 2016 release notes
## Campaign finance data
- Improved date filters to make choosing month ranges easier when filtering data
- Fixed print styles so pages are still readable when printed or saved to PDF
- Renamed “Other spending” tab on candidate and elections pages to “Spending by others to support/oppose” to increase clarity

## Legal resources
- We’re not releasing anything this week, but we’re hard at work on new features that are coming soon

## API
- Added itemized [party coordinated expenditures](https://api.open.fec.gov/developers/#!/party-coordinated_expenditures) (schedule F) at `/schedules/schedule_f/`
- Added [itemized loans](https://api.open.fec.gov/developers/#!/loans) (schedule C) at `/schedules/schedule_c/`

# August 31, 2016 release notes
## Campaign finance data
- Added new pages for browsing report summaries:
  - Presidential reports: beta.fec.gov/data/reports/presidential
  - House and Senate reports: beta.fec.gov/data/reports/house-senate
  - PAC and party committee reports: beta.fec.gov/data/reports/pac-party
- Added filters to report summary pages for filtering by total financial figures
- Added raw eFiling data to report summary pages
- Improved readability on filings page by removing columns used only for financial reports (now visible on the reports pages)
- Added new text filters to allow filtering by multiple values for the same field, such as contributor city and employer
- Added new styles for financial range filters to improve readability and usability
- Fixed a bug where unitemized contributions were being included in the totals shown for contributions from a state
- Made behind-the-scenes improvements to ensure better quality and more consistent data on the [electioneering communications data page](https://beta.fec.gov/data/electioneering-communications)
- Made several minor improvements to clean up the display of information:
	- Added “payee” to the [independent expenditures data page](https://beta.fec.gov/data/independent-expenditures)
	- Re-arranged columns on the [receipts](https://beta.fec.gov/data/receipts) and [individual contributions](https://beta.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions) pages so that contributor name is the first column
	- Removed old form types from the form type filter on the [filings data page](https://beta.fec.gov/data/filings)
	- Fixed the order of authorized committees on the candidate page header so the most recent is on top
	- Added years for future elections to election cycle filters
	- Removed the district field from Senate and presidential candidate page headers
	- Added a column to [receipts data table](https://beta.fec.gov/data/receipts) for the election type (e.g. primary vs. general)

## Legal resources
- Added the statutes administered by the FEC to universal search
- Added PDFs to full text of statutes administered by the FEC
- Improved the display of regulation search results on mobile

## Registration and reporting
- We’re not releasing anything this week, but we’re hard at work on new features that are coming soon

## API
- Added real-time [eFiling data](https://api.open.fec.gov/developers/#!/efiling) for report summaries
- Added the ability to filter report summaries by different fields


# August 17, 2016 release notes

## Campaign finance data
- Added the ability to view efiling data in real time on [beta.fec.gov/filings](https://beta.fec.gov/filings)
- Added a new visualization to [beta.fec.gov/data](https://beta.fec.gov/data) to show the cumulative amount of money raised in the election over time, improving the earlier chart by implementing a standard unit of time and improved interactivity
- Redesigned the data table filter layout to increase usability on small and large screens
- Refined loading and success states for type-ahead and dropdown filters:
  - Checkboxes from dropdowns and type-ahead filters can now be completely removed after unchecking them
  - Checkboxes from type-ahead filters now show the loading state in the correct place
- Made behind-the-scenes improvements to ensure better quality and more consistent itemized data

## Legal resources
- Added advisory opinions to universal search
- Added advisory opinion canonical pages
- Links to advisory opinion searches, canonical pages and individual documents are now permanent so can be shared directly to others.

## API
- Added real-time efiling data for filings at `/efile/filings`

# August 3, 2016 release notes

## Campaign finance data
- Enhanced the data filter interaction design in various ways:
	- Individual filters indicate when data is loading so that users better understand what the system is doing
	- Once data has been loaded, filters display a message with the number of results added or removed as a result of that filter
	- Filter accordion headers now show the number of applied filters for greater legibility
- Fixed a bug where closing the filter panel didn’t expand the data table to use the full space
- Improved mobile styles on beta.fec.gov/data
- Improved the way the filter panel on data pages works on mobile devices
- Added a link to the source filings for committee financial summaries
- Fixed a bug where candidates were loading out of order on election pages

## Registration and reporting
- Improved the design of registration essentials checklists to better communicate the hierarchical relationship of items

## Legal resources
- We’re not releasing anything this week, but we’re hard at work on new features that are coming soon

## Calendar
- Added tooltips to calendar categories to better communicate what each category represents

***

# July 27, 2016 release notes

## Campaign finance data
- Improved the data source for itemized receipt and disbursement data so that records will be updated more quickly and data will be more accurate
- Fixed a bug where tooltips on bar charts were off center
- Added the ability to filter presidential candidates by those who have received presidential public funds
- Replaced all instances where donation buckets were labeled “Under $200” with “$200 and under”
- Updated typeahead suggestions in search bars to highlight the text that matches the search term
- Rearranged the order of columns in the .csv files when downloading data to make them more readable
- Minor changes to improve accessibility of the filters
- Minor language changes to increase consistency throughout

## Registration and reporting
- Added glossary definitions for "overnight delivery service" and "postmarked"
- Refined and unified content for electronic filers and paper filers

***

# July 7, 2016 release notes

## Campaign finance data
- Increased the speed and accuracy of financial totals with under-the-hood data improvements
- Added top raising and spending candidates, PACs and party committees to beta.fec.gov/data
- Improved the design of data tables:
  - Arranged and sized columns to get a better view of the data
  - No longer truncate long text in cells
  - Right-aligned currency for easier comparison
  - Updated the visual design to make tables easier to read
- On committee pages, adjusted the the filings table to only shows the "independent expenditures" column if it's for a committee that can make independent expenditures
- On tables with mini-bars in the cells, made the scale of the bars constent across pages, rather than resetting to the max of that page
- Improved the design of the financial summary accordions on committee pages
- Added introductory text explaining what's available in each data set on beta.fec.gov/data/advanced
- Fixed a bug that casued the mobile menu to be missing items at times

## Legal resources
- Added a new, searchable section with the 2016 edition of Title 11 of the Code of Federal Regulations

## Registration and reporting
- Added registration and reporting essentials for nonconnected committees
- Linked beta.fec.gov/registration-and-reporting to calendar filing deadlines for each type of registrant

## Calendar
- Added links to the fec.gov report notices for filing deadlines

## Glossary
- Added definitions for Hybrid PACs, Leadership PACs, Lobbyist/Registrant PACs and Super PACs

## API
- Added a new endpoint to find the Reports Analysis Division analyst for a particular committee ID
- Added a new endpoint to view financial totals for all PACs: `/totals/pac`
- Added a new endpoint to view financial totals for all party committees: `/totals/party/`
- Upgraded data source for candidate and committee totals

***

# June 28, 2016 Release Notes

## Campaign finance data
- You can now download itemized receipts and disbursements
- We've added additional campaign finance summary information and transaction-level data. You'll now find receipt data prior to 2011 including contributions over $500 from 1979 to 1988, contributions over $200 from 1989 to 2005 and all receipts since 2005. You'll find spending data prior to 2011 including non-operating expenses since the late 1970s and all disbursements since 2005.
- beta.fec.gov/data now includes charts showing the total amount spent and raised by different groups in the 2016 election
- Users can register feedback for each chart on beta.fec.gov/data with a new reaction widget
- Renamed the "Committee name or ID" filter on beta.fec.gov/data/communication-costs to "Spender name or ID" for greater clarity and accuracy

## General
- Updated the home page to include current information about the latest features and what's coming soon
- We will now link release notes from the home page for each release
- Various under-the-hood changes are in effect to improve the ease of deployment