Search Platform/Weekly Updates/2026-01-23

Highlights

Shipped: did we release anything this week?

• T414859 Searching by category (deepcat) is broken (Open)

Blockers: does this essential workstream have any unresolved blockers or dependencies? is anything preventing us from doing our work?

N/A

Lessons learned: Did we learn anything in the course of doing this work that can be applied to other work?

• We had a plan B for making OpenSearch 3 accessible on relforge for the Semantic Search experiment. Turns out, plan B takes as long as doing it right (k8s, plan A). So we are back to plan A now.

Community collab: Did we do anything in this essential workstream this week in collaboration with the community or because the community asked us to?

• Removed auto-capitalization for search input field, effects mostly mobile device keyboards: T413344 Search keywords (e.g. insource, intitle) should be case insensitive (Resolved)

What else was accomplished in this essential workstream this week?

• T411169 Improve & better document cirrus debug & explainability APIs (Open)
• T412673 Glent generate_query_similarity_candidates fails with NPE (Open)