The following work for the FEWS NET website was included in the release on June 24, 2025 for the relaunch of the website after a brief pause.
Functionality Fixes
-
Temporarily disabled MailChimp, and tied to our test audience to prevent emails from going out until the email list can be verified or a new list created ( FNW-2107 ).
-
Fixed error discovered during testing, that was caused by visiting a country page after viewing a translated report ( FNW-2115 ).
-
Removed X from the social icon list in the footer and hero ( FNW-2118 ).
System Updates
-
Updated infrastructure to restart the environment ( DATA-4416 ).
-
Patched Drupal and all modules for security updates ( FNW-2101 and FNW-2106 ).
Restart Tasks
The following tasks were required for the developers to restart the FEWS Net website:
-
Cleared a lock from Terraform that was happening when we tried to deploy to our pre-production development environment ( FNW-2093 ).
-
Developers set up their local development environments and tested everything was functional ( FNW-2097 ).
-
Restored our development, UAT, and staging pre-production environments ( FNW-2104 ).
-
Confirmed access to the Shapefiles for use in the site ( FNW-2109 ).
-
Tested site before it went live to the public for any issues or other outstanding tasks ( FNW-2098 ).
-
Load testing - did a load test of the production environment before it was published live to the public to ensure it could handle the potential increased user traffic upon restarting the site ( FNW-2112 ).