Release Notes

Release Version

Description

Training Deployment Date

Production Deployment Date

Release Notes
15.4.0 Online Forms and User Access Management Cleanup February 21-22, 2017 February 18-21, 2017 15.4 Applicant Release Notes
15.3.0 Workspace Forms Reuse October 17-19, 2016 October 15-17, 2016

15.3 Applicant Release Notes
15.2.0.1 Daily Subscription Email Notification Format July 8, 2016 July 8, 2016 15.2.0.1 Release Notes
15.2.0 Forecast June 20-22, 2016 June 18-20, 2016

15.2 Applicant Release Notes
15.1.0 CFDA Search, Expanded AOR, Enhanced Related Documents Feb 22-24, 2016 Feb 20-22, 2016

15.1 Applicant Release Notes
15.0.0 Workspace Oct 19-21, 2015 Oct 17-19, 2015

15.0 Applicant Release Notes
14.1.0 Minor Enhancements Mar 30-31, 2015 April 18-20, 2015

14.1 Applicant Release Notes
14.0.0 Modernization, Grantor Templates, Applicant ZIP Download, UTF-8 Configuration Dec 26-30, 2014 Feb 14-17, 2015

14.0 Applicant Release Notes

12.3.4

SAM Integration and Release 12.3 Feedback

April 3-5, 2014

May 10-12, 2014

12.3.4 Applicant Release Notes

 

Summary of Recent Changes with User Impacts


AFFECTED USERS CHANGE DESCRIPTION
Effective Date:  June 18, 2016
Grantor, Grantor S2S

CFDA Number required when creating/modifying Opportunities (CFDA continues to be optional for Packages)
Effective Date: April 4, 2016
Grantor, Applicant, Grantor S2S, Applicant S2S

Grants.gov URL Redirect Support

  • Grants.gov no longer provide URL redirects for outdated Grants.gov pages
  • The old Training (AT07) URLs are no longer rerouted to the new URLs.
  • For more information, please click here.
Effective Date: January 11, 2016
Grantor S2S, Applicant S2S

Port 446 Disablement

  • Port 446 will no longer be available in any environment
  • Port 443 will continue to only support:
    1. SHA-2 Certificates
    2. TLS v1.1 and TLS v1.2
  • For more information about obtaining S2S Certificates, please review the corresponding information:
Grantor S2S

Existing Self-Signed Certificates

  • Existing self-signed certificates will be disabled.
  • All self-signed certificates must be converted to CA issued client certificates for Training and Production.
  • For more information about Grantor S2S Certificates, please click here.
Effective Date: January 4, 2016
Grantors

Email Synopsis

  • Synopsis will no longer be created using Email Synopsis.
Grantor S2S, Applicant S2S

S2S Versions

  • S2S V0 and V1 end points are being discontinued.
  • S2S V2 will be the only end point supported.
Effective Date: January 1, 2016
Grantor S2S

Self-Signed Certificate Requests

  • No longer accepting self-signed certificate installation requests for Training or Production.
Effective Date: Release 14.0 - February 17, 2015
Applicants

Adobe Reader 8 Support
Grantors, Applicants, Grantor S2S,
Applicant S2S

Special Characters (UTF-8)

  • Grants.gov will receive, display, and send special characters for free-form text fields in the User Interface, S2S web services and submissions, and PDF submissions.  
  • Attachment file name validation will be unchanged - Grantors will continue to be able to specify use of allowed special characters in attachment file names using opportunity instructions.
  • For more information about the UTF-8 Character Impact, please review the following document:

    UTF-8 Characters Impact
Grantors, Applicants

Browser Support for SSL and TLS

  • Browsers used to access Grants.gov must support TLS v1.0, TLS v1.1, or TLS v1.2.  Please check browser options to verify settings.
  • Browsers only using SSL v2 and/or SSL v3 enabled are no longer supported.
Grantor S2S, Applicant S2S

Security Enhancements - SHA Certificates, SSL, and TLS

  • Port 443 will only support:
    1. SHA-2 Certificates
    2. TLS v1.1 and TLS v1.2
  • Port 446 will only support:
    1. SHA-1 Certificates
    2. SSL v2, SSL v3, and TLS v1.0
  • Users should obtain a new SHA-2 based digital signature certificate from a recognized Certificate Authority (CA), such as Comodo, DigiCert, Entrust, GoDaddy, Incommon, Symantec (formerly Verisign) or Thawte; and move to port 443 by 12/31/2015.
  • Please note that all intermediate certificates in the certificate chain must also be SHA-2 in order to work with port 443.
  • The same CA certificate may be used for both Training and Production.
Grantors, Applicants, Grantor S2S,
Applicant S2S

New Training Environment URLs

  • The new URL for the Training User Interface is http://training.grants.gov.
  • The new URLs for S2S replace "https://at07ws.grants.gov" with "https://trainingws.grants.gov".
  • Initially, the current Training (AT07) URLs are rerouted to the new URLs.
Grantor S2S,
Applicant S2S

New IP Addresses for Training and Production Environments

  • There are new IP addresses for the Training and Production environments with the new Grants.gov infrastructure.
    • The new Training environment IP addresses are as follows:
      Hostname IPv4 IPv6
      training.grants.gov 104.37.105.90 2605:9500:4:95::30
      trainingapply.grants.gov 104.37.105.91 2605:9500:4:95::31
      trainingws.grants.gov 104.37.105.92 2605:9500:4:95::32
    • The new Production environment IP addresses are as follows:
      Hostname IPv4 IPv6
      www.grants.gov 104.37.105.80 2605:9500:4:95::40
      apply.grants.gov 104.37.105.81 2605:9500:4:95::41
      ws07.grants.gov 104.37.105.82 2605:9500:4:95::42