Fix search index cache issue by adding timestamp to index.json request #1831
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What does this PR change? What problem does it solve?
Adds timestamp query parameter to index.json fetch request in fastsearch.js to force fresh index retrieval.
When fastsearch.js is cached by the browser (common on CDN-hosted sites), it continues fetching index.json without cache-busting parameters. This causes search to return stale results even after deploying new content, because the browser serves both the cached JS file and the cached index.json it references, even if index.json (freshly queried in the browser by the user) contains updated content from the CDN.
The fix appends
?v=${Date.now()}to the index.json URL, ensuring each page load fetches current search data regardless of whether fastsearch.js itself is cached.Was the change discussed in an issue or in the Discussions before?
No prior issue filed. Discovered during production deployment where new posts were invisible in search results for non-incognito browsers while index.json contained correct data.
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