In April 2026, delivered two substantive changes in ministryofjustice/hmpps-person-record: a refactor of the deletion workflow and removal of stale references in cluster management. The DeletionService was restructured and renamed to PersonDeletionService to improve clarity and performance, while references to the MERGED status were eliminated to strengthen data integrity across cluster operations. Both efforts included updated tests and end-to-end considerations, contributing to cleaner code, easier future enhancements, and more reliable behavior in production.

March 2026 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/hmpps-person-record focused on delivering core prison religion data capabilities, expanding canonical data retrieval, and strengthening data integrity and system reliability. Key outcomes include API endpoints for prison religion (POST and GET) with domain/controller restructuring and tests, a Canonical Record Get Endpoint with spike and tests, history documentation for prison religion responses, auditing improvements across entities, and migrations groundwork. Convenience and performance improvements were achieved by aligning controllers to source-system specificity, removing unnecessary dependencies, and fixing reliability issues across the CI/CD and test suites.

February 2026: Delivered API-driven prisoner data ingestion and exclusion, enhanced address and reference data modeling, Syscon religion integration with robust APIs and docs, improved cluster configuration and test stability, and resilience improvements for 404 handling in the PersonMatchClient. These changes enabled more accurate data matching, richer data representation, and safer Syscon interactions, delivering measurable business value through higher data quality, automation, and system reliability.

January 2026 delivered API enrichments, data governance refinements, and platform observability improvements across two repositories, driving richer client data, stronger security controls, and lower maintenance overhead. Delivered: enriched person data in API responses; nationalities data consolidation with upsert and legacy cleanup; enhanced observability via Hibernate logging; password rotation tracking and credential management simplifications; and supporting tests and migrations to reduce technical debt.