March 2026 performance summary for govuk-one-login/authentication-acceptance-tests. Focused on stabilizing the authentication acceptance test suite and aligning test coverage with current product requirements. No new features were delivered; the month concentrated on cleaning up test changes that could cause flakiness and false negatives, and on restoring a reliable baseline for MFA lockout and international phone number scenarios. Key deliverables include reverting test changes and removing related classes to ensure consistent test results across CI.

2026-01 Monthly Summary for govuk-one-login/authentication-frontend. Focused on restoring user-friendly form submission UX by reverting an anti-double-submit restriction to re-enable multiple submissions. This aligns with business goals to reduce user friction and improve completion rates in authentication flows. No major bugs fixed in this period within the provided scope. Changes implemented via a targeted revert (commit de875549a36f309976e873077658576db74ad4c3) and validated through existing CI checks and peer review. Expected impact includes smoother user interactions in form-heavy auth scenarios with minimal risk, given established safeguards. Technologies involved include frontend JS/DOM manipulation, release/revert workflows, code review, and CI validation.

Month: 2025-12 — December 2025: Stabilized the authentication-api test stack and preserved CI reliability. Implemented a rollback of JUnit from 6.0.1 back to 5.13.4 to restore a stable testing framework, mitigating flaky tests and production risk. No new features shipped this month; the focus was maintenance, reliability, and risk reduction. Commit used: 7aed2fd50fe631a5ed13206b9fb91028c95ebe16.

November 2025: Stabilized authentication workflows by reverting experimental changes that affected reauthentication and session handling. No new features shipped; focused on risk reduction, consistency, and alignment with security expectations across acceptance tests and frontend orchestration.

Month: 2025-10. This month focused on stabilizing the authentication acceptance tests by reverting a forced dependency update to Apache Commons (3.18.0). The rollback prevents update-induced issues, reduces test flakiness, and preserves downstream compatibility across the govuk-one-login/authentication-acceptance-tests project. No new features were delivered this month in this repository; the primary work was a critical bug fix with a clean revert and validation through CI.

September 2025: Reinstated reliable inline lockout handling in the LoginHandler of govuk-one-login/authentication-api. Restored lockout logic within the LoginHandler to correct authentication/block behavior, updated tests and dependencies, and removed reliance on PermissionDecisionManager and UserActionsManager for relevant checks. Aligned changes with CodeStorageService to ensure consistency across authentication modules and maintain security posture.

Month 2025-05: Stabilized deployment and observability for the authentication API by rolling back the OpenTelemetry integration to a known-good state. Reverted instrumentation changes, removing OpenTelemetry dependencies from Gradle and related environment variables from the CloudFormation template to restore predictable deployments and reduce observability-related incidents. This work concentrates on reliability, maintainability, and risk reduction while ensuring readiness for future instrumentation improvements.

April 2025: Focused maintenance and stability improvements in govuk-one-login/authentication-frontend. Delivered a dependency compatibility fix for jsdom to ensure consistent behavior across environments and reduce flaky tests.

March 2025 monthly summary focusing on stabilizing authentication test suites and preserving release readiness. The month emphasized dependency stability across acceptance and smoke tests by reverting high-risk updates to core libraries, ensuring reliable CI runs and predictable deployments for auth features.

Month 2025-01 focused on stabilizing automated tests and correcting critical user flows in MFA across two repos. Key outcomes include stabilizing acceptance tests by rolling back dependency updates that caused flakiness, and correcting the MFA reset flow by reverting IPV-related changes for a direct IPV_CALLBACK transition. These changes reduced CI noise, shortened feedback cycles, and improved customer-facing reliability.

Month: 2024-11 — Focused on cleaning up temporary internalPairwiseId logging in AccountInterventions workflows to align with data governance and reduce log noise in non-production environments. Reverted experimental logging and removed obsolete methods to improve security posture and maintainability within the authentication API. Changes are scoped to govuk-one-login/authentication-api and tracked via a targeted commit reference.