2025-10 Monthly summary for NHSDigital/nhs-notify-sms-nudge focusing on business value and technical accomplishments. Delivered a configurable performance testing tool for supplier status events to AWS SQS, enabling controlled, repeatable load testing across environments with reliable integration to AWS SQS. The work enhances production readiness by validating throughput, latency, and error handling before releases.

Month: 2025-08 — NHSDigital/communications-manager-api. Key deliverables: Templating and Syntax Highlighting Library Upgrades (Jinja2 templating and PrismJS syntax highlighting) to newer versions to boost performance, security, and access to new features. Updated poetry.lock to reflect dependency changes to ensure reproducible builds. Included a minor internal tweak in the same release. Commits linked: b59980fa1f65d243bca79887a958d9fff6edf5d2 and 1b515f5eee9234500a557016395b3a2599bd5ebe.

May 2025 monthly summary for NHSDigital/communications-manager-api. Focus was on security and stability improvements through container image modernization. Delivered a Node.js Docker image upgrade with a version bump in the Dockerfile, driven by CCM-9960: Update node in docker (#946). This change enhances security posture, runtime stability, and maintainability while preserving API compatibility within existing deployment pipelines. No major bugs fixed this month; the work aligns with platform hardening and reliability goals.

March 2025 recap: Delivered NHS Number Anonymous Handling and Validation Enhancement for NHSDigital/communications-manager-api, enabling undefined NHS numbers when allowAnonymousPatient is true, updating validation checks, adding integration tests for batch and individual messages, and updating documentation. The feature ensures a 201 Created response under defined conditions. A traceability-only commit was added for audit purposes. No other major features or bugs were reported this month.

Summary for 2025-01: NHSDigital/communications-manager-api delivered two key enhancements centering on branding alignment and testing governance. Rebranded Postman test artifacts to NHS Notify, updated identifiers, and refreshed scripts and documentation. Strengthened smoke testing controls by clarifying production test patients and establishing a collaborative onboarding process for test plans. These changes improve external testing reliability, API discoverability, and brand consistency, while maintaining tight change control and documentation hygiene.