May 2026 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/hmpps-integration-api: Delivered security, reliability, and maintainability improvements across authorization, request context, and testing workflows. These changes reduce security risk, enhance performance of token validation, improve per-request governance for OBO flows, and lower alert noise through configurable expiry handling, while boosting test coverage and engineering hygiene for servlet filters.

Month: 2026-04 — Delivered an Architectural Decision Record (ADR) for On-behalf-of (OBO) Authorization in the HMPPS External API (ministryofjustice/hmpps-integration-api). The ADR documents an optional OBO implementation and the propagation of end-user identity to upstream APIs, establishing a secure, auditable authorization model and a clear path for downstream integration work. The change underpins business value by enabling controlled external access and improved traceability across API calls. Technical work included governance through ADR creation and accompanying formatting cleanups captured in the commit.

March 2026 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/hmpps-integration-api. Focused on documentation governance and API clarity with a single feature delivered this month. No reported major bugs fixed. Key feature delivered: - HMPPS External API Documentation Refresh and Field Renaming Policy Update: refreshed last reviewed date in the External API docs, added a policy for field renaming to improve consistency during API changes, and enhanced API diagram exports to SVG for clearer visuals. Overall impact: - Improved documentation accuracy and governance, enabling safer onboarding of downstream integrators and faster adoption of API changes. - Clear field renaming policy reduces breaking changes and supports smoother migrations for consumer teams. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - API documentation tooling and governance, PlantUML diagram exports to SVG, version-controlled documentation and changelog discipline, cross-functional collaboration for documentation improvements. Repository: ministryofjustice/hmpps-integration-api

February 2026 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/hmpps-integration-api focusing on performance, security, and architectural improvements. Delivered key features, addressed security/compliance, and advanced the codebase with modernized DB access patterns.

January 2026 focused on hardening the hmpps-integration-api, delivering scalable permission and path handling improvements, and stabilizing tests and deployment reliability. Key features delivered include Path Template Normalization and Endpoint Permissions Canonicalization (with a development environment feature flag, unit tests, and updates to contacts permissions) and Permissions Configuration Cleanup with health-check endpoints for smoke testing. Additional efforts delivered Team Communication Channel Naming to improve collaboration and an Architecture Decision Record documenting the merge of the Events Service into the Integration API to align architecture. These changes collectively reduce security risk, improve endpoint correctness, and enhance reliability and observability.

December 2025 monthly summary for ministryofjustice/hmpps-integration-api focusing on delivering business value through strengthened supervision status access controls, reliability improvements, and clarified documentation.

November 2025: Strengthened security, reliability, and observability across the HMPS integration stack while enhancing test resilience and deployment stability. Key features include a permissions refactor and role migration in hmpps-integration-api (HIA-1039) to unify access control and reduce production risk; a Feature Flags utility to detect identical values across configs (HIA-1040); and gateway metadata enhancements to improve gateway observability. Smoke-test improvements spanned env-var consolidation and non-encoded cert support (HIA-1059/HIA-1062) plus revoked certificate smoke tests, reducing flaky tests and false negatives. Production risk mitigations included temporarily removing permissions from the production PND consumer (HIA-1054), abort logic for Delius downtime in smoke tests (HIA-1105), and ID/prison handling simplifications (HIA-1107/HIA-1108). In subscription and messaging domains, the events and cloud-platform work delivered a reworked subscription update workflow with direct updates and scheduling (hmpps-integration-events) and MAPPS default filters with a policy rollback (cloud-platform-environments) to improve reliability and policy safety. Overall impact: faster, safer, and more observable deployments with clearer configuration state and stronger security posture.

Concise monthly summary for Oct 2025 for ministryofjustice/hmpps-integration-api focusing on key features delivered, major bugs fixed, impact, and skills demonstrated. Emphasizes business value and technical achievements.

September 2025 delivered measurable business value by aligning external API branding, modernizing test automation, and tightening access controls, while improving debugging for path variable errors in events. Across ministryofjustice/hmpps-integration-api and hmpps-integration-events, we standardized external-facing references, stabilized CI with comprehensive smoke tests, consolidated developer roles with a permissions checking tool, refreshed documentation, and enhanced diagnostic information for path variable resolution. These changes reduce confusion for external consumers, lower CI/test maintenance overhead, and improve security posture and debugging capabilities; demonstrated technologies include K6, CircleCI, ADR, OpenAPI, and unit testing.

August 2025: Delivered a performance-focused enhancement to the hmpps-integration-api by enabling authentication token caching in both preproduction and production environments. The change, controlled via a cache-auth-token configuration flag, enables token reuse, reducing token fetches and external calls, improving response times and reliability for downstream integrations.

June 2025 monthly summary focusing on security, reliability, and documentation improvements for ministryofjustice/hmpps-integration-api. Key features delivered include a production RBAC enhancement for PND access with police role and a persistent reference-data-only role across pre-production and production, plus updated configuration to enforce role-based access control. Certificate lifecycle and prerequisites documentation were expanded to clarify AWS CLI requirements and renewal procedures. On the reliability front, the certificate generation tooling was hardened with pre-flight checks and cleanup to prevent errors. The combined changes improve security posture, onboarding/renewal efficiency, and operational resilience.

Monthly summary for 2025-05: Delivered a new Reference Data Access Role in ministryofjustice/hmpps-integration-api, enabling strict access control to reference data endpoints while isolating other API areas. Implemented role-based access governance and added integration tests to verify permission boundaries, improving security and data governance.