The Direct Certificate Discovery Tool (DCDT) Development Team, on behalf of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), and the Direct Project community at large, are pleased to announce the release of DCDT version 2.1.2.

The theme of the version 2.1 release was usability of the tool. Significant enhancements and improvements were made to:

• Automate DCDT deployment via Linux package manager

• Develop a suite of command line tools to automatically generate and load testing data

• Improve user guides

• Code upgrades and tech stack upgrades for performance and stability

The links to important artifacts are below:

• DCDT Version 2.1.2 Code: http://code.google.com/p/direct-certificate-discovery-tool/source/list?name=dcdt-2.1.2-RELEASE
• Release Notes
• User Guide

The release has been deployed on demonstration instance at demo.direct-test.com.

If you have any questions or issues with using DCDT, please log issues at our JIRA issue tracker.

As always, we invite the community to participate in our google groups forum.

For more information on the Direct project, please contact Direct Project Coordinator, John Hall at directproject@directproject.org.

Sincerely,

Matthew Rahn

DCDT Product Manager

Office of Science and Technology, ONC

Matthew.Rahn@hhs.gov