diff --git a/.openapi-generator-ignore b/.openapi-generator-ignore
index f6ba2ad..31bef38 100644
--- a/.openapi-generator-ignore
+++ b/.openapi-generator-ignore
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 #docs/*.md
 # Then explicitly reverse the ignore rule for a single file:
 #!docs/README.md
-gen/openapi_server/controllers/patchnotes_controller.py
 gen/openapi_server/__main__.py
 gen/openapi_server/encoder.py
+gen/openapi_server/controllers
+gen/openapi_server/test
+gen/openapi_server
diff --git a/announcement_service_spec.yaml b/announcement_service_spec.yaml
index 240c8ab..e1f1c03 100644
--- a/announcement_service_spec.yaml
+++ b/announcement_service_spec.yaml
@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ components:
         date:
           title: date
           type: string
+      required:
+        - "title"
+        - "changes"
+        - "date"
     user:
       example:
         lastSeenDate: 2025-01-02
diff --git a/gen/Dockerfile b/gen/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4857637
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gen/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+FROM python:3-alpine
+
+RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/app
+WORKDIR /usr/src/app
+
+COPY requirements.txt /usr/src/app/
+
+RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
+
+COPY . /usr/src/app
+
+EXPOSE 8080
+
+ENTRYPOINT ["python3"]
+
+CMD ["-m", "openapi_server"]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/gen/openapi_server/__main__.py b/gen/openapi_server/__main__.py
index c432aef..67e257f 100644
--- a/gen/openapi_server/__main__.py
+++ b/gen/openapi_server/__main__.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import connexion
 from openapi_server import encoder
 from pymongo import MongoClient
 
-client = MongoClient(host='mongodb://localhost:27017/')
+client = MongoClient(host='mongodb://host.docker.internal:27017/')
 db = client["MainDB"]
 collection = db['patch_notes']
 
diff --git a/gen/openapi_server/controllers/patchnotes_controller.py b/gen/openapi_server/controllers/patchnotes_controller.py
index 16fcc87..c619156 100644
--- a/gen/openapi_server/controllers/patchnotes_controller.py
+++ b/gen/openapi_server/controllers/patchnotes_controller.py
@@ -1,18 +1,10 @@
 import logging
-
-import connexion
-from typing import Dict
-from typing import Tuple
-from typing import Union
+import uuid
 
 from bson import json_util
 from flask import Response
-from pymongo import MongoClient
 
-from openapi_server.__main__ import collection
 from openapi_server.models.patch_notes import PatchNotes  # noqa: E501
-from openapi_server import util
-
 
 
 def patchnotes_date_get(date):  # noqa: E501
@@ -52,22 +44,34 @@ def patchnotes_patch_iddelete(patch_id):  # noqa: E501
     return 'do some magic!'
 
 
-def patchnotes_post(body=None): # TODO done for now
+def patchnotes_post(body): # TODO _date to date change
     """patchnotes_post
 
     creates new Patch notes # noqa: E501
 
-    :param patch_notes: 
+    :param body:
+    :param patch_notes:
     :type patch_notes: dict | bytes
 
     :rtype: Union[List[PatchNotes], Tuple[List[PatchNotes], int], Tuple[List[PatchNotes], int, Dict[str, str]]
     """
-    patch_notes = body
-    logging.error('patch notes' + str(patch_notes))
-    if patch_notes is None:
+    if body is None:
         return Response(json_util.dumps({'error': 'No patch notes provided'}), status=400)
-    # Insert the document into the MongoDB collection
-    posted_patch_id = collection.insert_one(patch_notes)
+    pn = PatchNotes.from_dict(body)
+    logging.error('patch_notes_type:' + str(type(pn)))
+    logging.error('patch notes' + str(pn))
 
-    return Response(json_util.dumps(f'patch with ID: {posted_patch_id} was created'), mimetype='application/json',
+    patch_notes_uuid = uuid.uuid4()
+
+    patch_notes = {
+        'patchID': str(patch_notes_uuid),
+        'title': pn.title,
+        'changes': pn.changes,
+        'date': pn._date,
+    }
+    logging.error('patch_notes_type:' + str(type(patch_notes)))
+    logging.error('patch notes' + str(patch_notes))
+    #posted_patch_id = collection.insert_one(patch_notes)
+
+    return Response(json_util.dumps(f'patch with ID: {patch_notes} was created'), mimetype='application/json',
                     status=200)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/gen/openapi_server/encoder.py b/gen/openapi_server/encoder.py
index f60982c..22fb66e 100644
--- a/gen/openapi_server/encoder.py
+++ b/gen/openapi_server/encoder.py
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ class JSONEncoder(ConnexionJSONEncoder):
                 attr = o.attribute_map[attr]
                 dikt[attr] = value
             return dikt
-        return ConnexionJSONEncoder.default(self, o)
\ No newline at end of file
+        return ConnexionJSONEncoder.default(self, o)
diff --git a/gen/openapi_server/models/patch_notes.py b/gen/openapi_server/models/patch_notes.py
index 540229a..275cc6f 100644
--- a/gen/openapi_server/models/patch_notes.py
+++ b/gen/openapi_server/models/patch_notes.py
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ class PatchNotes(Model):
         :param title: The title of this PatchNotes.
         :type title: str
         """
+        if title is None:
+            raise ValueError("Invalid value for `title`, must not be `None`")  # noqa: E501
 
         self._title = title
 
@@ -114,6 +116,8 @@ class PatchNotes(Model):
         :param changes: The changes of this PatchNotes.
         :type changes: str
         """
+        if changes is None:
+            raise ValueError("Invalid value for `changes`, must not be `None`")  # noqa: E501
 
         self._changes = changes
 
@@ -135,5 +139,7 @@ class PatchNotes(Model):
         :param _date: The _date of this PatchNotes.
         :type _date: str
         """
+        if _date is None:
+            raise ValueError("Invalid value for `_date`, must not be `None`")  # noqa: E501
 
         self.__date = _date
diff --git a/gen/openapi_server/openapi/openapi.yaml b/gen/openapi_server/openapi/openapi.yaml
index 94e6470..c074c75 100644
--- a/gen/openapi_server/openapi/openapi.yaml
+++ b/gen/openapi_server/openapi/openapi.yaml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ info:
   title: announcementService
   version: 1.0.0
 servers:
-- url: http://127.0.0.1:8080/api
+- url: /
 paths:
   /patchnotes:
     post:
@@ -102,6 +102,10 @@ components:
         date:
           title: date
           type: string
+      required:
+      - changes
+      - date
+      - title
       title: patch_notes
     user:
       example:
diff --git a/gen/openapi_server/test/__init__.py b/gen/openapi_server/test/__init__.py
index 5255d29..364aba9 100644
--- a/gen/openapi_server/test/__init__.py
+++ b/gen/openapi_server/test/__init__.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ class BaseTestCase(TestCase):
 
     def create_app(self):
         logging.getLogger('connexion.operation').setLevel('ERROR')
-        app = connexion.App(__name__ , specification_dir='../openapi/')
+        app = connexion.App(__name__, specification_dir='../openapi/')
         app.app.json_encoder = JSONEncoder
-        app.add_api('openapi.yaml', pythonic_params=True, base_path='/api')
+        app.add_api('openapi.yaml', pythonic_params=True)
         return app.app
diff --git a/gen/requirements.txt b/gen/requirements.txt
index 4ec6b08..2cb0689 100644
--- a/gen/requirements.txt
+++ b/gen/requirements.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
-connexion[swagger-ui, flask, uvicorn] >= 3.2.0
-werkzeug == 3.1.3
+connexion[swagger-ui] >= 2.6.0; python_version>="3.6"
+# 2.3 is the last version that supports python 3.4-3.5
+connexion[swagger-ui] <= 2.3.0; python_version=="3.5" or python_version=="3.4"
+# prevent breaking dependencies from advent of connexion>=3.0
+connexion[swagger-ui] <= 2.14.2; python_version>"3.4"
+# connexion requires werkzeug but connexion < 2.4.0 does not install werkzeug
+# we must peg werkzeug versions below to fix connexion
+# https://github.com/zalando/connexion/pull/1044
+werkzeug == 0.16.1; python_version=="3.5" or python_version=="3.4"
 swagger-ui-bundle >= 0.0.2
 python_dateutil >= 2.6.0
 setuptools >= 21.0.0
-Flask >= 3.1.0
-Flask-PyMongo >= 3.0.1
-pymongo >= 4.11.3
+Flask == 2.1.1