Kiwi TCMS 4.1.4

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 4.1.4! This is a bug-fix and enhancement update which upgrades to the latest Django version, resolves several issues and includes lots of internal code updates.

We've pushed new kiwitcms/kiwi docker image to Docker Hub and updated the demo instance at https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org!

Changes since Kiwi TCMS 4.1.3

Enhancements

• Upgrade to Django 2.0.4
• Enable pylint and fix around 700 issues (Anton Sankov)
• Add pylint plugin to check docstrings for triple double quotes. Fixes Issue #296
• Add pylint plugin to check for list comprehensions. Fixes Issue #270
• Add pylint plugin to check for class attributes enclosed with double underscores. These are dunders and are reserved for Python!

Signals

BREAKING CHANGES:

• Renamed user_registered to USER_REGISTERED_SIGNAL and post_update to POST_UPDATE_SIGNAL!

Bug fixes

• Change util function to default to https. Fixes Issue #220
• Fix Sentry KIWI-TCMS-17
• Cast iterator to list. Fixes Sentry KIWI-TCMS-19
• Don't crash in Custom Report. Fixes Sentry KIWI-TCMS-18
• Better handling of TestPlan documents. Fixes Sentry KIWI-TCMS-1A
• Fix sorting of entries in TestPlan -> Runs tab. Fixes Sentry KIWI-TCMS-E

Refactoring

• Move Bugzilla and Kerberos backends code into their own repositories. Fixes Issue #239
• Remove cache from TestCaseRunStatus. Fixes Issue #279
• Rewrite UrlMixin. Fixes Issue #157 (Chenxiong Qi)
• Remove unused split_as_option template tag
• Internal refactoring and more tests in tcms/core/ajax.py
• Delete unused file tcms/core/forms/widgets.py
• Merge case/form/filter.html into plan/get_cases.html
• Remove unused TestCaseStatus.id_to_string()

How to upgrade

If you are using Kiwi TCMS as a Docker container then

cd Kiwi/
git pull
docker-compose down
docker pull kiwitcms/kiwi
docker pull centos/mariadb
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py migrate

Help us make Kiwi TCMS better

According to our 2018 roadmap the Kiwi TCMS team is investing a great deal of our time to make the code base more maintainable! For the past few releases we've been balancing code refactoring with bug-fixing and minor enhancements and we have lots of ideas down the line.

We want to hear your voice! Tell us how you use Kiwi TCMS inside your organization. We want to know what works for you and what doesn't so we can make it better. Feel free to comment below, file GitHub issues or send us an email.

Happy testing!