Kiwi TCMS 12.2

security updates, improvements, bug fixes, API changes and new translations

Posted by Kiwi TCMS Team on Sun 23 April 2023 under releases

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 12.2!

IMPORTANT: this release contains security related updates, general improvements, bug fixes, some API changes and new translations!

You can explore everything at https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org!

Supported upgrade paths:

5.3   (or older) -> 5.3.1
5.3.1 (or newer) -> 6.0.1
6.0.1            -> 6.1
6.1              -> 6.1.1
6.1.1            -> 6.2 (or newer)

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Upstream container images (x86_64):

kiwitcms/kiwi   latest  89b8ca5e0f5f    593MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged and multi-arch container images are available only to subscribers!

Changes since Kiwi TCMS 12.1

Security

  • For security reasons updating email address is no longer allowed. Fixes CVE-2023-30544
  • Block uploads of potentially harmful files. Fixes CVE-2023-30613

Improvements

  • Update Django from 4.1.7 to 4.1.8
  • Update django-attachments from 1.9.1 to 1.11
  • Update psycopg2 from 2.9.5 to 2.9.6
  • Update pygments from 2.14.0 to 2.15.1
  • Update python-gitlab from 3.13.0 to 3.14.0
  • Add INFO message for User/Group pages in Admin panel which indicates whether the user is viewing records from the main tenant or from an individual tenant to avoid confusion
  • Add new Execution Dashboard telemetry report. Closes Issue #2918
  • Add column visibility button on search pages. Fixes Issue #3149
  • Add CSV, Excel, PDF and Print buttons on search pages. Fixes Issue #3150
  • Allow manually resetting TestRun.stop_date when editing page. Refs Issue #3124
  • Display child test plans on Search Test Plans page. Fixes Issue #2917
  • Display nested test plans in drop down select widget on Search Test Cases page. Fixes Issue #3134
  • Display nested test plans in drop down select widget on Telemetry pages
  • Display pagination controls for search results both at the top and bottom
  • On Search Test Runs page display start/stop timestamp columns. Closes Issue #2306
  • On Search Test Cases page display results from child test plans. Fixes Issue #3135

API

  • TestExecution.update() method will no longer update self.stop_date and self.run.stop_date fields when status has been changed! The appropriate behavior here should be specified by the client calling this API method. Refs Issue #3112
  • TestPlan.filter() method now returns the children_count field. Refs Issue #3134, Issue #2917
  • TestExecution.filter() method now returns status__icon & status__color fields

Bug fixes

  • Fix test case filter widget on Test Plan page. Fixes Issue #3137
  • Disable selection of inactive test plans on New Test Run page. Fixes Issue #3152
  • Add styled page for attachment upload errors. Fixes Issue #1156
  • Fix include syntax for uwsgi.override in uwsgi.conf

Refactoring

  • Add additional query parameters for updateTestPlanSelectFromProduct()
  • Add preProcessData callback to updateTestPlanSelectFromProduct()
  • Remove unused telemetry.css file
  • Remove unused parameter from updateTestPlanSelectFromProduct()
  • Replace hand-crafted pagination controls with the ones built into DataTables
  • Replace useless form_errors_to_list() function
  • Skip RobotFramework tests on aarch64 b/c of Selenium error, tested on x86_64
  • Update node_modules/webpack from 5.76.3 to 5.80.0
  • Update node_modules/eslint from 8.37.0 to 8.38.0

Translations

Kiwi TCMS Enterprise v12.2-mt

  • Based on Kiwi TCMS v12.2

  • Update social-auth-app-django from 5.0.0 to 5.2.0

    Private images:

    quay.io/kiwitcms/version            12.2 (aarch64)          7e88241f7476    23 Apr 2023     601MB
quay.io/kiwitcms/version            12.2 (x86_64)           89b8ca5e0f5f    23 Apr 2023     592MB
quay.io/kiwitcms/enterprise         12.2-mt (aarch64)       7f2a05cf9888    23 Apr 2023     843MB
quay.io/kiwitcms/enterprise         12.2-mt (x86_64)        c4f518a20c58    23 Apr 2023     833MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged, multi-arch and Enterprise container images are available only to subscribers!

How to upgrade

Backup first! Then execute the commands:

cd path/containing/docker-compose/
docker-compose down
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py upgrade

Refer to our documentation for more details!

Happy testing!

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