We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 11.3 which is the 100th tagged version in our git repository!

IMPORTANT: This is a small release which contains security related updates, several improvements, bug fixes and new translations! Most importantly the kiwitcms-tenants plugin now supports tenant groups and permissions!

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  58dcfa91e816    629MB

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

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

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 11.2.

IMPORTANT: This is a small release which contains several improvements, new API methods, internal refactoring and new translations! This is the first release to ship aarch64 container images!

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)

---

Upstream container images (x86_64):

kiwitcms/kiwi   latest  bcc4c658440a    622MB

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

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

An active Kiwi TCMS subscription ensures a sustainable future for all open source software maintained by the Kiwi TCMS team and provides its holder with access to software versions and certain level services. Given recent changes to private container credentials we have refreshed our product and service definitions.

New Self Support subscription

This is an entry-level subscription which provides read-only access to version tagged containers of upstream Kiwi TCMS. It is suitable for experimentation, very small teams, development against Kiwi TCMS and convenience during upgrades.

You are free to use any older or future versions of Kiwi TCMS available from the kiwitcms/version container repository!

This subscription plan is also available via GitHub Marketplace.

Private Tenant

This is our most popular subscription type.

Starting today it also includes access to the kiwitcms/version container repository! This is suitable for teams who prefer to be hosting Kiwi TCMS on-premise instead of using the namespace provided under *.tenant.kiwitcms.org.

This subscription plan is also available via GitHub Marketplace.

Everything else remains the same!

Enterprise Subscription

This is Kiwi TCMS tailored towards on-premise deployments in larger organizations. Starting today it also automatically includes 1x Private Tenant which can be used for development or experiments.

Support availability has been extended by 2 hours in order to cover more geographic areas!

Future features coming to enterprise subscribers - tools for provisioning of Kiwi TCMS inside cloud environments and aarch64 containers.

Price has been increased to 400 $/mo.

New Managed Hosting subscription

This new offering is designed for the organizations which don't want to bother with provisioning containers, configuring DNS resolution, managing SSL certificates, regular upgrades and backups. The Kiwi TCMS team can do all of this for you and provide a fully isolated instance inside AWS.

Support availability has been extended by 2 days, covering Saturday and Sunday. When necessary Managed Hosting subscribers have the option for video conferences with their support contact.

All changes are effective immediately. Existing customers are granted access to everything that's new while billing changes are not applied.

If you prefer the "free beer" version of Kiwi TCMS it is available via docker pull kiwitcms/kiwi - free to use and without any guarantees according to GPLv2.

Please consider subscribing and help us make Kiwi TCMS better!

Happy Testing!

Kiwi TCMS subscribers had to go through a manual process of registering a username with our container registry, quay.io and email support before they could access private docker images. This process is now fully automated!

Credentials are automatically created upon subscription payment and configured for read-only access to respective repositories based on the type of subscription. You can find your credentials at the subscriptions page, PLUGINS -> Subscriptions. To authenticate try

$ docker login -u="USERNAME" -p "PASSWORD-TOKEN" quay.io
# or
$ echo "PASSWORD-TOKEN" | docker login -u="USERNAME" --password-stdin quay.io

If you would like to have access to private container repositories for Kiwi TCMS checkout the containers page and subscribe!

Happy Testing!

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 11.1.

IMPORTANT: This is a small release which contains security related updates, several improvements, bug fixes 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)

---

Container images:

kiwitcms/kiwi       latest  72099aa8ee93    629 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.2     7870085ad415    957 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.1.1   49fa42ddfe4d    955 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.1     b559123d25b0    970 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.0.1   87b24d94197d    970 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       5.3.1   a420465852be    976 MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged container images are available only to subscribers!

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

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 11.0.

IMPORTANT: This is a new major release which contains security related updates, several improvements, API changes, bug fixes 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)

---

Container images:

kiwitcms/kiwi       latest  6600bc56a544    622 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.2     7870085ad415    957 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.1.1   49fa42ddfe4d    955 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.1     b559123d25b0    970 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.0.1   87b24d94197d    970 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       5.3.1   a420465852be    976 MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged container images are available only to subscribers!

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

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS Enterprise version 10.5.1!

IMPORTANT: this is a small release which contains minor improvements and bug-fixes.

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

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

Kiwi TCMS is pleased to announce new versions of our plugins for different test automation frameworks:

• tap-plugin
• junit.xml-plugin
• JUnit 5 plugin
• Robot Framework plugin
• Django test runner plugin

The new versions are future compatible with upcoming Kiwi TCMS v11 and also with existing Kiwi TCMS v10.x installations. Check-out the pages above for individual instructions.

Happy testing!

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If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities please help us!

• Give ⭐ on GitHub;
• Give 👍 on GitLab;
• Donate via Open Collective as low as 1 EUR;
• Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
• Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
• Become a subscriber and help us sustain development

Attention testers! On behalf of Testing and Automation devroom we'd like to announce that call for participation is now open.

Here are some ideas for topics that are a good fit for this devroom:

Testing in the real, open source world

• War stories/strategies for testing large scale or complex projects
• Demystify resource e.g. systems/device/cloud provisioning in a CI loop
• Tools that extend the ability to test low-level code, e.g. bootloaders, init systems, etc.
• Projects that are introducing new/interesting ways of testing "systems"
• Address the automated testing frameworks fragmentation
• Lessons learned from testing

Cool Tools (good candidates for lightning talks)

• How your open source tool made developing quality software better
• What tools do you use to setup your CI/CD
• Combining projects/plugins/tools to build amazing things "Not enough people in the open source community know how to use $X, but here's a tutorial on how to use $X to make your project better."

In the past the devroom has seen both newbies/students and experienced professionals and past speakers as part of the audience and talks covering from beginner/practical to advanced/abstract topics. If you have doubts then submit your proposal and leave a comment for the devroom managers and we'll get back to you.

Checkout https://fosdem-testingautomation.github.io/ for more information!

Happy Testing!

If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities please help us!

• Give ⭐ on GitHub;
• Donate via Open Collective as low as 1 EUR;
• Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
• Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
• Become a customer and we'll share our profits with the community

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 10.5 which celebrates the very positive reception we had at WebSummit 2021!

IMPORTANT: this is a medium sized release which contains various improvements and new features, database changes, new settings and API methods, bug-fixes, internal refactoring and updated 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)

---

Container images:

kiwitcms/kiwi       latest  0574b19b5d66    583 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.2     7870085ad415    957 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.1.1   49fa42ddfe4d    955 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.1     b559123d25b0    970 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.0.1   87b24d94197d    970 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       5.3.1   a420465852be    976 MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged container images are available only to subscribers!

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

An active subscription provides you with certain guarantees that your organization will continue to extract value from Kiwi TCMS and is your buy-in into the open source world. We recommend that customers purchase a subscription for every container running Kiwi TCMS however this becomes distorted for teams who don't actively seek support and large organizations! Here are our guidelines.

Phase of deployment

Casual exploration: No subscription required. Use https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org to explore Kiwi TCMS and formulate your questions and further plan of action.

Serious evaluation or Proof of concept: 1x Private Tenant SaaS or 1x Enterprise. You will have lots of questions during this period and you will need answers in a timely manner. You can cancel at any time!

Pilot: 2-3x Private Tenant SaaS or 1x Enterprise during the pilot period. Consider add-on services if you need data migration or custom development for a successful pilot. Plan your future needs and issues you'd like to see fixed.

Production: make your decision according to the size of your test team and anticipated support needs, see below.

Our mission is to transform the testing process inside your organization. You don't have to do it alone! Let us help you!

Number of testers

<= 25: 1x Private Tenant SaaS

25-100: 2-5x Private Tenant SaaS; consider splitting teams and purchase a subscription for each of them

100 - 200: 1x Enterprise; consider additional subscriptions of any kind for non-production instances

200 - 500 - 2-3x Enterprise; consider additional subscriptions of any kind for non-production instances

500 - 1000: - 5x Enterprise; consider additional Enterprise subscriptions for non-production instances

Over 1000: 10x Enterprise; consider add-on services for custom development

Note that these are not hard rules as we don't restrict the number of accounts registered into a specific instance nor how many containers you deploy!

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Note that you can still deploy Kiwi TCMS with a 1x subscription inside organization with thousands of testers. Or even no subscription at all. Do you really value your testing infrastructure that low though?

Ready ? Explore subscriptions!

If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities please help us!

• Give ⭐ on GitHub;
• Give 👍 on GitLab;
• Donate via Open Collective as low as 1 EUR;
• Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
• Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
• Become a customer and enjoy the benefits

We're happy to announce that Kiwi TCMS will host an exhibition stand at WebSummit 2021 in Lisbon. You can find us on Wednesday, November 03, Stand number: A 407, Industry category: Pavilion 3, ALPHA 4.

At the exhibition stand you will have the opportunity to perform some real black-box testing, learn about Salience bias, Peltzman effect and Wason's experiments and take a photo with our lovely mascot.

The Kiwi TCMS team will be there to answer all of your questions regarding open source, community, support, various integrations and the differences between Free, SaaS and Enterprise subscriptions!

If you still need more convincing check-out our WebSummit SHOWCASE video and how QGIS organizes their testing with Kiwi TCMS.

Fun fact: adoption of Kiwi TCMS is lead by Alexandre Neto - a QGIS community member from Portugal.

If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities please help us!

• Give ⭐ on GitHub;
• Give 👍 on GitLab;
• Donate via Open Collective as low as 1 EUR;
• Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
• Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
• Become a customer and we'll share our profits with the community

Here are the winners of our ticket giveaway:

• Martin Ayvazov
• Ralitsa Georgieva
• Teodora Pashina - Dimitrova
• Gabriela Luhova
• Lyuboslava Arshinkova
• Yoan Bachev

Attention winners: please get in touch with us at info@kiwitcms.org to claim your tickets. We will ask you to validate your GitLab account by performing a quick action which will be disclosed to you via email!

Raw data from our winner selection script below:

***** WINNER #1: Martin Ayvazov
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***** WINNER #2: Ralitsa Georgieva
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***** WINNER #3: Teodora Pashina - Dimitrova
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***** WINNER #4: Gabriela Luhova
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***** WINNER #5: Lyuboslava Arshinkova
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***** WINNER #6: Yoan Bachev
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 'state': 'active',
 'username': 'yobachev',
 'web_url': 'https://gitlab.com/yobachev'}

Video recording of the selection process:

If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities please help us!

• Nominate Kiwi TCMS at MLH Open Source Awards;
• Give ⭐ on GitHub;
• Give 👍 on GitLab;
• Donate via Open Collective as low as 1 EUR;
• Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
• Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
• Become a customer and we'll share our profits with the community

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 10.4!

IMPORTANT: this is a small release which includes several improvements, bug fixes, internal refactoring and updated translations. It is the thirteenth release to include contributions via our open source bounty program!

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)

Container images:

kiwitcms/kiwi       latest  10eb8f04cccd    590 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.2     7870085ad415    957 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.1.1   49fa42ddfe4d    955 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.1     b559123d25b0    970 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.0.1   87b24d94197d    970 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       5.3.1   a420465852be    976 MB

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

Kiwi TCMS is happy to announce that our first post-COVID live presence will be at WebSummit 2021, Nov 1-4 in Lisbon, Portugal. We're joining as a featured startup as part of the ALPHA program in category Enterprise Software Solutions.

Kiwi TCMS will have an on-site presence during the exhibition (1 day) where you can easily find us. We've also applied to the Startup Showcase track where you can see Alex present on stage. In addition, if all goes well our team will be joined by Alexandre Neto of QCooperative who is leading the effort to adopt Kiwi TCMS for testing the QGIS open source project. More on that here.

Exact schedules are still unknown at this stage so you will have to ping us via email/Twitter or find us on the conference floor if you want to meet.

Below is our video submission to the organizers:

If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities please help us!

• Give ⭐ on GitHub;
• Give 👍 on GitLab;
• Donate via Open Collective as low as 1 EUR;
• Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
• Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
• Become a customer and we'll share our profits with the community

Last year Kiwi TCMS started partnering with the MLH Fellowship open source program. During the span of 3 semesters fellows received mentorship and career advice from us. They were also able to work on 20+ issues the majority of which have been complete.

For that we kindly ask the open source community to nominate Kiwi TCMS at the MLH Open Source Awards.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to https://fellowship.mlh.io/opensourceawards
2. Click the Submit a Nomination button
3. Follow the instructions on screen!

Expected results:

1. It should take you 2 minutes
2. Your submission is recorded by MLH

Why are we doing this

MLH is recognizing extraordinary open source projects and communities. It is up to you, our community members and the general public to decide whether Kiwi TCMS qualifies or not. Winning this award will let us show what we do before a larger audience!

Thank you for supporting Kiwi TCMS and happy testing!

If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities please help us!

• Give ⭐ on GitHub;
• Give 👍 on GitLab;
• Donate via Open Collective as low as 1 EUR;
• Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
• Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
• Become a customer and we'll share our profits with the community

HackConf is one of the premium developer conferences in Bulgaria. Over the years Kiwi TCMS and HackConf have collaborated multiple times and our history goes way back to before the first edition of the conference! We're happy to announce that Kiwi TCMS will be giving away 6 SUPERFAN tickets for HackConf 2021 in order to celebrate their 6th anniversary!

All 6 tickets include:

• Conference live stream access (online due to COVID-19), sessions are in English
• Ability to ask questions during the live stream
• Virtual Goodie Bag with valuable content & digital treats
• Special Physical Goodie Bag delivered to your home. ** Shipping is available only for the territory of Bulgaria.

How to win a ticket

We need your support in order to become part of GitLab's open source family! We kindly ask you to upvote the first comment at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/334558!

Scenario: help Kiwi TCMS become part of GitLab’s open source family
    Given: navigate your browser to http://tinyurl.com/KiwiTCMS
    And: log into GitLab via the "Sign in / Register" button
    And: complete the login / registration process
    When: click the 👍 icon under the first comment
    Then: wait for the winners to be announced!

Thank you very much and Happy Testing!

Winners announcement

Winners will be selected from all voters, excluding Kiwi TCMS team members, HackConf organizers and GitLab affiliated accounts. The accounts which have participated can be verified with curl https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/gitlab-org%2Fgitlab/issues/334558/participants.

Winners will be announced on Oct 6th 2021 in a blog post on our website. We will try our best to get in touch with all winners but we also ask you to get in touch with us if you see your username!

If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities please help us!

• Give ⭐ on GitHub;
• Give 👍 on GitLab;
• Donate via Open Collective as low as 1 EUR;
• Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
• Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
• Become a customer and we'll share our profits with the community

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 10.3!

IMPORTANT: this is a small release which includes several improvements, bug fixes, internal refactoring and updated translations. It is the twelveth release to include contributions via our open source bounty program!

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)

Container images:

kiwitcms/kiwi       latest  bd28c4b064f5    579 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.2     7870085ad415    957 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.1.1   49fa42ddfe4d    955 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.1     b559123d25b0    970 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.0.1   87b24d94197d    970 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       5.3.1   a420465852be    976 MB

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

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 10.2!

IMPORTANT: this is a small release including upgrades to 3rd party libraries (including security related updates), several improvements and bug fixes. It is the eleventh release to include contributions via our open source bounty program!

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)

Docker images:

kiwitcms/kiwi       latest  71b5c2a3dee4    972 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.2     7870085ad415    957 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.1.1   49fa42ddfe4d    955 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.1     b559123d25b0    970 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       6.0.1   87b24d94197d    970 MB
kiwitcms/kiwi       5.3.1   a420465852be    976 MB

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

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS Enterprise version 10.1.1-mt!

IMPORTANT: this release includes support for authentication via Keycloak and support for enabling read-only view of tenants data for anonymous users.

Docker images:

quay.io/kiwitcms/enterprise       10.1.1-mt   d61e243dc4f5   1.19GB

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