Dear testers, we're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 17.1!
IMPORTANT:
This is a minor version release which includes critical security related updates, improvements, container image rename and internal refactoring.
You can explore everything at https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org!
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Public container image (x86_64):
pub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/kiwitcms latest 0afdd7c379ff 1.28GB
IMPORTANT: version tagged and multi-arch container images are available only to subscribers!
Changes since Kiwi TCMS 17.0
Security
- Add checks for default, weak and commonly used values of settings.SECRET_KEY and display a warning on the Dashboard page. Closes GHSA-m9h5-c637-cpcg
Improvements
- Update markdown from 3.11.2 to 3.11.3
- Update psycopg from 3.3.7 to 3.3.8
- Update node_modules/pdfmake from 0.3.13 to 0.3.14
- Propagate manage.py upgrade --verbosity|--no-input command line arguments downstream
- Rename the container image from kiwitcms/kiwi to kiwitcms/kiwitcms
- Use the error icon color for alert message text
Settings
- Extend AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS with known passwords
- Pass the value of KIWI_SECRET_KEY environment variable to settings.SECRET_KEY
API
- Add version and release date to generated API descriptions
- Document Referer and User-Agent headers in generated API schemas
Refactoring and testing
- Update black from 26.5.1 to 26.10.1
- Update selenium from 4.27.1 to 4.52.0
- Update sphinx from 9.1.1 to 9.2.0
- Pin CI runners to ubuntu-26.04
Changes since Kiwi TCMS Enterprise v17.0-mt
- Based on Kiwi TCMS v17.1
- Update kiwitcms-tenants from 4.10.3 to 4.10.4
- Update sentry-sdk from 2.73.0 to 2.74.0
- Add How To menu entry for Model Context Protocol
- Return 4xx for invalid MCP HTTP requests
- Redirect to login page instead of ISE 500 for failed OAuth logins
- Order tenants by primary key in management commands
- Add explicit note for KIWI_SECRET_KEY in README
Private container images
hub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/version 17.1 (aarch64) c4fe84340bf0 13 Nov 2026 1.18GB hub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/version 17.1 (x86_64) 998b21356b3a 13 Nov 2026 1.16GB hub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/enterprise 17.1-mt (aarch64) 4a1825c0327c 13 Nov 2026 1.66GB hub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/enterprise 17.1-mt (x86_64) c0f4066a5e49 13 Nov 2026 1.65GB
IMPORTANT: version tagged, multi-arch and Enterprise container images are available only to subscribers!
How to upgrade
Follow the Upgrading instructions from our documentation.
Happy testing!
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