IBM/mcp-context-forge v1.0.4

v1.0.4 - Rust Migration, Docker Improvements, Security Enhancements, and Bug Fixes

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[1.0.4] - 2026-06-22 - Rust Server Migration, Security Fixes, and Build Hardening

Overview

Release 1.0.4 consolidates 35+ PRs focused on Rust server migration, security and auth correctness, multi-architecture build hardening, and database reliability. This release migrates test servers to Rust and resolves a broad set of auth, CSRF, login, and container build issues:

• 🔐 Security & Auth - Keycloak SSO role merging from access_token, client_secret_basic support for SSO token exchange, CSRF exempt-path fixes, login redirect loop fix, and OAuth auth_type propagation fix for tool creation.
• 🦀 Rust Servers - Slow-time MCP test server migrated to Rust (breaking binary path change), Rust benchmark server added replacing Go, Rust A2A echo agent added for integration testing.
• 🛡️ FedRAMP / Build - s390x rustup fix, hermetic wheel closure for s390x/ppc64le multiplatform builds, Containerfile.lite venv fix, PyPI UI bundle fix, PyO3 and Rust CI dependency updates.
• 🗄️ Database & Performance - DB connection pool multiplication resolved, lazy log formatting migration across services, tag length made configurable via env vars.
• 🌐 API - RFC 6585 HTTP status code compliance (429, etc.), HTTP 202 Accepted response support for async operations.
• 🔧 CI / DevOps - Hadolint via Docker image, docker-scan scoped to merge queue, linting-full moved to merge queue, npm audit fixes, release dependency lock refresh, cpex-rate-limiter bump to 0.1.4.

Added

🔐 Security & Auth

• 🔑 client_secret_basic SSO Token Exchange (#5132) – client_secret_basic HTTP Basic Auth support for SSO token exchange. Broadens compatibility with OAuth 2.0 compliant identity providers.

🌐 API

• 📋 RFC 6585 HTTP Status Code Compliance (#4797) – RFC 6585 compliant HTTP status codes (429, etc.). Improves API standards conformance.
• ✅ HTTP 202 Accepted Response (#5210) – HTTP 202 Accepted response support for async operations. Enables proper async API patterns.

🦀 Rust Servers

• ⚡ Rust Benchmark Server (#5091) – Rust benchmark server replaces the Go benchmark server; benchmark compose profiles rewired to build from mcp-servers/rust/benchmark-server. Breaking: binary paths move from ./dist/benchmark-server to ./target/release/benchmark-server.
• 🤖 Rust A2A Echo Agent (#5092) – Rust implementation of an A2A echo agent for integration testing. Provides a fast, low-overhead test target.

Changed

🦀 Rust Servers

• ⚡ Slow-Time Server Migrated to Rust (#5090) – Slow-time MCP test server migrated from Python to Rust. Breaking: binary paths and compose targets change; update any local scripts referencing the old Python entrypoint.

🔧 Infrastructure & DevOps

• 🔒 Security Policy — IBM PSIRT (#5225) – Security vulnerability reporting redirected to IBM PSIRT. Aligns with IBM security disclosure process.
• 📦 cpex-rate-limiter Bump to 0.1.4 (#5242) – Bumped cpex-rate-limiter dependency to 0.1.4. Picks up upstream rate-limiter fixes.
• 📝 Lazy Log Formatting (#4749) – Migrated f-string log calls to lazy %-style across services. Avoids string interpolation overhead when log level is suppressed.
• 🔒 Configurable Tag Length (#5178) – Tag length now configurable via environment variables. Enables site-specific tag truncation policy.
• 🔒 CODEOWNERS Update (#5275) – Updated code owners for certain topics. Ensures correct review routing.

🖥️ CI

• 🔍 Linting-Full Moved to Merge Queue (#5189) – Full repo lint sweep moved to merge queue gate. Reduces PR feedback noise while maintaining merge quality.
• 🔒 Docker-Scan Scoped to Merge Queue (#5209) – Docker vulnerability scan scoped to PR lint + merge-queue gate. Avoids redundant scans on every push.
• ⬛ Hadolint via Docker Image (#5259) – Hadolint run via Docker image to satisfy org Actions allowlist. Removes dependency on non-allowlisted GitHub Action.
• ⏩ Skip CI for Secrets Baseline Commits (#5012) – Full CI skipped for detect-secrets baseline-only commits. Reduces unnecessary CI load.
• 📌 Pin buildx Version – Pinned setup-buildx-action to a fixed version to avoid Docker Hub rate-limit failures. Prevents intermittent CI build failures from upstream rate limiting.

Fixed

🔐 Security & Auth

• 🔑 Keycloak SSO Role Merging from access_token (#5330) – Merge Keycloak realm/client roles from access_token instead of only userinfo/id_token. Fixes missing roles for clients with roles only in access_token.
• 🔒 CSRF Exempt Paths (#5157) – Added missing API paths to csrf_exempt_paths; fixed env drift between config and middleware. Prevents spurious CSRF rejections on valid API calls.
• 🔄 Login Redirect Loop (#5203) – Fixed login redirect loop. Prevents infinite redirect cycle after authentication.
• 🔧 OAuth auth_type Ignored in Tool Creation (#5180) – OAuth auth_type offered in Add Tool form was silently ignored by POST /tools and POST /admin/tools. Fix propagates auth type through tool creation pipeline.

🧪 Tests

• 🧪 Playwright: FK Cascade and Team Delegation (#5211) – Fixed user deletion FK cascade and team selector delegation in Playwright tests. Stabilizes E2E test suite.

🛡️ FedRAMP / FIPS Compliance

• 🔧 python3 Symlink After subscription-manager (#5119) – Re-assert python3 symlink after subscription-manager clobbers it in FedRAMP builds. Fixes Python invocation failure in RHEL-based FedRAMP images.

🦀 Rust / Build

• 📦 PyO3 Dependency Update (#5208) – Updated PyO3 dependency. Resolves compatibility issue with newer Rust toolchain.
• 🔧 Rust CI Dependencies (#5227) – Updated Rust CI dependencies. Fixes CI failures from stale dependency pins.
• 🔧 s390x Containerfile rustup (#5207) – Updated s390x Containerfile to use rustup for the latest Rust compiler. Fixes s390x builds broken by toolchain version mismatch.
• 📦 A2A Image Workspace Members (#5268) – Include workspace members in the A2A image build. Fixes missing crates in multi-workspace Docker builds.
• 🐳 Containerfile.lite Empty Venv (#5278) – Fixed Containerfile.lite shipping an empty venv masked by a stray || true. Restores correct Python environment in the lite image.
• 🐳 Hermetic Wheel Closure s390x/ppc64le (#5287) – Hermetic wheel closure for s390x/ppc64le multiplatform builds. Prevents platform-specific wheel contamination in multi-arch images.
• 📦 PyPI Bundle UI Files (#5202) – Bundle UI files on PyPI build. Fixes missing Admin UI assets in PyPI-installed package.

🗄️ Database & Infrastructure

• 🔗 DB Connection Pool Multiplication (#4696) – Resolved database connection pool multiplication. Prevents pool exhaustion under concurrent load.
• 📦 Duplicate python-multipart in uv.lock (#5316) – Removed duplicate python-multipart entry in uv.lock. Fixes dependency resolution warnings.
• 📦 npm Audit Fix (#5301) – Applied npm audit fix for UI dependency vulnerabilities.

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