diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 092ddc0..1b41058 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ name: release
 # PUBLISH THE openrepotools WHEEL (#228): TestPyPI, AN INSTALL CHECK ON THREE
 # LEGS, THEN PyPI, IN ONE DISPATCHED RUN. Adapted step for step from
 # openRepoShape v1.1.0's own release.yml (`190133d`, the commit
-# `upstream/openRepoShape` is pinned at), whose checks are taken over as they
-# are (FR-028) except where design.md Decision 10 names a difference:
+# `upstream/openRepoShape` was pinned at when this was adapted; the pin moved
+# to `5017830`, v1.1.1, whose release.yml differs from `190133d`'s in comment
+# lines only), whose checks are taken over as they are (FR-028) except where
+# design.md Decision 10 names a difference:
 #   - a pre-release `X.Y.ZrcN` is accepted, for TestPyPI alone; PyPI takes a
 #     final `X.Y.Z` and nothing else;
 #   - the repository guard (FR-048, WHERE RELEASES COME FROM below) is new
diff --git a/contracts/openreposhape-pin.yaml b/contracts/openreposhape-pin.yaml
index eea57fb..b114f2c 100644
--- a/contracts/openreposhape-pin.yaml
+++ b/contracts/openreposhape-pin.yaml
@@ -51,12 +51,12 @@ source_repository: opensoft/openRepoShape
 submodule_path: upstream/openRepoShape
 materialization: mounted
 
-commit: "190133d5e704e380c430f87ca9c4e31746de0012"
+commit: "50178305e4229275d18e71c2152403b4e9d3004e"
 revision_kind: commit
 
 digest_algorithm: sha256
 digest_definition: sorted-ls-tree-r-v1
 digests:
-  tree_sha256: "7a66972c7de193c050f77f97bffa13d8543c28d74f61ea210644e65aa3f37912"
+  tree_sha256: "204d73aabf2379554600234d4b36dc08d3c3a1da422395dec44637b5ca7a5184"
 
 verify_pin: tests/test_upstream_pin.py
diff --git a/tests/test_install_payload_source.py b/tests/test_install_payload_source.py
index 0347e1b..2867fd9 100644
--- a/tests/test_install_payload_source.py
+++ b/tests/test_install_payload_source.py
@@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ def test_r01_a_single_repository_by_gh_asks_for_files_and_nothing_else(tmp_path)
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("line", ["openRepoShape", "gh"])
 def test_r01_composed_the_documented_one_liners_resolve_through_the_root_entry_point(
         tmp_path, line):
-    """openRepoShape's own `--install` pointer (openRepoShape:547 at 190133d)
+    """openRepoShape's own `--install` pointer (openRepoShape:745 at 5017830)
     and README's `gh api` line, BYTE FOR BYTE, against an assembly whose root
     carries the real entry point: the root resolves `main` ONCE, reads the code
     pin there and hands every argument to the pinned implementation, which
diff --git a/tests/test_release_workflow.py b/tests/test_release_workflow.py
index 34ae79a..706a089 100644
--- a/tests/test_release_workflow.py
+++ b/tests/test_release_workflow.py
@@ -141,8 +141,10 @@
 PIN = REPO / "contracts" / "openreposhape-pin.yaml"
 STAMP = layout.STAMP_SOURCE
 
-#: THE MODEL: openRepoShape v1.1.0's own workflow, in the pinned submodule
-#: (`190133d`). Its artifact actions' pins are this workflow's.
+#: THE MODEL: openRepoShape's own release.yml, in the pinned submodule, at
+#: whatever commit `contracts/openreposhape-pin.yaml` names (`5017830`, v1.1.1,
+#: when the pin moved to it from `190133d`, v1.1.0; the two workflows differ in
+#: comment lines only). Its artifact actions' pins are this workflow's.
 MODEL = UPSTREAM / ".github" / "workflows" / "release.yml"
 STANDARD_SCRIPTS = UPSTREAM / "scripts"
 
diff --git a/upstream/openRepoShape b/upstream/openRepoShape
index 190133d..5017830 160000
--- a/upstream/openRepoShape
+++ b/upstream/openRepoShape
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 190133d5e704e380c430f87ca9c4e31746de0012
+Subproject commit 50178305e4229275d18e71c2152403b4e9d3004e