JFrog has been a sponsor of the Jenkins project for many years. We’re delighted that they continue to sponsor the Jenkins project and continue to provide our artifact hosting service, repo.jenkins-ci.org. Releases, incremental development builds, and snapshots of Jenkins core, Jenkins tooling, Jenkins plugins, and Jenkins infrastructure components are hosted…
Introduction This blog post describes the latest addition to the plugin health scoring system developed as part of my Google summer of Code Project: a probe that detects usages of the JSR-305 framework in plugins. The JSR-305 framework provides annotations to detect software defects. Its executive committee voted it as…
We are excited to announce the 2023 Jenkins Governance Board and officer elections! Nominations Nominations can be submitted for two governance board positions, and all five officer positions (Security, Events, Release, Infrastructure, and Documentation). During the registration period, we invite community members to nominate candidates by sending a message to…
Introduction Bots are used to automate tasks in a plugin. The Plugin Health Scoring System tracks usage of two bots - Dependabot and Renovate. Dependabot looks for dependencies that are outdated in a plugin. It can also raise a security alert if a security breach is found, like when the…
Once again, Hacktoberfest is back! During this October event, everyone can celebrate and support open source by contributing changes. This year’s edition is special because it is Hacktoberfest’s tenth anniversary. Once again, the Jenkins community will participate in the event, and we invite you to contribute to Jenkins projects. We…
Key Takeaways Jenkins project reports growth of 79% in Jenkins Pipeline, used to propel software delivery. Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier Andrea Chiera completed his 3 months internship within the Security team, auditing 100 plugins and finding 20+ vulnerabilities. Summer Internship in Jenkins security Thank you very much for your involvement…
Introduction The Incremental Build Detection Probe was developed as a part of Google Summer of Code 2023 for the plugin health scoring system project. Incremental builds aid in continuous delivery of plugins, deploying only the modules affected by new commits [1]. Jenkins core and plugins can be deployed incrementally, rather…
This blog showcases all the work done in the project Building Jenkins.io with Alternative Tools during Google Summer of Code 2023. Table of Contents About Project Coding Phase 1 Coding Phase 2 Future Improvements Acknowledgments Useful Links About Project The Jenkins documentation site is generated as a static website using…
Introduction In the modern software development landscape, continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) are no longer just trendy buzzwords. They are vital components of the development cycle. Two tools that are often associated with these operations are Jenkins and Mergify. Jenkins, an open-source automation server, is used to automate…
Following up on my previous post about removing Prototype from Jenkins, Prototype has been removed from the 2.426 weekly release and will be removed from the November LTS release. This removal required changes in about 60 plugins. Use the Plugin Manager to upgrade all plugins before and after upgrading to…