You’ve all seen it before: the bitter sting of botched predictions. Flying cars, nuclear ovens in the kitchen, killer robot dogs, and lunar living - all expected to be part of our daily lives by now. Well, some of these wild dreams did come to pass, but I’m not about…
This year, we received numerous outstanding Google Summer of Code (GSoC) proposals for Jenkins with just as many compelling ideas. Many thanks to all who submitted their proposal(s) previously. Due to a very limited number of mentors available, we could only accept a small number of submissions. Congratulations go out…
Summary tl;dr Jenkins 2.426.1 LTS will support Java 11, 17, and 21. In Fall 2024, Jenkins will require Java 17 or 21 and drop support for Java 11. Thereafter, Jenkins will support each Java LTS release for approximately four years; i.e., Jenkins will support two Java LTS releases at any…
Introduction An alarming number of issues in a plugin may signify that the plugin is outdated, in need of a new maintainer, or in need of a complete revamp. Open issues might also mean that there are a lot of new feature requests, which in turn means the plugin has…
cdCon 2024 just wrapped up in Seattle and this included announcing the winners of the Continuous Delivery Foundation and Jenkins Community Awards. The CD Foundation provides awards for the Top CDF ambassador, contributor, documenter, and end user. Anyone that is part of the CD Foundation can be nominated for these.…
. Prologue Here’s a brief account of my journey to update my Jenkins Servers. Think of this as a "back of the napkin" guide that I used to research and upgrade my Jenkins Servers, which had been left unattended for far too long. I know many of you are seasoned…
The goal of this blog is to showcase the work done on GitLab Plugin during the Google Summer of Code 2023. For a detailed description of the project, please refer to the project page. Overview About Project Coding Phase 1 Coding Phase 2 Future Improvements Acknowledgments Useful Links About Project…
The Google Summer of Code 2024 contributor application period has ended and we are excited to have received over 75 valid applications from potential contributors, interested in contributing to Jenkins via this program. We are grateful to all the students who applied and look forward to reviewing their applications over…
Short story long As of October 24th, there is a new tab named Health Score on each plugin page of plugins.jenkins.io. This new tab provides the plugin’s health score, along with every aspect that contributed to its score. The score is meant to be unbiased and all plugins are evaluated…
Table of Contents About the Project Phase 1 Phase 2 Next Steps Acknowledgments Useful Links About the Project The aim of my project was to tackle the challenges and intricacies that users frequently encounter when configuring Jenkins with Docker. The current process comprises numerous daunting steps associated with security risks.…