This is a post about a major change in Jenkins, which is available starting from Jenkins 2.102 and Jenkins LTS 2.107.1. This is a change with a serious risk of regressions in plugins. If you are a Jenkins administrator, please read this blogpost and upgrade guidelines BEFORE upgrading. I would like to provide some heads-up about the JEP-200 change, which is included into the new Jenkins LTS 2.107.x baseline. Background For many years Jenkins...

We are happy to announce that Jenkins project has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2018. This year we invite students and mentors to join the Jenkins community and work together on various initiatives: core, plugins, development tools and infrastructure. Our mentors have already created some project ideas. For example, you are welcome to work on the new Configuration-as-Code initiative or to help creating standard API for Code Coverage...

This year the Jenkins project is interested in participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC). As in 2016/2017, we are looking for mentors. So yes, we are looking for you :) What is GSoC? GSoC is an annual international program which encourages college-aged students to participate with open source projects during the summer break between classes. Students accepted into the program receive a stipend, paid by Google, to work on well-defined projects to...

Jenkins project congratulates all users and contributors with the New Year! Let’s take a look at some changes this year. Highlights We released major features like BlueOcean and Declarative Pipeline These features offer a new user experience in Jenkins Web UI, powered by Jenkins Pipeline. In Jenkins 2.54 we updated the Java minimal requirement to Java 8 (announcement). Plugin CI has been moved to our Jenkins-on-Jenkins instance. All plugins are being built...

Once again it’s October in our calendars. It means that the regular Hacktoberfest event is back! During this one-month hackathon you can support open source and earn a limited edition T-shirt. Jenkins project offers an opportunity to participate in the project and to get reviews and help from Jenkins contributors. How do I sign up? Sign-up to Hacktoberfest on the event website. Everything is set, just start coding! What can I do? There...

Updated on Jan 10, 2019: The deprecated protocols were removed in Remoting 3.40+ and Jenkins 2.214+. See JENKINS-60381: Remove old for more information and links. There are upcoming changes in Jenkins "core" which may require extra steps when upgrading Jenkins. If you use configuration management for Jenkins agents, please read this announcement carefully. If you have ever seen messages like "Channel is already closed" or "Remote call failed"...

On behalf of the GSoC Org Admin team I am happy to announce that we are going to apply to Google Summer of Code (GSoC) again this year. In GSoC high-profile students work in open-source projects for several months under mentorship of organization members. We are looking for mentors and project ideas. So yes, we are looking for you :) Conditions As a mentor, you will be asked to: lead the...

On September 6th we had a Jenkins Online Meetup. This meetup was the second event in the series of Plugin Development meet ups. At this meetup we were talking about Jenkins Web UI development. Talks 1) Classic Jenkins UI framework - Daniel Beck In the first part of his talk, Daniel presented how Stapler, the web framework used in Jenkins, works, and how you can add to the set of...

I would like to write about two last Jenkins Meetups in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Meetup #3. Jenkins Administration (May 20, 2016) In May we had a meetup about Jenkins administration techniques. At this meetup we were talking about common Jenkins ecosystem components like custom update centers, tool repositories and generic jobs. Talks: Kirill Merkushev, Yandex, "Juseppe. A custom Update Center for Jenkins" Presentation (rus) Keywords: Juseppe Anna Muravieva, EMC, "Generic jobs in Jenkins....

As you probably know, on this year Jenkins projects participates in Google Summer of Code 2016. You can find more information about the accepted projects on the GSoC subproject page and in the Jenkins Developer mailing list. On this week GSoC students are going to present their projects as a part of mid-term evaluation, which covers one month of community bonding and one month of coding. We would like to...