This is a speaker blog post for a DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 talk in Lisbon, Portugal and has been posted in line with NCC Group responsible disclosure policy. Related Jenkins security advisories: 2017-11-08, 2017-11-16, 2018-06-25, 2018-07-30, 2018-09-25, 2019-02-19, 2019-03-06, 2019-03-25, 2019-04-03, 2019-04-17, 2019-08-07, 2019-09-12, 2019-10-01, 2019-10-16, 2019-10-23. Some of the vulnerabilities have been announced without a fix, see Jenkins Security Spring Cleaning 2019. The most of the announced vulnerabilities are fixed at the moment of this blogpost publishing. Come join us...

In addition to WAR files and Docker images, the Jenkins project provides native installers for each weekly and LTS release. There are installers available for Linux distributions, Windows, macOS and other operating systems. There are also installers provided by third parties. You can find the list of these installers on the Downloads page. In this blog post, we announce the upcoming deprecation of the macOS native installer. We will...

Managing any software presents its own unique challenges. Jenkins controllers are no exception. For example, How do you keep a finger on the pulse of everything going on in your Jenkins environment? Are you looking at every new defect opened in the issue tracker? How do you make sure that your controllers or agents don’t silently fail? Are you monitoring its logs? All of its internal...

I often find myself needing to run the same actions on a bunch of different configurations. Up to now, that meant I had to make multiple copies of the same stages in my pipelines. When I needed to make changes, I had to make the same changes in multiple places throughout my pipeline. Maintaining even a small number of configuration was difficult for larger pipelines. Declarative Pipeline 1.5.0-beta1...

The Jenkins community is conducting the 2019 elections for Board and Officer positions. The call for nominations has concluded. We received many nominations. Based on the people who are willing to accept their nomination and the uncontested officer positions, we will have 3 votes: A vote to elect 3 board members A vote to elect the Jenkins security officer A vote to elect the Jenkins events officer Candidates Each candidate has provided...

Context You have been tasked with managing the Jenkins instance for the highest grossing mobile game in the world. You learn that this involves helping the game studio iterate their work against eight different target platforms, each with their SDK, on four different main pipelines, plus a lot of extra auxiliary jobs. And, of course, the studio wants all of this to go smoothly, in order to maintain a...

DevOps World | Jenkins World San Francisco was August 12 - 15, 2019. The event was delivered in vivid colors starting with flowing banners hung from street lamp posts to the big screens in breakout rooms, to the expo hall. The energy and enthusiasm in the Moscone convention center made the colors even more vibrant, thanks to the people attending the conference. Here’s a recap of the...

This is a speaker blogpost for a DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 talk in Lisbon, Portugal With Halloween upon us, there’s no better time to discuss Jenkinstein! Are you suffering from Jenkins performance issues? Are users complaining about a slow UI or even scarier, is Jenkins going down frequently? Come join me at DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 for "Jenkins Performance: Avoiding Pitfalls, Diagnosing Issues, and...