Jenkins Essentials has been renamed to Jenkins Evergreen since this was written. It’s been far too long since we posted an update on Jenkins Essentials. While it’s not quite ready for users to start trying it out, we continue hacking away on all manner of changes to support the safe and automatic upgrades of a running Jenkins environment. In the meantime, Jenkins contributor Baptiste Mathus took some time to introduce and demonstrate...

I use macOS day to day, and often struggle to keep my devtools up to date. This isn’t any fault of packaging or tools, more just that I get tired of seeing the beachball: The demands on dev machines grow, developers are now working across a more diverse set of technologies than just a JVM or a single scripting language these days. This keeping up to date is...

(adapted from this blog post by Daniel Nurmi) As more and more Jenkins users ship docker containers, it is worth thinking about the security implications of this model, where the variance in software being included by developers has increased dramatically from previous models. Security implications in this context include what makes up the image, but also the components of the app that get bundled into...

This week we have a Jenkins & Java 10 Online Hackathon. This is an open online event, where we work together on Jenkins core and plugins in order to find and fix compatibility issues, share experiences and have some fun. Everybody is welcome to join, independently of their Jenkins experience and amount of time they have available. After the kick off on Monday Jenkins contributors have been working on Java...

About me My name is Pham Vu Tuan, I am a final year undergraduate student from Singapore. This is the first time I participate in Google Summer of Code and contribute to an open-source organization. I am very excited to contribute this summer. Mentors I have GSoC mentors who help me in this project Oleg Nenashev and Supun Wanniarachchi. Besides that, I also receive great support from...

Please refer to Running Jenkins on Java 11 documentation to have the up-to-date details on how to run Jenkins on Java 11. Guidelines in this blogpost are rendered obsolete by the Java 11 Support Preview Availability announcement on Dec 13, 2018 and by the Java 11 GA release on Sep 25, 2018. See the Java support page for up-to-date information about running Jenkins with Java 11. The Jenkins project...

About me I am Abhishek Gautam, 3rd year student from Visvesvaraya National Institute of technology, India, Nagpur. I was a member of ACM Chapter and Google student developer club of my college. I am passionate about automation. Mentors Oleg Nenashev (Org Admin) Martin d’Anjou Kristin Whetstone Jeff Knurek Project Summary This is a GSoC 2018 project. This project aims to develop a pull request Job Plugin. Users should be able to configure job type using YAML...

About me My name is Shenyu Zheng, and I am an undergraduate student in Computer Science and Technology at Henan University from China. I am very excited that I can participate in GSoC to work on Code Coverage API plugin with the Jenkins community and to contribute to the open source world. It is my greatest pleasure to write a plugin that many developers will use. My...