Jenkins Essentials has been renamed to Jenkins Evergreen since this was written. In his presentation at the 2017 Jenkins World Contributor Summit, Kohsuke challenged us to continue the work started with Jenkins 2 of making Jenkins easier to install and easier to use. "A user should be successful with Jenkins in under five minutes and five clicks." At that same Contributor Summit, a few of us discussed the idea of...

Lately, perhaps subtle but exciting changes are starting to happen in the Jenkins project. The past few weeks have seen the birth of two new initiatives in Jenkins: Jenkins Essentials and Jenkins X. Each is exciting in its own right, and I encourage interested parties to take a look at their goals and missions and participate in them. But in this post, I want to discuss why together...

We are excited to share and invite the community to join us on a project we’ve been thinking about over the last few months called Jenkins X which extends the Jenkins ecosystem to solve the problem of automating CI/CD in the cloud. Background The last few years have seen massive changes in the software industry: use of immutable container images for distributing software which are smaller, easier...

Last year, news of compromised passwords being used for accounts able to distribute NPM packages made the rounds. Their system looks similar to how publishing of plugins works in the Jenkins project: Accounts are protected by passwords chosen by users. Individual contributors have permission to release the components they maintain. The components they release are used by millions of developers around the world to deliver their software. In other...

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...

Over the last year, several efforts were done on jenkins.io like security advisories or documentation and I wanted to understand the impact it had on its traffic. I had a look to the Google Analytics account used for jenkins.io and it was interesting to discover which browsers are used by Jenkins visitors and how this compares with other websites. So I decided to analyze one year of data from January...

You’ve marked your calendar to alert you weeks in advance of the CFP deadline. You’ve spent your nights and weekends to skillfully craft your abstract and you are convinced this is THE one. You confidently clicked the 'submit' button only to find out weeks later you’ve received an automated declined email. On top of feeling disappointed, you probably wondered why your proposal was turned down. As Jenkins World CFP is...

Table of Contents Introducing "Project Cheetah" Yes, but what does it DO? How Do I Set Speed/Durability Settings? 1. Globally, you can choose a global default durability setting: 2. Each Pipeline can get a custom Durability Setting: 3. Multibranch Projects can use a new BranchProperty to customize the Durability Setting. Will Performance-Optimized Mode Help Me? Other Goodies How Did You Do It? What Next? Since it launched, Pipeline has had a bit of a Dr....