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• You are invited to the Post-FOSDEM 2018 Jenkins Hackfest

  On the first weekend in February, numerous free and open source developers from around the world will travel to Brussels, Belgium, for arguably the largest event of its kind: FOSDEM. Among the thousands of hackers in attendance will be a number of Jenkins contributors. On the Monday after FOSDEM, you are invited to join a group of those contributors for a full day of hacking...

  

  Liam Newman January 26, 2018
• Overhaul of Manage Jenkins page

  Overview Recently some UI improvements around the Manage Jenkins page have been introduced. The visual changes are very subtle but behind them, there are interesting benefits. Some of the goals that we have tried to achieve: Applying a semantic HTML Removing the <table> tag usage for implementing layouts and content structures. Read this article if you want to know reasons and/or arguments. Small re-styling focused...

  Manuel Recena January 21, 2018
• Jenkins World 2018: Call for Papers is Open

  Happy 2018! The Jenkins World train is ready to take off once again. As usual, the sign of festivities looming begins with the Call for Papers. Those who attended Jenkins World 2017 know that Jenkins World 2018 is coming back to San Francisco. But what they did not know is that Jenkins World will also be coming to Europe....

  

  Alyssa Tong January 17, 2018
• JEP-200: Remoting / XStream whitelist integrated into Jenkins core

  There is a newer version of the announcement for Jenkins administrators. Please see this blogpost. Overview JEP-200 has been integrated into Jenkins weekly builds and (if all goes well) will be a part of the next LTS line. In a nutshell, this change is a security hardening measure to be less permissive about deserializing Java classes defined in the Java Platform or libraries bundled with Jenkins. For...

  Jesse Glick January 13, 2018
• Moving from buddybuild to Jenkins for Android Developers

  Last week, buddybuild — a hosted continuous integration service focused on mobile apps — announced that it had been acquired by Apple, and consequently its complete Android offering, along with its free tier for iOS users, will be discontinued at the beginning of March. This was a fairly undesirable way to start 2018 for buddybuild’s Android users and, with less than...

  Christopher Orr January 8, 2018
• Google Summer Of Code 2018: Call for mentors

  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...

  

  Oleg Nenashev January 6, 2018
• FOSDEM 2018!

  FOSDEM 2018 is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is an annual event that brings open source contributors from around the world for two days of presentations, discussions, and learning. Jenkins will be well-represented at FOSDEM 2018. Happy Hour before FOSDEM We’ll have a happy hour Friday evening before FOSDEM at Cafe Le Roy d’Espagne. See the meetup...

  

  Mark Waite January 3, 2018
• Happy New Year!

  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...

  

  Oleg Nenashev December 31, 2017
• Auto-Convert Freestyle Jobs to Jenkins Pipeline

  This is a guest post by Sanil Pillai, Director of Labs & Strategic Insights, Infostretch Infostretch has created a plugin for teams upgrading from Freestyle Jobs to Pipelines as code with Jenkins Pipeline. This new plugin streamlines the process and accelerates pipeline on-boarding for any new set of applications. Previously, when upgrading to Jenkins Pipeline, converting Freestyle Jobs required developers to drill down on each one of...

  Sanil Pillai December 15, 2017