Jenkins Community Blog

Mark Waite

Mark is the Jenkins Documentation Officer, a long-time Jenkins user and contributor, and maintains the git plugin and the git client plugin. He is active in Jenkins special interest groups including the Docs SIG, Platform SIG, and Advocacy SIG.

Oct

26

Use Just Enough Pipeline

Jenkins Pipeline (or simply Pipeline with a capital P) is a suite of plugins that supports implementing and integrating continuous delivery pipelines into Jenkins. This allows you to automate the process of getting software from version control through to your users and customers. Pipeline code works beautifully for its intended role of automating build, test, deploy, and administration tasks. But, as it is pressed into more complex...
Mark Waite
Darin Pope
- pipeline
Oct

25

Jenkins Election 2021

Voter registration is now open for the 2021 Jenkins project elections. Two members of the governing board are up for election. Five officers are up for election. How Do I Register to Vote? Click the "Register Here" button above or open https://community.jenkins.io/g/election-voter in your browser. You will need to register with community.jenkins.io either using an existing account (like a GitHub account) or by creating a new account dedicated to...
Mark Waite
Sep

04

Jenkins project Confluence instance attacked

Earlier this week the Jenkins infrastructure team identified a successful attack against our deprecated Confluence service. We responded immediately by taking the affected server offline while we investigated the potential impact. At this time we have no reason to believe that any Jenkins releases, plugins, or source code have been affected. Thus far in our investigation, we have learned that the Confluence CVE-2021-26084 exploit was used to...
Mark Waite
R. Tyler Croy
- infrastructure
- security
Aug

17

Docker images use Java 11 by default

The Jenkins project provides Docker images for controllers, inbound agents, outbound agents, and more. Beginning with Jenkins 2.307 released August 17, 2021 and Jenkins 2.303.1 released August 25, 2021, the Docker images provided by the Jenkins project will use Java 11 instead of Java 8. Controllers use Java 11 by default If you are running one of the Jenkins Docker controller images that does not include a...
Mark Waite
Dheeraj Singh Jodha
- java
- platform
- docker
Jul

27

Git username / password credentials binding

Google Summer of Code 2021 is implementing git credentials binding for sh, bat, and powershell. Git credentials binding is one of the most requested features for Jenkins Pipeline (see JENKINS-28335). The project involves extending the Credentials Binding Plugin to create custom bindings for two types of credentials essential to establish a remote connection with a git repository Username/Password SSH Private Key Why use git credentials binding? Many operations in a...
Mark Waite
Rishabh Budhouliya
- git
Jun

17

Jenkins IRC moves to Libera Chat

We are happy to announce that the Jenkins community has moved all its official IRC channels to Libera chat. We have started our migration on May 26 as a response to the hostile takeover of hundreds of open source community channel by the new Freenode management. As decided by the Jenkins governance meeting on June 16th, Libera Chat IRC channels are the only official channels going forward. A more detailed...
Mark Waite
Oleg Nenashev
Apr

07

Welcome the She Code Africa Contributhon participants!

The She Code Africa Contributhon started April 1, 2021. The She Code Africa Contributhon is a boot camp where African women are paid to work with open source organizations on selected projects with dedicated mentors. This program aims to create a more diverse, inclusive, and innovative culture within the African open source ecosystem by matching African women in technology with sponsor and mentor open source organizations. The...
Mark Waite
Mar

19

Jenkins accepted in She Code Africa Contributhon

She Code Africa is a non-profit organization focused on celebrating and empowering young girls and women in technology across Africa. They provide resources and events that help women grow and achieve their personal and career goals. Their mentoring programs provide help and guidance as participants learn and grow in their careers. This year, She Code Africa is organizing the She Code Africa Contributhon. Contributhon is a boot camp...
Mark Waite
- events
- community
Feb

16

Jenkins Contributor Summit Online Feb 23-25

The Jenkins Contributor Summit brings together current and future contributors to the Jenkins project. We’re hosting an online summit this year to encourage contributors from around the world to meet, discuss, and plan for the future. The Contributor Summit will be Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 through Thursday, February 25, 2021. The summit brings together community members to learn, meet, and help shape the future of Jenkins. In the...
Mark Waite
- community
- events
Feb

08

Docker image updates

Beginning with Jenkins 2.279 and Jenkins 2.263.4, the Jenkins project is upgrading the base operating system and Java version used in the jenkins/jenkins:latest and jenkins/jenkins:lts images. The update replaces OpenJDK 8u242 with AdoptOpenJDK 8u282 and replaces Debian 9 ("Stretch") with Debian 10 ("Buster"). Why? We’re changing the base image so that we have a better supported operating system and a more current Java release for Jenkins controllers. Better...
Mark Waite