Introduction The Jenkins project is committed to delivering a world-class platform experience for end users and developers alike. At the core of this experience is Java, an object-oriented programming language with a cross-platform runtime in the form of the Java virtual machine (JVM). Since its inception, the Jenkins project has been a major consumer of Java, distributing over 1,800 plugins to an installed base of over 300,000...

Beginning with Jenkins 2.335 and Jenkins 2.332.1, the Jenkins project is migrating from System V init(8) to systemd(1) in its official Debian, Red Hat, and openSUSE packages. The official Docker image and Helm chart remain unchanged. For up-to-date information, refer to the Managing systemd services page in the documentation. Background Beginning in 2008, the Jenkins (then Hudson) project has delivered Linux OS installation packages for Debian (and derivatives),...

Please refer to the Java requirements documentation for up-to-date details on how to run Jenkins on Java 17. Jenkins, one of the leading open-source automation servers, does not yet officially support Java 17. On September 14, 2021, OpenJDK 17 was released. This is a Long-Term-Support (LTS) release, and it will stay around for years. The Jenkins project is eager to offer full support of this version. Over the last...

10 years ago, the Jenkins ruby-runtime was first released. It was an experiment to let plugins be written in ruby but still get integrated into the main Java Virtual Machine runtime with help of JRuby. A similar extension was made to allow plugins to be written in Python but still integrated into the Java Virtual Machine with Jython. Over the years though, the experiments are no longer being...

Summary Jenkins bundles Guava, a core Java library from Google. Beginning with Jenkins 2.320 (released on November 10, 2021), Jenkins has upgraded the Guava library from 11.0.1 (released on January 9, 2012) to 31.0.1 (released on September 27, 2021). Plugins have already been prepared to support the new version of Guava in JEP-233. Use the Plugin Manager to upgrade all plugins before and after upgrading to Jenkins 2.320. Motivation Many security-conscious organizations...

If you’ve been following JenkinsIsTheWay.io, you’ve read some fantastic stories from the Jenkins user community about the great stuff they are building with Jenkins. With over 200,000 installations to date, Jenkins remains the most widely used open-source automation server. And story after story, we hear what a critical role Jenkins plays in building robust, secure CI/CD pipelines. So it comes as no surprise that in many of...

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...

A little over a year ago, we launched JenkinsIsTheWay.io, a website whose sole purpose is to share Jenkins user stories with the developers and engineers in our community. Over a hundred of you have already shared your innovations, and they just keep coming. It comes as no surprise that many of the submitted stories are from IT consultants and software developers around...

Keeping up with our goal to clean up some of the technical debt inside Jenkins Core and reduce the maintenance overheads, we are happy to report we were able to remove a long-deprecated Apache Commons Digester library. Jenkins Core does not depend anymore on Apache Commons Digester v.2.1, a version that has been released in 2010. Some plugins will require update to operate properly after the...

We are happy to announce that Jenkins Operator officially became an official Jenkins sub-project. What does it mean for the project? Becoming an official part of the Jenkins project was a major step towards better alignment with the overall Jenkins’ roadmap and more opportunities to increase adoption of the Jenkins Operator project. Finally, with a dedicated team at VirtusLab actively maintaining the project we can engage with...