This Wednesday’s Jenkins office hours is all about the Git plugin refactoring that’s going on. Git plugin is one of the most popular plugins out there, and it’s been around for quite some time. Combine that with the fact that there are so many different ways to use Git, it was inevitable that Git plugin became quite a capable but complex plugin over time. It...

As the usage of Jenkins expands, we started seeing users who run multiple 100s of agents on one controller, and thus it became a lot more important for us to scale well to even larger number of agents. While I was looking at the thread dump of a large system, I started noticing that there are a large number of threads lying around pumping InputStream...

With more than 600 plugins, Jenkins has a vibrant community and we’re dependent on YOU to keep it that way. Here are 3 ways you can give back to the community to ensure that everyone benefits and Jenkins keeps growing…​ Giving it back to the community #1: vendor+community=win Jenkins is becoming ubiquitous enough that tool vendors and service providers often find their users asking them to...

What better way to end the year than to come join a little Jenkins hackathon this Friday afternoon with Kohsuke (the core developer), Max Spring (Jenkow plugin), and hopefully other Jenkins hackers? We’ll do this at CloudBees Los Altos office, starting around Friday 1pm. View CloudBees Los Altos office in a larger map Our plan is to primarily hack on the Jenkow plugin, but if you have...

The last Jenkins office hour of the year hosts Robert Sandell and Tomas Westling, who will go over newly open-sourced metadata plugin from Sony Mobile Communications (more about this story on their website). This team from Sony Mobile has been known for several other popular plugins, including the Gerrit trigger plugin. And I think this latest batch of plugins will not disappoint! As I understand,...

(This is a guest post by Tony França) Hi all, my name is Tony, I’m the creator of (FreedomSponsors) and today I want to talk how Jenkins has inspired me to build it. Before starting, I’d like to thank the Jenkins crew for letting me publish this guest post in their blog. On top of that, thank you for maintaining Jenkins as well - I’m a big...

We’ve identified and fixed a critical security vulnerabilities in Jenkins core. This affects all the releases of Jenkins to date (main line releases up to 1.452 and LTS up to 1.424.3.) Please upgrade to the new releases at your earliest convenience, especially if your Jenkins is internet facing. For more details about the vulnerabilities, affected versions, and so on, please consult the security advisory. (See our page...

Until now, Jenkins plugins written in Java or Groovy could only be built with Maven, using the maven-hpi-plugin to generate a proper manifest and archive which Jenkins can consume. But starting now, you can also use Gradle! See the wiki for information on how you can use Gradle and the new gradle-jpi-plugin to build, test and release your Java or Groovy Jenkins plugin....

"> Jenkins community survey result is in, which shows a number of interesting stats for us developers, such as 82% of people saying their Jenkins is mission critical, or the spread of distributed builds, especially compared to my earlier similar usage analytics. But just as interesting is the free-form answers to questions like "If there was anything you could you change about Jenkins CI, what would...

In 1.430, we added the translation assistance plugin in the hope of increasing the contribution from the community. It’s been 3 months, and I’ve finally took the opportunity to integrate them into Jenkins. The result is pretty amazing. Before this, we had 26 languages, with wildly varying degree of completeness, such as French, Japanese, German, etc. This is still pretty good, but this integration added...