+ I suspect many of you have been impacted by CVE-2014-6271 (aka "shellshock" bash vulnerability.) We had our share of updates to do for various *.jenkins-ci.org servers. Java application servers in general (including one that ships in Jenkins) do not fork off processes like Apache does to serve requests, so the kind of CGI attacks you see on Apache does not apply. We are currently unaware...

+ The usual suspects, such as CloudBees, XebiaLabs, SOASTA, PuppetLabs, et al are doing a Jenkins-themed continuous delivery event series called "cdSummit." The event is free, has a nice mix of user/vendor talks, and has an appeal to managers and team leads who are working on and struggling with continuous delivery and automation. I’ve spoken in the past events, and I enjoyed the high-level pitches from...

There’ll be several talks that touch Jenkins. The first is from me and Jesse called Next Step in Automation: Elastic Build Environment [CON3387] Monday 12:30pm. Then later Tuesday, there’s Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Gradle and Jenkins [CON11237] from Benjamin Muschko of Gradleware. Thursday has several Jenkins talks. One is The Deploy Factory: Open Source Tools for Java Deployment [CON1880] from Bruno Souza (aka the...

As was discussed some time ago, the workflow summit is being organized, and it’s open for RSVP. Due to the overwhelming demand, I’ve increased the capacity this time to 50, but this is an unconference where everyone needs to participate, which means we really cannot have too many people without changing the dynamics of the event. So please make sure you are willing to participate, as...

+ My apologies for the last minute announcement, but there will be a Jenkins user meet-up in Paris on Sep 10th 7:00pm, which is just next week. The event is hosted by Zenika. You’ll hear from Gregory Boissinot and Adrien Lecharpentier about plugin development, and I’ll be talking about workflow. It’s been a while we do a meet-up in Paris. Looking forward to seeing as many...

JUC SF on October 23, 2014 is shaping up to be bigger and better this year. Here’s what we have in store for you! Three Tracks We’ve received a record high of 40 stellar proposals this year. To accommodate the many community proposals, we’ve decide to add a third track to the agenda. JUC SF sessions are now available for you to view. We have speakers from Google, Target,...

+ As I was alluding to earlier, I was hoping to have a meetup of Jenkins users in London for a while. I’m happy to report that the agenda is final and RSVP is open! The date is September 8th. I’ll talk about my recent chef/puppet integration work in Jenkins. Sven from Perforce will talk about how to leverage Perforce features from Jenkins, and then James...

RebelLabs started annual Geek Choice Awards, and Jenkins was one of the 10 winners. See the page they talk about Jenkins. My favorite part is, to quote, "Jenkins has an almost laughably dominant position in the CI server segment", and "With 70% of the CI market on lockdown and showing an increasing rate of plugin development, Jenkins is undoubtably the most popular way to go...

Some time ago, we’ve built Jenkins bobble head figures. This was such a huge hit that everywhere I go, I get asked about them. The only problem was that it cannot be individually ordered, and we didn’t have enough cycles to individually sell and ship them for those who wanted them. So I decided to have the 3D model of Mr.Jenkins built, which would allow...

This year marks the 3rd annual Jenkins User Conference in Israel. While the timing of the event turned out to be less than ideal for reasons beyond our control, that didn’t stop 400 Jenkins users from showing up at the "explosive" event at a seaside hotel near Tel Aviv. Shlomi Ben-Haim kicked off the conference by reporting that JUC Israel just keeps getting bigger, and...