Those who fervently watch the jenkinsci-dev@ list, like I do, may have caught Daniel Beck's email today which quietly referenced a significant milestone on the road to 2.0 which has been reached: the first 2.0 release candidate is here! The release candidate process, in short, is the final stabilization and testing period before the final release of Jenkins 2.0. If you have the cycles to help test, please download the release candidate...

On March 10th we have conducted the second Jenkins meetup in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The meetup topic was "Jenkins and Continuous Delivery". We had 3 talks addressing various aspects of Jenkins usage in this area. Talks Introduction slides [ru] Jenkins 2.0 and Pipeline-as-Code Speaker: Oleg Nenashev, CloudBees Presentation (en) Presentation (ru) Continuous Delivery for Documentation Speaker: Stanislav Ovchar, Motorola Solutions Presentation (ru) Continuous Delivery with Jenkins at ZeroTurnaround Speaker: Sergei Egorov, ZeroTurnaround Presentation (en) We also...

We released the Jenkins 2.0 beta earlier today. Download it here and try it! Besides a number of bug fixes and minor improvements, the following changes are new since the last alpha preview release: Redesigned "New Item" page We redesigned the "New Item" page. Item types now have icons to be more visually distinctive. Additionally, item types can now define a category they belong to (such as "Project"...

The beta release of Jenkins 2.0 is rapidly approaching! The development team is working hard to find and squash as many bugs as possible, but do you know what would make that effort even more successful? You! A big part of Jenkins’s power lies in its extensive flexibility, but that flexibility poses challenges to testing. In short, it’s difficult for the core team to...

We just published the new Jenkins 2.0-alpha-3 preview build. What’s new? Jenkins is now secure out of the box: Administrators previously had to set up authentication and authorization while Jenkins was accessible to anyone on the same network. Now, Jenkins is protected out of the box, so that it is always safe from unauthorized access. Plugin selection for setup: We refined the plugin selection on the setup dialog. You’ve always wondered why...

We are happy to announce that Jenkins project application has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2016 (GSoC). Thanks to everybody who helped prepare the application and submitted project ideas! We would like to invite students to join the Jenkins community and work together on the ongoing Jenkins 2.0 activities and other medium-term projects. The student projects we are primarily interested in would improve the overall Jenkins user experience...

After first announcing the Jenkins 2.0 effort last fall, we are pleased to announce the availability of the first Jenkins 2.0 alpha builds. For months we have had builds available from the jenkins_2.0 branch of development, but the "alpha" builds mark Jenkins 2.0 being officially made available for testing and feedback. Download 2.0-alpha now Jenkins 2.0 Highlights Pipeline as Code The new Pipeline functionality in Jenkins allows you to define configuration as code, which can...