Some of you may have been following all the photos posted to the hudsonlabs Flickr account from this year’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco. Alan O’Leary responded to this photo with one of the funniest comments of the day: "Java and Oracle - 'In Opposite Directions'"...

As we near autumn up here in the Northern Hemisphere, the wind is starting to blow a bit chillier and here in the Bay Area that can only mean one thing: Oracle is suing everybody! it’s time for JavaOne! A whole lot has changed since last year, Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle, Kohsuke left Snoracle to found InfraDNA and Hudson has continued to power...

In late 2008, the Hudson team released version 1.264 which added an anonymous reporting feature (you can opt-out in the "Manage Hudson" screen). The reporting feature has been sending information back to the Hudson team to help us understand how Hudson is used in aggregate; the info being reported includes the number of jobs configured, agent configurations, what plugins (and what versions of those...

So you’ve got your fancy Android cell phone and you’re thinking to yourself "besides feeling smugly superior to iPhone users, what can I do with this thing?" Perhaps you should be considering using it as a phone but if that’s too boring, check out the new and improved Hudson Mood widget for Android! The latest release brings support for multiple servers and fancier graphics. If...

The developer for the Hudson extension for Google Chrome, Sebastian Sanitz, emailed the users@ list today to inform the community of an update to his fantastic extension. Sebastian’s extension monitors ci.hudson-labs.org by default, but the URL and polling interval are both trivial to change. When any of the builds in the configured URL fail, you’ll see a red "Fail" indicator, otherwise green "Ok". If you’re interested...

Squee-D had some nice things to say in the #hudson IRC channel yesterday that I thought I would share: Just to sing some praise again, make sure you all know how appreciated it is, we absolutely love hudson, and appreciate everyone who develops and maintains it. Positive feedback (and negative really) is always appreciated; have you thanked your plugin maintainer today?...

Way back in March, I asked you all: Want some Hudson stickers? Turns out, a lot of you do! Thanks to a huge amuont of help by my future wife, the first shipment of Hudson stickers went into the mail last week. This first shipment was only to United States addresses! If you live outside of the U.S., or if you requested more than...

Intrepid Hudson user Christian Pelster posted a little project of his this week to the "users" mailing list called: hudsontrafficlights. Christian describes the project as: This Java based daemon aggregates the status of one or more jobs from a Hudson continuous integration server into a single status (red, yellow, green) and invokes a shell script on status change. You can use hudsontrafficlights to control a USB traffic...

The release of 1.355 came out earlier this week but I hadn’t had the chance to write anything up about it. Of course, the work never stops on Hudson so we almost have 1.356 ready to roll out the door, but then Kohsuke tweeted this: Because of the data center migration going on, I won’t be able to release #hudsonci today. I won’t go into details...

Hear ye, hear ye! Behold, the first release of Hudson ever made by a not-employed-by-Sun Kohsuke (as we covered last week). This iteration of Hudson contains only bug fixes, check the listing below for the specifics on which bugs have been fixed (1.355 is looking like it will contain a number of fixes as well). The release of 1.354 comes slightly later than usual...