We have some exciting news to share with you! We have finalized most of the dates and locations for the 2015 Jenkins User Conference (JUC) World Tour. Save the date(s): US East (Washington DC): June 18-19 Europe (London): June 23-24 Israel: July 16 (ETA) US West (Santa Clara): September 2-3 The big news? The JUC agenda has been expanded this year to cover two days! That means you get twice...

Congratulations! The Jenkins project officially went over the 100K active users mark sometime in January. As of January 31, we were at 102,992. YOU are one of the 100K active users! As discussed on a couple recent project meetings, we have designated February 26 as Jenkins Celebration Day. To make some noise, here is what we are doing starting NOW: Write a blog about anything related to...

In tomorrow’s Jenkins office hours, Jesse Glick will talk about two topics in the workflow plugin that he has been asked about: Security model: script security, permissions Plugin compatibility: SimpleBuildStep and friends, custom steps, etc. The session should be interesting to anyone using workflow or thinking about using workflow. Jesse is one of the top contributors in the community, so it’d be definitely worth your time!...

+ The Jenkins User Conference 2015 is seeking submissions that reflect the latest innovations in Jenkins usage. This is your chance to educate, share and inspire the community with stories of how you’ve used Jenkins to continuously build that amazing project or how you developed that popular plugin that everyone is using. If you’re gamed, here are some suggestions to get your creative juice going: Scaling Jenkins...

A lot of us has grown fond of our loyal butler Mr.Jenkins over time, which was created by Frontside and chosen as a result of a logo contest. In the true open-source style, the logo has since evolved into many different derivative works, such as a plugin, a 3D model, and a bobble head. Our friends at CloudBees are running a #BreakingBuilds social media contest...

Jenkins User Conference in Bay Area is this Thursday, and one of the new things this year is the mobile app. + There’s an Android version as well as an iPhone version. I’ve installed it locally, and it’s very handy for checking the agenda, get more info about speakers and sponsors....

Another day, another SSL vulnerability! Google has announced a vulnerability in SSL v3, and if you are using the "Winstone" servlet container built into Jenkins, and if you are using the HTTPS connector with the --httpsPort option (it is off by default), then you are vulnerable to this problem. I’ve just issued a security advisory on this. If you haven’t already subscribed to the Jenkins...

+ 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...

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,...