On the first weekend in February, numerous free and open source developers from around the world will travel to Brussels, Belgium, for arguably the largest event of its kind: FOSDEM. Among the thousands of hackers in attendance will be a number of Jenkins contributors. On the Monday after FOSDEM, you are invited to join a group of those contributors for a full day of hacking on Jenkins. Folks of all...

Overview Recently some UI improvements around the Manage Jenkins page have been introduced. The visual changes are very subtle but behind them, there are interesting benefits. Some of the goals that we have tried to achieve: Applying a semantic HTML Removing the <table> tag usage for implementing layouts and content structures. Read this article if you want to know reasons and/or arguments. Small re-styling focused on spacing, margins, composition,...

Happy 2018! The Jenkins World train is ready to take off once again. As usual, the sign of festivities looming begins with the Call for Papers. Those who attended Jenkins World 2017 know that Jenkins World 2018 is coming back to San Francisco. But what they did not know is that Jenkins World will also be coming to Europe. You read that right,...

There is a newer version of the announcement for Jenkins administrators. Please see this blogpost. Overview JEP-200 has been integrated into Jenkins weekly builds and (if all goes well) will be a part of the next LTS line. In a nutshell, this change is a security hardening measure to be less permissive about deserializing Java classes defined in the Java Platform or libraries bundled with Jenkins. For several years now, Jenkins...

Last week, buddybuild — a hosted continuous integration service focused on mobile apps — announced that it had been acquired by Apple, and consequently its complete Android offering, along with its free tier for iOS users, will be discontinued at the beginning of March. This was a fairly undesirable way to start 2018 for buddybuild’s Android users and, with less than two months to find...

This year the Jenkins project is interested in participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC). As in 2016/2017, we are looking for mentors. So yes, we are looking for you :) What is GSoC? GSoC is an annual international program which encourages college-aged students to participate with open source projects during the summer break between classes. Students accepted into the program receive a stipend, paid by Google, to work on well-defined projects to...

FOSDEM 2018 is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is an annual event that brings open source contributors from around the world for two days of presentations, discussions, and learning. Jenkins will be well-represented at FOSDEM 2018. Happy Hour before FOSDEM We’ll have a happy hour Friday evening before FOSDEM at Cafe Le Roy d’Espagne. See the meetup page for details. Jenkins table...

Jenkins project congratulates all users and contributors with the New Year! Let’s take a look at some changes this year. Highlights We released major features like BlueOcean and Declarative Pipeline These features offer a new user experience in Jenkins Web UI, powered by Jenkins Pipeline. In Jenkins 2.54 we updated the Java minimal requirement to Java 8 (announcement). Plugin CI has been moved to our Jenkins-on-Jenkins instance. All plugins are being built...