A lot of people are using the Workflow plugin, but as with any scripting environment, users often have to start from scratch and learn the same lessons and shortcuts that other users have already learned. While there are blog posts from developers and users in various places, and some samples in the Workflow plugin documentation, more examples and tips and tricks are always, always...

We released Jenkins updates today that include important security fixes: 1.641 and 1.625.3. For detailed information about the security content of these updates, see the security advisory. One of these fixes, SECURITY-95, results in possible problems in plugins such as Maven Plugin, Javadoc Plugin, and HTML Publisher Plugin, so make sure to read all about that in the documentation. Please note that the update site may...

Note: This is a guest post by Kishore Bhatia. Kishore works for CloudBees, building custom frameworks with Open Source software and helping customers solve engineering problems around continuous delivery and DevOps at scale. This year some great new Jenkins features came out of the butler’s goodie bag - amongst them, the most important one being the ability to realize continuous delivery pipeline as code! The features...

Last week we hosted our first Hacksgiving event, a two-day virtual hackathon with a number of recorded sessions and plenty of pull requests submitted, I would say it was a success! I would like to thank everybody who took the time to watch, chat and present in the Hacker Hangout. Now that everybody has had time to recover from the turkey and travel, we have...

Next week in the US we have a national holiday where, generally speaking, lots of turkey gets converted into left-over turkey sandwiches. For many software developers the Thanksgiving holiday also represents a lull in project schedules, freeing up some time to hack on pet projects or even contribute to open source projects. Taking a cue from the Adopt a Plugin program that Daniel wrote about...

We just released Jenkins 1.638 and 1.625.2 which contain important security fixes, including a fix for the zero-day vulnerability published on Friday. Please see the security advisory for more information. Want to be kept up to date on Jenkins security releases, including advance notice on scheduled security updates? Subscribe to the jenkinsci-advisories mailing list!...

It is great to see the pick up of local activities through hosted JAMs. In October, the Jenkins community hosted Atlanta JAM and Bay Area JAM. Many thanks to our sponsors: Ericsson, CloudBees, Blazemeter, NetRoadShow. Here’s a summary of what was discussed: Atlanta JAM - Jenkins workflow and Docker to reduce friction in DevOps efforts. Bay Area JAM- Performance testing strategies, incorporating performance tests into Jenkins workflows...

Updated 2015-11-11 15:00 UTC: We have released Jenkins 1.638 and 1.625.2 which contain a fix for this vulnerability. See the security advisory for more information about these releases. Updated 2015-11-06 03:55 UTC: Included a updated mitigation script which doesn’t have a Jenkins boot race condition Earlier today we received numerous reports about a previously undisclosed "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_%28computing%29[zero day]" critical remote code execution vulnerability and exploit in Jenkins...