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...

Over the past year Hudson has grown tremendously, both within the Java community and outside of it. Partially thanks to (Titus Brown)'s PyCon 2010 Atlanta coverage of continuous integration for Python (which we’ve covered before), Hudson has made great strides within the Python community as well. In my experience, the majority of Python developers are not using Hudson to build anything, unless they have...

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?...

The Hudson team has released Hudson 1.365 which contains a critical security fix! A security advisory released yesterday by InfraDNA goes on to explain the hole with more detail: This vulnerability allows an attacker to read arbitrary files in the server file system whose path names are known, by sending malicious HTTP GET requests. While such access is still subject to the normal access control enforced by the...

Hudson, like all web applications, is not immune from vulnerabilities that could open up attack vectors for malicious use. What puts Hudson in a league of its own compared to others is its ability to execute arbitrary commands on agent machines, or in the case of the EC2 plugin, execute arbitrary commands "in the cloud." In light of all this, Hudson is quite secure...

It’s been quite a while since I posted a Hudson links-roundup post, so without further ado, here goes nothing Max tells us about using Hudson with Symbian’s CodeScanner tool. Running agents on Mac OS X? Mirko has some handy launchctl foo for keeping his JNLP agents online Scott threw up a great configuration sample for running Hudson with an Nginx reverse proxy with SSL Mark walks us through...

Last week, friend-of-Hudson Leandro Nunes sent the following message to the users mailing list regarding his upcoming talk on continuous integration and Hudson: Next month I will present a talk about Hudson in the 11th International Free Software Forum (FISL 11), held in Porto Alegre Brazil (detailed time and date of the talk are not yet scheduled so). FISL 11 is one of the biggest free software events...

Recently our fearless leader, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, was invited by the nice folks over at Digg to give a tech talk about continuous integration and automated testing. The Digg engineering team is full of believers in continuous integration, including our very own Andrew Bayer (abayer). Being big users of the Sauce Labs service to drive their vast Selenium test suite, the house was packed with...