We’re counting down the weeks until Blue Ocean 1.0. This week was relatively quiet with a few people away for a few days, and mostly about consolidation. There was a beta late last week, so this week we thought we would let people have a rest from the upgrade treadmill for once.
One notable feature that has recently landed is "escaping to Classic" When you see the exit symbol (door with arrow) it will take you to an equivalent page in classic Jenkins (if one exists). You will notice this in a few places in the app now.
Some other things that made it to master branch which have not yet been
released in a beta:
An API to save/branch to GitHub was finished, and tested with "round tripping" with the Editor in some form
New compact form of duration reporting (old style was too verbose for most screens)
Fixed a bug with input submissions with concurrent browser sessions which was quite a tricky bug to chase down!
Only show Admin link when appropriate.
Many many bug fixes and polishing.
There has also been an uptick in activity on theGitter channel with an increased number of questions about usage and Pipelines. But also questions from people starting to extend, or add features, to Blue Ocean, which is very nice to see.
Gavin Mogan has been looking at integrating the Sauce OnDemand plugin into Blue Ocean for better browser-test reporting. Tangentially related, we also are planning to improve browser-testing in Blue Ocean as well. What is perhaps more exciting is that more people, like Paul Dragoonis andother folks, are starting to contribute some fixes which have been lingering around for a while.
Up Next:
Round trip Blue Ocean Pipeline Editor changes with load/save
Bundling the Blue Ocean Pipeline Editor with the "aggregator" Blue Ocean plugin.
Some release candidates!
Enjoy!
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