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Continuous Information - Jenkins Newsletter vol. 5
The latest edition of Continuous Information is out for your reading pleasure. Highlights:Health Check-up for Jenkins: Kohsuke’s Tips on Keeping Jenkins HappyJenkins continues to take over the world,...
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Experimental Plugins Update Center
Lately there has been several cases where we wanted to deliver beta versions of the new plugins to interested users. To simplify this, we have created a new "experimental" update center, where alpha...
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Literate builds, WTF?
(This is a guest post by Stephen Connolly)Every developer, at some stage, will be handed a project to maintain that somebody else was responsible for. If you are lucky, the developer will not have left...
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"Meet the community" in JUC
(This is a guest post from Owen B. Mehegan aka autojack) The Jenkins User Conference - Palo Alto is coming up on October 23rd! The schedule for talks is full, but we've been looking for a way to give...
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Jenkins at Netflix / JUC speaker interview
(This is a guest post from Gareth Bowles, a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.) Jenkins has been a central part of the Netflix build and deploy infrastructure for several years now, and we've been...
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Jenkins User Conference is completely full!
(This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong, the lead coordinator of Jenkins User Conference) Our 3rd annual Jenkins User Conference in the Bay Area being held next Wednesday in Palo Alto is booked fully to...
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Jenkins Scalability Summit Recap
The day after Jenkins User Conference, we held a smaller meet-up of serious large-scale Jenkins users dubbed as "Jenkins Scalability Summit". In this Open Space Technology style event, we went over...
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DKIM and SPF deployed
In the hope of streamlining account creation e-mail delivery and mailing list moderations, I have deployed SPF and DKIM over the weekend for e-mails coming out of @jenkins-ci.org, which includes...
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JUC: Call for Volunteers to Join the Organizing Committee (and Venues!)
This is a guest post from Alyssa Tong, who drives JUC organizations around the world.If you missed JUC Palo Alto on Oct 23, 2013 the videos are now available.We are off to planning JUC 2014. It is hard...
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Summary Report: Git Repository Disruption Incident of Nov 10th
As reported in various places, there was an incident in early November where commits in our Git repositories have become misplaced temporarily by accident. By the mid next week we were able to...
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Jenkins User Conference 2013 Palo Alto Wrap-up
It's been a month now, but I realized that I've never posted a wrap-up post of JUC 2013. So in the spirit of "better later than, never", here it goes. First of all, I wanted to thank everyone who...
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Jenkins Sao Paulo Meetup this weekend
I'm going to visit Sao Paulo once again this weekend to attend the second annual Jenkins users meet-up. It's a whole day free event Saturday full of Jenkins goodness.You'll hear from a number of active...
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Jenkins at FOSDEM 2014
FOSDEM is probably the biggest open-source developers' conference in Europe. This year will be the 3rd year for us to be present in FOSDEM. There will be a bunch of community people, handing out flyers...
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Jenkins User Conferences This Year
Over the past three years, the Jenkins User Conference is held annually in the Bay Area with a few events in different locations around the world. The Jenkins User Conference has established a...
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Call for Sponsors: 2014 Jenkins User Conferences
Jenkins User Conference (JUC) season is upon us! It’s a busy year for the Butler – he’s hosting conferences all over and looking for sponsors to help:Boston – June 18 Berlin – June 25 Herzelia, Israel...
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Your Java Web Start slaves will be always clean
If you have slaves that connect through Java Web Start (such as slaves installed as Windows services), we have a good news for you. In case of a connection loss, this type of slaves has been designed...
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Maven job type performance improvements in Maven plugin 2.2
I recently had an opportunity to visit a big Jenkins user on site, and one of the things they've told me is that building projects in the Maven job type is substantially slower than doing the same...
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More scalable slaves
NioNIO-based Java Web Start (JNLP) slave handling is coming to 1.560. This will help you run a large number of JNLP slaves more efficiently. A connected JNLP slave used to occupy one thread on the...
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InfoQ CI survey 2014
InfoQ has been running a CI server survey for more than a month now, and here is the current result: Jenkins has gotten more than 70% of the votes, once again proving the wide adoption among...
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Jenkins 1.532.3 LTS is released
The final LTS release of the 1.532.x line is out today. You can download it from the usual location. Changelog is here. Starting with the next 1.554.x LTS, the release model will switch to the train...
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