Monthly JAM Recap - November 2016
As we near the end of the year, the number of November JAMs show that the Jenkins community isn’t slowing down for holiday season. We had a number of excellent events hosted around the world this...
View ArticleAnnouncing the beta of Declarative Pipeline Syntax
Last week we released version 0.7.1 of thePipeline-Model-Defintion plugin and wanted to crown it as the official Beta version of the Declarative Pipeline syntax. Although it has been available in the...
View ArticleContinuous Delivery with Jenkins and Puppet Enterprise
This is a guest post by Carl Caum, who works at Puppet and created thePuppet Enterprise Pipeline plugin.During PuppetConf 2016, myself and Brian Dawson from CloudBees announced thePuppet Enterprise...
View ArticleThank you for an amazing 2016
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say: 2016 was the best year yet for the Jenkins project. Since the first commit in 2006, the project has reached a number of significant milestones in its ten...
View ArticleLearning plugin development by improving the LIFX notifier plugin
This is across post by Veaceslav Gaidarji, open source developer and contributor to the Jenkins and Bitrise projects.Some time ago I encountered a LIFX smart bulbs. These are the bulbs with a chip...
View ArticleSecurity warnings in Jenkins
Jenkins 2.40 was released earlier this week, and readers of thechangelog will have noticed that it now includes the ability to show security warnings published by the configured update site. But what...
View ArticleJenkins World 2017 Call for Papers is Open
The largest Jenkins event, Jenkins World is coming to San Francisco, California on August 28 - 31, 2017, at the Marriott Marquis. This conference will feature two days of hands-on training, workshops,...
View ArticleDeclarative Pipeline Syntax Beta 2 release
This week, we released the second beta of the newDeclarative Pipeline syntax, available in the Update Center now as version 0.8.1 of Pipeline: Model Definition. You can read more about Declarative...
View ArticleBlue Ocean Dev Log: January Week #2
As we get closer toBlue Ocean 1.0, which is planned for the end of March, I figured it would be great to highlight some of the good stuff that has been going on. It’s been a busy-as-usual week as...
View ArticleSCM API turns 2.0 and what that means for you
We are announcing theSCM API 2.0.x andBranch API 2.0.x release lines.Downstream of this there are also some great improvements to a number of popular plugins including:GitHub Branch SourceBitBucket...
View ArticleJenkins Upgrades To Java 8
In the next few months, Jenkins will require Java 8 as its runtime.Back in last November.TimelineHere is how we plan to roll that baseline upgrade in the next few months.Now: Announce the intention...
View ArticleConverting Conditional Build Steps to Jenkins Pipeline
This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees.IntroductionWith all the new developments inJenkins Pipeline (andDeclarative Pipeline on the horizon), it’s easy to forget what...
View ArticleBlue Ocean Dev Log: January Week #3
As we get closer toBlue Ocean 1.0, which is planned for the end of March, I have startedhighlighting some of the good stuff that has been going on, and this week was a very busy week.A new Blue Ocean...
View ArticleBlue Ocean Dev Log: January Week #4
As we get closer toBlue Ocean 1.0, which is planned for the end of March, I havestartedhighlighting some of the good stuff that has been going on. This week was 10 steps forward, and about 1.5...
View ArticleBest Practices for Scalable Pipeline Code
This is a guest post by Sam Van Oort, Software Engineer at CloudBees and contributor to the Jenkins project.Today I’m going to show you best practices to write scalable and robust Jenkins Pipelines....
View ArticleSecurity updates for Jenkins core
We just released security updates to Jenkins, versions 2.44 and 2.32.2, that fix a high severity and several medium and low severity issues.For an overview of what was fixed, see the security advisory....
View ArticleBlue Ocean Dev Log: February Week #1
With only a couple of months left beforeBlue Ocean 1.0, which is planned for the end of March, I havebeenhighlighting some of the good work being finished up by the developers hacking on Blue...
View ArticleDeclarative Pipeline Syntax 1.0 is now available
This is a guest post byPatrick Wolf, Director of Product Management atCloudBees and contributor to the Jenkins project.I am very excited to announce the addition ofDeclarative Pipeline syntax 1.0...
View ArticleSCM API 2.0 Release Take 2
In January weannounced the release of SCM API 2.0. After the original release was published we identified four new high-impact issues. We decided to remove the new versions of the plugins from the...
View ArticleGoogle Summer Of Code 2017: Call for mentors
On behalf of the GSoC Org Admin team I am happy to announce that we are going to apply toGoogle Summer of Code (GSoC) again this year. In GSoC high-profile students work in open-source projects for...
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