Jenkins November 2022 Newsletter
November 2022Welcome to the Jenkins Newsletter! This is a compilation of progress within the project, highlighted by Jenkins Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for the month of November.Got Inspiration? We...
View Article[GSoC] 'Tis the Season to Give the Gift of Mentorship
'Tis the season of gift giving and what better way than to give the gift of mentorship.Jenkins is a big supporter and contributor of programs like Google Summer of Code (GSoC), She Code Africa, and...
View ArticleMaintenance with downtime of JFrog Artifactory (repo.jenkins-ci.org) 18 of...
Maintenance with downtime of JFrog Artifactory (repo.jenkins-ci.org) December 18, 2022December 18, 2022: our sponsor JFrog will proceed to perform maintenance of our "jenkinsci" Artifactory...
View ArticleJenkins plugin development requires Java 11 or newer
🚀 Java Platform updateJenkins has required Java 11 or newer since 2.361.1 LTS (released on September 7, 2022) and has supported Java 17 since 2.346.1 LTS (released on June 16, 2022). At the time, more...
View ArticleCreate a new Jenkins node, and run your Jenkins agent as a service
Table of ContentsPre-requisitesJavaJenkins userDockerCreate a new node in JenkinsNode creation in the UINode configurationRun your Jenkins agent as a serviceIn this tutorial, we will review how to...
View ArticleJenkins 2022 Recap
2022 was a fruitful year for Jenkins! Across the Jenkins project, we experienced growth and strong contributions. We want to share deep gratitude to the corporate sponsorships and individual...
View Article"On your marks, get set, ..."
In a couple of days, the Jenkins GSoC 2023 preparation will culminate with our official Organization Application. It is now time to shed some light on what is coming next.Since December 2022, we have...
View ArticleJenkins January 2023 Newsletter
HighlightsJenkins in GSoC planning is in full steam ahead.General availability of new development tools on ci.jenkins.io: Maven, JDK, Playwright.98 pull requests were merged from 38 different authors...
View ArticleThoughts on FOSDEM 2023
What better way to kick off the new year, than by returning for an in-person event at one of the most popular open source gatherings of all, FOSDEM! On February 4 & 5, contributors from the Jenkins...
View ArticleJenkins Contributor Awards - Nominations Open
The Jenkins project is a part of the Continuous Delivery Foundation, which gives out awards to recognize all the work from this community and the progress made in the name of Continuous Delivery.View...
View ArticleGoogle Summer of Code 2023… Here We Come!
We are thrilled to announce that Jenkins has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2023! This will be Jenkins' seventh year as a mentoring organization.Congratulations to all 172 accepted open-source...
View ArticleHow to build an unsigned Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine
Should you ever need to rebuild a Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine, here is a way to do it.Pre-requisitesJenkins WAR fileFirst, you should download the Jenkins war file that will be inside the MSI...
View ArticleminiJen is alive!
The Jenkins multi-architecture CPU instanceWhat is that contraption?Nope, it’s not a robot of some sort, it won’t move by itself. It’s not Cerebro from Professor Xavier; no, it can’t fly either. What...
View ArticleJenkins Contributor Awards - Voting Open
The 2023 Jenkins award nomination period has ended and voting is now open! Voting will take place until March 28, when the voting period closes, and the winners will be announced at this year’s...
View ArticleJenkins February 2023 Newsletter
HighlightsFOSDEM 2023 insightsJenkins is a mentor organization for Google Summer of CodeSeveral container image updatesJenkins Awards voting is now openContributed by: Alyssa TongFOSDEM 2023Returning...
View ArticleJira for the Jenkins project
The Jenkins project has used Jira Software for issue tracking since 2005. Jira has been our issue and enhancement tracking system for almost as long as Jenkins core has existed. Jenkins core and most...
View ArticleminiJen and RISCV
Short IntroductionWhat is miniJen? It’s the smallest Jenkins multi-cpu-architectures instance known to this day.It’s composed of a 4 armCortex-A55 core RockChip controller (aarch64), a 4 arm Cortex-A7a...
View ArticleJenkins 2.397 and 2.387.2: New Linux Repository Signing Keys
Beginning March 28, 2023, the Jenkins weekly releases will use new repository signing keys for the Linux installation packages. The same change will be made in Jenkins LTS releases beginning April 5,...
View ArticleAndroid and Jenkins: what is the limit?
After reading the title, you may be thinking "Wait, what? Is Jenkins somehow limited in building Android apps?" You can relax, as I may have phrased it incorrectly. We’re not talking about building...
View ArticleBuilding Android apps with Jenkins: an introduction
Why is mobile CI/CD special?In 2020, a surprising 33% of professional mobile app developers were not using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices, which is 18% more than web...
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