On March 10th we have conducted the second Jenkins meetup in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The meetup topic was "Jenkins and Continuous Delivery". We had 3 talks addressing various aspects of Jenkins usage in this area. Talks Introduction slides [ru] Jenkins 2.0 and Pipeline-as-Code Speaker: Oleg Nenashev, CloudBees Presentation (en) Presentation (ru) Continuous Delivery for Documentation Speaker: Stanislav Ovchar, Motorola Solutions Presentation (ru) Continuous Delivery with Jenkins at ZeroTurnaround Speaker: Sergei Egorov, ZeroTurnaround Presentation (en) We also...

A bug was introduced in Jenkins versions 1.645 and 1.642.2 which caused Jenkins to send anonymous usage statistics, even if the administrator opted-out of reporting usage data in the Jenkins web UI. If you are running one of the affected versions, the best/easiest solution is to upgrade. The bug does not affect Jenkins 1.653 or newer, or Jenkins LTS 1.642.4 or newer. If you cannot upgrade, it is possible to immediately disable...

We released the Jenkins 2.0 beta earlier today. Download it here and try it! Besides a number of bug fixes and minor improvements, the following changes are new since the last alpha preview release: Redesigned "New Item" page We redesigned the "New Item" page. Item types now have icons to be more visually distinctive. Additionally, item types can now define a category they belong to (such as "Project"...

Over the past few months, I’m happy to say, the number of Jenkins Area Meetups (JAMs) has grown tremendously! The excitement around JAMs has gotten us thinking about something larger, something more globally focused. That led us to create vJAM, an online Jenkins Area Meetup, where we can share what we’re learning together. The effort will be spear-headed by long time Jenkins contributor, R. Tyler Croy. The key goals for the...

The beta release of Jenkins 2.0 is rapidly approaching! The development team is working hard to find and squash as many bugs as possible, but do you know what would make that effort even more successful? You! A big part of Jenkins’s power lies in its extensive flexibility, but that flexibility poses challenges to testing. In short, it’s difficult for the core team to...

This is a guest post by Francois Dechery, he works at CloudBees managing Customer Engagement/Support, Consulting and Training. He is also leading the Jenkins Certification program at CloudBees which has been discussed in some of our previous (1, 2, 3) governance meetings. In the IT world, namely in software, "certification" is used in many different ways and for many different purposes. From very simple and light certifications to very heavy and complex ones. In...

We just published the new Jenkins 2.0-alpha-3 preview build. What’s new? Jenkins is now secure out of the box: Administrators previously had to set up authentication and authorization while Jenkins was accessible to anyone on the same network. Now, Jenkins is protected out of the box, so that it is always safe from unauthorized access. Plugin selection for setup: We refined the plugin selection on the setup dialog. You’ve always wondered why...

We are happy to announce that Jenkins project application has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2016 (GSoC). Thanks to everybody who helped prepare the application and submitted project ideas! We would like to invite students to join the Jenkins community and work together on the ongoing Jenkins 2.0 activities and other medium-term projects. The student projects we are primarily interested in would improve the overall Jenkins user experience...