Blue Ocean Dev Log: February Week #1

Published on 2017-02-03 by Michael Neale

With only a couple of months left before Blue Ocean 1.0, which is planned for the end of March, I have been highlighting some of the good work being finished up by the developers hacking on Blue Ocean.

This week was a grab bag of important behind-the-scenes features and finalising the preview of the editor. The merge of the SCM API changes also made it in. The editor has the new sheets style of editing (there will be blogs and more on this in the next few weeks):

Blue Ocean Editor

Some highlights:

  • Fix to async loading of resources like translations, so screens don’t "flash" when they are loaded (i18n improvement)

  • Links in notifications can be configured to point to classic or Blue Ocean screens

  • Time reporting works better when browser clock is out of sync with server

  • SECURITY-380 was backported into a small fix for those that aren’t running the latest LTS (but you should ideally be running it)

  • SCM API changes finally landed - this will be in beta 22 which should hit the update centers soon. This should make things work better with GitHub rate limits.

  • Beta 21 was released

  • The editor reached "preview" release state ready for use with the newly announced Declarative Pipeline stuff.

Serenity

Also, a reference to Australian pop culture had to be removed, sadly.

Up Next:

  • Some cosmetic changes around headers to make it much nicer and clearer

  • Favorite improvements

  • GitHub Org-based Pipeline creation

  • Editor available in the general update center

  • Beta 22 with SCM improvements and no more GitHub rate limit hassles

  • Many fixes

  • Improvements to the Acceptance Test Harness to reduce the number of false-positives.

Enjoy!

If you’re interested in helping to make Blue Ocean a great user experience for Jenkins, please join the Blue Ocean development team on Gitter!

About the Author
Michael Neale

Michael is a CD enthusiast with a interest in User Experience. He is a co-founder of CloudBees and a long time OSS developer, and can often be found lurking around the jenkins-dev mailing list or #jenkins on irc (same nick as twitter name). Before CloudBees he worked at Red Hat.