Beginning with Jenkins 2.335 and Jenkins 2.332.1, the Jenkins project is migrating from System V init(8) to systemd(1) in its official Debian, Red Hat, and openSUSE packages. The official Docker image and Helm chart remain unchanged. For up-to-date information, refer to the Managing systemd services page in the documentation. Background Beginning in 2008, the Jenkins (then Hudson) project has delivered Linux OS installation packages for Debian (and derivatives),...

Jenkins Contributor Awards for 2022 will be run by the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) along with many other CDF Community Awards. The nominations are currently open and are being accepted using GitHub issues to make the process more transparent. Any contributor is eligible! The deadline to nominate someone is March 29, 2022. Voting will open in April. Nominate contributors or vote with reactions/comments for all three Jenkins awards: Most Valuable...

Please refer to the Running Jenkins on Java 17 documentation for up-to-date details on how to run Jenkins on Java 17. Jenkins, one of the leading open-source automation servers, does not yet officially support Java 17. On September 14, 2021, OpenJDK 17 was released. This is a Long-Term-Support (LTS) release, and it will stay around for years. The Jenkins project is eager to offer full support of this...

We are thrilled to announce that Jenkins has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2022! This will be Jenkins' sixth year as a mentoring organization. Congratulations to all 203 accepted open source participating organizations! For the past 5 years as a mentoring organization, Jenkins boasts mentorship of 27 GSoC students by 80+ mentors, that’s bringing together over 107 strangers for a common idea - Jenkins. At the heart of it,...

Since 2005, the Google Summer of Code program has connected 18,000+ new open source contributors from 112 countries with 17,000+ mentors from 118 countries. Google Summer of Code has produced over 40 million lines of code for 746 open source organizations. The Jenkins project has been a mentoring organization for five years, successfully mentored 27 GSoC students by ~80 mentors, not to mention countless numbers of proposed and...

I regularly go, as all Jenkins admin do, to my system’s Plugin Management page to see what plugins can be upgraded. Although I am running the latest LTS version, I can’t update some key plugins (for example the JUnit plugin). This is even more intriguing as some are part of the plugins installed by default by the setup wizard. No "install" tick box and the plugin is...

Special thanks from the Jenkins project to users and contributors with the New Year! Let’s take a look at some changes this year. Highlights Major events including Google Summer of Code, Hacktoberfest, She Code Africa Contributhon, and three Contributor Summits Strong support from new and continuing Sponsors Core features for configuration form modernization, upgrades to key dependencies, continuous delivery for plugins, and Java 11 as the preferred JVM Security improvements...

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global, online mentoring program focused on introducing new contributors to open source software development. GSoC contributors work on a 12+ week programming project with the guidance of mentors from their open source organization. During GSoC, participating contributors are paired with mentors from open source organizations, gaining exposure to real-world software development techniques. GSoC contributors will learn from experienced open source...