As you probably know, Jenkins project has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2016. During last month we were working with students in order to discuss their project ideas and to review their application drafts. Thanks again to all students and mentors for your hard work during about ten office hours and dozens of other calls/chats! Current status We have successfully handled the student application period We have received...

In addition to Jenkins development, during last 8 years I’ve been involved into continuous integration for hardware and embedded projects. At JUC2015/London I have conducted a talk about common automation challenges in the area. In this blog post I would like to concentrate on Pipeline (formerly known as Workflow), which is a new ecosystem in Jenkins that allows implementing jobs in a domain specific language. It is in...

This is a guest post by Brian Dawson at CloudBees, where he works as a DevOps Evangelist responsible for developing and sharing continuous delivery and DevOps best practices. He also serves as the CloudBees Product Marketing Manager for Jenkins. Last fall CloudBees asked attendees at the Jenkins User Conference – US West (JUC), and other in the Jenkins community to take a survey. Almost 250 people did – and...

Those who fervently watch the jenkinsci-dev@ list, like I do, may have caught Daniel Beck's email today which quietly referenced a significant milestone on the road to 2.0 which has been reached: the first 2.0 release candidate is here! The release candidate process, in short, is the final stabilization and testing period before the final release of Jenkins 2.0. If you have the cycles to help test, please download the release candidate...

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...