October 2022 Welcome to the Jenkins Newsletter! This is a compilation of progress within the project, highlighted by Jenkins Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for the month of October. Happy reading! Security Update One security advisory during October about plugins 28 impacted plugins 8 without fixes, as explained in our process 4 plugins were suspended from distribution Due to the corrections applied for SECURITY-2824 in the Groovy sandbox, we strongly recommend you to update...

The Jenkins project participated in Google Summer of Code 2022. Congratulations to all participants and we thank all participants for their contributions. Now that the event is over, this page contains an archive of the 2022 specific information. Projects All four projects have been successfully completed in 2022. You can find the project information on the project pages: Plugin Health Scoring System by Dheeraj Singh Jodha Jenkinsfile Runner Action for GitHub...

We are excited to announce the 2022 Jenkins Governance Board elections! The nomination and voter registration period is now open. Nominations can be submitted for two governance board positions, and all five officer positions (Security, Events, Release, Infrastructure, and Documentation). Many thanks to Gavin Mogan and Ewelina Wilkosz for serving on the Jenkins Governance Board. We also want to thank Damien Duportal as Infrastructure Lead, Wadeck Follonier as...

September 2022 Welcome to the Jenkins Newsletter! This is a compilation of progress within the project, highlighted by Jenkins Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for the month of September. Happy reading! Security Update Two security advisories during September with "special" nature for Jenkins core One was only impacting very specifically configured instance The other was only impacting three successive weekly releases Infrastructure Update Dropping JDK8 from all agents and controllers processes with the 2.361.1...

About Pipeline Steps Documentation Generator Improvements is a project under Google Summer of Code 2022, and this project aims to improve the steps documentation generated for Pipeline jobs, which is used by thousands of Pipeline developers worldwide. Some initial parts of the project involved changes to the UI of the website. I spent most of the community bonding period thinking about possible improvements, understanding the code base...

The goal of this blog is to showcase the work done during the Google Summer of Code 2022 coding phases. For a detailed description of the project, please see the project page. Overview About Project Phase 1 Phase 2 Next Steps Acknowledgments Useful Links About Project Plugin maintenance is an extremely important phase of a plugin’s lifecycle. Jenkins is constantly developing, which raises the need for thousands of plugins to catch up with the latest...

Scaling out iOS builds on AWS with EC2 mac Introduction The number of mobile application subscriptions are increasing annually, trending towards 8 billion and combined number of apps in the app stores are close to 6 million. Mobile application development has become prevalent, not just for consumer facing businesses but also with the remote workforce. Many large enterprises also support an internal app store catering to organization specific functionalities. As a result...

Many new contributors may hesitate to contribute to a Jenkins plugin. They may be concerned that the time commitment is too great. They may be worried that they lack the technical skills to maintain a plugin. They may not feel adequate to handle issues related to a Jenkins plugin. This blog post introduces the "Improve a plugin" developer tutorial for new contributors. The tutorial is a result of the...