The Jenkins Contributor summit is where the current and future contributors of the Jenkins project get together. This summit will be on Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 in Nice, France just before Jenkins World. What should those planning on joining expect at the event? Earlier this year in September we had a contributor summit in San Francisco which gave us a pretty good outline of what to expect. First...

I would like to introduce Custom WAR Packager - a new tool for Jenkins administrators and developers. This tool allows packaging custom Jenkins distributions as WAR files, Docker images and Jenkinsfile Runner bundles. This tool allows packaging Jenkins, plugins, and configurations in a ready-to-fly distribution. Custom WAR packager is a part of the Ephemeral Jenkins controller toolchain which we presented in our A Cloud Native Jenkins blogpost. This toolchain is already used...

It has been a while since the last blogpost about Google Summer of Code in Jenkins. GSoC 2018 has officially finished on August 23, and we had a Jenkins Online Meetup where we had final presentations of the GSoC projects. It is never late to provide more context, so I would like to summarize the results and provide updates of what was happening in Jenkins GSoC...

Traditionally there are a lot of events happening in the Jenkins organization in Autumn. I would like to share some information about the upcoming hackathons. Online Event: Hacktoberfest As you probably know, there is an ongoing Hacktoberfest event. The Jenkins project is participating in it and everybody is welcome to contribute to Jenkins as a part of this event. The event lasts from October 01 to October 31, and you...

We just released security updates to Jenkins, versions 2.146 and 2.138.2, that fix multiple security vulnerabilities. For an overview of what was fixed, see the security advisory. For an overview on the possible impact of these changes on upgrading Jenkins LTS, see our LTS upgrade guide. Further improvements In addition to the security fixes listed in the security advisory, we also applied multiple improvements that make future security...

One of the major strengths of Jenkins is its customizability and extensibility. With its plugin ecosystem and long list of (possibly hidden) options, Jenkins can be used for a wide range of use cases. The downside of all this flexibility is that, not knowing how people use Jenkins, we mostly rely on issues filed in our bug tracker to know when things go wrong. And over the...

Once again October has arrived. That means the regular Hacktoberfest event is back! This year it will be the fifth installment. During this one-month hackathon you can support open-source and earn a limited edition swag. On behalf of the Jenkins project, we invite you to participate in Hacktoberfest and to work on the project. We welcome all contributors, regardless of their background and Jenkins experience. Quick start Sign-up to Hacktoberfest on the...

When I first wrote about Jenkins Evergreen, which was then referred to as "Jenkins Essentials", I mentioned a number of future developments which in the subsequent months have become reality. At this year’s DevOps World - Jenkins World in San Francisco, I will be sharing more details on the philosophy behind Jenkins Evergreen, show off how far we have come, and discuss where we’re going with this radical distribution of...