Regular perusers of the Jenkins User Documentation may have noticed the presence of the Tutorials part (between the Guided Tour and User Handbook) that appeared in the last couple of months and gradually began to get populated with much of my recent work, writing Jenkins tutorials. My name’s Giles and I’ve been a technical writer in the software development field for several years now. I’ve always been passionate about...

We just released security updates to Jenkins, versions 2.89 and 2.73.3, that fix two low-severity 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. Subscribe to the jenkinsci-advisories mailing list to receive important notifications related to Jenkins security....

This is a guest post by Forest Jing, who runs the Shanghai Jenkins Area Meetup I am excited to announce the inaugural Jenkins User Conference China will be taking place on November 19, 2017 in Shanghai, China. The theme of JUC China is “Jenkins Driven CD and DevOps”. Much like in the US, CD and DevOps are big topics of interest in China. We are honored to have Kohsuke Kawaguchi join...

Multiple Jenkins plugins received updates today that fix several security vulnerabilities. Active Choices (uno-choice) Build-Publisher Dependency Graph Viewer global-build-stats Additionally, the Multijob Plugin also received a security update several weeks ago. For an overview of these security fixes, see the security advisory. Active Choices Plugin distribution had been suspended since April due to its mandatory dependency on the suspended Scriptler Plugin. That dependency has been made optional, so Active Choices can be...

This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong, who runs the Jenkins Area Meetup program and is also responsible for Marketing & Community Programs at CloudBees, Inc. Jenkins World 2017 keynotes and breakout session videos are now available HERE. Photos from the conference can be seen HERE. Save the date for Jenkins World 2018: Conference dates are September 16-19, 2018 in San Francisco. Registration will open on October 16, 2017. Call...

We just released security updates to Jenkins, versions 2.84 and 2.73.2, that fix several security vulnerabilities. Additionally, we published a new release of Swarm Plugin whose client contains a security fix, and Maven Plugin 3.0 was recently released to resolve a security issue. Users of Swarm Plugin and Maven Plugin should update these to their respective newest versions. For an overview of what was fixed, see the...

Once again it’s October in our calendars. It means that the regular Hacktoberfest event is back! During this one-month hackathon you can support open source and earn a limited edition T-shirt. Jenkins project offers an opportunity to participate in the project and to get reviews and help from Jenkins contributors. How do I sign up? Sign-up to Hacktoberfest on the event website. Everything is set, just start coding! What can I do? There...

This is a guest post by Philip Stroh, Software Architect at TimoCom. When building multiple microservices - e.g. with Spring Boot - the integration and delivery pipelines of your services will most likely be very similar. Surely, you don’t want to copy-and-paste Pipeline code from one Jenkinsfile to another if you develop a new service or if there are adaptions in your delivery process. Instead you would like to define...