We announced in January that Jenkins would be upgrading its Java runtime dependency to Java 8 this year. After a sizable amount of preparation, this week’s release of Jenkins 2.54 is the first weekly release to require a Java 8 runtime. For users of the weekly release, this means that Jenkins 2.54 must have a Java 8 runtime installed on the system in order to run. Those using the jenkinsci/jenkins:latest Docker container won’t...

These are not security fixes you can apply blindly. We strongly recommend you read this post, as well as the security advisory to understand what the vulnerabilities are, whether and how they affect you, and what to expect when upgrading plugins. Multiple Jenkins plugins received updates today that fix several security vulnerabilities or other security-related issues: Email Extension (Email-ext) Environment Injector (EnvInject) Extensible Choice Parameter Groovy Job DSL Lockable Resources Matrix Authorization Role...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Blue Ocean is a new user experience for Jenkins, and version 1.0 is now live! Blue Ocean makes Jenkins, and continuous delivery, approachable to all team members. In my previous post, I explained how to install Blue Ocean on your local Jenkins instance and switch to using Blue Ocean. As promised, here’s a screencast that picks up where that...

Back in May 2016 we announced our intent to rethink the Jenkins User experience with the Blue Ocean project and today the Jenkins project are pleased to announce the general availability of Blue Ocean 1.0. Blue Ocean is an entirely new, modern and fun way for developers to use Jenkins that has been built from the ground up to help teams of any size approach Continuous Delivery. Easily installed as...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Welcome to Blue Ocean 1.0! In case you’ve been heads down on other projects for the past 10 months, Blue Ocean is a new user experience for Jenkins, and version 1.0 was released today! Blue Ocean makes Jenkins, and continuous delivery, approachable to all team members. I’ve been working with it for the past several months, and I can tell...

This is a guest post by Bhavani Rao, Marketing Manager at CloudBees Last fall, prior to Jenkins World, CloudBees conducted a Community Survey. We received over 1200 responses, and thanks to this input, we have some interesting insights into how Jenkins users and their use of Jenkins are evolving. Based on the survey’s results, Jenkins is increasingly being used to support continuous delivery (CD). Adoption of Jenkins 2, which featured "Pipeline...

Earlier this month, a full-day event about Jenkins Pipeline was organized in Toulouse, France with the Toulouse JAM. After a warm-up on the previous Tuesday where Michaël Pailloncy had given a talk at the local Toulouse Devops user group about Jenkins Pipeline ecosystem, we were ready for more digging :-). The agenda We had planned the day in two parts: Morning would be a more driven workshop with...

Multiple Jenkins plugins received updates today that fix several security vulnerabilities: Active Directory Distributed Fork Email Extension (Email-ext) Mailer SSH Build Agents For an overview of what was fixed, see the security advisory. Additionally, we also published a security notice for the following plugin and recommend that users disable and uninstall it: Pipeline: Classpath Step This plugin is not part of the Pipeline suite of plugins, despite its name. It’s installed on just...