The beta release of Jenkins 2.0 is rapidly approaching! The development team is working hard to find and squash as many bugs as possible, but do you know what would make that effort even more successful? You! A big part of Jenkins’s power lies in its extensive flexibility, but that flexibility poses challenges to testing. In short, it’s difficult for the core team to...

This is a guest post by Francois Dechery, he works at CloudBees managing Customer Engagement/Support, Consulting and Training. He is also leading the Jenkins Certification program at CloudBees which has been discussed in some of our previous (1, 2, 3) governance meetings. In the IT world, namely in software, "certification" is used in many different ways and for many different purposes. From very simple and light certifications to very heavy and complex ones. In...

We just published the new Jenkins 2.0-alpha-3 preview build. What’s new? Jenkins is now secure out of the box: Administrators previously had to set up authentication and authorization while Jenkins was accessible to anyone on the same network. Now, Jenkins is protected out of the box, so that it is always safe from unauthorized access. Plugin selection for setup: We refined the plugin selection on the setup dialog. You’ve always wondered why...

We are happy to announce that Jenkins project application has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2016 (GSoC). Thanks to everybody who helped prepare the application and submitted project ideas! We would like to invite students to join the Jenkins community and work together on the ongoing Jenkins 2.0 activities and other medium-term projects. The student projects we are primarily interested in would improve the overall Jenkins user experience...

Vous êtes développeuse ou développeur, vous avez envie de découvrir le projet Jenkins de l’intérieur, en bricolant sur un sujet qui vous intéresse, lisez la suite ! Mercredi 9 mars, le Toulouse Jenkins Area Meetup organise à Toulouse un Hackergarten Jenkins, occasion idéale pour faire ses premiers pas dans la communauté assisté(e) d’un contributeur au projet. Hackergart quoi ? Hackergarten est un mot qui provient de la contraction des mots Hacker...

After first announcing the Jenkins 2.0 effort last fall, we are pleased to announce the availability of the first Jenkins 2.0 alpha builds. For months we have had builds available from the jenkins_2.0 branch of development, but the "alpha" builds mark Jenkins 2.0 being officially made available for testing and feedback. Download 2.0-alpha now Jenkins 2.0 Highlights Pipeline as Code The new Pipeline functionality in Jenkins allows you to define configuration as code, which can...

We released Jenkins updates today that include important security fixes: 1.650 and 1.642.2. For detailed information about the security content of these updates, see the security advisory. Subscribe to the jenkinsci-advisories mailing list to receive important notifications related to Jenkins security....

On January 20, the first San Francisco JAM (Jenkins Area Meetup) of the new year was held at Mesosphere’s offices. We had two speakers - myself, and Roger Ignazio, an infrastructure automation engineer at Mesosphere. Around forty people attended and enjoyed the food and drinks Mesosphere provided for us. Links to the talks are below: Elastic Jenkins with Mesos and DCOS, by Roger Ignazio Who is Jenkins?, by Andrew Bayer More JAMs will be happening in...