(This is a guest post from Daniel Spilker) Jenkins supports building plugins using Gradle for a while now. Last week a new version of the Gradle JPI plugin has been released to iron out some issues. The Gradle JPI plugin enables a 100% groovy plugin development environment with Groovy as primary programming language, Spock for writing tests and Gradle as build system. Have a look at...

+ I suspect many of you have been impacted by CVE-2014-6271 (aka "shellshock" bash vulnerability.) We had our share of updates to do for various *.jenkins-ci.org servers. Java application servers in general (including one that ships in Jenkins) do not fork off processes like Apache does to serve requests, so the kind of CGI attacks you see on Apache does not apply. We are currently unaware...

There’ll be several talks that touch Jenkins. The first is from me and Jesse called Next Step in Automation: Elastic Build Environment [CON3387] Monday 12:30pm. Then later Tuesday, there’s Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Gradle and Jenkins [CON11237] from Benjamin Muschko of Gradleware. Thursday has several Jenkins talks. One is The Deploy Factory: Open Source Tools for Java Deployment [CON1880] from Bruno Souza (aka the...

+ The usual suspects, such as CloudBees, XebiaLabs, SOASTA, PuppetLabs, et al are doing a Jenkins-themed continuous delivery event series called "cdSummit." The event is free, has a nice mix of user/vendor talks, and has an appeal to managers and team leads who are working on and struggling with continuous delivery and automation. I’ve spoken in the past events, and I enjoyed the high-level pitches from...

As was discussed some time ago, the workflow summit is being organized, and it’s open for RSVP. Due to the overwhelming demand, I’ve increased the capacity this time to 50, but this is an unconference where everyone needs to participate, which means we really cannot have too many people without changing the dynamics of the event. So please make sure you are willing to participate, as...

+ My apologies for the last minute announcement, but there will be a Jenkins user meet-up in Paris on Sep 10th 7:00pm, which is just next week. The event is hosted by Zenika. You’ll hear from Gregory Boissinot and Adrien Lecharpentier about plugin development, and I’ll be talking about workflow. It’s been a while we do a meet-up in Paris. Looking forward to seeing as many...

JUC SF on October 23, 2014 is shaping up to be bigger and better this year. Here’s what we have in store for you! Three Tracks We’ve received a record high of 40 stellar proposals this year. To accommodate the many community proposals, we’ve decide to add a third track to the agenda. JUC SF sessions are now available for you to view. We have speakers from Google, Target,...

Jesse and I will walk through the source code of the workflow plugin, highlights key abstractions and extension points, and discuss how they are put together. If you are interested in developing or retrofitting plugins to work with workflows, I think you’ll find this session interesting. The event will be on Google Hangout tomorrow. The time of the day is the same as usual office hours....