Last year, news of compromised passwords being used for accounts able to distribute NPM packages made the rounds. Their system looks similar to how publishing of plugins works in the Jenkins project: Accounts are protected by passwords chosen by users. Individual contributors have permission to release the components they maintain. The components they release are used by millions of developers around the world to deliver their software. In other...

We are happy to announce that Jenkins project has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2018. This year we invite students and mentors to join the Jenkins community and work together on various initiatives: core, plugins, development tools and infrastructure. Our mentors have already created some project ideas. For example, you are welcome to work on the new Configuration-as-Code initiative or to help creating standard API for Code Coverage...

This year the Jenkins project is interested in participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC). As in 2016/2017, we are looking for mentors. So yes, we are looking for you :) What is GSoC? GSoC is an annual international program which encourages college-aged students to participate with open source projects during the summer break between classes. Students accepted into the program receive a stipend, paid by Google, to work on well-defined projects to...

FOSDEM 2018 is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is an annual event that brings open source contributors from around the world for two days of presentations, discussions, and learning. Jenkins will be well-represented at FOSDEM 2018. Happy Hour before FOSDEM We’ll have a happy hour Friday evening before FOSDEM at Cafe Le Roy d’Espagne. See the meetup page for details. Jenkins table...

Jenkins project congratulates all users and contributors with the New Year! Let’s take a look at some changes this year. Highlights We released major features like BlueOcean and Declarative Pipeline These features offer a new user experience in Jenkins Web UI, powered by Jenkins Pipeline. In Jenkins 2.54 we updated the Java minimal requirement to Java 8 (announcement). Plugin CI has been moved to our Jenkins-on-Jenkins instance. All plugins are being built...

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 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...