We have released 1.409.1, our first long-term support (LTS) release, from the Jenkins project. The idea of the LTS release is to provide a second release line the favors more stability and bug fix only maintenance. This release line branches off from a bit old Jenkins release (in this case 1.409), and we will only put important backported bug fixes. We’ll keep releasing 1.409.2, 1.409.3,...

+ Thanks to the kindness of https://www.bigpoint.net/[BigPoint GmbH] and Kutzi, we had the first Jenkins Hackathon in Europe, in a very large and airly conference room in their Hamburg campus, on a nice sunny Sunday of May 1st. About 10 people came, including the https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Static+Code+Analysis+Plug-ins[static code analysis plugin] fame Ullrich Hafner, https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Android+Emulator+Plugin[Androd emulator plugin] fame https://twitter.com/orrc[Christopher Orr], the https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Instant+Messaging+Plugin[instant messenger plugin] (and others) fame https://twitter.com/#!/kutzi[Christoph...

+ Good portion of Java developers use Windows, so we tend to think the opposite is true, that a good portion of Windows folks use Java. But this is not true. + + + As Jenkins gains traction among .NET developers, it's becoming increasingly clear that Java is very alien to them. They naturally have no idea of what a war file means, and often don't...

+ https://jenkins-ci.org/[Jenkins] is now at 1.400 (as of last Monday, yes, I know. But better late than never...). As with https://weblogs.java.net/blog/2009/04/22/hudson-hits-1300?force=752[1.300] and https://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2008/03/hudson_hits_120.html?force=824[1.200], this release doesn't particularly signify any substantial major release, but nonetheless it is a milestone for those of us who are involved in the project — I think repeating something 400 times is something one can be proud of. It's a bit...

I’ll be visiting Tokyo again for the week of 2/21 for a number of events. Tokyo Jenkins User Meetup The Japanese Jenkins user community may not be as visible from outside but very strong. This is the 2nd meet up in Tokyo, and once again we maxed out the 80 people room capacity in just a few days (but you can still RSVP for the social...

+ Monday morning I came into work and discovered that I cannot commit to the Hudson Subversion repository. Initially I wasn't worried — I thought it was just another java.net outage that will resolve itself in a few hours — but a little research a bit later revealed that Hudson was locked down and being https://weblogs.java.net/blog/communitymanager/archive/2010/11/03/javanet-begins-migration-collabnet-kenai-infrastructure[migrated to new java.net infrastructure]. + + + I and the...

+ In tradition of taking advantages of my travel, https://www.tikalk.com/[Tikal], https://web.archive.org/web/20171202185204/https://exlibris.co.il/[ExLibris], and https://infradna.com/[InfraDNA] hosted a Hudson users meetup in Jerusalem yesterday. + + + image:https://web.archive.org/web/20150327193330if_/http://www.gate1travel.com/israel-travel/Images/photos/JerusalemNight.jpg[image] + + + + There were 10+ people from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv who came over, which was great given the lack of upfront advertisement (my fault.) I did a short presentation about the current state of the Hudson project and where we are...

Today, I’d highlight two recent improvements to the label and matrix projects. When you have multiple agents in your Hudson build farm, you can use labels to classify agents by their capability/environment/architecture/etc. For example, your one agent might have “32bit” and “windows” label, while another one might have “linux”, “ubuntu”, and “64bit.” (with plugins like <a href=`"https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/PlatformLabeler+Plugin`">platform-labeler plugin</a>, you can attach labels automatically, too.) Or...

September is turning into a meetup month for the Hudson community. In parallel to the meetup in Oslo and the meetup in JavaOne, Nokia and InfraDNA are hosting a meetup in Copenhagen on September 6th, Monday. Read on for the details. The current tentative plan is to do a short "state of the union / what’s new" kind of presentation, then use the rest of...

JavaZone is a big Java conference in Scandinavia, and Hudson is well represented there. On September 8th, Håkon Snøtun will be presenting "Top 5 plugins for Hudson and Chuck Norris." and on September 9th, I’ll be presenting "Getting more out of your Hudson." But more importantly, what is a conference without drinking!? So in that spirit, InfraDNA will be organizing a Hudson User Meetup at...