The conventional commits plugin is a Google Summer of Code project. Special thanks to the mentors Gareth Evans, Kristin Whetstone, Olivier Vernin and Allan Burdajewicz. What are Conventional Commits According to the official website, conventonal commits are, "A specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages." Conventional commits are a lightweight convention on top of commit messages. The following table shows major structural elements offered by...

Google Summer of Code 2021 is implementing git credentials binding for sh, bat, and powershell. Git credentials binding is one of the most requested features for Jenkins Pipeline (see JENKINS-28335). The project involves extending the Credentials Binding Plugin to create custom bindings for two types of credentials essential to establish a remote connection with a git repository Username/Password SSH Private Key Why use git credentials binding? Many operations in a...

Congratulations to all GSoC students who have made it through the first half of the GSoC 2021 coding phase! This year, the Jenkins project has been participating in GSoC as part of the Continuous Delivery Foundation’s GSoC org. To celebrate our GSoC students and the fantastic work they have been doing, the CDF is hosting an online meetup where students will present their work. Students will be...

Context Jenkins is a CI/CD solution and as such, it is critical that the open source plugins that constitute an integral part of it don’t expose the systems they are used on to any security risks and vulnerabilities. It is in that context that we worked as an audit/code review team to track and report such flaws and problematic practices. We worked in collaboration with Jenkins Security...

We are happy to announce that the Jenkins community has moved all its official IRC channels to Libera chat. We have started our migration on May 26 as a response to the hostile takeover of hundreds of open source community channel by the new Freenode management. As decided by the Jenkins governance meeting on June 16th, Libera Chat IRC channels are the only official channels going forward. A more detailed...

A little over a year ago, we launched JenkinsIsTheWay.io, a website whose sole purpose is to share Jenkins user stories with the developers and engineers in our community. Over a hundred of you have already shared your innovations, and they just keep coming. It comes as no surprise that many of the submitted stories are from IT consultants and software developers around...

Keeping up with our goal to clean up some of the technical debt inside Jenkins Core and reduce the maintenance overheads, we are happy to report we were able to remove a long-deprecated Apache Commons Digester library. Jenkins Core does not depend anymore on Apache Commons Digester v.2.1, a version that has been released in 2010. Some plugins will require update to operate properly after the...

This blog post is for anyone interested to know how to configure a plugin using the Jenkins Configuration as a Code (JCasC) plugin, more specifically, this blog will guide you to get the YAML equivalent of a plugin’s configuration and use it to do some changes to the plugin without using the Jenkins UI. If you’re a beginner at JCasC and want to learn more...