Jenkins 2020 Elections are over, thanks to all participants! Please see the results announcement . As you probably know, in a few weeks we will have the Jenkins 2020 elections. We will be electing two governance board members and five officers, namely: Security, Events, Release, Infrastructure, and Documentation. After the announcement on Sep 24, we have been accepting nominations from community members. After the processing and confirmations with potential candidates, the Jenkins...

Table of Contents Context The Problems The Solution Shared Library Duplication Documentation Scalability Installation Agnostic Feature Toggling This post will describe how I use a shared library in Jenkins. Typically when using multibranch pipeline. If possible (if not forced to) I implement the pipelines without multibranch. I previously wrote about how I do that with my Generic Webhook Trigger Plugin in a previous post. But this will be my second choice, If I am not...

Some months ago, we took a significant step in helping the Jenkins community share their stories of how they improved workflows, sped up testing, and saw better quality results after implementing Jenkins into their software development processes. By the end of the year, we’ll have over 50 Jenkins user stories published with many more in the pipeline. We invite you to explore them all but...

I’m thrilled to announce that I will be participating in Google Season of Docs (GSoD) 2020 with the Jenkins project. I started contributing to Jenkins documentation during the technical writer exploration phase for Google Season of Docs 2020 and I must say, my journey so far has been nothing short of amazing majorly because of the supportive community behind this project. I chose the Jenkins project because I...

Jenkins 2020 Elections are over, thanks to all participants! Please see the results announcement. We are happy to announce the 2020 elections in the Jenkins project! Nominations are open for two governance board and for all five officer positions, namely: Security, Events, Release, Infrastructure, and Documentation. The board positions and officer roles are an essential part of Jenkins' community governance and well-being. We invite Jenkins contributors and community members to...

The annual DevOps World, formerly known as DevOps World | Jenkins World is next week - Sept 22-24, with workshops on Sept 25. Just like other events this year, DevOps World pivoted to a virtual event but that doesn’t mean there is a shortage of sessions or networking opportunities. There will be over 50 Jenkins/open source sessions and opportunities to virtually connect with over...

This article describes our observations during Windows testing of the Jenkins 2.249.1 release candidate. Upgrade testing Jenkins 2.249.1 is a new long term support release with user interface improvements and changes in Windows support. It is the first long term support release to drop support for Microsoft.NET framework 2.0. The end of support for Microsoft.NET framework 2.0 was announced in the Windows Support Updates blog post. The Windows support...

The Jenkins project has been around for over fifteen years and is the defacto platform for CI/CD. One of the reasons it continues to be so ubiquitous is that Jenkins constantly evolves and offers flexibility to integrate other tools that work well for your solution. At CDCon, on October 7-8, there are two particular Jenkins talks that will focus on new directions that the Jenkins...