This blogpost was updated to reflect the general availability of the feature after the release of GitHub Branch Source 2.7.1 on April 26th, 2020. I’m excited to announce support for authenticating as a GitHub app in Jenkins. This has been a long awaited feature by many users. It has been released in GitHub Branch Source 2.7.1 which is now available in the Jenkins update centers. Authenticating as a...
2020 is going to be a year of change for me. By the end of January, I’ll be officially stepping back from Jenkins, switching my role at CloudBees to an advisor, and turning attention to my new startup. The rest of this post is to contextualize this transition, because if you haven’t been working closely with me, this might come across as a surprise. Jenkins has been an amazing...
In addition to WAR files and Docker images, the Jenkins project provides native installers for each weekly and LTS release. There are installers available for Linux distributions, Windows, macOS and other operating systems. There are also installers provided by third parties. You can find the list of these installers on the Downloads page. In this blog post, we announce the upcoming deprecation of the macOS native installer. We will...