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https://youtu.be/1Qn4jEwAeGc Above is the screencast associated with this blog post If you have ever used Jenkins you are familiar with what I am about to described, wading your way through job configuration page, looking for the settings that are important, and, depending on your plugin use, wondering where all these other setting came from and what they do. + Depending on how long you have used Jenkins,...

+ The final LTS release of the 1.532.x line is out today. You can download it from http://mirrors.jenkins-ci.org/[the usual location]. Changelog is https://jenkins-ci.org/changelog-stable[here]. + + + Starting with the next 1.554.x LTS, the release model will https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/LTS+Release+Line[switch to the train model], where we commit to dates and get whatever we can ship by that date. + + + You can see https://jenkins-ci.org/content/event-calendar[the scheduled dates in our event...

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-14_Tomcat[ + image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/US_Navy_040925-N-0295M-030_An_F-14D_Tomcat_conducts_a_high_speed_flyby_during_the_tactical_air_power_demonstration_at_the_2004_Naval_Air_Station_Oceana_Air_Show.jpg/300px-thumbnail.jpg[image]] + + + + I recently had an opportunity to visit a big Jenkins user on site, and one of the things they've told me is that building projects in the Maven job type is substantially slower than doing the same with the freestyle project type. + + + This is partly expected, because this job type does more for you. For example, it automatically archives...

+ image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Testing22222.jpg[image,width=150,height=160] + + + + https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Git+plugin+2.0+beta+testing[Git plugin] and https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/TFS+plugin+2.0+beta+testing[TFS plugin] are calling for interested parties to try out their 2.0 beta binaries before they get released. + + + Git plugin 2.0 contains a major refactoring and UI simplifications, and TFS plugin contains a rewritten polling logic that does not require a workspace. + + + If you think you'd benefit from these changes, please head to their respective...

+ As the usage of Jenkins expands, we started seeing users who run multiple 100s of agents on one controller, and thus it became a lot more important for us to scale well to even larger number of agents. + + + While I was looking at the thread dump of a large system, I started noticing that there are a large number of threads lying...

+ image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Toasting_Champagne.jpg/171px-Toasting_Champagne.jpg[image] + + + + The last week the Jenkins project has reached a miletone release — https://jenkins-ci.org/changelog[Version 1.500]. That's no 1.5 nor 1.5.0. That's the 501st release since its inception, counting all the way up from 1.0, 1.1 to 1.500. + + + We'll be celebrating this release in https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/FOSDEM[the upcoming FOSDEM conference] in Brussels, but I wanted to thank everyone for making this great community possible...

+ image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3b/Solaris_OS_logo.svg/220px-Solaris_OS_logo.svg.png[image] + + + Image Packaging System (IPS) is a new package manager Sun has developed for OpenSolaris. While I have my doubts about whether a brand-new package manager was a good way of spending engineering resources, OpenSolaris had a number of very nice features that made it a convincing platform to run Jenkins, thanks to SMF, ZFS, and zones. So I used to produce IPS...

We just posted the updated Long-term Release (LTS) of 1.409.2. + Just as a recap, with LTS releases, we plan on providing a release train that only has backported changes. 1.409.2 contains https://jenkins-ci.org/changelog-stable[a handful of important bug fixes] since 1.409.1. For more about LTS, https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/LTS+Release+Line[see this wiki page]. + + + Thanks to the heroic effort of those who are involved, namely Vojtech Juranek and a...

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,...