Cleaning up technical debt is a perennial topic among Jenkins core developers, and one of the most visible issues is the use of obsolete and/or forked third-party libraries. In a world where Dependabot is offering updates to libraries released just hours before, it is unpleasant to be working with dependencies that are many years old. Since large organizations in particular are unhappy to install software using obsolete or...

Recently we have selected Jenkins 2.263 as a new baseline for the LTS release line, with ETA in December 2020. It allows delivering significant and in some cases breaking changes which have been previously on hold. Beginning with the Jenkins 2.264 release on October 27, 2020, we’ve entered a period where the Jenkins weekly releases will include more significant changes than usual. That period of more significant...

We are super excited to announce that the Document Jenkins on Kubernetes Project recently merged its first PR into Jenkins.io. This PR adds a new Kubernetes section to the existing Installing Jenkins chapter of Jenkins.io. This new section describes two options to install/run Jenkins on Kubernetes, how to setup a minikube cluster on which to run your Jenkins deployment and finally a bonus segment that explains...

A little over a month ago, GitHub announced the general availability of its code scanning solution. It’s based on CodeQL, which makes it pretty easy to write queries for it and run them using the CodeQL GitHub action, CodeQL command line tools, or on lgtm.com. Many of the security vulnerabilities discovered in Jenkins plugins are fairly similar to each other, and unfortunately they’re usually specific to...

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...