The Jenkins project provides a download mirror infrastructure allowing to download Jenkins packages and plugins from a download server close to your location. How Does it Work? When a download request is emitted to either mirrors.jenkins.io or get.jenkins.io, an HTTP redirect response to a mirror download server is answered. The Jenkins infrastructure uses a database of existing mirror servers provided by volunteers and donators to select the...

The Jenkins infrastructure team has extended the reach of the ci.jenkins.io agents. We’re grateful that DigitalOcean has donated $2760 to the Jenkins project. The donation has allowed us to run jobs from ci.jenkins.io on an additional cluster hosted by DigitalOcean. Easy setup We defined a new Kubernetes cluster on DigitalOcean with the DigitalOcean Terraform provider. The infrastructure is defined as code in our DigitalOcean infrastructure repository. Resource management The DigitalOcean user...

The Postman API Platform is redefining how APIs are built, managed, and consumed. An important aspect of API management is continuous building, testing, and deployment with CI/CD tools. With the latest release of Postman, we bring the API builds closer to your API by integrating with Jenkins. Observe your Jenkins builds While you iterate over your APIs, the Jenkins builds are triggered multiple times. While some of you may...

The She Code Africa Contributhon started April 5, 2022. The She Code Africa Contributhon is a boot camp where African women are paid to work with open source organizations on selected projects with dedicated mentors. This program aims to create a more diverse, inclusive, and innovative culture within the African open source ecosystem by matching African women in technology with sponsor and mentor open source organizations. The...

A remote code execution vulnerability has been identified in the Spring Framework. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2022-22965. Spring officially reacted early in an early announcement. SpringShell in Jenkins Core and Plugins The Jenkins security team has confirmed that the Spring vulnerability is not affecting Jenkins Core. There is no impact because we are using Stapler as a servlet, and neither Spring MVC nor Spring WebFlux. An analysis was done...

Jenkins Contributor Awards for 2022 are being run by the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) along with many other CDF Community Awards. The nominations are open and are being accepted using GitHub issues to make the process transparent. Any contributor is eligible! The deadline to nominate someone has been extended to April 11, 2022. Voting will open later in April. Nominate contributors or vote with reactions/comments for all three Jenkins...

Beginning with Jenkins 2.335 and Jenkins 2.332.1, the Jenkins project is migrating from System V init(8) to systemd(1) in its official Debian, Red Hat, and openSUSE packages. The official Docker image and Helm chart remain unchanged. For up-to-date information, refer to the Managing systemd services page in the documentation. Background Beginning in 2008, the Jenkins (then Hudson) project has delivered Linux OS installation packages for Debian (and derivatives),...

Jenkins Contributor Awards for 2022 will be run by the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) along with many other CDF Community Awards. The nominations are currently open and are being accepted using GitHub issues to make the process more transparent. Any contributor is eligible! The deadline to nominate someone is March 29, 2022. Voting will open in April. Nominate contributors or vote with reactions/comments for all three Jenkins awards: Most Valuable...