The Jenkins project would like to take a moment and share deep gratitude to our sponsors. Sponsorship of the Jenkins project is key to the maintenance and development of Jenkins. There are different ways in which our sponsor organizations support the Jenkins project, such as infrastructure, necessary development tools, funding, and providing mirrors to connect Jenkins to the community. For supporting Jenkins distribution, build, test, and deployment...

We are happy to see a lot of questions on how to prepare efficiently to submit a powerful project submission. This is key to be selected and participate in the coming Google Summer of Code (GSoC). This blog post is addressed to those who ask these questions. First of all, welcome to the Jenkins Community! Thank you for your interest in Jenkins in general and for GSoC 2023...

Hello all, voter registration and candidate nominations for the 2022 Jenkins elections are now complete. Thanks to everyone who registered to vote and to all those who submitted nominations. Special thanks to the candidates that have accepted the nominations. As in years past, when a particular role receives only one nomination, an election is not required. This year, all the board and officer positions are uncontested, with one...

As November continues, we want to share some highlights from Hacktoberfest 2022! This year’s edition was incredibly busy with lots of interesting ideas, great work, new Jenkins contributors, and returning contributors. We want to thank all of the contributors and mentors for all of their hard work, as none of this would be possible without them. Hacktoberfest is an event to highlight and celebrate open-source projects like...

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global, online mentoring program focused on introducing students and new contributors to open source software development. GSoC contributors work on a 10-22 weeks programming project with the guidance of mentors from their open source organization. During GSoC, participating contributors are paired with mentors from open source organizations, gaining exposure to real-world software development techniques. GSoC contributors will learn from experienced...

October 2022 Welcome to the Jenkins Newsletter! This is a compilation of progress within the project, highlighted by Jenkins Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for the month of October. View previous editions of the Jenkins Newsletter here! Happy reading! Security Update One security advisory during October about plugins 28 impacted plugins 8 without fixes, as explained in our process 4 plugins were suspended from distribution Due to the corrections applied for SECURITY-2824 in the Groovy...

We are excited to announce the 2022 Jenkins Governance Board elections! The nomination and voter registration period is now open. Nominations can be submitted for two governance board positions, and all five officer positions (Security, Events, Release, Infrastructure, and Documentation). Many thanks to Gavin Mogan and Ewelina Wilkosz for serving on the Jenkins Governance Board. We also want to thank Damien Duportal as Infrastructure Lead, Wadeck Follonier as...

September 2022 Welcome to the Jenkins Newsletter! This is a compilation of progress within the project, highlighted by Jenkins Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for the month of September. Happy reading! Security Update Two security advisories during September with "special" nature for Jenkins core One was only impacting very specifically configured instance The other was only impacting three successive weekly releases Infrastructure Update Dropping JDK8 from all agents and controllers processes with the 2.361.1...

Scaling out iOS builds on AWS with EC2 mac Introduction The number of mobile application subscriptions are increasing annually, trending towards 8 billion and combined number of apps in the app stores are close to 6 million. Mobile application development has become prevalent, not just for consumer facing businesses but also with the remote workforce. Many large enterprises also support an internal app store catering to organization specific functionalities. As a result...

We are excited to announce that the relationship between DigitalOcean and Jenkins continues to grow! We want to thank DigitalOcean for providing such incredible support to the Jenkins project. DigitalOcean has provided a substantial donation of $18,000 to the Jenkins project. This is in addition to their previous sponsorship. Combining these, DigitalOcean has granted over $20,000 to the Jenkins project. The funding aspect is clear, but there are several...