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GSoC 2026 Midterm - Retooling Jenkins.io Web Success Stories

Hello everyone! I’m Vatsal Verma, working on Retool jenkins.io website Success Stories project. The project’s vision is to modernize the Jenkins Success Stories website by migrating it from Gatsby to Vite, improving performance, streamlining the story submission workflow, and enhancing the overall user experience. For a detailed overview, please refer to the please refer to the project page. We’ve just crossed the midterm...

Vatsal Verma July 10, 2026
GSoC 2026 Midterm - Plugin Modernizer Stats Visualization

Hello everyone! I’m Pratik Mane, working on the Plugin Modernizer Stats Visualization project as part of Google Summer of Code 2026 with Jenkins. We’ve reached the midterm and I’m excited to share what has been accomplished so far, what I’ve learned and what lies ahead. Table of Contents What We’ve Accomplished So Far What I’ve Learned Challenges I Faced What’s Next? Acknowledgements Useful Links What We’ve Accomplished So Far Data...

Pratik Mane July 10, 2026
GSoC 2026 Midterm: AI Chatbot to Guide User Workflow

Hi everyone 👋, I’m Daniele, the Google Summer of Code 2026 contributor currently working on the AI Chatbot to Guide User Workflow plugin. The coding phase began over a month ago, and I have a lot to tell you about the progress made. During this first half of the GSoC, I’ve been focusing on Data Storage, Hybrid Retrieval, the Frontend UI and the...

Daniele Caldarigi July 10, 2026
GSoC 2026 Midterm Update: Improving Evaluation and Retrieval for the Jenkins AI Chatbot

Hello everyone! I’m Mallikarjun G D, and this is my midterm update for my GSoC 2026 project, Continue AI-Powered Chatbot for Quick Access to Jenkins Resources. In my community bonding blog, I outlined three main areas for the coding period: an LLM-as-Judge evaluation pipeline, GraphRAG-based retrieval, and a Build Failure Diagnosis Agent. At the midterm point, the first major piece is now in place:...

Mallikarjun G D July 10, 2026
GSoC 2026 Midterm Update - Jenkins Email Notifications using Outlook SMTP with OAuth

Hey everyone! We’ve hit the midpoint of GSoC 2026, so here’s an update on Jenkins email notifications using Outlook SMTP with OAuth, the project I’ve been working on with the email-ext plugin. What I’ve Accomplished So Far The first half was mostly about building out OAuth 2.0 support for SMTP across both Microsoft Entra ID and Google Workspace, alongside the existing username/password flow....

Mohammed Faheem July 9, 2026
Introducing Smart Retry: Safer retries for transient Jenkins failures.

In many Jenkins environments, a failed build does not always mean the code is broken. Sometimes a Kubernetes agent gets evicted. Sometimes a Git fetch is interrupted. Sometimes an artifact repository has a short outage. In all of these cases, the next manual rebuild often succeeds. smartRetry is designed for exactly this kind of CI problem: transient failures that are worth retrying, without turning every...

Donghui Wang July 6, 2026
Plugin of the Month – June 2026: Build Discarder Plugin

Welcome back to the Plugin of the Month series, where we highlight useful and impactful plugins from the Jenkins ecosystem. For June 2026, we’re featuring the Build Discarder Plugin. Do you maintain a Jenkins server with thousands of active users? And even more builds? Spring cleaning? Or you just want to keep things neat and tidy? A global configuration for your build items...

Mark Schulz June 13, 2026
Introducing jenkinsfilelint: Catch Jenkinsfile Errors Before You Commit

Have you ever pushed a Jenkinsfile change only to discover a syntax error after Jenkins has started running the pipeline? Or had to wait through a full CI cycle just to learn that you have missed a closing bracket? I have built jenkinsfilelint to catch these problems early — right at commit time, before the code ever reaches the CI. What...

Xianpeng Shen June 8, 2026
Nested layout for pipeline graph view

The pipeline graph view just got a new layout that renders nested pipelines in full detail.

Jakob Ackermann June 1, 2026

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