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  Expanding Open Source in Africa

  Open source software has changed software development. Companies readily use open source as a key part of their software development and delivery. Open source operating systems dominate cloud computing operating systems. Open source JavaScript libraries and frameworks like Angular, Vue.js, and React are key components in web applications. Open source Java libraries and frameworks like Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and Grails provide effective...

  

  Mark Waite August 4, 2022
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  Naively Building Android Apps with Jenkins. Not Natively, Naively. - DevOps World 2022

  This is a speaker blogpost for a DevOps World 2022 talk in Orlando, Florida Come join me at DevOps World 2022 for "Naively Building Android Apps with Jenkins. Not Natively, Naively.", a talk about my journey with Jenkins while trying to build and publish Android applications without prior Jenkins knowledge. I’ve been tinkering with various CI/CD tools for years (Gitlab CI, Circle...

  

  Bruno Verachten August 1, 2022
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  Jenkins Contributor Summit at DevOps World 2022 - Call for Participation

  About The Jenkins Contributor Summit brings together current and future contributors to the Jenkins project. It is a community driven event, with its agenda created with input and suggestions from Jenkins community members. Date | Location Tuesday, September 27, 2022 @ 9AM - 5PM DevOps World 2022 | Orlando, Florida This Contributor Summit will be in-person. It is Free to attend. Sign up is required. Seats...

  

  Alyssa Tong

  

  Bruno Verachten July 27, 2022
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  Jenkins requires Java 11 or newer

  Introduction The Jenkins project is committed to delivering a world-class platform experience for end users and developers alike. At the core of this experience is Java, an object-oriented programming language with a cross-platform runtime in the form of the Java virtual machine (JVM). Since its inception, the Jenkins project has been a major consumer of Java, distributing over 1,800 plugins to an installed...

  Basil Crow June 28, 2022
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  SVG icon migration (breaking changes!)

  Summary Beginning with Jenkins weekly v2.333 (released on January 31, 2022) and Jenkins LTS v2.346.1, Jenkins core has upgraded from GIF and PNG icons to SVG icons. Plugins that will be affected by this change are tracked in a spreadsheet found in JENKINS-68251. Plugins that do not interact with icons are unaffected by this change. Background Scalable vector graphics (SVG) icons provide a more attractive...

  

  Kevin Martens June 20, 2022
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  Let the (GSoC) coding start !

  The GSoC community bonding period just finished. The four Jenkins GSoC projects are now ready. Contact between contributors and mentors is established. Regular communication channels are setup (weekly project meetings and dedicated chat). Links to the project plans and plannings drafts are published on the project pages. Next step, the actual coding! Together with their mentors, Dheeraj, Ymming, Hrushikesh, and Vihaan will work the whole summer...

  

  Jean-Marc Meessen June 13, 2022
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  Docker Image: new Exit and Restart Behavior for Controllers

  The Jenkins project provides Docker images for controllers (and more). Beginning with Jenkins 2.344 released April 18, 2022 and Jenkins 2.332.3 released May 04, 2022, the behavior of the "Exit" and "Restart" lifecycle of the controller image jenkins/jenkins changed. TL;DR; Ensure that you have a Container Restart Policy For quick readers: check the How to Add a Container Restart Policy section for immediate...

  

  Damien DUPORTAL

  Basil Crow May 27, 2022
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  Welcome Google Summer of Code 2022 Contributors!

  On behalf of the Jenkins GSoC team and mentors, We would like to welcome Dheeraj Singh Jodha, Yiming Gong, Hrushikesh Rao, and Vihaan Thora. They will be working on Google Summer of Code projects in the Jenkins organization, and they have already done some contributions. This year we have the following projects: Plugin Health Scoring System - Provide a 'plugin health indicator' for plugin maintainers and Jenkins administrators. Contributor: Dheeraj Singh...

  

  Alyssa Tong

  

  Jean-Marc Meessen May 20, 2022
• Enforced HTTPS for 'mirrors.jenkins.io' and consolidation of the Jenkins Mirrors

  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...

  

  Damien DUPORTAL May 13, 2022