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  Jenkins GSoC 2022: The Return of Students as Mentors

  Since 2005, the Google Summer of Code program has connected 18,000+ new open source contributors from 112 countries with 17,000+ mentors from 118 countries. Google Summer of Code has produced over 40 million lines of code for 746 open source organizations. The Jenkins project has been a mentoring organization for five years, successfully mentored 27 GSoC students by ~80 mentors, not to mention countless...

  

  Alyssa Tong February 16, 2022
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  Why can't I install the latest plugin on my Jenkins LTS?

  I regularly go, as all Jenkins admin do, to my system’s Plugin Management page to see what plugins can be upgraded. Although I am running the latest LTS version, I can’t update some key plugins (for example the JUnit plugin). This is even more intriguing as some are part of the plugins installed by default by the setup wizard. No "install" tick box...

  

  Jean-Marc Meessen February 10, 2022
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  Happy New Year! 2022 edition

  Special thanks from the Jenkins project to users and contributors with the New Year! Let’s take a look at some changes this year. Highlights Major events including Google Summer of Code, Hacktoberfest, She Code Africa Contributhon, and three Contributor Summits Strong support from new and continuing Sponsors Core features for configuration form modernization, upgrades to key dependencies, continuous delivery for plugins, and Java 11 as...

  

  Mark Waite January 14, 2022
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  Google Summer of Code 2022 Call for Project Ideas and Mentors

  Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global, online mentoring program focused on introducing new contributors to open source software development. GSoC contributors work on a 12+ week 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...

  

  Alyssa Tong

  

  Jean-Marc Meessen January 7, 2022
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  Deprecating non-Java plugins

  10 years ago, the Jenkins ruby-runtime was first released. It was an experiment to let plugins be written in ruby but still get integrated into the main Java Virtual Machine runtime with help of JRuby. A similar extension was made to allow plugins to be written in Python but still integrated into the Java Virtual Machine with Jython. Over the years though, the experiments...

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  Oleg Nenashev

  

  Mark Waite December 22, 2021
• Apache Log4j 2 vulnerability CVE-2021-44228

  A critical security vulnerability has been identified in the popular "Apache Log4j 2" library. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2021-44228. Log4j in Jenkins The Jenkins security team has confirmed that Log4j is not used in Jenkins core. Jenkins plugins may be using Log4j. You can identify whether Log4j is included with any plugin by running the following Groovy script in the Script Console: org.apache.logging.log4j.core.lookup.JndiLookup.class.protectionDomain.codeSource If this results...

  

  Wadeck Follonier

  Daniel Beck

  

  Hervé Le Meur

  

  Mark Waite December 10, 2021
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  Use Containers as Build Agents

  A continuous integration environment is a mixed bag of machines, platforms, build toolchains and operating systems. Ideally, you want as much flexibility as possible in managing these environments. You want your build machines to be interchangeable and you don’t want to tie your builds to a particular machine. Using containers as build agents is an effective way to get the flexibility you need...

  

  Darin Pope December 8, 2021
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  2021 Jenkins Board and Officer Elections Results

  The Jenkins community has recently completed the 2021 elections. On behalf of the Jenkins community and the elections committee, we congratulate all newly elected board members and officers! We also thank all candidates and voters who participated this year. Election results: Mark Waite joins the re-elected Oleg Nenashev and Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Gavin Mogan and Ewelina Wilkosz on the Jenkins Governance Board Tim Jacomb will continue in the role...

  Gavin Mogan December 3, 2021
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  Interview of Duchess contributors for hacktoberfest 2021 on Jenkins

  This year, the Duchess community embraced a new challenge: working on women’s presence in Open Source while participating in Jenkins during the Hacktoberfest, a yearly event. Huge congrats to all the contributors! 🥳 Note: This blog is a translation, the source blog post is located here https://www.duchess-france.org/duchess-hacktoberfest-2021/ Anne-Laure Gaillard Interview Hello Anne-Laure, can you introduce yourself? LinkedIn After a PhD in Computer Science and a few years...

  

  Angélique Jard (Henry) November 12, 2021