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• GSoC Project Update: Alpha release of Remoting Kafka Plugin

  I am happy to announce that we have recently released an alpha version of Remoting Kafka Plugin to the Experimental Update Center. You can check the CHANGELOG to see the features included in this initial release. Overview Current versions of Jenkins Remoting are based on the TCP protocol. If it fails, the agent connection and the build fails as well. There are...

  

  Pham Vu Tuan July 5, 2018
• What's New in Declarative Pipeline 1.3: Sequential Stages

  We recently released version 1.3 of Declarative Pipelines, which includes a couple significant new features. We’re going to cover these features in separate blog posts. The next post will show the new ability to restart a completed Pipeline run starting from a stage partway through the Pipeline, but first, let’s look at the new sequential stages feature. Sequential Stages In Declarative 1.2, we added the...

  Andrew Bayer July 2, 2018
• Security Hardening: New API token system in Jenkins 2.129+

  About API tokens Jenkins API tokens are an authentication mechanism that allows a tool (script, application, etc.) to impersonate a user without providing the actual password for use with the Jenkins API or CLI. This is especially useful when your security realm is based on a central directory, like Active Directory or LDAP, and you don’t want to store your password in scripts. Recent versions...

  

  Wadeck Follonier July 2, 2018
• New design, UX and extensibility digest for login page et. al.

  This blog post gives an introduction to the new design for the login and signup forms and Jenkins is (re)starting pages introduced in Jenkins 2.128. The first part of the blog post is an introduction to the new design and UX for Jenkins users. The later part is talking about extensibility in a more technical manner, aimed at plugin developers. Overview The recent changes...

  Thorsten Scherler June 27, 2018
• What I learned from the Jenkins & Java 10+ Hackathon

  Last week I participated in the Jenkins & Java 10 Online Hackathon. It was my first Jenkins hackathon and I roped in Jonah Graham to do some pair-programming. The hackathon featured JDK Project Jigsaw committers Mandy Chung and Paul Sandoz, as well as Jenkins creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi. It was a great opportunity for me to learn a lot about Jenkins and Java 10. Why Java 10? With the Java...

  

  Tracy Miranda June 27, 2018
• Presenting Jenkins Essentials at EclipseCon France

  Jenkins Essentials has been renamed to Jenkins Evergreen since this was written. It’s been far too long since we posted an update on Jenkins Essentials. While it’s not quite ready for users to start trying it out, we continue hacking away on all manner of changes to support the safe and automatic upgrades of a running Jenkins environment. In the meantime, Jenkins contributor Baptiste Mathus took some...

  

  R. Tyler Croy June 26, 2018
• Using Jenkins X DevPods for development

  I use macOS day to day, and often struggle to keep my devtools up to date. This isn’t any fault of packaging or tools, more just that I get tired of seeing the beachball: The demands on dev machines grow, developers are now working across a more diverse set of technologies than just a JVM or a single scripting language these days. This keeping...

  

  Michael Neale June 21, 2018
• Securing your Jenkins CI/CD Container Pipeline with Anchore (in under 10 minutes)

  (adapted from this blog post by Daniel Nurmi) As more and more Jenkins users ship docker containers, it is worth thinking about the security implications of this model, where the variance in software being included by developers has increased dramatically from previous models. Security implications in this context include what makes up the image, but also the components of the app...

  

  Michael Neale June 20, 2018
• Jenkins & Java 10+ Online Hackathon. Day 2 Update

  This week we have a Jenkins & Java 10 Online Hackathon. This is an open online event, where we work together on Jenkins core and plugins in order to find and fix compatibility issues, share experiences and have some fun. Everybody is welcome to join, independently of their Jenkins experience and amount of time they have available. After the kick off on Monday Jenkins contributors have...

  

  Oleg Nenashev June 19, 2018