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• Monitor Jenkins jobs with the Datadog plugin

  This is a guest post by Emily Chang, Technical Author at Datadog. A modified version of this article was originally posted on the Datadog blog. If you’re using Jenkins to continuously integrate changes into your projects, it’s helpful to be able to quickly identify build failures and assess their impact on other components of your stack. Datadog’s plugin helps users monitor and alert...

  Emily Chang February 8, 2017
• Google Summer Of Code 2017: Call for mentors

  On behalf of the GSoC Org Admin team I am happy to announce that we are going to apply to Google Summer of Code (GSoC) again this year. In GSoC high-profile students work in open-source projects for several months under mentorship of organization members. We are looking for mentors and project ideas. So yes, we are looking for you :) Conditions As a mentor, you will...

  

  Oleg Nenashev February 7, 2017
• Declarative Pipeline for Maven Projects

  This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Declare Your Pipelines! Declarative Pipeline 1.0 is here! This is first in a series of blog posts that will show some of the cool features of Declarative Pipeline. For several of these posts, I’ll be revisiting some of my previous posts on using various plugins with (Scripted) Pipeline, and seeing how those are implemented in Declarative Pipeline. To...

  

  Liam Newman February 7, 2017
• SCM API 2.0 Release Take 2

  In January we announced the release of SCM API 2.0. After the original release was published we identified four new high-impact issues. We decided to remove the new versions of the plugins from the update center until those issues could be resolved. The issues have now been resolved and the plugins are now available from the update center. Summary for busy Jenkins Administrators Upgrading should make...

  Stephen Connolly February 6, 2017
• Declarative Pipeline Syntax 1.0 is now available

  This is a guest post by Patrick Wolf, Director of Product Management at CloudBees and contributor to the Jenkins project. I am very excited to announce the addition of Declarative Pipeline syntax 1.0 to Jenkins Pipeline. We think this new syntax will enable everyone involved in DevOps, regardless of expertise, to participate in the continuous delivery process. Whether creating, editing or reviewing a pipeline, having a straightforward structure helps to understand and...

  Patrick Wolf February 3, 2017
• Blue Ocean Dev Log: February Week #1

  With only a couple of months left before Blue Ocean 1.0, which is planned for the end of March, I have been highlighting some of the good work being finished up by the developers hacking on Blue Ocean. This week was a grab bag of important behind-the-scenes features and finalising the preview of the editor. The merge of the SCM API changes also made it in. The editor has...

  

  Michael Neale February 3, 2017
• Security updates for Jenkins core

  We just released security updates to Jenkins, versions 2.44 and 2.32.2, that fix a high severity and several medium and low severity issues. For an overview of what was fixed, see the security advisory. For an overview on the possible impact of these changes on upgrading Jenkins LTS, see our LTS upgrade guide. I strongly recommend you read these documents, as there are...

  Daniel Beck February 1, 2017
• Best Practices for Scalable Pipeline Code

  This is a guest post by Sam Van Oort, Software Engineer at CloudBees and contributor to the Jenkins project. Today I’m going to show you best practices to write scalable and robust Jenkins Pipelines. This is drawn from a combination of work with the internals of Pipeline and observations with large-scale users. Pipeline code works beautifully for its intended role of automating build/test/deploy/administer tasks. As...

  Sam Van Oort February 1, 2017
• Blue Ocean Dev Log: January Week #4

  As we get closer to Blue Ocean 1.0, which is planned for the end of March, I have started highlighting some of the good stuff that has been going on. This week was 10 steps forward, and about 1.5 backwards…​ There were two releases this week, b19 and b20. Unfortunately, b20 had to be released shortly after b19 hit the Update Center as an incompatible API change in...

  

  Michael Neale January 27, 2017