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• Security warnings in Jenkins

  Jenkins 2.40 was released earlier this week, and readers of the changelog will have noticed that it now includes the ability to show security warnings published by the configured update site. But what does that mean? In the past, we’ve notified users about security issues in Jenkins and in plugins through various means: Emails to the jenkinsci-advisories mailing list (which I recommend you subscribe to), blog...

  Daniel Beck January 10, 2017
• Security updates addressing zero day vulnerability

  A zero-day vulnerability in Jenkins was published on Friday, November 11. Last week we provided an immediate mitigation and today we are releasing updates to Jenkins which fix the vulnerability. We strongly recommend you update Jenkins to 2.32 (main line) or 2.19.3 (LTS) as soon as possible. Today’s security advisory contains more information on the exploit, affected versions, and fixed versions, but in short: An unauthenticated remote code execution...

  Daniel Beck November 16, 2016
• GSoC: Mid-term presentations by students on June 23 and 24

  As you probably know, on this year Jenkins projects participates in Google Summer of Code 2016. You can find more information about the accepted projects on the GSoC subproject page and in the Jenkins Developer mailing list. On this week GSoC students are going to present their projects as a part of mid-term evaluation, which covers one month of community bonding and one month of...

  

  Oleg Nenashev June 21, 2016
• GSoC Project Intro: Support Core Plugin Improvements

  About me I am Minudika Malshan, an undergraduate student in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. As a person who is passionate in open source software development and seeking for new knowledge and experience, I am willing to give my contribution for this project. LinkedIn | Twitter Abstract The Support-Core Plugin provides the basic infrastructure for generating "bundles" of support information...

  Minudika Malshan June 14, 2016
• GSoC Project Intro: Improving Job Creation/Configuration

  About me My name is Samat Davletshin and I am from HSE University from Moscow, Russia. I interned at Intel and Yandex, and cofounded a startup project where I personally developed front-end and back-end of the website. I am excited to participate in GSoC with Jenkins this summer as a chanсe to make a positive change for thousands of users as well as to learn...

  Samat Davletshin May 26, 2016
• Refactoring a Jenkins plugin for compatibility with Pipeline jobs

  This is a guest post by Chris Price. Chris is a software engineer at Puppet, and has been spending some time lately on automating performance testing using the latest Jenkins features. In this blog post, I’m going to attempt to provide some step-by-step notes on how to refactor an existing Jenkins plugin to make it compatible with the new Jenkins Pipeline jobs. Before we get...

  Chris Price May 25, 2016
• Security updates for Jenkins core

  We just released security updates to Jenkins that fix a number of low and medium severity issues. For an overview of what was fixed, see the security advisory. One of the fixes may well break some of your use cases in Jenkins, at least until plugins have been adapted: SECURITY-170. This change removes parameters that are not defined on a job...

  Daniel Beck May 11, 2016
• Jenkins 2.0 alphas released

  After first announcing the Jenkins 2.0 effort last fall, we are pleased to announce the availability of the first Jenkins 2.0 alpha builds. For months we have had builds available from the jenkins_2.0 branch of development, but the "alpha" builds mark Jenkins 2.0 being officially made available for testing and feedback. Download 2.0-alpha now Jenkins 2.0 Highlights Pipeline as Code The new Pipeline functionality in Jenkins allows you to define configuration...

  

  R. Tyler Croy February 29, 2016
• Jenkins security updates

  We released Jenkins updates today that include important security fixes: 1.650 and 1.642.2. For detailed information about the security content of these updates, see the security advisory. Subscribe to the jenkinsci-advisories mailing list to receive important notifications related to Jenkins security....

  Daniel Beck February 24, 2016