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• GUI improvements on the horizon

  This past Thursday, September 24th, 2015, I presented a couple of prototypes of what I hope will be the future of the Jenkins GUI. Or perhaps more correctly, close enough to the future to start generating positive feedback from you the community that improving the Jenkins GUI is important and some pieces that I am showing are going in the...

  Gus Reiber September 29, 2015
• Advancing the Jenkins GUI: Configuring Items in Jenkins

  https://youtu.be/1Qn4jEwAeGc Above is the screencast associated with this blog post If you have ever used Jenkins you are familiar with what I am about to described, wading your way through job configuration page, looking for the settings that are important, and, depending on your plugin use, wondering where all these other setting came from and what they do. Depending on how long you...

  Gus Reiber July 15, 2015
• Good bye Java6

  + + About two years ago, we bumped our runtime JRE requirement from Java5 to Java6. And so the time has come once again for us to finally move on to Java7. Because of all the new language features, many of us the developers really wanted to move right on to Java8, but after much discussion we settled to move...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 6, 2015
• Official Jenkins LTS docker image

  (This is a guest post from Michael Neale) Recently at the Docker Conference (DockerCon) the Docker Hub was announced. The hub (which includes their image building and storage service) also provides some "official" images (sometimes they call them repositories - they are really just sets of images). So after talking with all sorts of people we decided to create an official Jenkins image...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi August 12, 2014
• User Interface Refresh

  This is a guest post from Tom Fennelly Over the last number of weeks we’ve been trying to "refresh" the Jenkins UI, modernizing the look and feel a bit. This has been a real community effort, with collaboration from lots of people, both in terms of implementation and in terms of providing honest/critical feedback. Lots of people deserve credit but, in...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi August 11, 2014
• Thinking about moving on to Servlet 3.0

  + + One of the current efforts under way in the dev list is driven by Tom Fennelly et al, who is working on introducing a series of small ball improvements to the user interface in Jenkins. If this is something you are interested in (and who aren’t?), you should see Kevin Burke’s manifest that sets out the plan of...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi June 9, 2014
• Jenkins 1.532.3 LTS is released

  The final LTS release of the 1.532.x line is out today. You can download it from the usual location. Changelog is here. Starting with the next 1.554.x LTS, the release model will switch to the train model, where we commit to dates and get whatever we can ship by that date. You can see the scheduled dates in our event calendar. Backporting...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 11, 2014
• More scalable agents

  + + Nio NIO-based Java Web Start (JNLP) agent handling is coming to 1.560. This will help you run a large number of JNLP agents more efficiently. A connected JNLP agent used to occupy one thread on the controller, but now it occupies none. Combined with the earlier change that eliminated threads from idle executors, now you can connect thousands of...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 9, 2014
• Your Java Web Start slaves will be always clean

  + + If you have agents that connect through Java Web Start (such as agents installed as Windows services), we have a good news for you. In case of a connection loss, this type of agents has been designed to automatically attempt to reconnect to the controller. This makes sense because you want these agents to remain online all the time,...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 1, 2014