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• Building Jenkins plugins with Gradle

  Until now, Jenkins plugins written in Java or Groovy could only be built with Maven, using the maven-hpi-plugin to generate a proper manifest and archive which Jenkins can consume. But starting now, you can also use Gradle! See the wiki for information on how you can use Gradle and the new gradle-jpi-plugin to build, test and release your Java or Groovy...

  Andrew Bayer January 4, 2012
• Jenkins survey result and what UI improvement would you like?

  "> Jenkins community survey result is in, which shows a number of interesting stats for us developers, such as 82% of people saying their Jenkins is mission critical, or the spread of distributed builds, especially compared to my earlier similar usage analytics. But just as interesting is the free-form answers to questions like "If there was anything you could you change about...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 23, 2011
• Community-contributed localizations to be bundled in Jenkins 1.443

  In 1.430, we added the translation assistance plugin in the hope of increasing the contribution from the community. It’s been 3 months, and I’ve finally took the opportunity to integrate them into Jenkins. The result is pretty amazing. Before this, we had 26 languages, with wildly varying degree of completeness, such as French, Japanese, German, etc. This is still pretty good,...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 2, 2011
• The beginning of a new era: Ruby plugins now a reality

  It’s not often that I get to use that much hyperbole in a Jenkins blog post, but I think in this case it’s allowable. A journey that started over a year ago by Charles Lowell has reached a new level, thanks to lots of help from Kohsuke along with Hiroshi Nakamura and Jørgen Tjernø. As of today, with Jenkins 1.438, you...

  

  R. Tyler Croy November 15, 2011
• A dead bug is a good bug

  As if getting a Kindle for reporting bugs and getting an AppleTV for filing a survey aren’t enough, you can also win an iPad for fixing an issue. So if you’ve been thinking about tinkering with Jenkins code base but haven’t done so yet, this is a great opportunity to get going. There’s documentation about how to get started, and there’s...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi November 4, 2011
• Report bugs and win Kindle

  CloudBees is running a 60-days "bring me bugs" contest for the Jenkins project where you may win a Kindle and Amazon gift cards for a bug report you made during the contest period. See the linked site for details about how to enter into the drawing. Greg Moy from Electronic Arts has already won for the first week, but there...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi October 21, 2011
• IPS Packages of Jenkins for Solaris/OpenIndiana

  Image Packaging System (IPS) is a new package manager Sun has developed for OpenSolaris. While I have my doubts about whether a brand-new package manager was a good way of spending engineering resources, OpenSolaris had a number of very nice features that made it a convincing platform to run Jenkins, thanks to SMF, ZFS, and zones. So I used to...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 20, 2011
• Jenkins Long-Term Release 1.409.2 is out

  We just posted the updated Long-term Release (LTS) of 1.409.2. Just as a recap, with LTS releases, we plan on providing a release train that only has backported changes. 1.409.2 contains a handful of important bug fixes since 1.409.1. For more about LTS, see this wiki page. Thanks to the heroic effort of those who are involved, namely Vojtech Juranek and a...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 14, 2011
• Call for Testers: Upcoming LTS update

  A couple of months ago Jenkins embarked on an new project, the Jenkins "LTS" (Long Term Support) release line. A LTS branch of development is common in most major open source projects, especially those with substantial corporate adoption, so this was a great step for the project as a whole. We’re now coming up on the second LTS release, which will be an incremental update to...

  

  R. Tyler Croy September 1, 2011