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Happy New Year! 2022 edition

Special thanks from the Jenkins project to users and contributors with the New Year! Let’s take a look at some changes this year. Highlights Major events including Google Summer of Code, Hacktoberfest, She Code Africa Contributhon, and three Contributor Summits Strong support from new and continuing Sponsors Core features for configuration form modernization, upgrades to key dependencies, continuous delivery for plugins, and Java 11 as...

Mark Waite January 14, 2022
2020 A Year Like No Other

The Jenkins community congratulates all users and contributors with the New Year! Let’s take a look at some changes this year. We would like to thank all awesome Jenkins users and contributors who have been with us during this year. Highlights Some of the key highlights: Hundreds of first-timer contributors joined the community Major UI/UX improvements in the Jenkins core, including the landing page, plugin manager,...

Marky Jackson
Oleg Nenashev January 12, 2021
Happy New Year! 2019/2020 edition

Jenkins project congratulates all users and contributors with the New Year! Let’s take a look at some changes this year. Highlights We celebrated 15 years of Jenkins We had first ever Governance Board and Officer elections Jenkins project joined the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) We released Java 11 support in Jenkins Jenkins X has graduated as a Jenkins sub-project and became a new project under umbrella of...

Oleg Nenashev January 7, 2020
2018 in Review: A year of innovation

The end of a year is a great time to step back from the daily grind to look at the big picture. Across the industry, the relentless march toward more automation still continues on. We are writing software faster than ever, but the demand for software seems to be going up even more, and I feel more and more businesses and...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 25, 2018
Happy New Year!

Jenkins project congratulates all users and contributors with the New Year! Let’s take a look at some changes this year. Highlights We released major features like BlueOcean and Declarative Pipeline These features offer a new user experience in Jenkins Web UI, powered by Jenkins Pipeline. In Jenkins 2.54 we updated the Java minimal requirement to Java 8 (announcement). Plugin CI has been moved to our Jenkins-on-Jenkins instance. All...

Oleg Nenashev December 31, 2017
Thank you for an amazing 2016

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say: 2016 was the best year yet for the Jenkins project. Since the first commit in 2006, the project has reached a number of significant milestones in its ten years but we have never experienced the breadth of major milestones in such a short amount of time. From Jenkins 2 and Blue Ocean to the Google Summer of Code and Jenkins...

R. Tyler Croy December 31, 2016