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A new way to search in Jenkins 2.492.1

We’re happy to announce that Jenkins 2.492.1 comes with a brand-new search experience. We’re calling it Command Palette and it’s a one-stop shop for searching across everything in Jenkins. Whether you’re searching for jobs, builds, or settings, Command Palette makes it faster and easier than ever to find exactly what you need. Command Palette is a full-screen search experience, giving you more room to view...

Jan Faracik February 5, 2025
Introducing Jenkins Design Library 3

We’re thrilled to announce that the Jenkins Design Library 3 is now live! 🎉 With this release, we’ve refined every aspect of the library to provide better documentation for plugin developers and ensure a more consistent, accessible, and intuitive experience. So what’s new? A new consistent design Every page has been refined to maintain a cohesive look and feel, making it easier than ever to...

Jan Faracik January 10, 2025
Pull request titles now show directly in Jenkins

We are happy to share that with the latest version of Branch API, you can now view pull request titles directly in Jenkins. This feature was one of the most requested improvements from our community, and it’s great to see it live. We recently ran a poll on what users want to see on the Jenkins dashboard and this was the number...

Jan Faracik December 2, 2024
See what's next for the Jenkins user interface - DevOps World 2024

This is a speaker blogpost for a DevOps World 2024 talk. We last gave a talk about the Jenkins user experience at DevOps World 2022. Two short years later, we’re back to showcase what’s new and upcoming in the world of Jenkins UX. We’ll discuss how we’re bringing the best of BlueOcean back to Jenkins, a redesigned builds widget, a new search...

Jan Faracik
Tim Jacomb August 29, 2024
SVG icon migration (breaking changes!)

Summary Beginning with Jenkins weekly v2.333 (released on January 31, 2022) and Jenkins LTS v2.346.1, Jenkins core has upgraded from GIF and PNG icons to SVG icons. Plugins that will be affected by this change are tracked in a spreadsheet found in JENKINS-68251. Plugins that do not interact with icons are unaffected by this change. Background Scalable vector graphics (SVG) icons provide a more attractive...

Kevin Martens June 20, 2022
Jenkins User Experience Hackfest Documentation Results

Documentation is not glamorous, but it is goodness. — Thomas Otter Jenkins technical documentation is an important part of our project as it is key to using Jenkins well. Good documentation guides users and encourages good implementation choices. It is a crucial part of the user experience. In the recent Jenkins UI/UX hackfest, documentation was a specific track to improve the Jenkins user experience. We received...

Mark Waite
Tracy Miranda June 8, 2020
Join us for online UI/UX hackfest on May 25-29!

This event is over, thanks a lot to all contributors! Please the event page for results. On behalf of the Jenkins User Experience, Documentation and Advocacy and Outreach special interest groups, we are happy to announce the online UI/UX hackfest on May 25-29! Everyone is welcome to participate, regardless of their Jenkins development experience. The goal is to get together and work on improving Jenkins...

Oleg Nenashev May 12, 2020
Hands On: Beautify the user interface of Jenkins reporter plugins

This article has been presented in an recorded online session during the Jenkins 2020 UI/UX Hackfest. For Jenkins a large number of plugins are available that visualize the results of a wide variety of build steps. There are plugins available to render the test results, the code coverage, the static analysis and so on. All of these plugins typically pick up the build results...

Ullrich Hafner March 17, 2020
New design, UX and extensibility digest for login page et. al.

This blog post gives an introduction to the new design for the login and signup forms and Jenkins is (re)starting pages introduced in Jenkins 2.128. The first part of the blog post is an introduction to the new design and UX for Jenkins users. The later part is talking about extensibility in a more technical manner, aimed at plugin developers. Overview The recent changes...

Thorsten Scherler June 27, 2018