Meet with Jenkins Community at cdCon + GitOpsCon 2023

The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) is happy to host its fourth flagship event, cdCon, taking place on May 8–9, 2023 in Vancouver, Canada as cdCon + GitOpsCon, co-organized with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), making it the must-attend event for anyone who is involved in CD, DevOps, and GitOps. By combining the two events, Read more about Meet with Jenkins Community at cdCon + GitOpsCon 2023[…]

Jenkins March 2023 Newsletter

Highlights Jenkins 2.397 and 2.387.2 are both using new Linux repository signing keys. The Pipeline graph view plugin continues to evolve and improve as a Pipeline visualization replacement for Blue Ocean. The number of pull requests merged for jenkins.io crossed into triple digits this month (101). Contributed by: Mark Waite Jenkins’ installers for Debian and Read more about Jenkins March 2023 Newsletter[…]

Android and Jenkins: what is the limit?

After reading the title, you may be thinking “Wait, what? Is Jenkins somehow limited in building Android apps?” You can relax, as I may have phrased it incorrectly. We’re not talking about building Android apps with Jenkins, which has no limitations as far as I know. We’re talking about building something with Jenkins, using an Read more about Android and Jenkins: what is the limit?[…]

miniJen and RISCV

Short Introduction What is miniJen? It’s the smallest Jenkins multi-cpu-architectures instance known to this day. It’s composed of a 4 arm Cortex-A55 core RockChip controller (aarch64), a 4 arm Cortex-A7a core AllWinner agent (armv7l), a 4 arm Cortex-A53 core AllWinner agent (aarch64), and a single RV64GCV core AllWinner agent (RISC-V). A bit of personal history Read more about miniJen and RISCV[…]

Jenkins February 2023 Newsletter

Highlights FOSDEM 2023 insights Jenkins is a mentor organization for Google Summer of Code Several container image updates Jenkins Awards voting is now open Contributed by: Alyssa Tong FOSDEM 2023 Returning to FOSDEM for the first in-person event since COVID was both exciting and nostalgic for our Jenkins contributors. It was exciting to see the Read more about Jenkins February 2023 Newsletter[…]

Jenkins Contributor Awards – Voting Open

The 2023 Jenkins award nomination period has ended and voting is now open! Voting will take place until March 28, when the voting period closes, and the winners will be announced at this year’s cdCon. 2023 Award categories and nominees This year we have three awards, each with several nominees: Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate: Alexander Read more about Jenkins Contributor Awards – Voting Open[…]

miniJen is alive!

The Jenkins multi-architecture CPU instance What is that contraption? Nope, it’s not a robot of some sort, it won’t move by itself. It’s not Cerebro from Professor Xavier; no, it can’t fly either. What you’re looking at is a Jenkins instance. It is composed of a controller (the “brain” or conductor) and three agents (the Read more about miniJen is alive![…]

How to build an unsigned Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine

Should you ever need to rebuild a Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine, here is a way to do it. Pre-requisites Jenkins WAR file First, you should download the Jenkins war file that will be inside the MSI file. You can access it from the official Jenkins website or from the Jenkins update center. Check Read more about How to build an unsigned Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine[…]

Thoughts on FOSDEM 2023

What better way to kick off the new year, than by returning for an in-person event at one of the most popular open source gatherings of all, FOSDEM! On February 4 & 5, contributors from the Jenkins project and thousands of other open-source enthusiasts traveled from around the world to flock to FOSDEM. Located in Read more about Thoughts on FOSDEM 2023[…]

Jenkins January 2023 Newsletter

Highlights Jenkins in GSoC planning is in full steam ahead. General availability of new development tools on ci.jenkins.io: Maven, JDK, Playwright. 98 pull requests were merged from 38 different authors in January. Jenkins 2.375.2 released January 11, 2023. Over 350 positive ratings. A sandbox bypass vulnerability was corrected among 37 other vulnerabilities. The security team Read more about Jenkins January 2023 Newsletter[…]